Art Jewelry Forum is expanding its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community. We’re not moving away from print, but are expanding more into video. One of the ways we’re doing that is by hosting live chats online. We’re planning artist studio visits, live chats with gallerists about shows they’re hosting, interviews […]
AJF Live with Parcours Bijoux 2020 Read More »
Art Jewelry Forum is expanding its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community. We’re not moving away from print, but are expanding more into video. One of the ways we’re doing that is by hosting live chats online. We’re planning artist studio visits, live chats with gallerists about shows they’re hosting, interviews with
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, exhibitions, and items of interest to the jewelry community depends on your participation. If you’re a member of AJF, you can add news and ideas to the monthly
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COVID-19 has drastically changed the way that instructors/jewelry programs around the world are teaching the upcoming generation. With a shift from studio- and technique-based learning, educators have had to adapt their curricula to accommodate the limited means of their students. From in-person instruction to remote learning, projects have evolved, exhibitions have shifted online, and found-object-based,
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Late in December 2019, I began hearing small rumblings and snippets about a mysterious virus (now known as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) spreading across the world. At the time, this new illness had little immediate bearing on my life until mass shutdowns across the globe began taking place. Within a couple of weeks, I, like many
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For the past 50 years, contemporary jewelry artists, educators, historians, and gallerists have traveled to the German countryside to discuss and celebrate jewelry during Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof. A small gathering of 100 people or so, many of whom sleep in tents, dissects the field in a bucolic setting, drinking spirits and eating great food prepared by
Over four days in early July, a group of close to 100 artists, curators, collectors, and scholars came together to attend the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2019 Summer Conference. Called Craft & Legacy: Writing a History, Preserving a Field, the conference was presented by Haystack in collaboration with the Center for Craft[1] and “designed
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Barbara D’Ambra, Insinuaciones, 2018, brooch, resin, silver, lacquer, photo: artist When we talk about taboo issues, normally there is a predominant way to approach them. That means that the ways of representing these themes tend to be quite homogeneous. Feminine desire, enjoyment, and pleasure are not exempt from this. Everything that makes the female sexual
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Affan Baghpati, Lota (from Ken Doll Series), 2018, object/tableware, copper, brass, Ken doll, 140 x 178 x 114 mm, photo: Zeerak Ali In Lahore, Pakistan, there are thick, almost impenetrable alleys paved with breeds of hollowware shops where multiple narratives ensues—from colonial, post-partition to more intimate narratives: objects such as spice boxes, the preparation, protection,
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Sarah Thornton is an ethnographer and sociologist of art, known for her bestseller, Seven Days in the Art World, and its sequel, 33 Artists in 3 Acts. For this essay, she interviewed jewelers, gallerists, and collectors with whom she could meet face to face, so the research was confined to people who, like her, live
Wearability and the Power of the Small Art Read More »
For many years, Art Jewelry Forum has given a “young or emerging jeweler award.” In 2017, Susan Beech offered to give a grant of $20,000 for a mid-career jewelry artist to pursue a project they would not otherwise have an opportunity to pursue given the challenges of making a living, raising a family, and all
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Jayne Wallace, Cloudwatcher (from Personhood in Dementia Research Project), 2011, necklace, rubber, velvet, stainless steel, 90 x 60 mm, photo: artist The Journal of Jewellery Research (JJR) is a collaborative online publication recently founded by three jewelers who also juggle the roles of art jewelry historian, critic, postgraduate research lead, and educator. Roberta Bernabei, Jayne
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