AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. Lore Langendries’s Hide, the Fragment series…
AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. This is the first of five interviews with the honorees. MJ Tyson was chosen…
Helen Molesworth, Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time. New York: Ballantine Books, 2024. Helen Molesworth’s Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time isn’t just a book about gemstones. It’s a journey of human desire, power, culture, and history told through 10 gemstones. It shows how our ambitions for power, love,…
April 2026, Part 2 Right now, when the world feels upside-down, we all could use a treat. It feels great to treat ourselves to 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…
Heidi Lowe Gallery operates as both an exhibition space and educational platform within the field of contemporary jewelry. With its new location at 119 Front Street in Lewes, DE, US, the gallery supports artists through exhibitions, workshops, and public programming. In this interview, Heidi Lowe discusses the gallery’s development, its structure, and its role in…
My friendship with Thomas Gentille became the best friendship one can have, long and deep, and I must admit it is somewhat difficult to write a remembrance at this moment, such a short time since his passing. I met Thomas through his presence in a book, Susan Lewin’s One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry…
April 2026, Part 1 Right now, when the world feels upside-down, we all could use a treat. It feels great to treat ourselves to 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…
Espace Borax, in Vevey, Switzerland, was founded in 2021 by the Einzweidrei collective. Contemporary jewelry is a shared, self-taught passion for the nonprofit’s gallerists, Nicolas Christol and Mélane Zumbrunnen, who came to the field with backgrounds in photography and arts management. The 12th-century building housing Borax is unique and idiosyncratic. It formerly served as not…
March 2026, Part 2 Right now, with the way the world feels, we could all use a treat. What a pleasure 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…
The Australian editor of Garland magazine poses the question: What does it mean to make jewelry for the “more than human”? Murray gave this presentation as part of the 2026 “AJF Speaker Series: Jewelry that Makes You Think,” which featured 16 talks over five days. Most of the series took place in the booth AJF shared with…
