Have You Heard – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
August 2024, Half 2
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Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.
AJF LIVE WITH MARTA COSTA REIS, MONICA GASPAR, AND PATRICIA DOMINGUES
August 28, 2024, 12 p.m. EST (New York Metropolis time). Free and open to all. Register right here. Our audio system will discuss in regards to the worldwide collective exhibition Madrugada – Jewelry and the Politics of Hope, which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution that put an finish to 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal. The target of this curatorial train was to discover jewellery and the act of adorning the physique as a political instrument of restructuring, element, care, and activism.
EVENTS
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FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover these listings and lots of, many extra on our devoted exhibition web page:
- Lock ‘n’ Roll: Veronika Fabian, at 4 Gallery by means of August 31 (proven)
- Bettina Speckner: American Diary, at Sienna Patti by means of September 29
- Joyce J. Scott: Messages, at Flint Institute of Artwork by means of December 1
- OUT of the Jewellery Field, at MAD by means of April 2026
SERIOUS FUN OPENS SEPTEMBER 1, 2024, AT GRAVERS LANE GALLERY
This exhibition celebrates the fusion of creativity and high-quality craftsmanship. It showcases new works by modern jewelers who mix knowledgeable craftsmanship with playful designs. The creations honor the wealthy historical past of jewellery whereas embracing modern whimsy. Visitor curated by Ellyse Bendillo and Kate Dannenberg. By means of October 15, 2024. Data.
BRACELETS, BANGLES AND CUFFS: 1948–2024, AT THE METAL MUSEUM THROUGH NOVEMBER 17, 2024
This exhibition options modern bracelets owned by Helen Drutt, an AJF member and a famend educator, gallery proprietor, writer, patron of the humanities, and advocate of recent and modern craft. Over 90 examples by worldwide artists look at cultural, political, and private meanings wrapped round a wearer’s wrist. Drutt provides historic context and scholarly weight to the various items on show, which illustrate all kinds of conventional metalsmithing methods, experimental strategies and supplies, and modern processes. Extra.
ON VIEW: A COLLECTOR’S JOURNEY: SUSAN GRANT LEWIN AND THE ART JEWELRY WORLD
Preeminent collector Susan Grant Lewin traces her ardour for artwork jewellery again to her work within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s as a journalist and communications govt. Though not the one exhibition to function Lewin’s spectacular holdings, that is the primary to survey her four-decade dedication to this phenomenon. On the Lowe Artwork Museum, Coral Gables, FL, by means of September 14, 2024. Data.
BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER PRESENTS INAUGURAL GRADUATE EXHIBITION
This new, annual exhibition highlights the depth and breadth of what’s presently being created within the discipline by younger grads. The artists characterize each nationwide and worldwide applications and embody Ashley Wingo, Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe, Dorota Wilde, Grace Wallstead, Hana Foo, Jeannette Knigge, John Gyimesi, Mackenzie Pearl Reid, Megan Kerr, Megan Obenaus, Meichan Yuan, Michael Bair, Michal Schwab, Seville Marina Meyn Partida, Vanessa Shum, and Yifei Kong. By means of October 6, 2024. Data.
LESLYE ZHANG HAS CREATED A NEW WORK
The piece is a necklace titled Infinite Creatures. See further views of it right here.
BRUCE METCALF’S FIGURE PIN #135 ON VIEW IN BEYOND BRILLIANCE
Past Brilliance celebrates the universality of jewellery all through the ages and throughout cultures, with highlights from the Boston Museum of Tremendous Artwork’s famend assortment on view long run. Determine Pin #135 (1996) is without doubt one of the 160 works—chosen from 22,000 objects!—within the exhibition. From historic artifacts to high-quality jewellery to designs made by modern artists, Past Brilliance connects objects that span 4,000 years by exploring how jewellery can talk robust messages about its wearer and exemplify the artwork and tradition of its time. Extra.
JEWELRY PODCAST: OTHERS & ME
Host Sarah Cossham’s friends embody jewellery makers, collectors and researchers, artists, craftspeople, and gallery house owners. The podcast is meant to be each a spot of inspiration for jewellery fanatics and a supply of knowledge for anybody simply discovering their curiosity in jewellery. When you’re fascinated by telling your story, ship her an e-mail or a message on Instagram.
BJC FOCUS: IN THE MAKING—OCTOBER 5–6, 2024
The symposium will examine the position of reminiscence and archiving within the processes artists and makers use to supply inspiration, conduct analysis, create work, and doc their initiatives. Featured audio system: Lamar Gayles, Ana María Jiménez, Maria Konschake, and Manon van Kouswijk. A day of on-line lectures and conversations shall be adopted by a day of free workshops within the Baltimore Jewellery Middle’s studio, every related to the symposium theme. The occasion will culminate with a cost to artists to take part within the BJC’s neighborhood problem, which is able to interact the neighborhood in launching the BJC’s latest initiative: a digital archive capturing our historical past and evolution. Data.
SHARON BERMAN PASSED AWAY
A longtime AJF member, traveler, and board member, Berman handed away after an extended battle with most cancers. She was the producer of the Jewellery Journey Podcast. AJF will publish a full tribute to her quickly. Our ideas exit to her household.
JAN YAGER HAS DIED, SHE WAS 72
Yager acquired a BFA in jewellery and metalsmithing from Western Michigan College in 1974 and an MFA from Rhode Island Faculty of Design in 1981. Quickly after, she established a studio in Philadelphia. Within the early Nineties, she began making jewellery out of the crack vials, syringes, bullet casings, and damaged auto glass that she discovered round her North Philadelphia studio as a name to motion in opposition to the threats to city life within the US: drug dependancy, poverty, racism, and violence. The work was rooted in historical past, but “of its time and of its place,” she said. Her work is within the everlasting collections of the V&A; the MFA, Boston; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum; and MAD, amongst others. Extra.
