Creating Steel Jewelry: Etching, Fusing, Keum Boo, Enameling, Stainless and More. Watchung, NJ: Artisan Ideas, 2024. At a time where cookbooks double as memoirs and influencer memoirs are lifestyle sales pitches, it’s nice to review a book that is exactly what it is. Bette Barnett’s Creating Steel Jewelry is an informative textbook about working with…
October 2025, Part 2 These times feel unsettling, so we could all use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network…
October 2025, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or…
As a young artist, Luca Àdie had a natural affinity for telluric symbols. After first moving to Spain as a translator, they studied contemporary jewelry at Barcelona’s Escola Massana before being invited to the Glasgow School of Art as Artist in Residence. They have since completed their studies at Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts, and…
Arnoldsche published Bizarre Beauty, a book about William Harper, last year. AJF timed the release of this review of it to coincide with and celebrate an unrelated exhibition, Precious Grotesqueries: The Jewels of William Harper. That show will run October 23–December 12, 2025, at Les Enluminures.[1] Glenn Adamson and Martha J. Fleischman (eds.), Bizarre Beauty:…
October 2025, Part 1 These times feel unsettling, and we could all use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network…
September 2025, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or…
Click on the photos to find their captions. To mark Tereza Seabra’s 80th birthday, this article looks back on her extraordinary career and path in life via a project I initiated in 2004 called A Chain for Tereza. This piece, created for Seabra, celebrated her 25th anniversary as head of Ar.Co – Centro de Arte…
September 2025, Part 1 These days, we all could use a treat. And it feels so good to get ourselves a terrific piece of art jewelry while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to…
September 2025, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on YOUR participation. If you’re a member of AJF at the Silver level or…
