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August 2025, Half 1
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THINGS UNSAID, AT PISTACHIOS
That includes 34 members of Treasured Collective, this exhibition will conceptually discover a tangible manifestation of issues unsaid. How can we prolong the voice of materiality by acts of creating? The place does the metaphysical affect the language of jewellery? Every artist made a group of labor particularly for this exhibition, and that is the primary time Treasured Collective will likely be featured in the US. August 14–October 26, 2025. Reception: August 14, 4–7 p.m. Data.
MOBILIA SPOTLIGHTS MIZUKO YAMADA
Yamada’s vibrant assortment of sculptural jewellery is harking back to Matisse’s daring sculptural shapes. In coloured aluminum, every plant-inspired piece is lighter than air. Extra.
THE VALUE OF NOTHING, AT GALERIE DOOR
These works of jewellery discover particular person values, conceptual worth, the worth of the fabric components, and worth within the market states their maker, Caroline Thomas. “We put a worth on issues on a regular basis, quantifying and stratifying objects, feelings, experiences, in a myriad of the way. Human beings are hierarchical and a few values, like gold and happiness, stay entrenched on the high of the worth league, aspirational and fascinating and, typically, unobtainable.” August 9–September 13, 2025. Opening August 9, 3–6 p.m., with the artist current. Extra.
GARDEN . A GROUP EXHIBITION INSPIRED BY NATURE
From the primary shell strung on a twine to a petal forged in gold, jewellery has been a strategy to carry the world’s kinds, meanings, and wonder with us. Immediately, that impulse endures, however typically with a distinct edge. Up to date jewelers work with fragility and decay, with natural supplies that shift and climate. Their items ask not solely what is gorgeous, however why. Magnificence isn’t at all times mounted or excellent—however fleeting, advanced, and deeply human. At Sienna Patti, by August 31, 2025. Extra.
ESTEBAN EROSKY, AT FOUR GALLERY
Born in Mexico Metropolis, Erosky at the moment lives in Madrid, Spain. He’s at the moment engaged in inventive enamel and jewellery, but additionally within the investigation of recent strategies and new languages of enamel and its software in up to date jewellery. In his work, he additionally displays on gender and sexuality, typically utilizing sarcasm or complete violence in shapes, colours, or symbols. September 6–20, 2025. Extra.
LEO, AT LISBON’S GALERIA TEREZA SEABRA
This month-long exhibition—a part of the year-long Rings of Saturn sequence, which focuses on astrological indicators—options work by Mónica Taipina, Alejandra Ferrer Escobar, Miguel Branco, Nedda El-Asmar, Hansel Tai, and Julia Obermaier. It opened July 26, 2025. Extra.
LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE STORY SO FAR: HELEN BRITTON—AUGUST 27, 2025
Britton’s apply contains jewellery, sculpture, drawings, stencils, and installations, and is knowledgeable by standard tradition and people artwork, threatened traditions, environmental destruction, and human nervousness. This present is a part of the Dwelling Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft sequence, which focuses on present work, not historic surveys, to make sure that the work and concepts introduced are present reflections of the practitioner’s course of and output. Launches August 27, 6–8 p.m., with particular visitor speaker Maud Web page, director of the Artwork Gallery of NSW. Seats are restricted, so registration is important; achieve this right here. On view at Australian Design Centre, August 28–October 4, 2025. Extra.
JENNIFER ALTMANN WILL TEACH WORKSHOP FOR JEWELRY ARTISTS AT ROMANIAN JEWELRY WEEK
“Craft your Artist Assertion,” a workshop taught by AJF member Jennifer Altmann, will stroll jewellery artists by the steps to writing an artist assertion that expresses their imaginative and prescient for his or her work. Prompts and workout routines will likely be provided, in addition to recommendation on the best way to discuss inspirations, influences, supplies used, and extra. The workshop is October 2, 2025, at Romanian Jewellery Week. Restricted spots accessible. Data.
IN MOTION: JEWELRY THAT PLAYS BACK
Ellyse Bendillo and Kate Dannenberg, of Night time Shift Studio, co-curated 11 metalsmiths who create kinetic jewellery that strikes or transforms when worn or displayed. You’ll discover items that dance, sway, spin, and shake—shapeshifting earlier than your eyes! At Gravers Lane Gallery, by August 28, 2025. Extra.
IMMEDIATE CONNECTIONS, AT WOMEN’S ART CENTER OF THE HAMPTONS
Oblik Atelier, Meghan Patrice Riley, and Birabiro exhibit their method to creating wearable artistic endeavors utilizing wire as a core factor. Offered in partnership with NYCJW. August 15 and 16, 2025. Extra.
MEDIA COVERAGE FOR GALERIE DOOR
This summer season, the gallery is exhibiting the winners of Preziosa Younger. “How did this worldwide exhibition find yourself in a medium-sized metropolis like Nijmegen? Fairly merely: Doreen Timmers was on the jury, together with 10 different consultants. She’s thought-about an authority on this specific subject of artwork,” says the article in De Gelderlander. Extra.
