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November 2025, Half 2
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POMP IT UP! AJF LIVE WITH BRYNA POMP—DECEMBER 10, 2025
Be part of us for a speak about her fascinating position on the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), in New York Metropolis. Bryna works with probably the most extraordinary modern jewellery artists of our time. She’s going to share her rarified expertise within the jewellery area and the way her dedication to supporting working artists fuels her work. Save the date! Registration hyperlink to return quickly.
FIND AJF MEMBER EVENTS AT NYCJW 2025
Together with our personal panel dialogue, we’ve compiled a information of occasions that AJF members will host or participate in. A useful chart and index make it straightforward to trace belongings you’re taken with, and you may click on hyperlinks to RSVP and see maps on NYCJW’s web site. It’s right here.
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EVENTS
Do you know that there are upward of 45 recurring occasions targeted on artwork jewellery—jewellery weeks, jewellery gala’s, and many others.?! We’ve a devoted web page for them. Go right here to see the checklist.
FEMALE SILVERSMITHS IN HISTORY AND TODAY: SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION—NOVEMBER 27, 2025
The historical past of silversmithing has been largely characterised by a consensus tradition the place the silversmiths within the area had been primarily males. Because the Nineteen Nineties, nonetheless, many females have taken their place inside silversmithing. Though there have been feminine silversmiths additional again in time, they haven’t all the time been made seen and highlighted in historical past. This seminar goals to treatment that. A seminar on girls silversmiths from 1700 till immediately, in a dialogue between Anders Ljungberg, professor at Konstfack and Cilla Robach, from Stockholm’s Nationwide museum—plus an exhibition by considered one of Sweden’s most famous: Anna-Stina Åberg. Extra.
ORNAMENTA 2026—FEBRUARY 7, 2026
Be part of the Baltimore Jewellery Middle for Ornamenta, the group’s annual fundraising occasion. Yearly, Ornamenta gives the BJC with the chance to lift much-needed funds whereas sharing its love of metalsmithing and artwork jewellery with the broader Baltimore and DMV communities. By attending Ornamenta, bidding within the public sale, shopping for raffle tickets, or by contributing to its fund-a-need, you instantly help a spread of packages together with their residency, workforce improvement, scholarships, and children and teenagers packages. Extra.
CURATORIAL TALK WITH SARAH RACHEL BROWN & ANA MARIA JIMENEZ
On November 23, 2025, Brooklyn Metallic Works presents the co-curators of Connector: Jewellery as a Language of Connection, a global exhibition and Perceived Worth podcast sequence amplifying Colombian voices by way of modern jewellery and storytelling. This occasion is open to the general public with a advised donation of $5 for college students and $10 for normal admission. Word that the lecture house is just accessible through stairs. Extra.
SHADOW KKOKDU: AT GALERIE DOOR NOVEMBER 15–DECEMBER 6, 2025
“In my latest work,” writes Coco Sung, “I drew inspiration from Kkokdu, the standard Korean picket statuettes … discovered on conventional stretchers used to move the deceased. The statuettes information and shield the soul on its journey from this world to the following. I used to be fascinated by their position as cheerful companions between life and demise, providing consolation, safety, and leisure.” Extra.
INSECTUM ELECTRUM INCLUDES WORK BY AJF MEMBERS BARBARA MCFADYEN AND JEANIE PRATT
The Enamelist Society’s exhibition, held at Pratt Institute’s Steuben Gallery throughout NYCJW, explores the world of invertebrates by way of the lens of enameled jewellery. It celebrates the intricate great thing about bugs, dropped at life in gorgeous element and craftsmanship. Viewers shall be immersed in a vibrant fusion of science, nature, and design, the place each bit invitations nearer inspection. Extra.
MARGIT HART IS SHOWING AT NYCJW2025
She has two items within the Lückenfüller exhibition, which options work by 30 Austrian artists and is on its third cease with a brand-new catalog and a chat on the Austrian Cultural Discussion board. “The areas between earlier items turn out to be the fabric for the brooches Horizons—Misplaced Locations,” states Hart. “The voids in these new items referred to as for fillings or additions—a parallelogram and a circle define an area of one thing that’s now not there or may presumably have been there.” Extra.
PODCAST: IN MEMORY OF SHARON BERMAN
Berman recorded a closing Jewellery Journey podcast along with her husband and her beloved stepdaughter earlier than she handed away. She described the eagerness that fueled her. She shares who she considers her most memorable company and which insights caught along with her through the years. You’ll additionally find out how her household is preserving her distinctive assortment. Hear right here.
FOR ITS NEXT CHAPTER, ATTA GALLERY WILL BECOME SIMPLY “ATTA”
To maintain ATTA related, responsive, and true to its mission in a quickly evolving artwork panorama, it’s going to shift right into a extra dynamic, cross-disciplinary platform that integrates exhibitions, training, and cultural dialogue. ATTA will proceed to champion artists, whereas additionally cultivating a brand new era of assured, considerate collectors and patrons who can maintain the artwork ecosystem by way of real engagement and discernment. Exhibition codecs and venues may additionally change. ATTA plans to discover new modes of presentation—instructional and collaborative packages, intimate exhibitions, and off-site or digital initiatives—designed to foster deeper connection and understanding.
