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September 2025, Half 1

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THE 2026 AJF YOUNG ARTIST AWARD, SUPPORTED BY KAREN AND MICHAEL ROTENBERG
Now accepting functions, this competitors acknowledges modern work created by an early-career jewellery artist (age 35 and beneath). For the fourth cycle in a row, it’s generously supported by the collectors Karen and Michael Rotenberg, whose assortment focuses on the modern use of other supplies by rising and mid-career artists. Prizes: US$7,500 for the winner; US$1,000 awards for every of the 4 finalists; a journey allowance of US$1,000 every for the winner and the finalists who journey to Munich to obtain their award; exhibit at Platina throughout Schmuck 2026 for the winner and 4 finalists. Deadline: November 9, 2025. Data.

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FOUR OPENS ITS DOORS IN UMEÅ, SWEDEN
It is going to share the brand new area with Röbäck Glas & Lera, a gallery for modern craft and a ceramic and glass workshop. (Tackle: Kulturmejeriet, Skravelsjövägen 2, Röbäck.) 4 Gallery very a lot seems to be ahead to seeing the totally different actions collaborate, each visually and virtually. For its first Umeå exhibition, 4 presents works by the Mexican/Spanish artist Esteban Erosky.

UTE DECKER TO SHOW IN RINGS: THE RING IN ALL ITS GLORY, FROM 1960 TO TODAY
From radical design to modern artwork jewellery, Rings explores a robust image continuously reinvented by artists and makers. This exhibition shines a highlight on the ring as a type of wearable sculpture—a deeply private piece of jewellery, a globally acknowledged image, and a fertile medium for contemporary inventive expression. It highlights key artists and designers from varied eras and backgrounds who’ve all embraced the ring as a canvas for inventive freedom and a automobile for private expression, together with Decker, Ettore Sottsass, Claude Wesel, Sophia Vari, Marie Beltrami, Vivianna Torun, and Giampaolo Babetto. At Collectors Gallery, 12 Rue des Minimes, 1000 Brussels, September 25–28, 2025. Data.

LISA & SCOTT CYLINDER ANNOUNCE THEIR FIRST EXHIBITION IN FOUR YEARS
Titled Calliope, it’s on view at Gravers Lane Gallery, in Philadelphia, September 4–October 18, 2025. Calliope symbolizes the artists’ convergence of ideas and imagery taken from Greek mythology, the circus, and carousels. Emphasizing fantastical creatures composed of brass wind instrument elements mixed with their fabrications, the works are irreverent, metaphorical, and playful, evoking notions of youthful surprise and discovery. Extra.

MARITIM: DOERTHE FUCHS, AT PLATINA THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
This present displays the artist’s deep love of the ocean and the oceans. Right here we encounter fish in lots of kinds, music bins created as tributes to those that misplaced their lives at sea, in addition to boats, amongst them the nice ships often known as windjammers. Their rigging—masts, sails, and ropes—suggests elaborate adornment, an idea that resonates throughout the world of jewellery. Extra.

VIDEO: IT STARTS WHERE IT ENDS, WORK BY ANA ESCOBAR SAAVEDRA
The artist guides us by her exhibition, with perception into the concepts, supplies, and moments that formed her course of. Utilizing marble and granite, she explores nuances of id, identification, and the methods that rule our lives. A duplicate of her son’s delivery tag, a sentimental object, additionally represents most individuals’s preliminary encounter with bureaucratic and political methods. A kind of bracelet, it’s the very first object we put on, earlier than even being dressed. Watch the video right here.

RACHELLE THIEWES EXHIBITION COUNTED AMONG THE BEST
Each week, Glasstire—the oldest online-only artwork journal within the nation, it has promoted the visible arts in Texas since 2001—counts down the highest 5 artwork occasions in that state. Congrats on the inclusion of Paint: Rachelle Thiewes, on the El Paso Museum of Artwork! Gooooo, jewellery! Try Glasstire right here.

REPAIR DAYS: OCTOBER 16–19, 2025
Restore Days is the Metallic Museum’s largest annual fundraiser. Deliver your metallic objects to the museum to have them restored to their former glory. All proceeds assist to assist annual programming, corresponding to new exhibitions, the apprenticeship program, the M4 on tour, and the museum’s after-school program. Data.

PAUL ADIE AT JEWELERS’WERK
The Scottish jeweler on his working technique: “Spontaneity guides my hand … I play alongside, creating works with a gestural, intuitive, and childlike aesthetic. I … embrace humor … to construct neighborhood and poke enjoyable subversively at established energy constructions. Jewellery is normally small, typically neglected, and solely actually will get observed for the price of the uncooked supplies. I intention to point out that [it] can act as a software to boost consciousness—particularly when worn on the physique and brought into society.” Opening: September 6, 2025, 12–4 p.m. Data.

GERD ROTHMANN: DON’T TOUCH, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
This exhibition, at Ornamentum, showcases the newest works from Rothmann’s ongoing exploration of the intimate, direct relationship between jewellery and the pores and skin of the wearer. Silver cuffs and breastplates, solid with the impressions of pores and skin, are beset with stones like refined constellations of freckles on the pores and skin. Extra.

JOLYNN SANTIAGO | SURROUNDINGS, AT BROOKLYN METAL WORKS
The artist’s new jewellery attracts from her investigations of settling mud and the accumulations which mark the mild passage of time. By fusing silver and gold fragments inside ring-shaped molds, Santiago creates a cycle of renewal fashioned by particles. With these works, she asks us to turn into attuned to our environment, register the layers beneath us, and take a breath. September 13–November 9, 2025. Opening on September 13, 7–9 p.m. Extra.

