Have You Heard – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
Could 2025, Half 1
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AJF LIVE WITH MELANIE EDDY: MAY 20, 2025, at 12 P.M. EST
Be part of us as Melanie Eddy walks us by means of her solo exhibition, Meditations on Type, at Bermuda Nationwide Gallery—the museum’s first jewellery exhibition. Museum management will talk about their method to exhibiting a jewellery assortment. Eddy will speak about what evokes her work and its connection to Bermuda. Eddy is concerned in varied points of the jewellery commerce, from design and manufacture by means of important writing and facilitating artistic {and professional} growth. From her London studio, she combines conventional and new approaches, creating geometric sculptural jewellery. The New York Occasions profiled Eddy in January 2025, in an article that explored Black British-based designers reshaping the world of high-quality jewellery. Free and open to all. Click on right here to register.
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MAD ABOUT JEWELRY: THROUGH MAY 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 last word modern jewellery pop-up will supply collectors and jewellery fans the uncommon alternative to fulfill and purchase items from essentially the most modern creators within the subject. Extra.
CONSTELLATIONS: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
This exhibition, November 9, 2025–Could 3, 2026, will dazzle with practically a century of creativity. Greater than 350 works will likely be on view, together with treasures from Inge Asenbaum’s vaunted Galerie am Graben, fascinating commissions by long-established luminaries and rising stars, and audacious new acquisitions. Constellations celebrates the enduring ingenuity of artists and honors the efforts of visionary collectors and activators who helped construct the museum’s holdings. Extra information to come back.
SEDIMENTED HISTORIES, AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H
This collaborative challenge between Maria Phillips and Seth Papac is rooted in a long-standing relationship constructed on friendship, respect, and shared sensitivity. Impressed by observing minerals and pure sedimentation processes, their work explores how supplies, reminiscences, and experiences accumulate and take kind over time. By means of objects created from private scraps, discovered fragments, and discarded supplies, the artists give bodily kind to intimate and collective reminiscence. Their method evokes an emotional and relational geology, the place accumulation turns into a artistic and revealing act. Extra.
EXHIBITION: DEVOUR: JEWELRY BY SOPHIE HANAGARTH
Lips that encircle fingers, enamel that chew wrists. Chains that counsel whips and testicles. French kisses fabricated from darkish, onerous metal. Hanagarth’s jewellery is characterised by ambiguity and a play on associations. Along with her work, she questions conventions, offers area to the facility of irony, and questions ornamental norms. Humor, provocation, the sensual, and the connection between jewellery and the physique permeate Hanagarth’s work. On the German Goldsmiths’ Home in Hanau, June 29–December 2025. Extra.
PETALS, LEAVES, ROOTS, & SEEDS, AT PISTACHIOS
This nature-inspired exhibition highlights works by Liaung-Chung Yen, Judith Neugebauer, and Huiyu Chiu. Every artist has unparalleled craftsmanship, using conventional metalsmithing strategies to create sculptural assertion jewellery with botanical motifs. By means of Could 31, 2025. Extra.
COLLECTOR LOIS BOARDMAN HAS PASSED AWAY
Boardman donated 300+ items of up to date artwork jewellery to the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, and 50 items from that assortment had been exhibited in Past Bling (October 2, 2016–February 5, 2017). It explored using nontraditional supplies and strategies, the methods jewellery can talk private or political messages, and the medium’s potential to shock and delight.
JULIA TURNER RELEASES HER LATEST COLLAB
The jewellery stemming from Turner’s newest coloration collab with Heath Ceramics is on view of their showrooms, and obtainable of their internet store in addition to hers. Extra.
LEGNICA JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER: GRAND OPENING MAY 9-10, 2025
What’s going to Legnica shock with this 12 months? Legnica exhibitions have been showcasing the complete spectrum of artistic approaches within the subject of artwork jewellery for years. Every year, greater than a dozen reveals presenting an enormous variety by way of supplies, strategies, and the problems raised by the artists entice a large viewers of bijou, artwork, and design fans from Europe and the world. The upcoming version of the occasion will likely be stuffed with surprises and new options. That is ensured by the theme of the jewellery competitors and the pageant: WOW Impact! Full program right here.
ONLINE ART HISTORY COURSE WITH GUEST SPEAKER UTE DECKER
Discover gold’s enduring attract throughout historical past, from historical treasures to modern craft practices. Uncover its symbolic powers, cultural resonance, and countless malleability by means of the V&A collections, skilled insights, and energetic discussions. Guided by V&A jewellery and steel curators, main metalworkers, and world-class consultants, every session invitations you to interact with the richness of the V&A’s collections and with gold artefacts of world significance. Audio system on this on-line artwork historical past course embrace the historian Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, and artwork jewelers Emefa Cole, Giovanni Corvaja, and Decker. At V&A Academy On-line, Thursday, Could 1, 2025–Thursday, June 5, 2025, 10:30–13:00. You might watch the lectures stay or each time fits you by viewing the recordings later. Data.
