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September 2025, Half 2
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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 underneath). 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. Be daring, be seen! Apply by November 9, 2025. Data.
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IN THE GALLERY AT BROOKLYN METAL WORKS HOLDS JOLYNN SANTIAGO SHOW
The brand new solo exhibition, Environment, contains new jewellery works by the artist drawn 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 carved from graphite, Santiago creates a cycle of renewal fashioned by particles. With these works, Santiago asks us to change into attuned to our environment, to register the layers beneath us, and take a breath. By way of November 9, 2025. Artist discuss (open to the general public) on November 8. Extra.
BJC FOCUS SYMPOSIUM: OCTOBER 4–5, 2025
This free annual occasion options workshops, demonstrations, and displays all centered round a specific theme. The featured audio system are artists and intellectuals who’re well-studied and acquainted with the chosen matter for the 12 months. The 2025 symposium, BJC Focus: Making Areas, will examine the position of third areas as websites for connection, creative expression, and artistic progress. The time period “third area” refers to locations outdoors of houses (first areas) and workplaces (second areas) the place persons are introduced collectively round shared pursuits and concepts. Free and open to the general public. Data.
PRECIOUS GROTESQUERIES: THE JEWELS OF WILLIAM HARPER
An exhibition of 20 items which might be excess of jewellery. Harper says: “I’ve at all times believed that jewellery could 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.
ARCHITECTURE OF GRACE. THE JEWELRY OF JACQUELINE LILLIE
Lillie builds with beads the way in which a grasp architect works with gentle and cargo. Beads have one of many longest histories in human adornment. Perforated shells and stones, traded and worn tens of 1000’s of years in the past, had been among the many earliest moveable indicators of identification and reminiscence. Over millennia, beadwork turned a cosmopolitan language. On this lengthy arc, Lillie’s achievement is to not repeat historic results however to distill their classes, construction, cadence, and the intimate tactility of numerous small models into a recent, architectural language. At Sienna Patti by way of October 19, 2025. Extra.
SEE LISA & SCOTT CYLINDER’S FIRST EXHIBITION IN FOUR YEARS
Titled Calliope, it’s on view at Gravers Lane Gallery, in Philadelphia by way of October 18, 2025. Calliope symbolizes their convergence of ideas and imagery taken from Greek mythology, the circus, and carousels. Emphasizing fantastical creatures composed of brass wind instrument components mixed with their fabrications, the works are irreverent, metaphorical, and playful, evoking notions of youthful marvel and discovery. Extra.
ALEXANDER BLANK: LOW HUM LONG DRUM, AT GALERIE NOEL GUYOMARC’H
For the German artist, jewellery is a wearable, and subsequently helpful, object by way of which to critique, remark, and narrate what he imagines. This present brings collectively totally different collections, some impressed by popular culture, others extra summary. The main target, nonetheless, is on Bones & All, a brand-new physique of labor. This sequence of brooches in pale blue Corian depicts fingers marked by time, frozen in puzzling, nearly unsettling positions. The motion of the fingers is topic to the mind’s instructions. With their fingers, people have invented, constructed, and formed their atmosphere. However what if our fingers rebelled? Free of management, a brand new story would start. By way of October 11. 2025. Extra.
THE SHOULDER TAKES CENTER STAGE WITH JEWELRY
The look is “enjoyable and stylish and totally different,” stylist Emily Evans advised the NYT. The pattern began way back to the traditional Egyptians, and this spot on the physique is gaining consideration once more. The newspaper featured this stunner by AJF member Melanie Georgacopoulos, amongst different examples. Extra.
THE OPEN EYE | LA MIRADA ABIERTA
Uncover the essence of the Mediterranean by way of 4 creative voices: Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Lluís Comín, Judy McCaig, and Silvia Walz. At Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, September 27–October 26, 2025. Opening: September 27, 5–8 p.m. Extra.
GALERIE DOOR TO SHOW AT ART THE HAGUE, OCTOBER 1–5, 2025
See the most recent, most lovely, and most intriguing work by Door’s artists. Get free admission by utilizing the low cost code “doorathpp” on the ticket web page (enter the code at + Kortingscode). Galerie Door will probably be at sales space quantity 7.
