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On Offer
March 2023, Part 2 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...
View ArticleAJF Live with Caroline Broadhead
Art Jewelry Forum has expanded its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community by regularly hosting live chats online. These feature artist studio visits, talks with gallerists about...
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Food for the Soul: Thoughts on Jewelry in Pandemic Times
Front and back cover of Cold Sweat Suor Frio, photo: Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro, courtesy PIN. The front features Christoph Zellweger’s Ampoule pendant, 2021. The back shows Typhaine Le Monnier’s Viseira...
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On Offer
April 2023, Part 1 You have 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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OMG, Have You Heard
April 2023, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum shares the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Is something missing? The success of this compilation of compelling events, news, and items of...
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Searching for What Can’t Be Seen
On April 26, 2023, AJF Live goes to Mexico, where we will meet with Lorena Lazard. She will introduce us to her own work and that of three other important contemporary jewelry makers in Mexico:...
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Seven Books About Art Jewelry
This is just a small selection of the book reviews we’ve published. Check out the full list by clicking here. The Power of the Narrative in the 2020s A review by Davira S. Taragin of Jewelry Stories:...
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Elsa Vanier Turns to Curatorial Projects
(Left) Karen Gay and (right) Elsa Vanier, at the gallery’s final show, in November 2022, photo courtesy of Elsa Vanier After two decades in existence, Galerie Elsa Vanier held its final exhibition at...
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OMG, Have You Heard
April 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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On Offer
April 2023, Part 2 You have 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...
View ArticleBanafsheh Hemmati
The Iranian designer-artist Banafsheh Hemmati has designed jewelry, furniture, landscape, light, and accessories for more than 20 years. She began designing jewelry to go with the clothes she designed...
View ArticleAJF Live Goes to Mexico
Art Jewelry Forum has expanded its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community by regularly hosting live chats online. These feature artist studio visits, talks with gallerists about...
View ArticleA Glittering Night at the Opening of MAD About Jewelry
Necklaces made from vintage Japanese kimonos, brooches adorned with crushed eggshell, and rings with “stones” created from plastic litter all made a showing at the 2023 opening benefit preview for MAD...
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On Offer
May 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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OMG, Have You Heard
May 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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Khanya Mthethwa on Winning the 2023 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant
Khanya Mthethwa, Umswenko—Ndlovukazi, 2019, necklace, photopolymer resin, thread, photo: Matome, photo editor: Pixel65 Established by San Francisco-based jewelry collector Susan Beech, the $20,000...
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What Makes Ada Chen’s Earrings Art Jewelry?
THEIR SOCIO/POLITICAL NATURE. Chen employs texting—our most common means of communication—to illustrate the stereotypes of young Asian American women. Ada Chen, Text Message Earrings, 2018, laser-cut...
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What Makes Beau McCall’s Necklace Art Jewelry?
NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR EVERYDAY MATERIALS. McCall found himself with an abundance of large buttons. He purchased multicolored chicken wire, braided it in a manner commonly practiced by school-aged...
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What Makes Keith Lewis’s Necklace Art Jewelry?
DOCUMENTING POLITICAL OR SOCIAL MOMENTS. Lewis uses anxious, electroformed fragile birdlike forms as evocative stand-ins for friends he lost to AIDS. Keith Lewis, Dead Souls Neckpiece, 1992, stainless...
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What Makes Myra Mimlitsch-Gray’s Ring Art Jewelry?
CHANGING THE MEANING OF WELL-UNDERSTOOD FORMS. A knuckle duster is a tool for violence—and considered a concealed weapon in many parts of the world. Mimlitsch-Gray re-envisions one as an object of...
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