In winter 2017, there was a conference about art education near a small town in Estonia. The day was full of presentations and discussions. Each presentation and question made reaching an understanding about the right approach to art education more difficult. The moderator of this conference was a professional business meeting moderator and teamwork coach, […]
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Renate Heintze, Vogel und Stein, 1987, brooch, aluminum, cast, citrine quartz, stainless steel, 85 mm wide; and Mann und Kissen, 1987, aluminum, cast, turquoise, stainless steel, 70 mm wide, photos: Janos Stekovics This year at the International Handwerkskammer during Munich Jewelry Week, Renate Heintze was honored both as the Klassiker der Modern 2017 and with
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Lori Talcott, Escapulario1, 2016, neckpiece, oxidized silver, lead, wool, steel, ribbon, mirror, 380 x 160 x 35 mm, photo: Teresa McCann Tracy Steepy and Lori Talcott have been working and teaching together since they met serendipitously in 2008. This is their first exhibition together at Platina. Sandra Wilson caught up with them to find out
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AJF Florence 2016 trip participants, photo: Joan Borinstein Between October 24 and October 31, 2016, Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) visited Padua, Vicenza, and Florence in order to experience art jewelry in Italy today. The visit, as AJF trips always do, provided collectors old and new with a rich diet of studio and school visits,
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HS project organizers Peter Deckers and Hilda Gascard during their visit to Tanel Veenre’s The Will / Tahe exhibition, Tallinn, September 2016, photo: Sarah Walker-Holt In July 2012, Dutch-born jeweler and educator Peter Deckers sent me an email. He had launched a mentoring program a year before, independent of his teaching work at Whitireia (Wellington).
Maria Rosa Franzin, September 2016, photo: Luciano Tomasin I have been interviewing jewelry makers since 2001, and this has included several exponents of the School of Padua, together with professor Mario Pinton. It is therefore a pleasure to now hear about further developments at the school through the thoughts of one of the key teachers
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Karen Pontoppidan in her office, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, February 2016, photo: Benjamin Lignel The news of Karen Pontoppidan’s nomination as the successor to Otto Künzli at the head of the Munich academy’s jewelry department was viewed—with excitement, surprise, joy, and worry—as a tidal change. She was picked from a wide cast of artists
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Gillion Carrara in the library of the Arts Club of Chicago (cropped), photo: Quinn Wharton Gillion Carrara walks an exciting career path that zigzags between fashion and metalsmithing: She teaches the one, practices the other, and in her pieces she seems to actively resist fashion’s “commitment to risk, subversion and irregular forward movement,”[1] preferring instead
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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Soup/No Soup, 2012, Grand Palais, Paris, during which the artist transformed part of the Grand Palais into a huge, twelve-hour banquet serving only Tom Kha soup, photo: Marc Sanchez “In reaction against commodification in the art world, the relational paradigm read art in terms of its audience relations. The artist was no longer
Brooklyn Metal Works studio, 2012, photo: Brian Weissman Brooklyn Metal Works (BKMW) is a metal art studio that offers space for rent for the development of work in the metalsmithing field, as well as offering concept-based classes and gallery space to promote artists, designers, and makers. BKMW aims to advance the field of metalsmithing and to
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Department of metalwork and jewelry undergraduate class, photo courtesy of the metal and jewelry department at Kookmin University Kookmin University was founded in 1946 in Seoul, Korea. It was the year after Korea’s independence from Japanese colonization, and nationalism prevailed. The founder, Ik-hee Shin, was one of the politicians who fought for Korea’s independence. The name
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Fernando Benítez, found toys from chips bags, 2015, image source: DesignMilk Mexican artist and educator Mariana Acosta, recently featured in DesignMilk, launched the Precious Waste project as a means to explore the quality of “preciousness” in an academic setting. Acosta leads industrial and graphic design students at Mexico’s Universidad Gestalt de Diseño through an investigative
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