CHARON KRANSEN TO TEACH AT ROJW
Attend an intensive two-day workshop referred to as “Re-writing your personal script, focusing by yourself evolution,” on September 29–30, 2025. Data.
MARGIT HART SHOWED AT SCHMUCKMUENCHEN 2025
The present was on view in Gdansk September 4–6, 2025, throughout Amberif. Included had been her two works Determination. They make perspective seen: private, political, poetic. In a world coming aside on the seams, each response turns into an announcement. Her items ask how we cope with what challenges us—on a small scale and a big one.
BELLA NEYMAN NAMED AMBASSADOR FOR GOLDSMITH’S FAIR 2025
This 12 months, on opening day (September 24, 2025), Neyman will be a part of pattern forecaster and jewellery knowledgeable Kathryn Bishop for a dialog on the way forward for jewellery—spanning supplies, tradition, expertise, and market traits within the UK and US. Truthful data right here. Get tickets for the opening day discuss right here. After the discuss, Neyman will give a tour of the truthful; register right here to hitch it.
LOVE & OTHER CONNECTIONS, AT BJC
The exhibition options work by Kathleen Kennedy that traces the invisible threads between folks by way of the language of knickknack. All through historical past, jewellery has served as a deeply private artifact—marking love, reminiscence, and human connection. Worn on the physique, it exists in each private and non-private realms, concurrently revealing and concealing which means. This exhibition reimagines jewellery as sculpture, reworking iconic elements—resembling coronary heart charms, lockets, and clasps—into bigger objects of weighted significance. These exaggerated varieties change into stand-ins for relationships, feelings, and, finally, folks. By way of this lens, jewellery’s position as a memento of connection is amplified and examined. October 3–November 14, 2025. Opening reception October 3, 5–8 p.m. Extra.
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 group and poke enjoyable subversively at established energy buildings. Jewellery is normally small, usually ignored, and solely actually will get observed for the price of the uncooked supplies. I purpose to indicate that [it] can act as a software to lift consciousness—particularly when worn on the physique and brought into society.” Now closes October 11, 2025. Data.
THE WEARABLE ART MUSEUM CELEBRATES ART THAT MOVES WITH US
WAM! is devoted to exhibiting, exploring, and celebrating the worlds of wearable artwork, studio jewellery, textiles, costume, fiber, and associated combined media. Take a look at its web site.
VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM—TIDES & WAVES: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA
SNAG presents a digital symposium sequence exploring the deep and continuous circulation of worldwide concepts in modern jewellery and metalsmithing. Every iteration focuses on a special geographical area. This 12 months celebrates the variety of Indigenous peoples in North America. September 26–27, 2025. Data and registration right here.
ON VIEW: MARZEE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SHOW
See the present, with the works of the 75+ accepted grads, by way of November, 19 2025. The winners of the Marzee Graduate Prize are Chun Chang, Gained-Younger Choi, Jeong-Min Han, Susie Heuberger, Chidimma Omeke, Marleen Wysocki, and Jinjin Zhang—congratulations! Extra.
SURREALIST JEWELS 101, AT LOUISA GUINESS GALLERY
This exhibition brings collectively the well-known names of the previous and locations them alongside the thrilling new names of the long run. Items by Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, created within the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies, sit beside some jewellery made solely this 12 months, and a few items which had been first proven on the CSM Graduate Present. September 25–November 7, 2025. Data.
DONATION JOËL FAIVRE-CHALON (1953–2020)
An exhibition devoted to a famend French jeweler and key determine in modern jewellery. Faivre-Chalon’s items are the results of analysis carried out on each kind and approach, in addition to supplies. He was as at dwelling with brass and silver as he was with titanium, Formica, and carbon fiber. On the Up to date Jewellery Museum, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, by way of Might 17, 2026. Extra.
WEARING DIFFERENCE, EXTRAVAGANTLY
UK-based Sophie de Oliveira Barata’s imaginative prosthetics reframe the dialog round incapacity and distinction. Extra from American Craft journal.
SURABHI SAHGAL WRITES ABOUT THE GENESIS OF HER JEWELRY
Her rings mirror legendary symbology embedded in Indian narratives of heavenly pursuits. Extra.
