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MEMBERS—THE AMERICAS
MEMBER GALLERY Bettina Speckner: American Diary, at Sienna Patti, Lennox, MA, August 3–September 29, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY The Technicolor World of Rachelle Thiewes, at Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, through October 1, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY 2024 Graduate Exhibition, at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, through October 6, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Loose Ends: Lydia Martin, at Jewelers’Werk, Washington, DC, September 21–October 12, 2024. Meet the artist September 21, 12–4 p.m.
MEMBER GALLERY Serious Fun, Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 1–October 15, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Wearing Red: Ignite the Fire, Ombré Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, through October 20, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Offerings / Fragments of an Autobiography: Iris Eichenberg / Jimena Ríos, at Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, September 28–October 21, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY 2 + 2 + 2, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada, October 5–November 9, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY From the Garden, From the Grave, Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, through November 10, 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.
MUSEUM OUT of the Jewelry Box, at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, April 20, 2024–April 12, 2026.
MEMBERS—EUROPE
GALLERY Hooked On: Power Bonds—Veronika Fabian, Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal, no end date given.
MEMBER GALLERY Paperwork and Snakepits by Idiots, at Gallery Door, Marienheide, Netherlands, through September 26, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Drag And Drop, at Platina, Stockholm, Sweden, September 14–28, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Takayoshi Terajima, at Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 27–October 19, 2024.
MEMBER GALLERY Bischoff + Babetto, at Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy, September 15–October 20, 2024. In collaboration with Quittenbaum Gallery.
MEMBERS—ASIA
MEMBER GALLERY Lost in Translation, at ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, through October 20, 2024.
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 Shared:Ground, at Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, September 13–October 19, 2024.
MEMBERS—ISRAEL
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NONMEMBERS—THE AMERICAS
CONSULATE Secrets of Empire: Francisco Guevara, Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, CA, September 6–October 18, 2024.
GALLERY Single Source: Xinia Guan, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, August 24–October 24, 2024.
GALLERY Roots & Reflections, at Patina, Santa Fe, NM, October 4–31, 2024.
GALLERY Jewelry Stories, featuring Ruth Tomlinson, at Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA, October 5–November 4, 2024.
ONLINE So Fresh + So Clean, hosted by Ethical Metalsmiths.
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 The Stories We Carry, at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, through September 29, 2025.
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
GALLERY After the End: Visions of Tomorrow, at Stoss im Himmel, Vienna, Austria, September –October 6, 2024.
EXHIBITION SPACE Brooches in Dialogue between Past and Avant-Garde, at Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, through October 11, 2024.
GALLERY Keep an Eye of Something or Two, at Galerie Biro, Munich, Germany, through October 12, 2024.
GALLERY Masterworks from the 80s to 90s, at Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, September 25–October 18, 2024.
GALLERY Silver + Form, at Turner Contemporary Art Gallery, Margate, UK, October 19–20, 2024.
GALLERY Fall into Place, at Kunst und Handwerk (gallery of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association), Munich, Germany, September 6–October 20, 2024.
GALLERY Marzee International Graduate Show, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, through October 26, 2024.
GALLERY AGCPunto2024, in two locations. At Archivio Negroni, Milan, Italy, October 15–21, 2024. At Gallery Personal, Tarragona, Spain, September 7–October 31, 2024.
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 11, 2024.
GALLERY (Un)avowable Secrets, from Alliages, at Lalabeyou, Madrid, Spain, October 4–November 20, 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.
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.
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 Salt Water Buffet, Alta Forma, Naarm/Melbourne, through September 22, 2024.
GALLERY Second Bloom, at Studio Ingot, Fitzroy, Victoria, September 13–28, 2024.
GALLERY Banner and Badge, at PS Art Space, Freemantle, WA, October 5–11, 2024.