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April 2026, Half 2
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TODAY! AJF LIVE: RINGS THAT ROCK AT THE DIVA MUSEUM
Monday, April 20, 2026, 12 pm EDT (18:00 Belgium/CEST). Register right here for this free on-line program. Diamonds have by no means been merely valuable stones—they’ve served as symbols of authority, marked political and household alliances, and sealed intimate commitments. Rings That Rock, at DIVA museum, in Antwerp, Belgium, brings collectively an distinctive number of diamond rings to indicate how these small objects inform massive tales about altering concepts round standing, id, emotion, gender, and craftsmanship. Be part of NYCJW founder and AJF board member Bella Neyman and DIVA curator Catherine Regout for an interesting journey of the diamond ring from the fifteenth century to modernity. You’ll by no means see diamonds the identical method once more.
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EVENTS
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AEDO MAGAZINE PRESENTATION
On April 23, 2026, a collection of one-off classes presents content material and insights into the primary version of aedo, the unbiased journal devoted to the tradition of latest ornamentation. The journal goals to be a wealthy supply of knowledge on the subject: a real bridge between Italy and the worldwide scene. Conversations on the boundaries of artwork, design, graphics, and experimental jewellery with Eliana Lorena, Paola Stroppiana, Sara Barbanti, Francesca Mo, Carla Brusa, Eleonora Tironi, Eliana Negroni, #aedoers & associates. Data.
LYDIA HIRTE WINS AWARD
Juries’ Alternative Award on the 2025 Itami Worldwide Jewellery Competitors, Japan. Congratulations! Extra.
SEE TEASE AT THE BJC
Tease is a solo exhibition by craft artist and educator J Taran Diamond, marking the end result of her educating fellowship on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle. The exhibition will likely be on view on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle (10 E North Avenue, Suite 130, Baltimore MD 21202) Might 8–June 19, 2026. Opening reception: Might 8, 2026. Data.
OPENING SOON: GERALDINE FENN’S DISPATCH FROM THE COLONIES
Fenn gained the 2025 AJF Solo Exhibition Award. This $20,000 grant helps her upcoming exhibition at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, in Montreal, Canada. The present will run June 13—August 1, 2026, and AJF will attend the opening. (Perhaps you possibly can be a part of us there?) Works in Fenn’s exhibition will discover energy dynamics within the European colonization of Africa in a lot of methods: along with her ongoing collection of narrative items that reinterpret historic portrait jewellery in silver and commerce beads; with an exploration of micromosaic, a method new to her; and with the growth of a collaborative mission with the beading collective Marigold, from Zimbabwe, that interprets pixelated variations of the historic portrait jewels into woven beaded panels.
3RD LISBON CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BIENNIAL—SEPTEMBER 17–27, 2026
With Coexistências/Coexistences, the biennial seeks to replicate on how jewellery expresses and represents the online of relationships between people and the Earth’s ecology in its broadest sense. This version focuses on an urgently related theme: our ecological survival and the place of the human within the twenty first century. Artists discover utopian areas and various realities, combining fiction and spirituality to counsel new and radical types of coexistence. Activating the ability of creativeness turns into a liberating train in cosmopolitics, proposing connections to different methods of information—comparable to mysticism, magic, and Indigenous epistemologies—in addition to to synthetic intelligence as a brand new method of organizing and understanding the world. There will likely be Masterclasses with Ted Noten and Sofia Björkman; registration for these is now open. Data.
BE PART OF NYCJW26!
NYCJW invitations designers, artists, curators, and organizations worldwide to share daring, participating applications for NYCJW26 that commemorate how jewellery shapes tradition. The group welcomes absolutely developed actions for exhibitions, workshops, performances, and extra that encourage, educate, and convey folks collectively. Have an progressive or collaborative concept? Get data. Deadline: June 30, 2026. NYCJW26 will happen November 16–22, 2026.
KEKE CRIBBS IS AMONG JRACRAFT 2026 SPRING CRAFT WEEKEND HONOREES
This 12 months, JRACraft has acknowledged three excellent artists as Masters of the Medium for his or her distinctive ability and affect of their given mediums: glass artist and AJF member KeKe Cribbs—congratulations!—fiber artist Piper Shepard, and ceramicist Winnie Owens-Hart. This award celebrates outstanding contributions to American craft training and a dedication to innovation and excellence within the subject. The group has additionally given the Distinguished Educator Award to Bruce W. Pepich, founding director of the Racine Artwork Museum, and Tom Loeser, the top of the wooden/furnishings space at UW-Madison, 1991–2020. Extra.
