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June 2025, Half 1

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FEAST: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM THE SUSAN BEECH COLLECTION
Tour the house of the American collector. Since 1991, Beech has remodeled her home into a unprecedented surroundings during which her intensive jewellery assortment interacts with craft and fantastic artwork, all in opposition to a backdrop of Artwork Deco glamour. Magnificence is entwined with darker forces of demise and decay, and glimpses of enjoyment nod to the surreal and uncanny. Buy your copy in AJF’s bookstore.

AJF TRAVELS TO DALLAS NOVEMBER 6–8, 2025
You’re invited! Get unique entry to the opening celebration of the essential exhibition Constellations: Modern Jewellery on the Dallas Museum of Artwork, and luxuriate in a non-public tour with the curator. We’ll additionally go to the magnificent house of distinguished collector Deedie Rose to see the reinstallation of her non-public assortment, and luxuriate in dinner on the grounds. This journey can even shine a lightweight on the thrilling world of up to date artwork in Fort Value. Open to Silver+ members, with precedence invitation for Gold+ members. Extra.

FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover listings from world wide on our devoted exhibition web page.

EVENTS
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND—OPENS JUNE 7 AT JEWELERS’WERK GALERIE
Sarah Pulvertaft makes use of conventional jewellery strategies in silver and gold, combining repeated articulated and kinetic components to kind refined, undulating surfaces and patterns. Sian Evans’s educational analysis displays her lifelong pursuits in archeology, geology, surroundings, ethics, know-how, and course of. Her work embodies historic aesthetics whereas being a recent dialog with jewellery and its archetypes. Every artist’s work enhances the opposite. Opening reception June 7, 12–4 p.m. Visitor-curated by Heather Guidero, the present runs via July 25, 2025. Extra.

CALL FOR ENTRY
Don’t miss this chance to showcase your work in Cyprus and meet fellow artists, whereas delving into the cultural scene of Nicosia. Whether or not you’re a jeweler, a ceramist, or a maker of objects, showcase your creations!! Information.

HOLY SHIT: ART ON A CHANGING LANDSCAPE
June 9–November 30, 2025, at CODA Museum, artists mirror on the nitrogen disaster. Works by Beppe Kessler, Milah van Zuilen, and Jeroen Jongeleen, alongside others from CODA’s assortment, make seen and tangible the affect of the nitrogen disaster on the surroundings in a compelling and sometimes poetic reflection on an pressing ecological problem. Within the jewellery collection Holy Shit, Kessler combines rabbit droppings—an emblem of natural waste—with pearls. Although seemingly unrelated, each supplies are pure by-products, shaped via distinct however equally natural processes. Impressed by photos of farmers angrily spreading manure on motorways, this collection raises questions on worth, impermanence, and the cycles of nature. Extra.

THE EARRING SHOW OPENS JUNE 7
This collaboration between the MASSC and the Orange County High quality Arts Affiliation celebrates the wealthy and numerous artwork type of the earring. The one criterion was that each one entries should be wearable. Extra.

LE PICNIC—AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H
Aurélie Guillaume celebrates the poetry of straightforward moments, capturing on a regular basis snapshots crammed with lightness and innocence. In a world the place every little thing is accelerating and turning into heavier, she invitations us to pause—a young, counter-current gesture. Her enamel objects, together with centerpieces and tableware units, converse of shared meals, fleeting reminiscences, and imagined tales. With vibrant colour, delicate gentle, and kooky varieties, she constructs a refuge—an intimate world rooted within the poetry of the peculiar. June 7–July 12, 2025; opening reception June 7, 1–5 p.m. Extra.

MOBILIA GALLERY SPOTLIGHTS JEWELRY BY ANDO YASUHIRO
The maker’s technical expertise are evident in his vivid, sculptural jewellery. The prize-winning artist makes use of a number of linear components to create daring, clear, sculptural varieties, usually embellished with iridescent, luminous, glowing colours. Yasuhiro works slowly and with intention to mix conventional metalsmithing strategies with new experimental designs which might be dynamic, light-weight, and wearable. Extra.

