San Antonio, Texas, US—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce the 2022 Young Artist Award (YAA) competition, the 20th cycle of this prestigious award. The biennial AJF Young Artist Award acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality, and advances the careers of rising artists. Ambitious contemporary jewelry artists age 35 and under are invited to apply […]
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San Antonio, Texas, US—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce the jury and guidelines for the 2022 Young Artist Award (YAA). Applications will be accepted starting November 1, 2021. The biennial AJF Young Artist Award acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality, and advances the careers of rising artists. Ambitious contemporary jewelry artists age 35 and
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Established by San Francisco-based jewelry collector Susan Beech, the $20,000 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant has as its objective to recognize a mid-career artist who has made a substantial contribution to the field of art jewelry. Esther Doornbusch was one of two finalists. The jury consisted of grant founder and collector Susan Beech, internationally recognized maker
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Director Justyna Teodorczyk, award ceremony in the 28th International Jewellery Competition SILVER, 2019, photo from the archive of the Gallery of Art in Legnica The Gallery of Art in Legnica has not only been an ardent advocate for contemporary jewelry for more than 40 years, it is also the organizer of the Legnica Jewellery Festival
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Iris Eichenberg, photo: Erik Perry San Francisco, California, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce that the largest art jewelry cash award in the US, the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant, has been awarded to Iris Eichenberg, known as an ambassador for her field and for her teaching, lectures, and workshops at renowned art
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Ornament & Sculpture: New Works by Dorothea Prühl November 1, 2020–February 21, 2021 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Dorothea Prühl, Kragen (Collar), 2014, necklace, titanium, stainless steel, gold, individual elements 160 mm long, photo courtesy of CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands In December 2019, Dorothea Prühl was awarded the Art Prize of the Federal State
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In this brief interview, Daniel Kruger tells us how he first encountered contemporary jewelry and touches on his metaphysical, intuitive approach to making. Kruger will serve on the jury of the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant with two other people: Emily Stoehrer and Susan Beech, the grant’s founder. (Read our interview with Beech here, and
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Emily Stoehrer—the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—tells us about her career as a jewelry curator and what she foresees in the applications for the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. (Stoehrer will work with two other jurors: Daniel Kruger and Susan Beech, the grant’s
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Susan Beech’s Mid-Career Artist Grant aims to recognize a mid-career artist who has made a substantial contribution to the field of art jewelry. Here, we talk with the jewelry collector about why she established it, why it’s especially important this year, and what she hopes to see in the applications. (Daniel Kruger and Emily Stoehrer
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AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award four finalists and winner—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary work. Ryungjae Jung, The Motion, 2018, polyamide,
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AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. Lore Langendries’s Hide, the Fragment series
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AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. Junmin Bae, who is from South
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