MATERIAL WITCHCRAFT, AT FOUR
How do objects change the life of individuals? How a lot do they carry of their typically humble types? Essentially the most intimate of them—jewellery—clings to our our bodies, creates ripples of which means. On this exhibition, the works of three artists converge in a shared territory the place jewellery turns into greater than adornment. It turns into a ritual object, a spell, a fraction of the invisible. Tereza Seabra, Catarina Silva, and Marta Costa Reis meet right here as alchemists of type, weaving collectively reminiscence, want, and transformation. Via Might 16, 2026. IG.
BIJOU, CAILLOU…, AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H
The present brings collectively 9 worldwide artists—Lin Cheung , Julia Maria Künnap, Craig McIntosh , Felicia Mülbaier, Julia Obermaier, Edu Tarin, Olaf Tønnesland Hodne, Oles Tsura, and Tarja Tuupanen—who reveal the uncooked stone in all its energy and delicacy. Of their arms, the fabric awakens to disclose sudden jewellery. This isn’t about stones reduce for setting in valuable metallic, however about artists who draw from stone fascinating and spectacular jewels, via a mixture of conventional and modern methods. The stone is not a fraction serving metallic however turns into each paintings and adornment. Via Might 16, 2026. Data.
APPLY FOR THE “HERE WE ARE” EXHIBITION AWARD
This award honors an achieved Black, Indigenous, or POC jeweler with a wealthy physique of labor, offering $5,000 to convey a solo exhibition to life at NYCJW26. Receiving the HWA Exhibition Award is your likelihood to share your imaginative and prescient, creativity, and craft with a large viewers. Deadline: June 30, 2026. Data.
20 YEARS OF HEIDI LOWE GALLERY—CONGRATS!
The gallery will host a celebration in Lewes, DE, US, on August 28, 2026. For particulars: hiya [at] heidilowegallery [dot] com.
MATRICES, WORK BY ROBIN DERIAZ, AT BORAX
A cage and a nest share the identical anatomy: an empty area delimited by a fabric boundary, able to defending simply as a lot as of enclosing. This exhibition will discover the purpose the place these two ideas intertwine and merge, and it takes place in a disused jail. There, the artist will query the way in which the situations of an area affect how we really feel about it. Silver, copper, metal, aluminum meet natural matter comparable to resin or fibers. This combine references each the language of the nest and of the cage. It’s a examine of the empathy of matter: aggressive constructions making an attempt to guard fragile interiors, and vice versa. The cage and the nest are not opposites however equals. The physique turns into the territory. Each bit exists as an autonomous ecosystem resting upon the pores and skin. The wearer turns into the guardian of those areas, the host who permits the article to exist. Might 30–31 and June 6–7, 2026,13:00–18:00. Opening reception with the artist on Might 30 at 18:00. Extra.
AT THE CELLULAR, SOLO EXHIBITION BY ELENA GORBUNVA, AT GALERIE DOOR
Gorbunova explores the thought of id on a microscopic stage. Her creative apply focusses on upcycling polypropylene and different plastics. Opening: Might 2, 2026, 15.00–18.00, in Nijmegen. Each the artist and her educational advisor, Naresh Yandrapalli, will likely be current.
MAD ABOUT JEWELRY: MAY 5–9, 2026
Now in its twenty sixth 12 months, the pop-up brings collectively 45 creators from greater than 20 international locations, together with England, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Scandinavia, the Center East, and past. As the one American museum with a gallery devoted solely to jewellery, MAD has spent over a quarter-century championing this medium. Data.
JELO6 ATHENS 2026, MAY 13–17, 2026
The central exhibition, Jewellery + Objects + Our 6 Senses, will likely be hosted on the Benaki Museum – Pireos 138. Satellite tv for pc exhibitions and occasions will unfold throughout collaborating galleries and artwork areas, in addition to in various venues all through the middle of Athens. Web site.
KONSTFACK STUDENTS PRESENT BODY DOUBLE AT SWEDEN’S SCIENCE MUSEUM
Impressed by the exhibition Hyper Human, on the Nationwide Museum of Science and Know-how in Stockholm, 10 bachelor’s college students from Konstfack’s Jewelry and Corpus: Ädellab program current a jewellery exhibition on the physique, expertise, and id. Drawing on themes from comparable to gene modifying, surveillance, synthetic intelligence, ageing, and loss of life, the works discover the place the physique begins and ends in a digital current and the way the boundary between human and machine might be renegotiated. Via December 6, 2026. Extra.
