Trish Rodimer: Congratulations, Masumi, on being named the Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist for 2008. There was a high level of competency exhibited by the entrants this year, but the jurors felt that your work distinguished itself. We are interested in your thoughts about your work. Masumi Kataoka: I am interested in emphasizing the intimate […]
The three jurors for the Emerging Artist Award — Cindi Strauss, curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ron Porter, long-standing member of AJF and a collector of contemporary jewelry; and Andrea Janosik, jewelry artist and recipient of the AJF’s 2007 Award, reflect on the process
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Ron Porter: Did being named the winner of the EAA help your work/career? If so, in what ways? Natalya Pinchuk: Being named the winner of the EAA was an amazing honor, for sure, and I do hear people say quite often that they recognize my name because of the award. So, the award definitely increased
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ART JEWELRY FORUM NEWS RELEASE Contact: Gail Hufjay (914-282-9822) or email info@artjewelryforum.org Mill Valley, CA, February 5, 2009 —The Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is accepting applications for its 2009 Emerging Artist Award. The amount of this year’s award is $5,000. This is the 9th year that AJF has awarded a contemporary jewelry artist a cash
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AJF member Ron Porter recently asked Sergey Jivetin, winner of the 2005 AJF Emerging Artist Award, to give us his thoughts on the award. When the award was first established in 1999, the monetary value was $2000. In 2009, through membership growth and donations, AJF has been able to increase the value to $5000. Sergey
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 the 2008 Emerging Artist Award winner, Masumi Kataoka. Kataoka received a BFA in Metal/Jewelry at Northern Arizona University and completed a MFA in Metal Jewelry at the University of North Texas in 2003. She was chosen from among 79 entries, a record number, from the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia,
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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
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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
