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Lisa Walker, Wellington, New Zealand
Work Space nº16Art Jewelry ForumThis is my workshop, I have a lot of materials for my jewelry that are always placed so I can see them easily. I find if materials are out of eyesight, I won’t use them....
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Anne-Kathrine Schjerbeck and Karen Gilbert
Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg, California, USAOlivia ShihArtist Karen Gilbert and gallerista Anne-Kathrine Schjerbeck teamed up in 2009 to open Gallery Lulo in Healdsburg, a small but sophisticated country...
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Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide
Julie EwingtonA Celebration of 30 YearsThirtieth birthdays are always important. Everyone suffers or celebrates, according to their fashion. But translate people years into jewelry years—30 years of...
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Lessons from Beverly Pepper
Kellie RiggsAmerican sculptor Beverly Pepper speaks to Rhode Island School of Design students at her home in Umbria, Italy.One by one the students were asked to introduce themselves by their department...
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Visit Your Local Jewel-brary
Media SightingAJF Staff WriterOn a recent trip to visit family, this writer was privileged to attend the grand opening of a new local library. While reviewing the map to locate where my nephew could...
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Rian de Jong: Found At ... Made In ...
Gallery Loupe, Montclair, New Jersey, USASusan CumminsRian de Jong’s show at Gallery Loupe consists of photographs of landscapes where the jewelry was made, as well as the jewelry itself. Rian is an...
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To Find a Name
Areta Wilkinson, Benjamin Lignel, and Nigel BorellIn 2014, Benjamin Lignel visited Māori jewelry artist Areta Wilkinson in her home, a few weeks before she presented her doctoral research in front of...
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Sofia Björkman—The Artist, Sofia Björkman—The Curator
Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, BrazilSusan CumminsSofia Björkman is a contemporary jewelry phenomenon and an example for us all. She is a trained artist, a self-taught gallery owner, a creative...
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Savage Vanities: Leane versus Kalman
One on Two nº1Liesbeth den BestenThe Jaw Bone mouthpiece is modeled after the jaw of jeweler Shaun Leane, and was created for Alexander McQueen’s untitled spring/summer collection of 1998 (originally...
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Italian Modern Masters and Post-War Artists’ Jewelry
Didier Ltd, London, UKSusan CumminsDidier and Martine Haspeslagh developed their gallery exhibitions around jewelry by artists and mid-century jewelers. Didier Ltd shows at fairs all around the world,...
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AJF Downloadables: Jewelry Parades
Lizzie AtkinsIn March 2015, Art Jewelry Forum released Shows and Tales—On Jewelry Exhibition Making. The challenge of showing contemporary jewelry has given rise to a bubbling exhibition landscape,...
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Marta Mattsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Work Space nº17Art Jewelry ForumMy studio is in my home. I live upstairs and I work downstairs. I share my home with more than 500 dead, dried insects as well as my dog, Pumba. I am very happy that I...
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Aurélie Guillaume: Student Award Winner
L.A. Pai Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaKamal NassifAurélie Guillaume, a recent graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD), won the 2015 L.A. Pai Gallery student competition....
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Lessons from Adam Grinovich
Kellie RiggsJeweler Adam Grinovich trying on someone’s Rolex at Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, GermanyToward the end of the Q&A portion of the talk he gave during Zimmerhof 2015, Adam...
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Chiara Scarpitti: Ushabti
OHMYBLUE, Venice, ItalyOlivia ShihWith a PhD in design and innovation, Chiara Scarpitti is an artist who combines anthropological research with digital manufacturing in thought-provoking jewelry. She...
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Jill Baker Gower: Dermal
Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USAOlivia ShihJill Baker Gower is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. Her jewelry, often based on the female experience, has been widely exhibited and...
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Black On Black: These Dark Materials
Jade MellorBlack on Black is the latest jewelry exhibition curated by longtime Manchester Art Gallery collaborator Jo Bloxham. In her introduction, Bloxham explains that she loves black jewelry as it...
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Tura Sugden: Silhouettes
Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, California, USAOlivia ShihTura Sugden is an artist based in San Francisco who composes golden architectural spaces in her meticulously constructed jewelry. Sugden has studied...
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Strato-Sfera: MARGOLIS vs GANCH
One on Two nº2Nichka MarobinArt history is a long road where precocities and delays often collide; it’s made of screams and terrible silences. As Henri Focillon wrote once, “[a work of art] is both...
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Lessons from Maurizio Nannucci
Kellie RiggsMuseum staff and guests discuss items in display cases at the preview of Maurizio Nannucci’s retrospective exhibition, Where to Start From, at the Museo MAXXI, RomeDoes an all-too-familiar...
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