BALTIMORE JEWELER BETTY COOKE DIED AT AGE 100
Her work has been proven on the Museum of Trendy Artwork and on the now Montreal Museum of Tremendous Arts. The Walters Artwork Museum held a retrospective in 2021–2022. (We reviewed it right here.) Cooke taught on the Maryland Institute Faculty of Artwork and ultimately grew to become division chair. Extra.
NAVAJO JEWELER JESSE MONONGYA DIED, AGED 71
His high-quality inlay work—which regularly depicted the night time sky—is world-renowned. At age three, Monongya (typically spelled Monongye) was discovered deserted. Neither mother or father may very well be positioned. As an grownup, he discovered his father, Preston Monongye, a widely known Hopi silversmith. Monongye wasn’t fascinated by jewelry-making, however the night time earlier than he was to begin faculty to change into a heavy tools operator, a dream—wherein his mom instructed Jesse he would change into extra well-known than his father—impressed him to pursue the craft underneath his father’s tutelage. John D. Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Sandra Day O’Connor personal his work. Museum collections embody the Heard, the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of the American Indian, Cooper-Hewitt, MoMA, and others. Extra.
BOOK SIGNING FOR NEW BOOK ON BILL SMITH
Writer JoAnne Spiller shall be on the Jefferson Co. Historical past and Artwork Middle on Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. The middle is at 615 W. First Avenue, Madison, IN, 47250.
J. FRED WOELL ADDED TO DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG’S COLLECTION
Three jewellery items—Seek for Neverland, A Penny for Your Emotions, and Wingin’ It with the Colonel—had been acquired by the Danner Basis. AJF board member Toni Greenbaum advocated for them with the choice committee.
EXPLORE SCHMUCKMUSEUM PFORZHEIM’S COLLECTION DIGITALLY
View 100 objects from all around the world, each historic and modern. Customers can put collectively their very own choice of jewellery on subjects that encourage them. There may be additionally an emotional barometer to change into conscious of the sentiments that particular person items evoke. Go right here.
A JEWEL TO HONOR AN IRANIAN FOREST
Bahareh Zaman turned a 60-year-old yew department rotting on the bottom right into a necklace titled Phoenix. Extra.
GÉSINE HACKENBERG FEATURED IN NEWEST ISSUE OF UPPERCASE
It’s a part of Concern 62, which has a whole part about artists impressed by dinnerplates. Extra.
LISA WALKER DISCUSSES HER CURRENT EXHIBITION
The movies relate to Information from Nowhere, her exhibition with Brendan Huntley at Mornington Peninsula Gallery. Watch right here and right here.
DR. ARETA WILKINSON INTERVIEWED BY THE SPINOFF
She talks about present initiatives, her analysis, her help programs, and what a typical day seems to be like. Extra.
SEMINAR—CURATING CRAFT: BODY AS MEASURE: OCTOBER 2, 2024
The seminar, held in Sweden, will discover a variety of themes corresponding to wearability, the performative nature of craft and jewelry practices, and the physicality concerned in making and sporting. Audio system embody Lauren Kalman, matt lambert, Anders Ljungberg, Bella Neyman, Anna Mlasowsky, and Yuka Oyama. Data.
SEATTLE METALS GUILD 30TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: OCTOBER 5, 2024
On-line and in-person. Six audio system, together with Pat Pruitt. Silent public sale. Uncommon and laborious to-find-books from Charon Kransen. Data.
SCHMUCK SPECIAL EXHIBITION
The longest-running exhibition of latest jewellery work has taken place through the March Worldwide Commerce Honest yearly since 1959. Apart from the price of transport to Munich, participation within the particular present is freed from cost. Three individuals exhibiting in Schmuck 2025 shall be awarded the Herbert Hofmann Prize. Deadline: October 1, 2024. Data.
RESIDENCY AT THE FRANÇOISE VAN DE BOSCH FOUNDATION
A jewellery maker from exterior the Netherlands shall be chosen for a three-month working keep Might–July 2025. Studio and house in Amsterdam supplied—courtesy of artist Rian de Jong and her associate, Herman Marres—plus some compensation for bills. Deadline: September 15, 2024. Data.
$1,000–$5,000 GRANTS FOR TOOLS
The Investing in Artists: Instruments & Gear program helps particular person craft artists in buying inventive instruments, supplies, or tools. Electronic mail for information.
CALL FOR WRITING PROPOSALS
Radiant Pavilion invitations writers from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand to suggest an article for publication on their upcoming platform. Deadline: September 6, 2024. Data.
OPEN CALL: KUNSTNERFORBUNDET 2026
Accepting purposes from visible artists, craft artists, and duodji practitioners residing in or related to Norway and Sápmi. Deadline: September 1, 2024. Data.
BRACELETS, BANGLES & CUFFS: 1948–2024
Produced to commemorate the exhibit of the identical title, conceived by famend educator and patron of the humanities Helen Drutt. The guide options 90+ examples by worldwide artists that look at cultural, political, and private meanings wrapped round a wearer’s wrist. Extra information.
OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, BY REBECCA E. ELLIOTT AND TONI GREENBAUM
A brand new survey of the life, artistic spirit, and profession of Robert W. Ebendorf, one in all America’s most necessary artists within the discipline of found-object jewellery and metalwork. Extra.
NEW EARRINGS, BY NICOLAS ESTRADA
The newest guide in Estrada’s collection comprises greater than 550 images that includes the works of 198 jewelers from all around the world. Printed by Hoaki.
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