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October 2025, Half 1

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JOIN US IN DALLAS FOR COCKTAILS: NOVEMBER 7, 2025!
AJF is touring to Texas to rejoice the opening of Constellations. Whereas there, we’ll host a meet-up for native jewellery lovers! You’re invited to return chat over cocktails, and you need to attempt our customized cocktail: The Mint Jewelep! At Atlas—Bishop Arts, 6–8 pm. Free.

THE 2026 AJF YOUNG ARTIST AWARD, SUPPORTED BY KAREN AND MICHAEL ROTENBERG
Now accepting purposes, this competitors acknowledges progressive work created by an early-career jewellery artist (age 35 and below). For the fourth cycle in a row, it’s generously supported by the collectors Karen and Michael Rotenberg, whose assortment focuses on the progressive 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. Be daring, be seen! Apply by November 9, 2025. Information.

FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
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EVENTS
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ENJOY THE VIRTUAL PASSPORT LECTURE SERIES AT A DISCOUNTED RATE!
SNAG + Pocosin Arts current two occasions October 10–11, 2025: A digital lecture with Swedish artists Åsa Lockner and Catarina Hällzon, adopted by a digital workshop exploring the expressive potential of skinny sheet steel. Register right here for the lecture; AJF members get pleasure from nearly 50% off! For the workshop, register right here; AJF members get $40 off! In each instances, activate your low cost by deciding on “AJF member” below fee kind.

JEWELRY CODE: DATA AS WEARABLE ART, OCTOBER 2–DECEMBER 2, 2025
Greater than 60 artists from 28 nations—together with Doug Bucci, Zhanna Assanova, and AJF member Erika Novak—will current jewellery and wearable objects based mostly on knowledge, from local weather change and gender inequality to non-public tales and collective reminiscence. The exhibition, curated by Syldyr Venture, highlights how knowledge will be reworked into significant, wearable artwork. It’s the primary worldwide knowledge artwork exhibition in Central Asia. On the Nationwide Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana. Information.

WORK BY JANE BOWDEN ACQUIRED BY TOOWOOMBA ART GALLERY
The most important piece, titled Sequence—Research in Beads, was acquired from the Modern Wearables Biennial Jewelry Award and Exhibition, an exhibition/award that showcased a few of Australia’s most outstanding and rising up to date makers. Bowden explores the intersection between conventional textile practices and up to date jewellery. Drawing on methods similar to lacemaking, crochet, and knitting, she reimagines these crafts into intricate, wearable kinds. Bowden is especially within the steadiness between softness and construction—glass beads hand-crocheted with cotton threads create fluid gradients, whereas steel spacers add rigidity and architectural distinction.

BLUE SEA, RESTING MOUNTAIN: KARIN JOHANSSON, AT PLATINA
The exhibition brings collectively work from the sequence Colours and Journey. It presents work impressed by time as Artist in Residence on two islands, Capri (in 2023) and New Zealand (2020). By means of October 25, 2025. Information.

CHRONICLE OF THINGS GONE BY: KETLI TIITSAR, AT FOUR GALLERY
Using wooden in Tiitsar’s work originated from a want to reapply the on a regular basis expertise and methods she discovered as a toddler to warmth a home with a wood-fired range. It was her duty to take it indoors and strip the birch bark for kindling. Within the studio, Ketli makes an attempt to duplicate an analogous routine by reconstructing well-known wooden supplies into jewellery. October 4–18, 2025. Information.

DOURIEAN FLETCHER: JEWELRY OF THE AFROFUTURE, AT MAD
Crafted from brass, gold, and semiprecious stones, Fletcher’s sculptural designs articulate Black identification, embody religious which means, and have helped outline cinematic characters and imagined worlds. Presenting 75 works from the artist’s assortment, the present describes Fletcher’s evolution from self-taught metalsmith to a designer with handmade adornments in up to date cinema, most notably the Black Panther movie franchise. By means of March 15, 2026. Extra.

LISA & SCOTT CYLINDER’S EXHIBITION CALLIOPE IS GOING GANGBUSTERS!
An enormous success for the artists’ first exhibition in 4 years, which is presently on view at Philadelphia’s Gravers Lane Gallery, by October 18, 2025. “They bought certainly one of their largest items on opening evening!” mentioned Mia Chen, a gallery worker, talking of the piece titled Scylla. One other shopper is now buying the opposite sea serpent, Cetus. “The ocean serpents appear to be the favorites,” says Chen. Calliope symbolizes the Cylinders’s 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 marvel and discovery. Extra.

REMIX: IRIS BODEMER—AT GALERIA REVERSO
This exhibition is a pause, an try to reorder connections on reflection. Particular person tales and narrative strands are already interwoven within the artistic strategy of an ongoing course of by which every little thing is inextricably linked and concepts construct on every. A panoramic view of the final 20 years. By means of October 31, 2025. Extra.

