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January 2025
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SAVE THE DATES FOR AJF TRIPS IN 2025!
AJF’s extremely curated journeys present a chance to journey with like-minded fanatics and provide you with entry to venues and actions you couldn’t do by yourself. We now have two journeys deliberate. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Might 12–15, 2025. And Mexico Metropolis, Mexico: September 7–10, 2025, with an optionally available Oaxaca add-on September 12–14. Turn out to be a member on the Gold stage for precedence invitation to AJF’s journeys. More information right here.
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SUSAN GRANT LEWIN DONATES GENTILLE BROOCHES TO MULTIPLE MUSEUMS
Throughout AJF’s current journey to Amsterdam, Lewin gave brooches by Thomas Gentille to CODA, the Rijksmuseum, Design Museum den Bosch, the Françoise van den Bosch Basis, and the Stedelijk museum. She additionally donated items by Daniel Jocz. “There’s a big void of American work in these museums,” states Lewin. “I even gave the Sam Kramer ring I used to be carrying to the CODA museum.”
DON’T MISS ORNAMENTA, THE BJC’S ANNUAL BENEFIT PARTY!
Ornamenta will happen Saturday, February 8, from 7–11pm, at 2640 Area. Ornamenta features a silent public sale the place you may bid on lovely items of artwork jewellery to develop your assortment, in addition to a raffle stuffed with goodies from all our supporters. Your most interesting cocktail apparel is requested and this yr’s celebration is impressed by all issues diamond! Tickets are reside on the BJC’s web site and even in case you’re not native to Baltimore there are methods you may help the BJC’s annual fundraiser! Extra information.
GALERIE DOOR IS NOW IN NIJMEGEN
You’ll discover it at Lange Hezelstraat 93. Its present present, on view till February 22, 2025, is known as Klara Brynge & Dot Melanin.
EXHIBITION—ALTERED STATES: PLASTICS TRANSFORMED
On view at Pistachios Modern Artwork Jewellery, January 27–April 6, 2025. Jennifer Service provider, emiko oye, and Nikki Couppee rework plastic into wearable artwork. Plastic is undoubtedly part of our on a regular basis lives, and is an typically neglected materials for jewellery. However this transformation from bizarre to spectacular calls into query how we place worth on objects. Extra.
NEW EXHIBITION PROJECT IN MILAN: SALOTTO SPJ
Salotto SPJ goals to focus on up to date artwork jewellery in a casual setting and create an area for artists to attach with museums, collectors, and new audiences. The inaugural exhibition is Giovanni Corvaja, January 22–25, 2025. Corvaja, who is thought internationally for his distinctive and experimental strategy to gold, will probably be current all the time. His work blends technical mastery with mythological inspiration, and every bit requires tons of of hours of labor, leading to an ethereal, virtually divine high quality. Information. Appointment essential; contact the gallery by e mail.
FOUR GALLERY MOVES TO UMEÅ
Gothenburg, Sweden, is a robust heart for up to date jewellery, however 4 desires to broaden the up to date jewellery map in a northerly path. Its workshop and elements of its group will stay at Risåsgatan, however the gallery half will transfer to Umeå and subsequent autumn they’re planning exhibitions in that small however culturally wealthy metropolis in Västerbotten. Till then, they’ll present jewellery digitally. We want all of them the most effective within the new digs!
EMILY COBB AND KERIANNE QUICK TO TEACH AT HAYSTACK
Fast will educate “Second Pores and skin: Leather-based Jewellery Wearables,” June 8–20, 2025. Cobb will educate “Steel Connections,” June 22–July 4, 2025. Younger Artist Award finalist Everett Hoffman may even be instructing, August 10–22, 2025; his class is known as “The Bejeweled Kind.” The appliance deadline’s been prolonged to February 7. Information.
PINK & PUNK, AT PLATINA
This exhibition is an explosion of edgy interpretations, wild concepts, humorous figures, and irresistible creations. It options sudden, daring items that push boundaries.
Twelve artists seem on this distinctive, enjoyable and barely mad assortment, elevating questions and providing solutions on a wide range of topics: Karin Roy Andersson, Caroline Broadhead, Tim Carson, Paul Derrez, Geraldine Fenn, Tove Knuts, Daniel Kruger, Felieke Van Der Leest, Helena Lehtinen, Eric Loubser, Reka Lörincz, and Hansel Tai. Extra.
JOB OPENING AT BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
The BJC is providing one three-year instructing fellowship; begin date August 2025. Along with gaining instructing expertise, the chosen fellow will develop pedagogical expertise, construct management expertise, obtain mentorship from skilled educators, and play an influential a part of a vibrant instructional group. The best candidate is keen about metalsmithing and artwork jewellery in addition to instructing and studying. They need to be keen to interact with college students in a wide range of settings, from the studio to group occasions. Candidates ought to have an MFA in metals and/or jewellery, or a BFA in metals and/or jewellery and work expertise (in instructing or different elements of the sphere). Some prior instructing expertise is very most popular. Extra.
UTE DECKER TO EXHIBIT HER SCULPTURAL JEWELRY AT COLLECT
Acquire Artwork Honest is the main artwork truthful for up to date craft and design in London. It presents distinctive collectible objects, with 40 famend galleries showcasing 400 dwelling artists and their works. Uncover Ute Decker’s works with Objects Stunning Gallery. At Somerset Home, London, WC2R 1LA, February 28–March 2, 2025 (previews February 26–27). Extra.
