Farrah Al-Dujaili, a maker from the United Kingdom, won the 2011 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an Emerging Artist for her bold, unique mix of drawing and making that crosses over and intertwines. Working with drawing materials, such as pencil, crayons, and watercolors, she applies them to the surface of enamel paint to create […]
Art Jewelry Forum announces the schedule of special events organized in support of their book Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, the organization’s most ambitious project to date. A series of speaking engagements, book signings, and receptions has been planned in collaboration with major cultural and academic institutions in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.
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Sooyeon Kim Mill Valley, CA, September 1, 2013—Susan Cummins, Chair of Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), and Susan Kempin, AJF Award Program Chair, are pleased to announce Sooyeon Kim was selected to receive the 2013 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an Emerging Jeweler. Kim was chosen from 134 entries representing 34 countries. Jurors making the
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Nhat-Vu Dang Mill Valley, CA, August 19, 2013—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2013 AJF Artist Award for Emerging Artists. One winner will be selected from this short list and announced on September 1, 2013. Applications were received from 134 artists in 34 countries. This is the first year
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Mill Valley, California, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is accepting applications for the 2013 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an emerging jewelry artist. This is the 14th year the organization is awarding a cash prize to a contemporary artist. The amount of the 2013 award is $7500. The purpose of the Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an emerging jeweler is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in a jeweler’s work and to help advance her career.
Jurors selecting this year’s prizewinner are: 2012 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award winner Noon Passama; Lindsay Pollock, Editor in Chief of Art in America and a collector of art jewelry; and Ruudt Peters, illustrious vanguard jeweler and professor at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy.
The Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award competition is open to makers of wearable art jewelry who have completed their academic or professional training at least one year but not more than six years prior to the submission date of the AJF Award application. Applicants must not have had a solo exhibition at a commercial gallery or a museum or have one scheduled. All artwork submitted must have been unsupervised; work from BFA or MFA shows may NOT be submitted.
Award Schedule
• April 1, 2013 Applications may be submitted at www.callforentry.org.
• June 30, 2013 Deadline for application entry.
• September 2013 The winner of this year’s competition and $7500 cash award is announced.
Learn more about the Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award and find complete application guidelines on the website.
Art Jewelry Forum is a nonprofit organization spreading awareness, encouraging appreciation, and expanding insight of art jewelry worldwide since 1997. It is a curious, informed, and diverse community passionately advocating for art jewelry through an ambitious agenda of education, conversation, and support. The Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award was established in 1999. Its first recipient, Yeon-Mi Keong, received the award at the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference in 2000.
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Randy J. Long, Professor of Art and Head of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design, Indiana University While the world of contemporary studio artist jewelry is ever changing; there are also distinct movements, or Shifts that define a particular time and place. In this second decade of the 21st century artists are confronted with a world that is dramatically different
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Thai jewelry designer joins forces with Belgian fashion house Capara to create prize-winning collection Noon Passama Sanpatchayapong Noon Passama Sanpatchayapong The winning collection is a rare collaboration between an art jeweler and fashion designers. Noon Passama partnered with Capara, an Antwerp-based clothing line founded by sisters Vera and Olivera Capara. The Capara product is presented through video,
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Two years ago, Italy’s Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (AGC) together with Fondazione Raffaele Cominelli organized the first Cominelli Award for contemporary jewelry. The Cominelli Foundation is a private cultural foundation based in a seventeenth century palace in the north of the country. The palace, Palazzo Cominelli, is in the center of the village of Cisano di San Felice del Benaco and
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In 2012, Ursula Ilse-Neuman gave a lecture at SOFA NY titled ‘The Transcendent Jewelry of Margaret De Patta: Vision In Motion’. In her lecture, Ilse-Neuman spoke about De Patta’s relationship with modernism and particularly the artistic movement of constructivism. The talk was based on the exhibition Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta at the Museum of Arts
Mill Valley, CA, June 21, 2012—The Art Jewelry Form (AJF) has increased the amount of the cash award to be given this year to the winner of the Emerging Artist Award (EAA) competition. This is the thirteenth year that AJF will be providing a cash award to a contemporary jewelry artist. The amount of the
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In 2011 AJF hired two Contributing Writers to produce texts on a regular basis for the AJF website and blog. Jillian Moore and Gabriel Craig wrote eight texts each on a variety of subjects, including exhibition and event reviews and thematic articles about the state of contemporary jewelry. The Contributing Writers program is intended to
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Susan Cummins: How old are you? Agnes Larsson: I turned 31 years old last November. Where do you live? In Stockholm. Why did you apply to the Emerging Artist Award competition? I found a notice about the EAA competition on Klimt02 and after reading about the participation conditions I thought it suited me perfectly at
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