UAL: CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS BA JEWELLERY DESIGN AWARDS EVENT
This annual awards occasion celebrates the work of final-year college students. Save the date: June 18, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. This will likely be a ticketed occasion; information obtainable quickly. Extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: BJC GRADUATE SHOW
Since 2014, the Baltimore Jewellery Middle has supported the modern jewellery and metals subject by means of exhibitions and programming. Its second annual Graduate Present will spotlight rising jewelers and metalsmiths finishing their formal schooling. This exhibition showcases current graduates’ work, performing as each archive and highlight for the sector’s evolving voice. Candidates should have graduated in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 with a BFA, MFA, or Certificates. Submitted work should have been created between 2023–2025 and be wearable or small sculpture (no bigger than 12” in any dimension). Deadline: Could 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 company to interrupt from conference by interacting with the artwork instantly. 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, making an attempt 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 sudden or unconventional methods. Deadline: Could 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 information.
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 will likely be curated by Georgina Treviño, the modern artist and jeweler from Tijuana, Mexico, who’s primarily based in San Diego, CA. Deadline: Could 31, 2025. Extra.
PINS & POSTERS, THROUGH JUNE 15, 2025
Colourful, witty, courageous, imaginative, radical, politically outspoken pins and posters protest the normalization of right-wing ideology. Folks put on pins in day-to-day life and grasp posters in buildings and public areas, and take them to demonstrations. Don’t underestimate the facility of visibility in on a regular basis tradition. Everybody with the urge to take part on this exhibition was welcome to take action—quite a few AJF members did so. Count on a unbelievable vary of indignant to poetic works. At Entrance Room Studio Julia Walter, in Amsterdam. Extra.
MEGHAN PATRICE RILEY TRUNK SHOW AT OMBRÉ
Rejoice Mom’s Day weekend! NYC artist and jeweler Meghan Patrice Riley will likely be on the gallery on Friday, Could 9, from 4-6 p.m., and Saturday, Could 10, 11-4 p.m. She is going to convey an enormous assortment of her newest assortment, together with some one-of-a-kind items, and can assist you choose the right type. Extra.
BERNHARD SCHOBINGER PRESENTS KIMIAKI KAGEYAMA
At Galleria Antonella Villanova, Could 17–July 19, 2025. For years, Schobinger has spent a number of months a 12 months in Japan, instructing. The Japanese time period Wabi-sabi references a imaginative and prescient of the world and of aesthetics primarily based on acceptance of the impermanence of issues and the great thing about their imperfection. This imaginative and prescient usually underlies Schobinger’s artwork, so the gallery requested him to current the work of Kimiaki Kageyama, considered one of Japan’s most necessary grasp jewelers. Extra.
KUNSTENNACHT 2025 JIRO KAMATA
Jiro Kamata’s work explores optical phenomena and the notion of worth. By remodeling discovered and generally used supplies into jewellery, he creates objects that, by means of their interplay with reflection, gentle, and coloration, evoke an expertise of reminiscence. At A number of, Could 8–June 7. Extra.
AUTOR TAKES PLACE MAY 10–11, 2025
Unirea Procuring Middle, in Bucharest, Romania, will remodel into the epicenter of up to date jewellery, internet hosting the twenty second version of the worldwide modern jewellery truthful. This occasion brings collectively jewellery designers from throughout the globe, passionate collectors, and an knowledgeable viewers—all inside an area devoted to creative expression and design innovation. Extra.
BIJOUX DE FEMMES, AT MUSÉE DU BIJOU CENTEMPORAIN
Opening Could 17, 2025, this present options 32 feminine jewelers—together with Sophie Hanagarth, Mari Ishikawa, Einav Benzano, Cathy Chotard, Florence Lehmann, and Märta Mattsson—who pay tribute to ladies who’ve impressed or influenced their lives, whether or not artists, political figures, relations, or pals. Data.
SAY IT WITH LOVE EXHIBITION
Rings with a message. Work by Paul Adie, Karin Seufert, Tore Svensson, Erik Urbschat, Jorgé Manila, Karl Fritsch, Yotam Bahat, Into Niilo, Peter Vermandere, Madeli Viljoen, Patrick Malotki, Diederick Vanhovell, Benedikt Haener, Kim Buck, and Gésine Hackenberg. At Galerie Pont & Plas, by means of June 14, 2025. Extra.
PIECE OF PEACE EXHIBITION
At The WearHouse by means of Could 17, 2025. Extra.
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