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Beauty and Its Dark, Damp Underpinnings
The Society of North American Goldsmiths honored Sharon Church (1948–2022) with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 An American Craft Council Fellow, she taught in the Craft + Material Studies...
View ArticleStudio Jewelry on Permanent Exhibit in Tucson, Arizona
About 20 percent of the space features jewelry produced in the last 40 years or so by studio jewelers Among them: the Munsteiners, Loloma, Revere, Minor, Raible, Monongya, Freda, and Crevoshay You’ll...
View ArticleTaisha Carrington, David Harper Clemons, Tanya Crane, Douriean Fletcher,...
February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor this, over the next four weeks AJF is spotlighting articles and videos we’ve previously published about Black makers and/or by Black...
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On Offer
February 2023, Part 1 There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry… Celebrate that hard-earned promotion Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion Pay tribute to a major accomplishment Commemorate the...
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February 2023, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and...
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Sebastian Grant: Art Historian, Professor, and Curator
February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor this, all month AJF is spotlighting articles and videos we’ve previously published about Black makers and/or by Black writers. Sebastian...
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Tiff Massey, Kim Jenkins, LaMar Gayles, Jr., Crafting the Future, and Karen...
February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor this, all month AJF has been spotlighting articles and videos we’ve previously published about Black makers and/or by Black writers. Karen...
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On Offer
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February 2023, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and...
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Demetri Broxton and Angela Hennessy
February is Black History Month in the United States. To honor this, all month AJF has been spotlighting articles and videos we’ve previously published about Black makers and/or by Black writers. The...
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Jewelry Hits the Road
We asked collectors, jewelry makers, gallerists, and curators for tips on the types of pieces they select for travel and how they transport them safely When renowned jewelry collector Susan Grant...
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Artist and Educator Khanya Mthethwa Wins the Coveted Susan Beech Mid-Career...
Khanya Mthethwa, Umswenko, 2018, photopolymer resin, thread, photo courtesy of the artist San Antonio, Texas, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce that the largest art jewelry cash award...
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On Offer
March 2023, Part 1 There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry… Celebrate that hard-earned promotion Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion Pay tribute to a major accomplishment Commemorate the...
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March 2023, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and...
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Complicit Abysses
Claude Chavent, Cage, brooch, platinum and gold, photo courtesy of Viceversa Does the absurd have a meaning? Perhaps it is a question of perspective. Claude Chavent was a formidable jeweler who...
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Kairos, Serendipity, and Balance
Susanne Altmann, Patti Bleicher, Karl Bollmann, and Olga Zobel Biró, Margit Jäschke: Kairos (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022). Kairos, a bilingual publication (in German and English), was...
View ArticleFrom Pearls to Bic Lighters
From colonization to reuse to the AIDS crisis, themes varied widely in the Schmuck exhibition. Works by 67 jewelry makers from 23 countries were chosen for the most important annual show in the art...
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We’re Not Stuck in the Past, We’re Dealing with the Present
When Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stepped out in 2018 for an event with the Royal Variety Charity, she wore a dainty rose gold ring. It had a stylized Hand of Fatima with a bright blue eye in its center....
View ArticleThe Story of the Making of Two Books
In a joint presentation by Arnoldsche and AJF during Schmuck 2023, Susan Cummins and Toni Greenbaum gave a brief talk about In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture and North by Northwest: The...
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March 2023, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and...
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