2025 by the Numbers – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

AJF is a nonprofit. Meaning our funds comes solely from memberships and donations. Your items in 2025 contributed to a 12 months of actual development and connection.

Memberships maintain AJF’s dedication to a free and accessible artwork jewellery press. No paywalls, no obstacles, simply considerate writing, schooling, and programming out there to everybody who loves this discipline.

This 12 months, as a part of our mission to advocate for the sphere of latest artwork jewellery, we did the next. Donors and members laid the muse for all of this work. Thanks in your help! We sit up for doing extra subsequent 12 months—and right here’s wishing you a 2026 stuffed with superb jewellery!

In 2025, we revealed 116 articles. For these, we commissioned 36 writers from 15 nations to interview 37 folks; evaluate three exhibitions and two books; and pen 26 essays, remembrances, and different sorts of articles. This publishing raises consciousness of the sphere, paperwork it, and can help researchers of the longer term.

Some 875 readers loved our hottest article, Trying on the Cameo by means of a Photographer’s Lens, by Sebastian Grant. In it, Grant wrote about Coreen Simpson’s Black Cameo.

Test it out right here.

In 2025, AJF promoted the work of precisely 200 artists by means of On Supply. On Supply publishes twice a month. It helps you discover particular items so as to add to your jewellery field, and builds publicity for artists and their gallerists!

At any given second, our web site lists some 70 jewellery exhibitions at present exhibiting throughout the globe. We replace them consistently so you could find out what’s on view each time and wherever you’re touring!

Reference the exhibition listings right here.

We monitor nearly 50 jewelry-focused occasions on our Occasions web page. That method, what’s occurring when.

Discover the occasions listings right here.

This 12 months alone, we reported greater than 650 newsbytes. “Have you ever heard” covers jewelry-focused awards, occasions, requires entry, books, articles in different media sources, and extra—retaining you within the know!

We recorded and revealed 19 movies on our web site. Our Munich speaker collection launched with 16 lectures that explored controversial areas of our discipline. Watch these right here.

AJF Presents, held in-person at NYCJW25, provided insights into the various methods, challenges, and alternatives museums have in acquisition, exhibition, and schooling. Watch it right here. And …

We reached a digital viewers of over 200 jewellery lovers in 45 nations. Our AJF Stay occasions give fascinating glimpses into the careers of our friends. We document all of our packages and submit them on our web site.

Watch AJF Stay with Melanie Eddy right here, and absorb AJF Stay with Bryna Pomp right here.

We revealed guides to Munich’s jewellery week and to NYCJW25. Greater than 1,700 folks referenced our information to Munich. There have been a number of guides, however ours was probably the most complete. We’ll compile it once more in 2026 so you could find your method across the largest jewellery occasion on this planet!

Our information to NYCJW25 constructed consciousness for AJF members and promoted their occasions—a good thing about membership.

We launched the subsequent AJF Younger Artist Award. Aren’t you dying to search out out who the runners up shall be and who will win? The jury is tough at work reviewing submissions. We’re excited to listen to their determination!

We additionally launched Brooklyn Steel Works’s inaugural residency program by means of fiscal sponsorship. The Resonance Residency gives artists a chance to develop their work and studio apply whereas using the distinctive benefits that come from being in New York Metropolis, an vital hub of the up to date jewellery scene. This residency will present alternatives for jewelers at each degree of their profession to proceed their studio apply or develop a brand new physique of labor.

Discover out extra right here.

We expanded AJF’s employees. What a delight to have Danielle deCongé, who serves as our membership + packages coordinator, on board! She could already be in contact with lots of you.

And we traveled a heck of so much! We attended two jewellery festivals: Munich’s jewellery week and NYCJW25. And we explored the jewellery scenes in 5 different cities, home and worldwide: Santa Fe, Dallas, Fort Price, Mexico Metropolis, and Oaxaca Metropolis.

AJF’s extremely curated journeys present a chance to journey with like-minded fanatics and have entry to venues and actions you couldn’t do by yourself. Meet new folks, expertise what’s new and leading edge within the artwork jewellery world, and benefit from the cultural scene of the cities we go to. Allow us to do the planning so that you don’t need to.

We welcome your feedback on our publishing, and we are going to publish letters that interact with our articles in a considerate and well mannered method. Please submit letters to the editor electronically; accomplish that right here. The web page on which we publish Letters to the Editor is right here.

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