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June 2026, Half 2

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TRAVEL TO HOUSTON WITH AJF: SEPTEMBER 23–26, 2026
For our first go to again to Houston in virtually 20 years, we’re arriving at an particularly robust second. We’ll go to the Museum of Effective Arts, Houston, to have a good time two necessary exhibitions: the primary US solo displays of Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl, each key figures in avant-garde artwork jewellery. Every exhibition spans almost 50 years of labor. To enrich the exhibitions, we’ll attend a day-long symposium that includes main voices within the area, adopted by a reception celebrating these two exhibitions—a possibility to assemble with fellow collectors, artists, and lovers. Our program may also embody visits to the Houston Heart for Up to date Craft, together with artist studios, museum collections, and different stops that mirror the breadth of town’s inventive life. Save the dates; extra information to come back!

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EVENTS
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DISPATCH FROM THE COLONIES
Geraldine Fenn received the inaugural AJF Solo Exhibition Award. Her ensuing present, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h by way of August 1, 2026, explores energy dynamics linked to the European colonization of Africa. She drew inspiration from cupboards of curiosities, in reverse: somewhat than displaying the colonized, she transforms the colonizers into unique objects. This concept unfolds in jewellery adorned with royal portraits and African commerce beads, portraits of noblemen displaced right into a hostile African setting, enjoying playing cards depicting miniaturized colonists, hybrid objects mixing European and African supplies, and collaboration with Zimbabwean beading collective Marigold. Fenn goals for a nuanced studying of colonial historical past, past a easy perpetrator/sufferer dynamic, contributing in her personal technique to the reinterpretation of official narratives that also form our understanding of colonialism. Extra.

INCONSPICUOUS INTERFERENCE, AT THE BJC JUNE 26–AUGUST 7, 2026
When a lot of our materials setting is made in distant factories, supposed to be shortly discarded, craft acts as an inflection level and interrupts this senseless cycle of consumption. Via the considerate making, restore, and use of objects, we’re offered with a possibility to reshape the world we stay in, each within the broader communities and economies to which we contribute and within the microcosm of our personal each day lives. Hand-crafted objects carried on the physique maintain the potential to function each private talismans and instruments for social and political change. On this exhibition, the Baltimore Jewellery Heart presents small artworks that examine the position of objects carried on the physique as devices for resistance, protest, and alter. Extra. Opening reception June 26, 5–8 pm.

NEKE MOA AMONG THE ARTISTS IN AHAKOA HE ITI
This exhibition is a dialog between modern adornment artists Pepi-Pleasure Gilgen, Gina Matchitt, Matthew McIntyre-Wilson, Aroha Millar, Moa, Rowan Panther, Frances Stachl, and Keri-Mei Zagrobelna. How can we hook up with the setting that sustains and nurtures us? The dialog confronts grief for family members, and for cultural losses of social constructions, language, once-common supplies, and the practices and methods for working with them—whereas additionally celebrating their regeneration. The artists ask these questions of one another and in addition invite the viewers into the dialog. Underpinning all of it are the intimate relationships between these artworks and the physique, remodeling every wearer into each a service of the narrative and an energetic participant in it. At Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Artwork Gallery, in New Zealand, by way of September 12, 2026. Extra.

VIDEO WALK-THROUGH OF AN EXHIBITION OF ATTY TANTIVIT’S JEWELRY COLLECTION
“I prefer it. What’s it?” Tantivit asks herself this when she encounters a bit of bijou that pulls her in. She’s usually drawn to jewellery that resists instant understanding, items which can be advanced, conflicting, or quietly provocative. In I Like It. What Is It?, Tantivit exhibited a part of her assortment. Watch right here as she takes us by way of the present in an intimate video.

THOMAS GENTILLE: PRIMARY CONCERNS
Gentille served as the primary director of the 92NY Jewellery Heart. On view on the 92NY by way of September 1, 2026. Data.

HEIDI LOWE GALLERY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS! AUGUST 28, 2026, 5–9 PM
Come have a good time the 20th yr of Heidi Lowe Gallery! Data.

SEE MYSTIC MEADOWS, AT PISTACHIOS, THROUGH AUGUST 30, 2026
This ethereal exhibition with darkish undertones options nature-inspired work from 4 Swedish artists—Hanna Liljenberg, Karin Roy Andersson, Märta Mattsson, and Sofia Bjorkman. It addresses themes of transience, rebirth, and the stress that lies between magnificence and decay. Extra.

