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June 2025, Half 2

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AJF LIVE WITH THE LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE
June 25, 2025, 11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. Central European time. Be a part of us for a dialog between Loewe Professional Panel member Michelle Millar Fisher and the three 2025 Loewe Craft Prize finalists working within the subject of bijou—Caroline Broadhead, Empar Juanes, and Fumiki Taguchi. Fisher is curator of up to date ornamental arts on the Museum of High-quality Arts, Boston. The artists will discuss their expertise with the award and their very own work. Register right here.

FEAST: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM THE SUSAN BEECH COLLECTION
Tour the house of the American collector through this guide. Since 1991, Beech has remodeled her home into a unprecedented setting through which her in depth jewellery assortment interacts with craft and positive artwork, all in opposition to a backdrop of Artwork Deco glamour. Magnificence is entwined with darker forces of dying 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
Only some seats stay for this unique journey! Get particular entry to the opening celebration of the vital exhibition Constellations: Up to date Jewellery on the Dallas Museum of Artwork, and luxuriate in a non-public tour with the curator. We’ll additionally go to the magnificent dwelling of distinguished collector Deedie Rose to see the reinstallation of her personal assortment, and luxuriate in dinner on the grounds. This journey may even shine a lightweight on the thrilling world of up to date artwork in Fort Price. Open to Silver+ members. E-mail danielle [at] artjewelryforum [dot] org for info.

FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
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EVENTS
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THE POETICS OF PLACE II, AT ATTA GALLERY
The Bangok gallery is presently internet hosting an exhibition of bijou and objects by 16 Australian makers throughout modern craft, object-based, and textile practices. The works discover, develop, and bother the idea of “place” in post-colonial Australia and Aotearoa. They have interaction with literal and (sub)liminal geographies through the intimate relationality of the physique. Extra.

THE BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER IS HIRING AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The BJC seeks an Government Director to succeed founding director Shane Prada. The ED will oversee employees, applications, and mission execution, requiring sturdy management, operational administration, and communication abilities. The best candidate will excel in administration, strategic planning, and collaboration. Confirmed fundraising talents—together with grant writing, donor improvement, and grant administration—are important. The ED needs to be a dynamic chief with the imaginative and prescient, vitality, and keenness to information the BJC into its second decade, fostering development and innovation whereas increasing its community and affect inside the arts and schooling communities. Extra data.

DEVOUR: JEWELRY BY SOPHIE HANAGARTH OPENS JUNE 29, 2025
Lips that encircle fingers, enamel that chunk wrists. Chains that recommend whips and testicles. French kisses product of darkish, exhausting metal. Hanagarth’s jewellery is characterised by ambiguity and a play on associations. Along with her work, she questions conventions, offers house to the facility of irony, and questions ornamental norms. Humor, provocation, the sensual, and the connection between jewellery and the physique permeate the work. On the German Goldsmiths’ Home in Hanau. Extra. 

MOBILIA GALLERY SPOTLIGHTS CANTASTIC WORKS BY EUNSEOK HAN
As an alternative of utilizing conventional metalwork strategies and supplies, Han is dedicated to pursuing environmental sustainability by utilizing recycled aluminum soda and beer cans, “a fabric that’s used as soon as and discarded. It is without doubt one of the important contributors to environmental air pollution—one can takes 500 years to decompose utterly,” says Han. After sorting the cans, she hand-cuts shapes which she bends, curves, and joins along with a renewable plastic. Extra.

BEPPE KESSLER FEATURED IN AN ART AUREA ARTICLE
The artist was one amongst eight individuals interviewed about Schmuck 2025 and their views on the way forward for our subject. The journal supplied a PDF of the article, which is in each German and English. Discover it right here, in AJF’s digital Library.

LOLA BROOKS RECEIVES MASTERS OF THE MEDIUM AWARD
Congratulations! Each two years, the James Renwick Alliance honors American artists and educators who’ve considerably influenced the sector of craft and their respective mediums. The JRA posted pictures of the award ceremony right here. Scroll by way of and also you’ll see AJF’s personal Stef Fedor and Danielle deCongé.

THOMAS GENTILLE RECEIVES SNAG’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Congratulations! Over the previous six many years, this pioneer has been one of the vital influential voices in modern artwork jewellery, extending the boundaries of approach, materials innovation, and conceptual exploration. Gentille’s work—directly mental, sculptural, and poetic—has redefined the very idea of decoration, difficult standard concepts of magnificence, worth, and non-representational type. Extra.