TALK: “BEYOND THE GALLERY”
How will we worth artistic work within the wider world? Be part of a dialog in regards to the different areas for objects that give that means to our shared world. January 28, 2025, at 10 a.m. GMT (5 a.m. New York). Information. When you can’t take part particular person, be a part of through Zoom by preregistering right here.
JEWELCACHING PROJECT TO HAPPEN AGAIN AT MUNICH 2025
In a twist on geocaching, three jewellery items by Sint Lucas Antwerpen college students will probably be hidden in numerous areas. On-line and offline clues will level you to them. These treasures are impressed by the founding of Antwerp. Whilst you search, the story will unfold. Carry your individual piece to swap with the jewellery within the cache and develop into a part of the chain. To take part—March 12–15—and get your first clues, go to www.instagram.com/studiosieraad or scan the QR code.
BRICKS AND SAND INSPIRE EXHIBITION IN MUNICH 2025
We paused earlier than a Home that appeared | A Swelling of the Floor will characteristic Saskia van Es, Elise Hoebeke, Saskia Van der Gucht, and Irma Földényi, representing jewellery observe, analysis, and idea from Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Sand is being mined to the purpose that it’s changing into scarce. The dimensions of extraction harms ecosystems. Bricks have been hand-made in Belgium and the Netherlands for hundreds of years. What can a single brick or a handful of sand inform us about their worth and the time it took the earth and the folks to form them? Extra.
EVERYBODY’S BOLOS EXHIBITION
This touring present options the work of 30 up to date artists who deliver their distinctive voices to bear on the bolo tie, a kind of neckwear historically constructed with a twine or braided leather-based string. The exhibition examines the cultural historical past and significance of the bolo tie in marginalized communities, in addition to its expressive potential and relevance as a gender-neutral type of private adornment. At Fuller Craft Museum, by June 8, 2025. Extra.
OPEN CALL: EMERGING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES
Current your jewellery and metals work within the Seattle Metals Guild’s on-line lecture collection. You’ll give a 15-minute discuss, adopted by a moderated dialogue with two different presenters. This collection of 4 one-hour occasions will characteristic 12 rising artists in whole. Information.
BREAD INSTEAD OF GEMSTONES
Cindy Xinyi Wu’s jewellery is an ode to baking and the energetic nature of dough. The Rising assortment options sculptural items with baked bread dough bulging out of intricate steel frameworks. The shapes had been produced by permitting the dough to broaden freely throughout the steel bands whereas rising and baking. See extra.
DOROTHY ERICKSON: JEWELLERY INSPIRED BY LIGHT AND LAND
Philippa O’Brien displays on the profession of Dorothy Erickson, a West Australian jeweler whose work is impressed by a singular pure surroundings. Erickson has lately been named a WA State Cultural Treasure. Extra.
TALK: THE CHARM OF CORAL
“The Appeal of Coral: Custom, Innovation and Sustainability in Modern Jewelery,” with talks by Vincenzo Aucella and Loredana Prosperi moderated by Laura Astrologo Porché, will discover the renaissance of coral in at the moment’s jewels, analyzing its symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural worth. February 24, 2025, at 3:30 p.m., within the Fiera Milano Rho conference heart through the Milano Style and Jewels truthful. Information.
CALL FOR ENTRY: AUTOR
This yr’s version is the 22nd. The occasion takes place Might 2–4, 2025, in Bucharest. Deadline: January 30, 2025. Information.
PARIS, CITY OF PEARLS, BY LÉONARD POUY
In addition to unraveling the mysteries surrounding the biomineral, this e-book reveals the extent to which pearls impressed Parisian jewelers and artists of every kind between the 2 world wars. They had been pushed by a pearlomania, no matter their medium—from opera to cinema, portray, pictures, posters or illustrated books—making the pearl one of many symbolic types of the Roaring Twenties. Extra.
THE FASCINATION OF JEWELRY: 7,000 YEARS OF JEWELRY ART AT THE MAKK
The jewellery assortment of the Cologne Museum of Utilized Arts (MAKK) is showcased for the primary time in a devoted exhibition that presents various approaches to the artwork of jewelry-making. Photographs of round 370 objects, with descriptions, reveal simply how multifaceted jewellery design is. The social, societal, emotional, and symbolic elements of bijou are additionally mentioned in an essay by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson. Extra.
INSPIRED BY LIGHT AND LAND: DESIGNERS AND MAKERS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1970 TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Writer Dorothy Erickson options tons of of craftspeople whose expertise and confidence sculpted the jewellery story of Western Australia. This e-book tells of the expansive world of the mineral growth adopted by recession and disaster by the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, after which the extra pensive and austere lead-up to the brand new millennium and into the digital age. Works of treasured stone, wooden, textile and clay, woven, stitched, fired, and cast, are detailed all through. Extra.
POSTDIGITAL FASHION & JEWELLERY IN THE MAKING
Initiatives carried out between 2020 and 2023 within the Style Design Laboratories on the College of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli look at hybrid practices that mix digital and bodily supplies in up to date style and jewellery. Edited by Chiara Scarpitti. Free PDF right here.
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