TRAINING GROUND: PAST AND PRESENT STUDENTS OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL OF ART
The establishment has nurtured and skilled generations of South Australian artists. Within the closing months of the College of South Australia, and on the eve of a brand new epoch for the South Australian College of Artwork, this group present, on the SASA Gallery, attracts collectively 25 rising and established artists throughout media—together with the jewelers Jane Bowden, an AJF member, and Simon Williams—to rejoice the excellence and legacy of the establishment. October 10–November 7, 2025. Extra.

SHAPE, AT GALERIE DOOR, OCTOBER 18–NOVEMBER 18, 2025
With primary shapes similar to triangles, spheres, or cubes, you possibly can create new kinds. The probabilities are limitless. This new exhibition by Hartog & Henneman builds on that concept. The gathering of particular person primary components in every kind of sizes, each flat and three-dimensional—squares and cubes, triangles and pyramids, circles and cylinders, and in addition spheres, arches, and beams—are made to be performed with: stacked or organized, tied or constructed. The tough texture and intentional imperfection of the weather emphasizes the sculptural high quality of every type. Translate your creativeness into your individual monumental, wearable type! Extra.

MEET BARBARA HEINRICH AT GRAVERS LANE GALLERY
Expertise the internationally acclaimed jeweler’s latest assortment, impressed by the vivid colours and pure types of Sri Lanka. Guide a personal, one-on-one appointment on November 5, 2025, to discover the total assortment immediately along with her, or to remodel your individual gem stones into bespoke creations. Information.

PRECIOUS GROTESQUERIES: THE JEWELS OF WILLIAM HARPER
An exhibition of 20 items which are excess of jewellery. Harper says: “I’ve all the time believed that jewellery will be about one thing, have content material, be extra substantive than mere decoration. In different phrases, exist as Artwork.” At Les Enluminures New York, October 23–December 12, 2025. Extra.

CALL FOR ENTRY: THINGS UNSAID
The collaborative exhibition between Pistachios and Valuable Collective will journey to Munich Jewelry Week in March 2026, they usually’re holding one other open name. Should you weren’t capable of apply to this monumental present the primary spherical, right here’s your likelihood! You might submit as much as three items. Works have to be certainly one of a sort, have been made within the final three years, and might’t beforehand have been proven at Munich Jewelry Week. Deadline: November 9, 2025. For more information, contact Lynne Speake at valuable.collective@gmail.com, or Meg Nash at advertising@pistachiosonline.com. Information.

KAREN LORENE HAS PASSED AWAY
Lorene established the crucial Facèré Jewellery Artwork Gallery, in downtown Seattle, within the early 80s. She served on the boards of SNAG and Artist Belief. Lorene was a senior member of the Nationwide Affiliation of Jewellery Appraisers, and appraised on Antiques Roadshow for six years. She additionally revealed Constructing a Enterprise, Constructing a Life: A Memoir and Workbook, ABeCeDarian, and Shopping for Vintage Jewellery: Skipping the Errors. Lorene spoke with Adriane Dalton in 2015; learn it right here. Hearken to her interview on the Jewellery Journey right here.

CROSS MY HEART, AT MORA THROUGH OCTOBER 31, 2025
This present celebrates the brooch as each a creative canvas and a strong mode of private expression. It options 50 one-of-a-kind works by 35 up to date jewelers, with 23 artists making their debut on the gallery. Erika Novak, an AJF member, is a taking part artist. Information.

THE JEWELRY BOOK FEATURES A NUMBER OF AJF MEMBERS
How thrilling! You’ll discover spreads that includes Melanie Georgacopoulos, Ute Decker, Mahnaz Assortment, and Fritz Maierhofer, in addition to Melanie Eddy, who serves on our Occasions committee. (Are you additionally within the e book and an AJF member? If we neglected you, please forgive our mistake and electronic mail in order that we will make a correction instantly!)

HISAJIMA RYO WINS 2025 ITAMI INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY EXHIBITION
The Japanese maker’s origami-like Subtleties of Thoughts makes use of skinny brass, leading to robust but gentle work. Different prize-winning works are by artists from Taiwan, Korea, Israel, and Germany, utilizing a wide range of supplies with stable technical talent, revealing new potentialities for jewellery.  Extra. The exhibition takes place November 15–December 21, 2025, at Itami Metropolis Museum of Artwork, Historical past and Tradition.

LECTURE—FRIGHTFULLY FABULOUS: JEWELLERY INSPIRED BY THE MACABRE
Because the nights attract and retailers fill with Halloween wares, uncover an array of diamond-encrusted beasts of the evening. From the arachnid to the vampiric, learn how jewellery designers have created objects of concern and fascination, remodeling them into glamorous and generally startling jewels. From Goldsmiths’ Centre, on-line, October 20, 2025, 6–7 pm (GMT). Information and tickets right here.