WAXCAST: CREATIONS BY EARL JONES, AT THE BJC
This highly effective retrospective honors the life and work of Baltimore artist, entrepreneur, and inventor Earl Jones (1951–2024). Showcasing jewellery, sculpture, and archival supplies, the exhibition traces three main phases of his profession—early sculpture, his casting enterprise, and his evolution as a jeweler. Identified for culturally particular designs and vibrant warmth patinas, Jones’ swork displays a lifetime of dedication to craft. The present additionally highlights his lasting affect on Baltimore’s arts scene and his assist of Black artistic areas. Waxcast celebrates a unprecedented legacy of artistry, innovation, and neighborhood constructing. Extra.

ISLAND WELCOME, AT AUSTRALIA’S HAHNDORF ACADEMY
This group exhibition, curated by Belinda Newick, explores modern jewellery as a gesture of welcome. It seeks to convey consideration to asylum seeker points and to increase the dialogue past artwork and craft audiences through expressions of Australian values by way of craft observe. With regards to welcome garlands gifted in lots of conventional islander cultures, every artist has made a neckpiece, lei, or garland decoding the theme of welcome while contemplating present Australian immigration insurance policies. It’s a quiet, contemplative expertise of decoration as a automobile for political discourse, empathy, and shared humanity. The exhibition has toured Australia since 2017. This exhibiting, at Hahndorf Academy, in South Australia, by way of July 20, 2025, is the final. Newick is a recent jeweler whose work explores cultural hybridity, place, and social engagement. Newick maintains a various observe as a studio-based jeweler and as an impartial curator and author. She has taught within the Jewelry and Object Design program at Melbourne Polytechnic since 2007. Extra.

OPENING SOON: THE JEWELRY OF DOROTHEA PRÜHL
The exhibition is being curated by Cindi Strauss and Elizabeth Essner. It can run September 6, 2025–January 2027 on the Museum of High-quality Arts, Houston.

ART JEWELRY & JEWELS AUCTION: JULY 3, 2025
You’ll discover work by Manfred Bischoff, Felieke van der Leest, Pol Bury, Johanna Dahm, Andi Intestine, Peter Hoogeboom, Mari Ishikawa, Jiro Kamata, Gerd Rothmann, Petra Zimmerman, Annamaria Zanella, Michael Zobel, and plenty of others on this sale from Quittenbaum. Go right here.

SEATTLE METALS GUILD’S SPRING EMERGING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES ENDS
The ultimate occasion is on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 6 p.m. Pacific. It options rising artists Bryce Wall, Fernanda Gaspar, and Laurie Gyarmathy. Register right here.

THE WORST THING TO BE? A PIECE OF JEWELRY, SPENDING LIFE IN A DRAWER
The craft orchestrator Lou Grotta—he doesn’t name himself a collector—stated one thing alongside these strains in an American Craft interview. However he and his late spouse, Sandy, displayed her jewellery acquisitions throughout the home as a result of they’re “each bit as worthy of exhibiting off as the hampers and bowls and teapots and tapestries,” stated Grotta. Extra.

ARTISTS’ JEWELRY: FROM CUBISM TO POP, THE DIANE VENET COLLECTION
This exhibition options 150+ items of bijou designed by some 140 of probably the most vital artists from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Navigating the challenges of mastering a brand new medium or scaling right down to adorn the physique is met with witnessing the enjoyment of making intensely private objects, usually destined for cherished individuals inside the artist’s inside circle. On the Norton Museum of Artwork, by way of October 5, 2025. Extra.

DANA SCHNEIDER DESIGNS FOR HOLLYWOOD
Greater than 1,000 of her creations have appeared in about 80 productions, together with the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo and the TV collection Recreation of Thrones and Californication. Along with her jewellery designs, she goals “to assist actors get into character.” Extra.

THE JEWELRY BOOK
Edited by Melanie Grant, this guide dives deep into designers, artistic homes, artists, collectors, and magnificence icons from around the globe who’ve produced and impressed probably the most memorable designs in jewellery. It’s organized A to Z, inserting early stars and iconic manufacturers alongside right now’s most revolutionary designers and creatives. Entries vary from Boucheron to Erykah Badu, from Artwork Smith to The Infamous B.I.G. Extra.

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