DESTINATION BIJOU CAGNES-SUR-MER, JUNE 4–7 2026
Cagnes-sur-Mer, in France, will host its second jewellery week. With its seaside, its medieval Fort Grimaldi, its scenic medieval previous city, and Espace Solidor—the one museum solely devoted to modern jewellery in Europe—Cagnes is the right French Riviera location for a four-day occasion full of a dozen exhibitions by worldwide collectives and galleries, lectures (in French and English), open studios of native artists, guided excursions, and workshops for youths and household. Vacation spot Bijou will current an exhibition by Noel Guyomarc’h and Platina, and a lecture by Jennifer Altmann. Extra.
WANT TO PRESENT AT THE BJC?
The Baltimore Jewellery Middle is searching for proposals for the speaker portion of its annual symposium on October 10, 2026. The theme of the symposium, Regular Arms, coincides with Handwork 2026, a year-long initiative introduced by Craft in America that encourages organizations, educators, and makers to have a good time the variety of the crafts that outline America, bringing compelling tales and underrepresented artwork and artists into the highlight. Deadline: June 21. Chosen presenters will likely be notified by July 8, 2026. Extra.
RUDEE TANCHAROEN TRANSFORMS PLASTIC WASTE INTO TREASURES
“It looks like we insist on inheriting plastic trash for future generations. So I’m bettering their look to be appropriate for being inherited,” says the Thai maker. Extra, from Garland journal.
LEGNICA JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER 2026 GRAND OPENING MAY 8–9, 2026
The city of Legnica, Poland, will quickly as soon as once more change into a European heart of latest jewellery as this extremely anticipated occasion brings collectively artists, designers, and audiences from around the globe. Throughout the opening weekend, guests will expertise a dynamic program unfold throughout a number of venues within the city heart, together with exhibition openings, conferences, performances, and the ceremonial spotlight—the awards gala of the thirty fourth Worldwide Jewelry Competitors EVERY BODY. Extra info together with the schedule and exhibition program right here. Common data right here.
OPEN CALL: ENJOIA’T
The Worldwide ENJOIA’T Up to date Jewelry Awards 2026 is accepting submissions. It celebrates innovation, excellence, and sustainability in modern jewellery. Prizes and recognitions embrace exhibition of chosen artists at Disseny Hub Barcelona, September–November 2026; chosen works on the market at Hannah Gallery; participation in CONTEMPORANIA Barcelona Excessive Craftsmanship 2027 for the first-prize winners within the skilled and pupil classes; Alliages Gallery award for one skilled and one pupil artist. Deadline: June 14, 2026. Extra.
OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG MAKERS
In help of the brand new era, designers of latest jewellery below the age of 26 could apply to AUTOR Younger Designers—third version without charge. Deadline: April 30, 2026. Extra.
MONTEBELLO | BERGESIO INTERNATIONAL AWARD
The second version of this prize for modern jewellery and significant writing opens April 24, 2026. It should run via Might 7, on which date the award ceremony will happen, at 5 pm. The jurors had been Lia Lenti, Barbara Schmidt, and Ellen Maurer Zilioli.
MUNICH 2027: MARCH 10–14
However mark your calendar and prepare for one more whirlwind of a jewellery week
CARDI B COMMISSIONS BRACELET MADE WITH UMBILICAL CORD
Had you heard of this? It’s a factor! Though this information dates again to November 2025, it appears noteworthy sufficient to report late. The rapper celebrated her new child by commissioning a gold heart-shaped souvenir forged from the dehydrated umbilical twine. Extra.
WHEN JEWELLERY BECOMES ART, BY PAOLA STROPPIANA
An anthology of internationally famend artists who’ve engaged with the theme of artist’s jewellery— from Lucio Fontana to Ada Minola, from Salvador Dalí to Man Ray, from Giò Pomodoro to Giovanni Corvaja—with 32 portraits initially printed within the “Maestri orafi” column of the Corriere della Sera. Between recollections and encounters, artwork and enterprise, the jewel emerges as an mental and identity-bearing language, able to illuminating non-public experiences and public artworks, locations and other people of their day by day and symbolic dimensions. An authentic perspective on Twentieth-century goldsmithing creativity, autonomous and absolutely achieved murals. Data.
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