HILLER’S ZOO: ANIMAL JEWELRY BY DANIEL HILLER
This exhibition showcases pleasant critter creations, crafted in minute element in valuable steel, in addition to movable wood animals from the artist’s assortment. At Kunst und Handwerk, in Munich, October 17–November 22, 2025. Extra.

LIMINAL: LIN CHEUNG & KIKO GIANOCCA, THROUGH OCTOBER 25
Cheung appropriates archetypal jewellery kinds, with hanging relevance. Recurring themes in her work embrace worth and identification, societal change, pearls, political badges, and the reinterpretation of codes historically utilized in jewellery. Gianocca imparts a delicate resonance to the floor of steel; the iridescence created by the play of shimmering colours reveals a three-dimensional and altering presence, opening the way in which to a brand new notion. By means of the play of reflection, the fabric appears to dissolve, and surprising kinds seem. At Viceversa. Extra.

BENEFACTUM
Curated by Salvador Vico, distinctive items in silver, gold, glass, fibers, ceramics, paper, and recycled supplies intertwine in an area that celebrates that which is properly performed. On the Sala de Exposiciones in Valladolid, Spain, by October 31, 2025. Extra.

NOON PASSAMA, AT MUSEUM ARNHEM
A solo exhibition that includes work by the winner of the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2025. Recognized for reframing the chain and the hyperlink by sluggish, hand-sculpted variation, Passama presents a extremely anticipated new physique of labor, digging deep into her private and cultural histories. November 1, 2025–February 1, 2026. Information.

OPEN CALL: 2026 FRIEDRICH BECKER PRIZE
Awarded for excellent, impartial design of the very best high quality each three years by the Society for Goldsmithing since 1999, the award honors the following technology of excellent designers of jewellery, utensils, and objects. €10,000, exhibition, catalog. Jurors: Paul Derrez, Melanie Isverding, Dr. Christianne Weber-Stöber. Deadline: December 31, 2025. Extra.

CALL FOR ENTRY: LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE 2026
The prize showcases and celebrates newness, excellence, and creative benefit in fashionable craft. With a €50,000 award for the successful entry, the prize helps working artists whose expertise, imaginative and prescient, and can to innovate promise to set a brand new normal for the longer term. Deadline: October 30, 2025. Extra.

OPEN CALL: NOT ONLY DECORATION MAG
The theme: Neighborhood. Numerous varieties exist. They’ll present stability, transcend boundaries, or outline territories. Some span generations, others are non permanent. Seen insignia, buttons, flags, or tattoos usually mark these bonds and make belonging tangible. Jewellery specifically features as a marker of identification, as code, as nonverbal language. Translate your thought of neighborhood into jewellery. Deadline: October 31, 2025. Extra.

OPEN CALL—SLOVENIAN JEWELRY WEEK 2026
The theme: Substance/Reimagined. The competition seeks works that faucet into the connection between the fabric and the religious, the bodily and the digital, between type and essence, custom and fashionable applied sciences. Open to all up to date jewellery designers. Deadline: December 10, 2025. Extra.

OPEN CALL: STILL HERE
The Silver Fern invitations all US-based makers to submit work for a juried nationwide jewellery and metals exhibition celebrating artists who, regardless of going through obstacles similar to grief, trauma, burnout, transition, or therapeutic, proceed to create considerate and significant work. Deadline: November 15, 2025. Extra.

CALL FOR PAPERS, BOOK REVIEWS & EXHIBITION REVIEWS: THE JOURNAL OF JEWELLERY RESEARCH
Don’t miss your likelihood to contribute to worldwide analysis in up to date jewellery. Contribute to Subject 9 of JJR by submitting: Guide evaluation/exhibition evaluation→deadline: October 20, 2025. Full paper/visible paper→deadline: December 15, 2025. Ship submissions to: editorsjojr@gmail.com. Questions? Use the identical electronic mail. Full pointers and particulars right here.

THE JEWELRY BOOK
Edited by Melanie Grant, this e book dives deep into designers, artistic homes, artists, collectors, and magnificence icons from all over the world who’ve produced and impressed essentially the most memorable designs in jewellery. It’s organized A to Z, putting early stars and iconic manufacturers alongside at the moment’s most progressive designers and creatives. Entries vary from Boucheron to Erykah Badu, from Artwork Smith to The Infamous B.I.G. Extra.

CONTEMPORARY WEARABLES ’25 BIENNIAL JEWELLERY AWARD & EXHIBITION
The catalog for the 2025 Modern Wearables Biennial Jewelry Award & Exhibition—in its thirty sixth iteration—presents a choice of up to date jewellery and object works by each established and rising Australian makers. Held at Toowoomba Regional Artwork Gallery, the exhibition continues its concentrate on up to date adornment and offers a platform for present observe within the discipline. Printed by the Toowoomba Regional Artwork Gallery. To order, electronic mail ContemporaryWearables@tr.qld.gov.au.

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