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April 2025, Half 2

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FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover listings from around the globe on our devoted exhibition web page.

EVENTS
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THE SUSAN BEECH BOOK, FEAST, IS DELICIOUS
The publication appears at Beech’s house and her assortment. It’s accessible now and can quickly be in AJF’s palms for distribution. It’s a very lovely ebook, and for those who attended the AJF dinner in Munich you recognize, since you obtained an advance copy. Susan Cummins has been engaged on the ebook for the previous couple of years and is pleased with it.

BUT WHAT WAS GAINED, AT OMBRÉ GALLERY APRIL 25–MAY 31, 2025
Caressa Layne’s interdisciplinary works discover the foundational narrative of the story of Eve and the apple. The story has turn out to be synonymous with temptation and the Fall, however can it as a substitute be interpreted because the origin of free will? Is change all the time a foul factor? This physique of jewellery faucets into themes of company, femininity, and potential. Paradise was misplaced … however what was gained? Extra.

GALERIE MARZEE IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES
For greater than 40 years, the gallery within the Netherlands has formed the market and acted as a repository for exceptional items. On the age of 83, the gallerist Marie-José van den Hout’s enthusiasm and keenness for what she does stays undimmed. Extra.

DRIFTERS, AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H THROUGH APRIL 26, 2025
Steven KP’s carved and forged works are recognized for his or her lyrical qualities that may be learn as metaphors and embodiments of lived queer experiences. Through the use of hand instruments and a jeweler’s bench, their carved and entangled gestural kinds are rendered with care in response to the embedded wounds, scars, and development marks of the fabric block in a consciously gradual and reciprocal apply. Extra.

MELANIE GEORGACOPOULOS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Quahog shells, treasured previously by Native Individuals, now seem with gold, mother-of-pearl, and onyx within the Greek jeweler’s works. Extra.

GALERIE DOOR AT KUNST RAI APRIL 30–MAY 4, 2025
Galerie Door will current a collection of the most recent, most lovely and intriguing work by the artists it represents. You’ll discover Galerie Door at sales space 69. To obtain an admission ticket for this honest, ship a message to information@galeriedoor.nl.

CALL FOR ENTRY: BJC GRADUATE SHOW
Since 2014, the Baltimore Jewellery Heart has supported the up to date jewellery and metals subject by exhibitions and programming. Its second annual Graduate Present will spotlight rising jewelers and metalsmiths finishing their formal schooling. This exhibition showcases current graduates’ work, appearing as each archive and highlight for the sector’s evolving voice. Candidates will need to have graduated in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 with a BFA, MFA, or Certificates. Submitted work will need to have been created between 2023–2025 and be wearable or small sculpture (no bigger than 12” in any dimension). Deadline: Might 25, 2025. Data.

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR RAM’S AWAKENING THE SENSES
Whereas conventional museum etiquette expects guests to look at from a distance, the Racine Artwork Museum’s 2025 group artwork present invitations friends to interrupt from conference by interacting with the artwork straight. Activating the senses past sight alone, museum-goers will make emotional—and bodily—connections by getting up shut and private with items, exploring the galleries by feeling, attempting on, including to or subtracting from, listening to, or smelling works particularly created to awaken the senses. Artists are invited to submit work that promotes engagement in surprising or unconventional methods. Deadline: Might 17, 2025. Data.

CALL FOR ENTRY: JELO6 PROJECT
Are you a jewellery artist, ceramist, or creator of small sculptures? Showcase your expertise at Nicosia, November 12–16, 2025! It is a nice alternative to current your work and join with fellow artisans and artwork fans. Organized by Jelo6 Challenge Cyprus beneath the auspices of the Municipality of Nicosia, this occasion guarantees to be a vibrant celebration of up to date artwork and craftsmanship. Extra.

MAD ABOUT JEWELRY 2025 MAY 3–7, 2025
The Museum of Arts and Design’s annual profit awards and sale of up to date jewellery celebrates its twenty fifth 12 months. This 12 months’s milestone version showcases extraordinary designs from 50 rising and acclaimed worldwide jewellery artists. The final word up to date jewellery pop-up will provide collectors and jewellery fans the uncommon alternative to satisfy and purchase items from essentially the most progressive creators within the subject. Extra.

APPLY FOR THE SUMMER EDITION OF DISCOVER
It’s a platform for jewelers and jewellery manufacturers to extend visibility and showcase their work to the worldwide viewers of NYC Jewellery Week. This season’s version might be curated by Georgina Treviño, the up to date artist and jeweler from Tijuana, Mexico, who’s primarily based in San Diego, CA. Deadline: Might 31, 2025. Extra.