VIDEO: PORTUGUESE CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY IN “DIALOGUE” WITH THE CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN COLLECTION
The exhibition Visitor Summer time: Up to date Jewelry in Portugal, curated by Cristina Filipe at Lisbon’s Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, aimed to create a dialogue between jewellery made 1958–2018 and art work from the museum’s trendy and modern collections, together with its Lalique works. Filipe’s speak offers a quick and simple 40-year overview of the subject material and its affinities with the gathering. Watch right here.

EROTICISM, SLOW-GROWING WORK AND BALD PATCHES
Karin Roy Andersson reveals new work centered on youth, center age, and previous age. It talks about eroticism, politics and energy, slowness, reflection and poetry, and getting older, decay, and humor. Jewellery typically attracts consideration. Sporting a chunk can turn into a efficiency and create discussions, however these much less comfy with being the focal point can cover behind it. (The main focus is on the jewellery and conversations are in regards to the object, not you.) Jewellery offers standing, reveals id, communicates with others and, when worn, has a bodily affect. You finger a small pendant whilst you assume, or turn into conscious of the ring you’re carrying whenever you shake fingers with somebody. Repetition and natural, nature-inspired shapes are two of essentially the most attribute options of Andersson’s work. At Röbäck Glas & Lera, in Umeå, Sweden, September 6–27, 2025. Opening: September 6, 1–4 p.m.  Data.

UTE DECKER AT GOLDSMITHS’ FAIR 2025
AJF member Ute Decker will exhibit on the main annual occasion showcasing the work of internationally famend and rising UK-based studio jewelers and silversmiths, whose work represents each modern jewellery, classical effective jewellery, modern silver, and classical silversmithing. Accompanied by a sequence of talks and curated exhibitions. Held within the gilded Goldsmiths Corridor over two weeks, every week showcases a unique group of makers. Discover Ute Decker throughout week 1—September 23–28, 2025—in stand #60. Data.

AMERICAN CRAFT INTERVIEWED KAREN DAVIDOV

The Jewellery Library, in New York Metropolis, is the place jewellery folks collect. It fosters scholarship and creativity whereas constructing neighborhood. “Everybody has a jewellery story,” says its founder, Karen Davidov. Learn the article right here.

VIDEO: NO INSTRUMENTS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS JEWELRY
Lisa and Scott Cylinder create one-of-a-kind sculptural and wearable artwork. Watch this video to search out out about their inventive course of.

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PISTACHIOS AND THE JEWELRY LIBRARY MENTIONED IN UPPERCASE
In its newest situation, the journal printed a gallery of photographs of jewellery and adornments that included Rachel Butlin. The artist stated she’d made the items for the Issues Unsaid exhibition, which is at the moment on view at Pistachios. Additionally, as a part of an article on nameplate jewellery, the journal requested Karen Davidov, of TJL, to weigh in.

VERONIKA FABIAN: B O T T L E D, AT GALERIE BIRO
Fabian, who serves on AJF’s editorial committee, explores the affect of latest capitalism on each day life and private id. She investigates the function of artifacts as signifiers of id. Utilizing jewellery as an middleman between the self and society, her work feedback on the contradictions of latest life and the dilemmas of the twenty first century. September 12–October 10, 2025. Opening: September 11, 6:30–8 p.m. Extra.

ANVITA JAIN REPORTS ON PIN PIN AN AN
This present, at Munich 2025, explored and reinterpreted Taiwanese amulets as objects that present an anchor, consolation, and sense of safety in a fast-paced and unsure world. Pin pin an an means “secure and sound.” The 4 artists—An Chi Wang, I Ting Wang, Yu Chun Chen, and Amal Yung Huei Chao—are jewellery makers in addition to educators in metallic and jewellery. Extra.

ARABIC CNN REPORTS ON LUCI JOCKEL
“I wished to specific my concern about our affect and relationship with the atmosphere by specializing in bees,” the American artist, who works with bee wings, explains within the article. “I explored methods of expressing grief by objects and was drawn to jewellery and Victorian mourning arts.” Extra. Jockel’s work was additionally included within the latest version of Ripley’s Consider It or Not!

ICON: IDENTITY X CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY
This present, at Kunst und Handwerk, in Munich, options works by artists from Japan’s Kobe Design College. It explores jewellery as an expression of 1’s personal id, with jewellery that turns into a private icon. September 5–November 11, 2025. Data.

SIX-WEEK JEWELRY COURSE AT U. OF JOHANNESBURG
Combines sensible, guided classes in an expert jewellery studio with tutorial movies to strengthen studying. Individuals will create three sterling silver items—a hoop, a pendant, and a pair of earrings—utilizing foundational strategies: drilling, sawing, soldering, and sharpening. Study from award-winning, industry-renowned jewelers. No prior expertise required; all instruments and supplies are offered. Begins October 11, 2025. Data.

IS DISNEY SELLING A SORT OF SHOULDER JEWELRY?!
Mouse ears. T-shirts. Backpacks. Charms. Stickers. And now: shoulder sitters. A magnet contained in the toy connects to 1 positioned beneath the shirt. They’re essential accent for some superfans. (Ahem. No remark relating to the extraordinarily Photoshopped mannequin.) Extra.

VICKISARGE AWARDS CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN GRADS
The awards acknowledge three BA jewellery graduates whose work displays originality, sustainability, and daring creativity: Saravich Sungtrakankul, Amina Badylbayeva, and Aimee Barlow. Congrats! The profitable items might be on show within the Vickisarge retailer, in London, for 2 weeks, beginning September 9, 2025.

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