Cover, Glenn Adamson, Elissa Auther, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Tanya Harrod, Stephen Knott (editors), The Journal of Modern Craft, volume 9, issue 1, March 2016, photo: Benjamin Lignel The latest issue of the Journal of Modern Craft was plonked into my letterbox with some months of delay. My guess is that this extra time is […]
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Shultz Gallery, photo: Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle That the art of Southwestern jewelry connects intricately to Native peoples’ contacts with 19th-century visitors to their homelands is a key takeaway of the Jim and Lauris Phillips Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Staggering
Patina Gallery sits in the historic museum district of Santa Fe, 2015, photo: Peter Ogilvie Eighteen-year-old Patina Gallery was an early champion of European studio jewelers and has been particularly adept at creating cultural synergies with the vibrant local scene in New Mexico: For the second year in a row, their summer exhibition features work
Strange Pleasures workshop, 2014, Edgbaston Community Centre, Birmingham, UK, photo: Toni Mayner Every once in a while, I receive an essay or a post that provides some insight into how people not “native” to contemporary jewelry might see it: what use that have for it, and what it can do to them. Siân Hindle, a
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Exhibition view, Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, photo: Museum Associates/LACMA Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 April 10–August 21, 2016 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Whether we consciously adopt a particular style or fashion, or thoughtlessly throw on clothes, our identity is communicated through our
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The Narva Art Residency (entrance hall), Narva, Estonia, photo: Liina Lelov KAФEDRA: Exhibition by the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing April 30–May 29, 2016 Narva Art Residency, Narva, Estonia KAФEDRA is a multifaceted exhibition showcasing the work of the department of jewelry and blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts. It was organized by Kadri
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Elisabeth Holder and Gabi Schillig (eds.), Schmuck als urbaner Prozess. Artistic Interventions in Urban Space. Documentation of a Research Project (Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2015). Bilingual German / English. ISBN 978 3 8030 0784 1 With texts and contributions by: Susanne Anna, Jacqui Chan, Willi Dorner, Karsten M. Drohsel, Elisabeth Holder, Barbara Maas, Yuka Oyama,
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(left) Caroline Slotte, Round Piece, from the Landscape Multiple series, 2012, reworked second-hand ceramics, 245 mm in diameter; Anna Talbot, Blue Wolf, 2012 brooch, old box, anodized aluminum, brass, wood veneer, steel, 80 x 80 x 20 mm, private collection, photo: artists It is universally acknowledged that contemporary jewelry subverted completely the “hierarchy of materials”[1]
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Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art Photos by Kellie Riggs, taken during the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Arts Triennial 2015—China Academy of Art The Body Alchemy seminar was held in this conference room on the top floor of China Academy
Eija Mustonen, Apron and Mittens, 2014–2015, objects, nickel, silver, copper, life size, photo: Jesse Pylsy Eija Mustonen is an artist who invites introspection. Her work emphasizes craftsmanship and challenges ornamentation; it is personal and rooted in her native Finnish cultural heritage. Her recent work will be shown at gallery Four in Gothenburg, Sweden. Eija is
Tobias Alm, The Châtelaine no. 3, 2015, châtelaine, gilded sterling silver, velvet, leather, steel, 200 x 1500 x 70 mm, photo: artist Swedish jewelry artist Tobias Alm reconfigures leather Craftsman tool belts, incorporating the functional elements with delicately chased and repousséd silver and gilt flourishes reminiscent of 18th-century rococo châtelaines. The resulting hybrid objects are
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Marcia Cirne Lima, Jeweler at the Studio, 2015, photo: artist Marcia Cirne Lima describes her work as wearable drawings, the result of an interaction between rubber, silver, and steel—the flexibility, color, memory, resistance, and weight. Following her first solo show at Galeria Thomas Cohn, we interview her about what led to this current collection and