STEPHANIE D’HEYGERE—A BIT OF A DADA JEWELRY DESIGNER
Her chokers seem like bra straps and her earrings resemble doorknobs, hair clips, and wads of chewing gum. Take a look at an interview with the Belgian designer right here.
SHINE 2025
The Goldsmiths Centre’s annual showcase of latest jewellery and silversmithing expertise has returned, by way of December 22, 2025, in London. Extra.
TRILOGIA: RESSONS DE BABEL, PARAULES GUARNIDES
Fumiko Gotô explores language not solely as a method of communication however as sensory, symbolic, and visible expertise. Do fantastically handwritten letters or ornate typography higher convey the message? Will we understand the religious energy or which means, though the textual content is hidden? Is sight stronger than listening to or contact? At Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, October 1–24, 2025. Extra.
UNUSUAL MATERIAL FOR JEWELRY-MAKING: WINE CRYSTALS
Winemakers have a tendency to contemplate the crystalline deposits of potassium bitartrate that kind throughout winemaking a waste materials. However designer Tamar Abuladze, from the nation of Georgia, turns them into demi-fine jewellery. Extra right here.
FINAL DOWNTON ABBEY MOVIE PULLS OUT ALL THE JEWELRY STOPS
It should characteristic the most important variety of genuine gems within the franchise’s historical past, with 13 items price greater than $1.4 million. “Diamonds do humorous issues to folks, and actors are not any exception,” mentioned the movie’s costume designer, explaining why she selected to make use of the actual factor on the principals. “I believe it makes you’re feeling actually particular and elevated.” Extra.
SILVER + FORM CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY AND SILVERWARE FAIR 2025
The truthful brings collectively 25 established and rising jewellery designers, silversmiths, and metalsmiths from throughout the UK. From daring sculptural jewellery and wearable artwork to high-quality gold items, elegant handcrafted tableware, and collectable sculptural objects, the truthful showcases the total breadth of up to date metalwork—the place innovation meets custom, and craftsmanship is well known at each stage. Guests could have the uncommon likelihood to satisfy each exhibiting maker, uncover the inspirations and methods behind their work, and purchase one-of-a-kind items instantly from the artists. Curated by artist-makers Anja Hessler and Nessa Warner, Silver + Kind supplies a platform for excellent makers working on the forefront of up to date design. Bringing collectively each rising voices and established names, the truthful highlights originality, sustainability, and distinctive talent. At Turner Up to date, Margate, October 18–19 ,2025, free. Extra.
NINTH ANNUAL CHICAGO RESPONSIBLE JEWELRY CONFERENCE
Brings collectively international leaders devoted to advancing a simply, sustainable, and clear jewellery trade. This system will characteristic rigorously researched panels addressing subjects resembling “Human Rights and Environmental Realities of Silver Mining.” Breakout periods will present alternatives for pace mentoring with main voices in moral jewellery. October 17–18, 2025. Extra. The convention is providing a ten% low cost off tickets for AJF members solely; members, search for the code in your e mail in-box.
ROMANIAN JEWELRY WEEK: OCTOBER 1–5, 2025
Payments itself as the most important worldwide occasion organized in Romania devoted to modern jewellery, organized by Assamblage Nationwide Jewellery Affiliation since 2020. The format of occasion contains every year a big space of exhibitions, gala’s, conferences, workshops, seminars and guided excursions, with one foremost location in addition to connex areas. In Bucharest. Extra.
CONTEMPORANIA: OCTOBER 2–4, 2025
What began as a jewellery competition underneath a special title has expanded into a world biennial for top modern craftsmanship. In Barcelona, Spain. Web site.
ANTWERP JEWELRY WEEK: OCTOBER 8–12, 2025
Promotes creative and artisanal jewellery in and from Antwerp, Belgium. Over50 jewelers and artistsfrom all over the world will current their work, with many rising abilities unveiling their creations for the very first time. Guests will uncover a wealth of innovation, craftsmanship, and creative expression—multi functional of Europe’s most vibrant jewellery capitals. One customer could have the possibility to win an unique titanium necklace designed byAntwerp artist Laurent Max De Cock. Web site.