BECKY BLISS EXHIBITS WALL BROOCHES
A sequence of panels explores the interaction between geometric type and materials simplicity. The work attracts consideration to the tactile and sculptural potential of cardboard, elevating it past its utilitarian origins. Repetition and variation creates a rhythm throughout the panels. Lower-outs enable mild and shadow to turn out to be a part of the composition. At The See Right here, in Wellington, NZ, by August 16, 2025.
ALBA CAPPELLIERI HAS PUBLISHED A NEW BOOK ON CHAINS
A pal of Coco Chanel’s requested her what to offer the lady he liked. “Girls adore chains,” she replied, “give her a series and she’s going to adore you.” Adored by kings and queens, too, chains are additionally each a logo of the manufacturing expertise of historical civilizations and the countercultures of the younger. Chains: Tales, Fashions and Strategies of the Most Beloved Jewels traces the chain’s symbolic and aesthetic evolution, in addition to its intersections with artwork, vogue, design, craftmanship, and new applied sciences. Extra.
39TH MARZEE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SHOW
The present goals to endorse the work of a brand new technology of jewellery artists; to extend their publicity to the broader public; and to encourage a dialogue between makers and wearers. It’s going to open August 31, 2025, at 4 p.m. Get information right here.
BEEST GROUP EXHIBITION—AUGUST 24–SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Three Belgian and three Estonian artists have been requested what the phrase “Beest” evokes in them. See the solutions on this present at Galerie Pont en Plas. Options work by Jorgé Manilla, Karen Vanmol, Lore Langendries, Ketli Tiitsar, Kristi Paap, and Tanel Veenre. Extra.
SHINE 2025
The Goldsmiths Centre’s annual showcase of recent jewellery and silversmithing expertise returns September 17–December 22, 2025, in London. Extra.
NOMINATE AN AMERICAN MASTER OF THE MEDIUM FOR 2026
Take a look at the James Renwick Alliance’s checklist of previous honorees—who’s lacking?—then make a nomination. Go right here.
METALS CHALLENGE SHOW: A TIME TRAVELLER’S RELIC
Members have been required to “make use” of all the weather in a thriller provide package, however might add the rest they wished to create a chunk for the wrist impressed by a journey to a different place in time, both actual or imagined. Organized by the Metallic Arts Society of Southern California. On view at Artistic Arts Group, Sierra Madre, CA, August 3–31, 2025. Data.
AMITA RAO LIKES A RING THAT CAN HIDE THINGS
The star of the present Adults enjoys a secret. Her cat ring, discovered on the on-line second-hand retailer ShopGoodwill, has a hidden compartment … it evidently hid coke sooner or later in time, and now homes a wee sterling silver mouse. “That is my first piece of jewellery that I discovered and was like, ‘I’m going to cross this right down to my youngsters,’” says the actor. Extra.
ANCIENT GEMS LINKED TO THE BUDDHA RETURN TO INDIA
The nation’s Tradition ministry had threatened authorized motion over the deliberate Sotheby’s public sale of 334 Piprahwa treasured stones excavated by an English colonial landowner in 1898. Many Buddhists imagine the presence of the Buddha imbues the gems, so they need to be handled as corporeal stays. They’ve now been bought by a private-public partnership with the nation’s authorities. Extra. See the gems up shut and be taught their historical past right here.
CALL FOR ENTRY: EARRINGS GALORE
This annual juried exhibition presents a wealthy and numerous array of earrings made by rising and established studio jewelers. Every artist’s distinctive method to the earring format is represented in a cohesive grouping. Deadline: September 14, 2025. Data.
WOUND WOUND—WORKSHOP, AUGUST 16, 2025
On this intimate workshop and guided tour of the exhibition Carrying.Opacities, Particles Facility will lead individuals in a course of of creating rings or different wearable and jewellery objects utilizing off-cut medical plastics and located supplies. At Alta Forma, in Melbourne, Australia. Data.
JEWELLERY NOW: THE CURATORS’ EDIT
Curators Elizabeth Goring and Greg Parsons current their number of work for an exhibition of the identical identify. The jewellery items have been made by 64 of a few of the finest and most fascinating designer jewelers in England, Northern Eire, Scotland, and Wales, from essentially the most skilled to these making distinctive work within the early levels of their careers. This catalog accompanies an exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre, July–September 2025. It’s in AJF’s digital Library; learn it free right here. Or order your copy right here.
MAKING A KILLING IN DIAMONDS
A stunning homicide. A glittering lie. A thriller that cuts to the core of the diamond district’s most explosive debate. In an trade the place sparkle typically masks shadow, what occurs when innovation turns into a menace, and somebody is keen to kill to silence it? Journalist and longtime JCK and JCKonline Information Director Rob Bates returns with the fourth installment in his critically acclaimed sequence, unspooling a tightly plotted homicide thriller grounded in the actual, typically hidden dynamics of the gem and jewellery world. Extra.
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