Artwork Jewellery Discussion board Declares the 2025 Linda Peshkin AJF Solo Exhibition Award Jury and Pointers
Lynchburg, VA, USA—Artwork Jewellery Discussion board (AJF) is happy to announce this grant alternative for artists of any age and nationality. Established by jewellery collector Linda Peshkin, who lives in Scottsdale, AZ, US, this $20,000 grant has as its goal to help the creation of a solo exhibition to advance an artist working within the area of artwork jewellery.
The jury of distinguished professionals for this grant cycle might be: Caroline Broadhead (UK), Mike Holmes (US), and Grace Lai (New Zealand/Aotearoa).
- Caroline Broadhead explores objects that come into contact with and work together with the physique in her observe. Though jewellery is a constant thread, the work has additionally developed into larger-scale work that explores the outer extents of the physique as seen by means of gentle, shadows, reflections, and motion. It has included set up and efficiency and collaborative work. She lectures, teaches, and reveals extensively, and her work is represented in public collections internationally. Broadhead acquired the Herbert Hofmann Prize in 2022. She is professor emeritus at Central Saint Martins London, from which she retired as course chief, BA Jewelry Design.
- Mike Holmes is the proprietor of Velvet da Vinci Gallery, established in 1991 in San Francisco, CA. He has curated 100+ exhibitions of up to date jewellery and craft-based sculpture, together with one-person reveals, materials-based reveals, and thematic and political ones such because the AntiWar Medals touring exhibition responding to the Iraq Battle and La Frontera, which checked out points surrounding the US/Mexico border. Holmes has given talks about up to date jewellery internationally and written articles about craft for the Museum of Arts and Design, Artwork Jewellery Discussion board, and Floor Design Journal.
- Grace Lai is an artwork historian and curator focused on uncovering tales held by objects missed or dismissed by historical past. Positioning materials tradition as a decoder of the immaterial, her analysis seeks to untangle the advanced internet of connections, histories, and social constructions inherited by objects within the hopes of addressing points related to museum collections and societies at present. Presently, Lai is the Curator of Utilized Arts & Design at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Battle Memorial Museum, the place she leads the exhibition, growth, and analysis of a nationally vital archive of craft from Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
The Linda Peshkin AJF Solo Exhibition Award is open to all makers. The proposed challenge needs to be about jewellery, loosely outlined. The grant recipient will obtain an award within the quantity of $20,000, to be paid over the 2 years by which the challenge might be applied.
Purposes might be accepted beginning November 11, 2024. The deadline to use is 11:59 PM, MST, on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Extra info and full pointers will be discovered right here.
Contact: Marta Costa Reis
E mail: ajfartistaward@artjewelryforum.org
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