MILANO JEWELRY WEEK: OCTOBER 18–20, 2025
Milano Jewellery Week creates moments of trade and interplay, charming commerce operators and attracting the general public because of a calendar stuffed with occasions: exhibitions, displays, workshops, talks, awards, dwell performances, and vernissage. The occasion develops in Milano’s heart inside unique and evocative areas within the metropolis: historic buildings, excessive jewellery ateliers, goldsmith workshops, academies, artwork galleries, style boutiques, and design showrooms. Data.
GRASSIMESSE: OCTOBER 24–26, 2025
This worldwide assembly place for design lovers and lovers of lovely issues is an artwork exhibition and gross sales truthful in a single. Exhibitors will provide distinctive items, small sequence, and exemplary product design from the fields of textiles, style, jewellery, ceramics, glass, furnishings, and extra. The jury selects exhibitors in accordance with excessive qualitative requirements. Data. On the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, in Leipzig, Germany.
OPEN CALL—SCHMUCK AND TALENTE – MASTERS OF THE FUTURE 2026
Schmuck is the oldest exhibition of up to date jewellery on the planet. Based in 1959 by Dr. Herbert Hofmann, the prize has commemorated its founder since 1973. Talente – Masters of the Future has been a world competitors for all areas of design craftsmanship since 1980. It’s potential to use as much as two years after finishing coaching or research. Deadline: October 1, 2025. Data.
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CALL FOR ENTRY: LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE 2026
The prize showcases and celebrates newness, excellence, and creative advantage in fashionable craft. With a €50,000 award for the profitable entry, the prize helps working artists whose expertise, imaginative and prescient, and can to innovate promise to set a brand new normal for the long run. Deadline: October 30, 2025. Extra.
OPEN CALL: ALLIAGES EXHIBITION 2026
The theme is Fragility. In its myriad varieties, that is an intrinsic situation of existence. However fragility is greater than that—it’s a profound human expertise. This exhibition will delve into the intimate landscapes of private vulnerability and the complicated, usually permeable boundaries of social existence. Deadline: November 2, 2025. Extra.
OPEN CALL: NOT ONLY DECORATION MAG
The theme: Group. Numerous sorts exist. They’ll present stability, transcend boundaries, or outline territories. Some span generations, others are momentary. Seen insignia, buttons, flags, or tattoos usually mark these bonds and make belonging tangible. Jewellery particularly capabilities as a marker of identification, as code, as nonverbal language. Translate your concept of group into jewellery. Deadline: October 31, 2025. Extra.
OPEN CALL: SELLING FACE
You may’t promote something these days except you promote your self! Private branding is vital! Your viewers must really feel a connection to you! Make a face piece associated to this matter. If chosen, will probably be proven at Munich’s jewellery week 2026. Deadline: October 12, 2025. Data.
CALL FOR ENTRY: WEARHOUSE
For the WearHouse’s first birthday and the biennial celebration of knickknack in Amsterdam as a part of the Obsessed! jewellery competition, the WearHouse will current the FullHouse Venture—a novel exhibition to rework the whole three-floor home right into a dynamic artwork area. The WearHouse will showcase modern items that describe residing, human relationships inside home areas, and feelings embedded in wearable objects that mirror the idea of inhabitation. Data.
CALL: PAPERS, BOOK REVIEWS & EXHIBITION REVIEWS: THE JOURNAL OF JEWELLERY RESEARCH
Don’t miss your likelihood to contribute to worldwide analysis in modern jewellery. Contribute to Difficulty 9 of JJR by submitting: Guide overview/exhibition overview→deadline: October 20, 2025. Full paper/visible paper→deadline: December 15, 2025. Ship submissions to: editorsjojr@gmail.com. Questions? Use the identical e mail. Full tips and particulars right here.
JOURNEY OF A JEWELER
The Brazilian jeweler Silvia Furmanovich travels the globe, uncovering age-old crafts that change into a basis for her designs. The e book charts her travels to collaborate with artisans in India, Japan, and elsewhere. They craft the work, which incorporates treasured stones, wooden marquetry, and different nontraditional supplies. Data.
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