A JEWELRY COMPETITION FOR VERY YOUNG DESIGNERS
Racine Artwork Museum has teamed with Rasmussen Diamonds for a contest that celebrates the inventive energy of jewellery. Artists ages 5–18 can let their creativeness come to life in sterling silver, dazzling diamonds, and vibrant gem stones. Three profitable designs might be became actual jewellery by an professional goldsmith and auctioned in October to assist the charity of the winner’s alternative. Deadline: April 27, 2025. Extra.

JEWELERS EMBRACE TEXTILES TO KEEP ANCIENT CULTURAL TIES ALIVE
Hand weaving, using beads, and nonprecious metals are among the many conventional crafts that add one other dimension to up to date items, writes Caroline Palmer within the Monetary Occasions. Extra.

NOTES: KAJSA LINDBERG, AT PLATINA APRIL 26–MAY 15, 2025
On a regular basis objects akin to receipts, notes, educational drawings, manuals, and rulers, kind a type of working archive in Lindberg’s studio. Sorted, reshaped, and reassigned, they turn out to be integral parts in jewellery and artwork objects. Extra.

CORNELIE HOLZACH TO LEAVE SCHMUCKMUSEUM PFORZHEIM
The museum’s long-time director retires this month. She might be succeeded by Friederike Zobel. She got here to the museum in 1997 and labored for a few years with the earlier director, Fritz Falk, earlier than taking up as director in 2005. Throughout her virtually 30 years on the Jewellery Museum, Holzach curated or staged quite a few thematically various exhibitions, whether or not historic, up to date, ethnographic, or up to date historical past, and throughout disciplines. Since 1997, the jewellery professional has constantly expanded the everlasting assortment, from historic to the current day with up to date jewellery. Extra.

TOP BKV PRIZES GO TO JEWELERS
Guja Youssefi (Germany) gained the blue ribbon, and Lara Solia Barenboim (Argentina) took second place. Congrats! Youssefi’s works initially seem easy however reveal nice depth. Their expressiveness have interaction the onlooker. Did our counterpart simply wink at us? Does it wish to allow us to in on a secret? Barenboim, in the meantime, titles her works Lengua, which suggests each tongue and language in Spanish. The wearable objects, within the type of massive tongues that may be hooked up to garments, are a visible image of acoustic inter-personal communication.

IN PROGRESS: THE RING SMACKDOWN
April 14–30, 32 rings as soon as once more compete head-to-head for the title champion of the Battle of the Rings, in a contest open to college students, hobbyists, and professionals. To examine issues out and vote, go right here.

GOLD PRICES SOAR TO RECORD HIGH
The metallic was promoting at over $3,200 per ounce earlier this month as a faltering greenback and an escalating U.S.-China commerce conflict stirred fears of recession, sending traders flocking to what’s seen as a protected asset.

MARIANNA SIMNETT IMAGINES WORLDS FILLED WITH UNTAMED THOUGHTS
Named for highly effective feminine figures from historical lore, like Discordia, the Greek goddess of strife, or Lilith, a she-demon, Simnett’s Crowns, that includes tiny forged mammals and birds, look at the facility, ferocity, and sublimity of allegorical feminine figures. Simnett illuminates the function of girls in delusion and legend. Extra.

AUTOR TAKES PLACE MAY 10–11, 2025
Unirea Buying Heart, in Bucharest, Romania, will rework into the epicenter of up to date jewellery, internet hosting the twenty second version of the worldwide up to date jewellery honest. This occasion brings collectively jewellery designers from throughout the globe, passionate collectors, and an knowledgeable viewers—all inside an area devoted to inventive expression and design innovation. Extra.

SNAG IS HIRING A COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
This distant, part-time place works collaboratively with the SNAG Staff, however the place is self-directed. The Communications Specialist is answerable for sustaining and initiating public-facing communications and content material technique for the group and facilitating administrative communication. Extra information right here.

WRITER’S GRANTS UP TO $50,000
The Andy Warhol Basis Arts Writers Grant helps rising and established writers who write about up to date visible artwork. Starting from $15,000 to $50,000 in three classes—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants assist tasks from quick critiques for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly research. Deadline: Might 7, 2025. Data.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY EXHIBITION
This exhibition, on the Itami Metropolis Museum of Artwork, Historical past and Tradition, in Japan, is open to jewellery works with no restriction on supplies. Deadline: July 25, 2025. Data.

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