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…
The educator, artist, and writer from Belarus/Portugal reflects on how to see the contemporary jewelry scene in a broader context—and why we all need, from time to time, to climb up a ladder so that the “furrows” in the ground, when viewed from above, turn into meaningful shapes. Karpilova gave this presentation as part of…
March 2026, Part 1 Right now, 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 of international galleries to showcase…
Last year, Marion Delarue, a French artist who works mainly with wearable objects, was selected for a research residency at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) in Paris. The goal of the residency was to study objects from the museum’s collections, with special access to storage areas and the restoration workshop. Her research focused on…