OPEN CALL: NYCJW26
Designers, artists, makers, curators, and organizations worldwide are invited to suggest daring applications and occasions that commemorate the artwork and craft of bijou. Educate, encourage, and join with audiences world wide, both on-line or in individual. The decision additionally consists of purposes for the HWA Exhibition Award, a $5,000 prize for a BIPOC artist presenting a solo exhibition. Deadline: June 30, 2026. Data.

BORAX INTERVIEWS ROBIN DERIAZ
The artist discusses his strategy to modern jewellery and the theme he selected for his first solo exhibition, Matrices, on the Swiss gallery. Watch right here.

BJC IMPLEMENTS PAYMENT PLANS
As a part of its ongoing dedication to creating modern craft as accessible as attainable, the Baltimore Jewellery Heart now presents fee plans on gallery and steel store purchases! The aim is to create new paths towards constructing collections and supporting artists for people who’re new to amassing art work. Data right here, or electronic mail information [at] baltimorejewelrycenter [dot] org.

HAROLD O’CONNOR TO TEACH MASTER CLASS IN RETICULATION AND GRANULATION
Reticulation & Granulation: Floor, Warmth & Transformation will happen August 19–23, 2026, at Metalwerx. Discover two of probably the most dynamic and traditionally wealthy floor methods in metalsmithing in a hands-on workshop centered on warmth, management, and transformation. Data.

CONSTELLATIONS OPENS AT CHRYSLER MUSEUM JULY 10, 2026
Options 350+ works of wearable artwork showcasing almost a century of creativity from jewellery artists throughout the globe. Explores the myriad methods artists have reimagined jewellery, revealing a unprecedented vary of supplies, varieties, and concepts. That includes golden crowns fashioned to appear to be cardboard, enchanting necklaces constructed from plastic baggage, and kooky brooches resembling toast, Constellations captures the depth, breadth, and variety of up to date jewellery design. Extra.

TED NOTEN PRESENTS 36 YEARS ON THE ROAD / AKA ROUTE 36
The artist talks in regards to the present in a video posted to YouTube by host gallery Marzee. Watch right here.

OPEN CALL: INTERVALS
Amid summer time’s power, this exhibition at Orange County Effective Arts will spotlight pauses, silence and areas between. Intervals would possibly manifest because the gaps between sounds in music, the pause between heartbeats, the gap separating two folks, the break in a story, the white house on a web page, or the temporal shifts inside a single body. Work might tackle bodily house, time, rhythm, silence, absence, or transition and should embody any media. Deadline: June 29, 2026. Data. AJF member John Rose is deeply concerned with OCFA.

PROGRAM ANNOUNCED: 3RD LISBON CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BIENNIAL
With the theme of “Coexistences,” this system consists of exhibitions, a colloquium, a gallery expo, and grasp courses. September 19–27, 2026, with most of the exhibits lasting past these dates. Data.

WATCH A VIDEO OF MARTINA DEMPF’S MASTERING DISASTER

The exhibition was the fruits of Dempf’s residency on the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, at Nirox Sculpture Park, in Krugersdorp, South Africa. Watch right here. Try the exhibition catalog right here.

OPEN CALL—TINCAL LAB CHALLENGE 2026: JEWELRY AND IDENTITY
The idea of id invitations us to look inside ourselves—however can we exist with out the opposite? In a time formed by AI and rising threats to particular person freedom, it feels pressing to mirror on what defines us—and carrying jewellery is a gesture of self-expression. What does the jewellery we create reveal about us? What meanings does it purchase for individuals who put on it? Deadline: June 30, 2026. Data and software type right here and on IG. Let jewellery communicate: for the causes we defend, the values we maintain, and the singularities that make us human.

METALWERX IS HIRING
The nonprofit faculty and group studio, based mostly in Waltham, MA, seeks an workplace supervisor and a program coordinator. Data.

REVISION: BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION, AT VILLA BENGEL
This present presents a singular fusion of historic costume jewellery and trendy design. As a part of the undertaking, college students from 5 European universities reworked Artwork Nouveau and Artwork Deco costume jewellery into modern vogue equipment. June 26–September 27, 2026. Extra. Opening: June 25, 2026, 6:30 pm, each in-person and livestreamed on the Jakob Bengel Basis’s Instagram channel, @jakobbengel; extra information right here.

