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MEMBERS—THE AMERICAS
MEMBER GALLERY 2 + 2 + 2, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada, October 5–November 9, 2024.
MEMBER MUSEUM Bracelets, Bangles and Cuffs, at the Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, June 9–November 17, 2024. Helen Drutt’s collection is featured in this exhibition. She is also a member of AJF.
MUSEUM Nicole Acosta: Hoops—Beyond the Aesthetic Lies the Story, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, through November 23, 2024. RAM curator Lena Vigna is a member of AJF.
GALLERY Old Light: Carolanne Patterson, at Jewelers’Werk Galerie, Washington, DC, October 26–November 30, 2024.
MUSEUM Joyce J. Scott: Messages, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, through December 1, 2024. Organized by Mobilia Gallery.
MEMBER GALLERY Cynthia Toops and Dan Adams: Not All Black and White, at Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, November 14– December 28, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Wearing Red: Ignite the Fire, Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, November 14, 2024–January 18, 2025.
MUSEUM OUT of the Jewelry Box, at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, April 20, 2024–April 12, 2026.
MEMBERS—EUROPE
MEMBER GALLERY Summerhouses, Sofas, and Smorgasbord, at Four Gallery, October 25–November 15, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY The Gemstone Apothecary: Sondra Sherman, at Platina, Stockholm, Sweden, October 24–November 16, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Verena Sieber-Fuchs: The Year of the Carnation, at Gallery Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal, through November 23, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Occiput | Ruudt Peters, at Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy, November 9–December 8, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Potions, Arabesques and other Manifestations, at Viceversa , Lausanne, Switzerland, November 23–December 21, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Vanessa Arthur: Everyday Awe and Felicia Mülbaier: von der Kostbarkeit der Gegenwart, at Galerie Door, Marieheide, Netherlands, opens November 23, 2024.
MEMBERS—ASIA
MEMBER GALLERY Intersection: Where Two Path Meets by Kanya Charoensupkul and Beppe Kessler, at ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, November 9, 2024–January 12, 2025.
MEMBERS—NEW ZEALAND
MEMBER GALLERY 50th Anniversary Group Show, at Fingers, Auckland, opens October 5, 2024. It will close toward the end of the month—check with the gallery.
MEMBERS—AUSTRALIA
MEMBER GALLERY L’Amour and a Bucket of Flowers: Benedikt Fischer, at Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, October 24–November 23, 2024.
MEMBERS—ISRAEL
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NONMEMBERS—THE AMERICAS
ONLINE So Fresh + So Clean, hosted by Ethical Metalsmiths.
COMMUNITY ARTS HUB Maker’s Dozen: The Earring Edition, at Sparrow Artspace, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, November 2–30, 2024.
MUSEUM Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry, at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, through January 5, 2025.
MUSEUM Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, October 17, 2024–January 19, 2025.
MUSEUM Objects of Affection: Jewelry by Robert Ebendorf from the Porter • Price Collection, at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, April 27, 2024–February 16, 2025.
MUSEUM Objects of Affection, at the Mint Museum Randolph, Charlotte, NC, April 27, 2024–February 16, 2025.
MUSEUM Tiff Massey + Livernois, at Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, May 5, 2024–May 11, 2025. Massey won AJF’s Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant.
MUSEUM Paint: Rachelle Thiewes, at El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, May 30, 2025–September 21, 2025.
MUSEUM The Stories We Carry, at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, through August 17, 2027.
MUSEUM Innovators in Southwestern Jewelry, at Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ, ongoing.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT Beyond Brilliance: Jewelry Highlights from the Collection, at MFA Boston.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT American Art Form: A Century Of A:Shiwi (Zuni) and Diné (Navajo) Jewelry, at Amerind Museum, Dragoon, AZ.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT The Wheelwright Museum’s Jim and Lauris Phillips Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry, Santa Fe, NM.
NONMEMBERS—EUROPE
MUSEUM Hand-selected – by Sam Tho Duong, at Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany, July 5–November 3, 2024.
MUSEUM Parcours Mode, Bijoux, Design, at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, through November 17, 2024.
GALLERY (Un)avowable Secrets, from Alliages, at Lalabeyou, Madrid, Spain, October 4–November 20, 2024.
GALLERY Bernard François | l’Esprit Neon, at Le Fonds de Dotation Robert Mazlo, Paris, France, through November 23, 2024.
GALLERY Face It, at Galerie Pont & Plas, Ghent, Belgium, October 6–November 30, 2024.
MUSEUM Parlez-Leur d’Ambre, de Métal, et de Vie: Bijou Contemporain Lituanien 1990–2023 (Speak to Them of Amber, Metal, and Life: Contemporary Lithuanian Jewelry 1990–2023), at Espace Solidor, Haut-de-Cagnes, France, June 29–December 8, 2024.
EXHIBITION SPACE The Art Deco Jewellery Collection of Dres. Händel, at Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, July 3–December 31, 2024.
GALLERY Dream and Reality, Jewels, at Galerie Sophie… etc!, Pairs, France, November 23–December 31, 2024.
GALLERY Iris Bodemer, Annelies Planteijdt, and Karin Seufert, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, through January 4, 2025.
EXHIBITION SPACE Danni Schwaag: Geronnen (Congealed), at Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, October 18, 2024–January 10, 2025.
GALLERY Gold, at Galerie Biro, Munich, Germany, November 28, 2024–January 18, 2025.
MUSEUM 30 Years Made in Hanau, at Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany, September 26, 2024–January 26, 2025.
MUSEUM Anthology at Fragile, at CODA Museum, Appledoorn, Netherlands, through February 2, 2025.
MUSEUM Still Life: Evert Nijland, at CODA Museum, Appledoorn, Netherlands, through February 9, 2025.
EXHIBITION SPACE pensieri preziosi 19 | like WATER… : MARI ISHIKAWA, at Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova, Italy, November 16, 2024–February 23, 2025. Opening: November 15, 17:30.
MUSEUM Alexander Blank: Kumpane (Buddies), at Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany, September 15, 2024–February 27, 2025.
MUSEUM Pinned: Contemporary Antwerp Jewellery, at DIVA, Antwerp, Belgium, October 25, 2024–April 21, 2025.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT Rosa Taikon: Art and Struggle, at Hälsinglands Museum, Hudiksvall, Sweden.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT A Brilliant Story, at DIVA, Antwerp, Belgium.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT IV Edition, at Museo del Gioiello, Vicenza, Italy, through 2030.
MUSEUM—PERMANENT Was Ist Schmuck? (What Is Jewelry?): New Presentation of the Ethnographic Herion Bequest, at Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany.
NONMEMBERS—MIDDLE EAST
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NONMEMBERS—AFRICA
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NONMEMBERS—ASIA
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NONMEMBERS—NEW ZEALAND
MUSEUM Vivienne Westwood & Jewellery, at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, December 13, 2024–April 27, 2025.
NONMEMBERS—AUSTRALIA
GALLERY Sweet Salad, at Alta Forma, Naarm/Melbourne, opens November 27, 2024.