HELEN BRITTON: THE STORY SO FAR
Releasing in July, this ebook covers 40+ years of Britton’s multidisciplinary follow and presents her extraordinary, usually colourful and playful works. They evoke childhood reminiscences whereas additionally addressing darker elements of life, leaving viewers to finally discover their very own which means inside them. Revealed along side the Australian Design Centre’s Residing Treasure: Masters of Australian Craft award. Extra.

JEWELRY GETS A PLACE IN ART HISTORY
The ebook Past Adornment, by Yvonne J. Markowitz, jewellery curator on the Museum of High quality Arts, Boston, and Susanne Gänsicke, senior conservator of Antiquities on the Getty Museum, explores what depictions of bijou in artwork—from Charlemagne to Frida Kahlo—say about adornment, artists, and their topics. Go right here for a write-up.

RECORDINGS OF SMG EMERGING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES ARE ONLINE
Two of the Seattle Metals Guild’s 2025 talks are on YouTube. The recording that includes audio system Carin Jones, Grant Turner, and Wyatt Nestor-Pasicznyk is right here. The one with Ayesha Mohyuddin, Molly Shulman, and Yifei Kong is right here.

JOYCE J. SCOTT RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
The artist, together with Maryland First Woman Daybreak Moore, was a keynote speaker at College of Baltimore’s Spring Graduation Ceremonies, on Could 21, 2025. This, Scott’s fourth honorary doctorate, is a testomony to her profound affect on the humanities and tradition. The Maryland Institute School of Artwork, California School of the Arts, and Johns Hopkins College have additionally bestowed levels on her.

NEW IRANIAN JEWELRY
See latest jewellery by three makers represented by Tehran’s Aria Gallery, and discover out what they’re expressing via their work. Go right here for the article printed in Garland.

SIGURD BRONGER: WEARABLES WINS CERTIFICATE OF TYPOGRAPHIC EXCELLENCE
The Sort Administrators Membership award is all about how letterforms are used and drawn, recognizing typographic excellence and celebrating new typeface designs in all world languages. The ebook reveals Bronger’s work, which elevates goose eggs, pure sponges, packaging, balloons that includes smileys, shoe soles, scientific gauges, even gallstones into jewellery. The Norwegian artist’s “transportable objects” are was wearables by the use of suave hanging mechanisms. The questions Bronger poses along with his works relate to operate and use, ornament, aesthetic, and wonder. Extra.

GATES OF TRANSITION—AT ILIAS LALAOUNIS JEWELRY MUSEUM
The biennale presents latest brooches by 100+ up to date studio jewelers. Varied supplies, concepts, and strategies lead to microsculptures that spotlight the distinctiveness and inventiveness of established artists from Greece and world wide. By November 30, 2025. Extra.

21ST SILVER TRIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL

In existence since 1965, this competitors is likely one of the most essential of its sort on the planet. This new ebook gives an intensive overview of up to date silversmithing exemplified by works from internationally famend artists and younger expertise. It presents all 67 works by 59 artists chosen for the exhibition on the Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau. Extra.

BEYOND ADORNMENT: JEWELRY AND IDENTITY IN ART
By Yvonne J. Markowitz and Susanne Gänsicke, with a contribution by Emily Stoehrer, this must-have quantity for jewellery fanatics illuminates the methods during which jewellery crafts and expresses identification. Inventive renderings of the human determine usually showcase jewellery. The ornaments supply an abundance of data that not solely heightens our understanding of the topic but additionally gives insights into the creativeness of the artist. Why do folks put on jewellery? What which means does it maintain for the wearer? And what does the wearer hope it should convey to these they encounter—or to somebody viewing their picture a long time, even centuries, later? Extra.

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