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Animalia—Collection of Splendor & Pastel January 19–August 30, 2020 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands The exhibition Animalia contains pastels, objects, and jewelry depicting animals, such as Helen Britton’s spider brooch or Alexander Blank’s evil rabbit. Some are also made of animals: bone, for example, a fly, or a stuffed wattlebird turned into a necklace by…
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…
Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl came to jewelry from opposite sides of a divided Europe. Schobinger came of age in Switzerland’s postwar avant-garde, while Prühl developed her practice in East Germany, first as a designer and later as an influential teacher at the art school in Halle where she had trained. In 1962, the year…
GUIDELINES FOR THE 2027 LINDA PESHKIN SOLO EXHIBITION AWARD PURPOSE OF AWARD To provide the resources for the development and implementation of a solo exhibition of art jewelry that the artist would not otherwise have the means to undertake. All jewelry artists can apply; applications from artists presenting proposals for their first solo exhibition are…
Damian Skinner, ed., Marzee. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2026. “Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in you; it is you who lives in them.” —Walter Benjamin This sober, light-blue volume, with its cloth-bound spine, could be described as a comprehensive book on the history of…
Corrina Goutos has been a finalist for the Young Artist Award three times! A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she later did a residency at the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation. Goutos has given lectures at DIVA Museum, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and for SNAG. Originally from upstate New York, she now…
August 2026, Part 2 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels so good to get a wonderful piece of art jewelry for ourselves—all 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…
August 2026, Part 1 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels so good to get a wonderful piece of art jewelry for ourselves—all 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…