SOLVEIG LABBA AND MONICA BLIND PÅVE, AT FOUR GALLERY, NOVEMBER 21–DECEMBER 13, 2025
The Sami tradition has many kinds of wearable crafts—knives, needle circumstances, and hats amongst them. The 2 sisters on this present had been raised in a Sami household and discovered several types of crafts each at dwelling and in varied programs. They draw inspiration from their tradition however develop the standard shapes and methods in their very own method. Blind Påve transforms the sample on her father’s knife into silver earrings or enlarges it into a big ornament for a metal façade. Labba reinterprets Sami costume hats with millinery methods. Extra.
JEWELRY CODE: DATA AS WEARABLE ART, THROUGH DECEMBER 2, 2025
On this exhibition, 60+ artists from 28 nations—together with Doug Bucci, Zhanna Assanova, and AJF member Erika Novak—current jewellery and wearable objects based mostly on information, from local weather change and gender inequality to non-public tales and collective reminiscence. Curated by Syldyr Mission, the present highlights how information will be remodeled into significant, wearable artwork. It’s the primary worldwide information artwork exhibition in Central Asia. On the Nationwide Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana. Data.
CHECK OUT DR. KHANYA MTHETHWA’S DIGITAL CATALOG
It presents the works in Abantu: Threads That Bind Us, the exhibition she created for the Susan Beech Mid-Profession Grant, which she received in 2023. Web page by way of it right here.
2025 SEATTLE METALS GUILD BIENNIAL EXHIBITION—THROUGH JANUARY 22, 2026
See it on the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, at Seattle Central School, in Seattle, WA, US. Data.
MAKING SPACES—DECEMBER 5, 2025–JANUARY 16, 2026
See the Baltimore Jewellery Middle’s annual neighborhood problem exhibition. All are invited to the opening reception, December 5, 2025, 5–7 pm. Extra.
BODILY: SARA GACKOWSKA, AT PLATINA NOVEMBER 20–DECEMBER 6, 2025
The Polish artist’s exhibition explores the connection between the physique and matter, the methods by which materiality turns into an extension of bodily expertise, reminiscence, and contact. Jewellery and objects made from stone, pearls, and latex have a putting symbolic and sensual presence. Stone carries the burden of permanence, the pearl embodies natural delicacy and intimacy, whereas latex holds the strain between safety and sensuality, between pores and skin and its floor. Types rising from these supplies check with the human physique, to its fragments, gestures, and traces. Extra.
EARRINGS GALORE, AT NYCJW
This annual juried exhibition reveals a wealthy and numerous array of earrings made by 60 rising and established studio jewelers. Throughout NYCJW, see it November 18–22 at 251 Elizabeth St New York, NY 10012, 11 am–6 pm. Opening reception: November 18, 6–9 pm; pleased hour reception: November twentieth, 6–9 pm. Extra right here and right here.
CASH, AT ESPACE BORAX—DECEMBER 6–7 AND 13–14, 2025
Bitcoin goes haywire. Trump has created a meme coin to get richer. Money is quietly disappearing whereas gold reaches new data. Past its decorative and symbolic dimensions, jewellery has all the time served as a reserve in instances of disaster, as illustrated by way of cash and ingots in sure items. This group exhibition explores our relationship with cash by way of 15 creations. Extra.
VIS À VIS ANNETTE LUCKS – FABRIZIO TRIDENTI: LA FORMA, LA POESIA, LA MEMORIA
An edited model of Maurer-Zilioli’s unique exhibition, it is going to be proven at C|E Modern, in Milan, December 4, 2025–February 28, 2026. Extra.
AUCTION: ART JEWELRY AND JEWELS—DECEMBER 10, 2025
Quittenbaum concludes the yr with its biannual jewellery public sale—and what a stunning finale it guarantees to be! Greater than 200 heaps convey collectively the perfect of two fascinating worlds: modern artwork jewellery by internationally acclaimed artists and traditional fantastic jewellery. Zanella, Fritsch, Künzli, Babetto, Rothmann, Jünger, Sajet, and lots of others! Extra.
RAD PAV ANNOUNCES 2026 DATES
Radiant Pavilion will returns to Melbourne October 24–November 1, 2026. Proposals will open in January and shut mid-February 2026. (Additional particulars shall be shared quickly.) Within the meantime, discover details about what to incorporate in your submissions on their web site.
KARL FRITSCH・MAX WALKER EXHIBITION -%-, AT GALLERY DEUX POISSONS
Fritsch is understood for his distinctive items and is without doubt one of the most outstanding artists within the worldwide modern jewellery world. Max Walker, whose father is Fritsch and whose mom is Lisa Walker, grew up in an surroundings the place jewelry-making was part of each day life. He discovered varied methods whereas serving to his father along with his work and commenced creating jewellery himself. By November 23, 2025. Extra.