HEAVY METAL, AT MORA JUNE 26–AUGUST 7, 2026
Some rings are greater than adornment—they turn into talismans, armor, companions. This present gathers gallery artists for an exhibition of one-of-a-kind rings that discover energy, symbolism, and the highly effective connection we type with the objects we put on on daily basis. Extra.

BLACK IN JEWELRY COALITION COMMUNITY NETWORKING NIGHT
An interactive night of networking and significant dialog, June 23, 2026, 7–8:30 pm EST. Designed to foster genuine connections inside its membership group, this occasion will deliver collectively BIJC members from throughout the trade to share experiences, trade concepts, and construct relationships in a welcoming digital setting. Data.

MORGAN HILL NECKLACE FEATURED IN RENWICK’S STATE FAIRS
State Festivals: Rising American Craft is the primary exhibition devoted to artists’ contributions to the US custom of state gala’s, with greater than 240 artworks on view, relationship from the mid-nineteenth century to the current. Among the many jewellery is Hill’s Smorgasbord, in holly, resin, silk thread, paint, metal, and sterling silver.

SOUND OF COLORS, AT GALERIE SLAVIK THROUGH JULY 18, 2026
Works by Mirjam Hiller, Jiayi Zhang, Christoph Straube, Silke Trekel, Margit Jäschke, Rike Bartels, Yoko Takirai, and Pietro Pellitteri. Extra.

RINGS IN THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA SEQUEL ARE BY STUDIO JEWELER
The movie’s costume designers contacted California’s Gallery Lulo on the lookout for jewellery that didn’t simply decorate a personality however embodied one. They chose three blackened sterling silver rings with diamonds by Emanuela Duca, every solid from volcanic texture and quiet intention. Emily Blunt wore them all through the movie. Extra.

DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR ENJOIA’T 2026 LOOMS: JUNE 24, 2026
The worldwide competitors is open to skilled jewelers and college students, who compete in corresponding classes. It acknowledges entries that display creativity, technical talent, and innovation. Specific worth is positioned on the presence of a conceptual thread that explores and resolves the connection between the physique and the piece, in addition to sustainability. Data right here. (Confusingly, a number of the varieties give a deadline of June 14. Appears they’d must honor the twenty fourth …)

MR POTATO HEAD GOES GLAM
Vogue poked dozens of items of high-end jewellery right into a tuber for a photograph shoot. Extra.

SAYO OTA SELECTED AS 92Y JEWELRY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Ota works on the intersection of up to date artwork, craft, and material-based analysis, approaching jewellery as an expanded and significant medium. Her observe explores how supplies can carry cultural reminiscence, social relationships, and historical past, inspecting the methods objects of decoration form id, intimacy, and energy. Throughout her residency, Ota will discover the cultural and materials connections between Greenland and New York.

FORMA: MARILENA MICHOPOULOU AND DORA HARALAMBAKI
An exhibition that brings into dialogue two artists throughout the fields of up to date ceramics, sculpture, and artwork jewellery. At Uni.Versus Artwork Room, in Athens, Greece, by way of July 18, 2026. Data.

AMERICAN CRAFT COVERS JEWELER WENJING YANG
Yang combines swaths of beads with delicate chain. “Chains have a number of motion and fluidity, and beads can present construction,” she says. “They complement one another.” Extra.

AMONG FRIENDS
Helen Williams Drutt is an American gallerist, collector, mediator, and promoter of up to date artwork jewellery. In homage to her 60 years of amassing, this ebook presents chosen works by American and German artists. It consists of 140 examples of American artwork jewellery from the final 70 years, from modernist minimalist or narrative works to things with a robust sociopolitical message. Nearly 100 German works doc the assorted developments in modern jewellery in each nations, in addition to mutual influences and commonalities. A testomony to Drutt’s nice devotion to, and engagement with, artwork jewellery. Extra.

JOËL FAIVRE-CHALON: 1953–2020
Faivre-Chalon is without doubt one of the most well-known modern French artists in jewellery. A reductive language of varieties and the usage of uncommon supplies be certain that the authorship of his items is unmistakable. His work is offered for the primary time in a monograph within the framework of a donation to the Up to date Jewelry Museum, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the Côte d’Azur. The publication gives a sweeping survey of his work and in addition vividly demonstrates what modern jewellery owes to this artist’s distinctive creations and experiments. Extra.

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