Awards

In 2008, Kelly L’Ecuyer, Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gave a lecture at SOFA NY about her exhibition Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The talk surveyed the Daphne Farago collection of studio jewelry, recently given

In 2008, Ursula Ilse-Neuman gave a lecture at SOFA NY titled Balancing Acts: Collecting for the Museum of Arts and Design. She spoke about collecting strategies in the real versus the ideal world, MAD’s permanent jewelry collection and the inaugural exhibition at its new home in Columbus Circle, New York City. This lecture was sponsored

AJF is pleased to announce that the 2008 exhibition grant award winner is Rowan University. Jill Baker Gower, assistant professor Metals/Jewelry Department, submitted the winning proposal from a field of seven semi-finalists. Rowan University will receive a $2000 cash award. The award will fully support creation of a color catalog documenting the exhibition Decorative Resurgence, an

In 2007, Gerd Rothmann gave a lecture at SOFA Chicago called The Space Between Thumb and Forefinger, dealing with his jewelry, bowls and vessels of silver and his study of form. This lecture was sponsored by AJF.

In 2007, Catherine Truman gave a lecture about her work at SOFA NY. This lecture was sponsored by AJF. For many years now I have been absorbed in the ways in which the human body has been depicted throughout medical history – particularly through illustration and three-dimensional models. I’ve pursued historical anatomical collections around the globe. Anatomy

In 2008 AJF awarded a grant of $1500 to a project called Women of Metal, which was organized by professors Susan Messer and Teresa Faris at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Being awarded the AJF grant gave them the credibility to apply for other grants. Susan Messer wrote to say: ‘In May we were thrilled to

AJF is delighted to announce this year’s Emerging Artist Award winner is Andrea Janosik. She will receive $2000 from AJF in recognition of this achievement. There were 21 entries from all over the United States and Canada. Artist and educator Nancy Worden led the jury, joined by studio artist Harriete Estel Berman and Jean Mandeberg,

In 2006, AJF contributed $500 to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts for the purchase of Keith Lewis’s Neckpiece For Zymrina, A Prostitute of Pompeii from the Bawdy Baubles series. The acquisition was a gift of the Rotasa Foundation, the Boardman Family Foundation, Susan Beech, AJF, Sally von Bargen, Sharon Campbell, Rebecca and Alexander Stewart, Donna and Ralph Briskin, Michael