OPEN HOUSE AT CAMPUS IDAR-OBERSTEIN: NOVEMBER 29, 2025
Discover the workshops and meet the scholars and instructing workforce. Alongside exhibitions showcasing works from the fields of bijou and gems, inventive design, and pictures, the scholars will host a sale of bijou and objects. Additionally: Cupboard of Dangers & Possibilities, a visitor exhibition by Christoph Zellweger, in addition to the outcomes of the undertaking BUUUHM – Design with Dynamite, not too long ago created within the Juchem quarry, in Niederwörresbach. Questions? E-mail right here.
CLAIRE LAVENDHOMME, JEWELLERY ARTIST—THROUGH FEBRUARY 1, 2026
This retrospective traces the multidisciplinary artist and jewellery designer’s work from her early explorations to the current. She loves tales that belong to nobody and have existed for the reason that daybreak of time. Modest and introverted, her work pays tribute to the archetype, whether or not in type, concept, or materials. Commentary and scientific, historic, or private analysis combine with likelihood encounters and a deep conviction—that of a terrific home occupied by all the humanities, together with jewellery. At BeCraft, in Mons, Belgium. Extra.
CHECK OUT THE DIGITAL CATALOG OF AGC PUNTO 2025
AGCpunto25 is the annual exhibition of the Modern Jewelry Affiliation. The artists, all members of the AGC affiliation, current modern works from their most up-to-date productions, made with all kinds of supplies and methods, from probably the most historic goldsmith practices to digital applied sciences and additive manufacturing. Extra.
MIKKE LIPPE RECOMMENDS EXQUISITE CREATURES
On this exhibition, Pacific NW artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reveals nature’s intricate magnificence and variety in three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens organized in exact, geometric compositions. “It is without doubt one of the most wonderful issues I’ve ever seen,” states Lippe. “You’ll not remorse going to see it.” Within the Maritime Constructing on Seattle’s waterfront. Extra.
TINCAL LAB CHALLENGE 2025 JEWELRY AND CELEBRATION NOW ON VIEW—THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2025
See 200+ items by 81 jewelers from 32 nations that interpret the theme “Celebration.” Extra.
LANDLINES/TRACELINES, AT AUSTRALIAN DESIGN CENTER
On this present, works by Melinda Younger maintain the traces and traces of shore and land, directly a part of the tales of the place of earlier than and the place of now, underpinned by the tensions and complexities of latest Australia. Right here, tales are shared by way of the language of constructing. November 27, 2025–February 28, 2026. Extra.
HO! HO! HO! & FRIENDS, AT FRIENDS OF CARLOTTA
November 22–December 24, 2025, the gallery presents pleasant items of bijou for all queens, princes, adventurers, cleansing fairies, daydreamers, jesters, and on a regular basis heroes—made by the perfect designers around the globe. Extra.
A LEGENDARY JEWEL RESURFACES
Regarded as misplaced for over a century, the Hapsburg dynasty’s Florentine Diamond was safely in a Canadian financial institution vault all alongside. Extra.
NEW YORK CITY JEWELRY WEEK: NOVEMBER 17–23, 2025
A hybrid program combines digital experiences streamed on YouTube with immersive in-person occasions.NYC Jewellery Week brings collectively probably the most gifted and influential figures within the jewellery business, who curate a wide range of experiences. Attendees can discover exhibitions, take pleasure in unique procuring alternatives, and partake in thrilling retail collaborations. Panel discussions present insights into the newest tendencies, challenges, and improvements throughout the business. Every occasion is crafted to supply actually distinctive and unforgettable jewellery moments. Extra.
CLUSTER CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FAIR: NOVEMBER 21–23, 2025
An area the place contact, reminiscence, and materials converge —the place jewellery shouldn’t be merely worn, however lived. The Dwelling Hint invitations you right into a realm the place the hand shapes greater than type; it shapes time itself. In a world unsettled by ecological and cultural shifts, these crafted objects pulse with quiet defiance. They’re vessels of inheritance, but additionally seeds of what’s but to return. Each bit—a fraction of a bigger story—carries the imprint of the maker and the burden of histories, whispered and worn. Shifting past adornment, jewellery turns into a talisman, a insurrection in opposition to the ephemeral. In London. Extra.
OBSESSED JEWELLERY FESTIVAL: NOVEMBER 1–30, 2025
Takes place within the Netherlands and Belgium. This yr’s theme, Glow-Up, embraces the facility of transformation—each in and out—by way of the ritual of decoration. Whether or not delicate or daring, everlasting or fleeting, jewellery has lengthy been a strategy to categorical take care of ourselves and others, symbolizing development, change, and empowerment. Web site.
DE LAS PLANTILLAS A LA JOYA: CIEN DISEÑOS DE ANILLOS (FROM TEMPLATES TO JEWELRY: 100 RINGS)
Design professor Felipe Valdez Castro (Universidad del Azuay, in Ecuador) and a few of his college students developed a guide that explores the historic and modern use of templates in jewellery making. A playful methodology—”Play and uncover the performance of type”—fosters creativity in design. The textual content describes several types of templates (in paper, plastic, metallic) and their advantages and purposes, together with historic and fashionable references. In Spanish, however its many visuals assist anybody observe alongside. See your entire guide on-line.
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