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Might 2026, Half 2
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AJF WEEKEND: MONTREAL—JUNE 12–13, 2026
AJF Weekends are a brand new method to collect with Artwork Jewellery Discussion board: shorter, extra accessible packages that protect the depth of change, entry, and dialog that outline AJF journey. Open to members and nonmembers alike. Cohosted with gallerist Noel Guyomarc’h, our first two-day, small-group program, in Montreal, will middle across the opening of Dispatch from the Colonies, a brand new exhibition by South Africa–based mostly artist Geraldine Fenn at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h. Developed by way of the AJF Solo Exhibition Award, this exhibition represents the end result of an prolonged interval of analysis and making. Additionally: go to Aurélie Guillaume’s studio; curator-led tour of Wearable Artwork, at Musée des métiers d’artwork du Québec; curator-led go to to the newly reinstalled nationwide museum galleries; celebratory dinner; and extra. Information.
ATTEND THE PXL-MAD OPEN HOUSE: MAY 19, 2026
Fascinated about attending grad college? Communicate instantly with professors David Huycke and Anneleen Swillen, and worldwide officer Josefine Mass, from the MA Object & Jewelry program at PXL-MAD College of Arts Hasselt, Belgium. An hour-long program will characteristic an outline (together with curriculum, studio services, and software course of) adopted by a Q&A. Register right here. (Tuition tutorial 12 months 2026–2027: EU €1,181 · Non-EU €9,400. Admission deadline: Might 24, 2026.)
TRAVEL TO HOUSTON WITH AJF: SEPTEMBER 23–26, 2026
For our first go to again to Houston in virtually 20 years, we’re arriving at an particularly robust second. We’ll go to the Museum of Effective Arts, Houston, to rejoice two vital exhibitions: the primary US solo shows of Bernhard Schobinger and Dorothea Prühl, each key figures in avant-garde artwork jewellery. Every exhibition spans almost 50 years of labor. To enhance the exhibitions, we’ll attend a day-long symposium that includes main voices within the subject, adopted by a reception celebrating these two exhibitions—a chance to collect with fellow collectors, artists, and fans. Our program will even embrace visits to the Houston Heart for Up to date Craft, together with artist studios, museum collections, and different stops that replicate the breadth of the town’s inventive life. Save the dates; extra information to come back!
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ELEANOR MOTY AMONG ARTISTS IN REFLECTING: WISCONSIN’S WOMEN METALSMITHS AT RAM
This present options work by metalsmiths who’ve lived and/or taught in Wisconsin. The artists included push materials and conceptual boundaries as they discover a variety of processes and themes, together with nature, place, worth, and femininity. Work by Jessica Calderwood, Kim Cridler, Teresa Faris, Terri Gelenian-Wooden, Martha Glowacki, Lisa Gralnick, Laura Marth, Moty, Masako Onodera, Mary Tingley, and Linda Threadgill. By means of August 29, 2026, at Racine Artwork Museum. Extra.
BORAX INVITES YOU TO THE OPENING OF MATRICES, MAY 30, 2026, 6 PM
Discover the work of Robin Deriaz, the place a cage and a nest share the identical anatomy: an empty area delimited by a cloth boundary, able to defending simply as a lot as of enclosing. This exhibition seems to be on the level the place these two ideas intertwine and merge, and it takes place in a disused jail. There, the artist questions how the circumstances of an area affect how we really feel about it. Within the work, metals meet natural supplies, referencing each the language of the nest and of the cage in a research of the empathy of matter—aggressive constructions trying to guard fragile interiors, and vice versa. The cage and the nest are not opposites however equals. The physique turns into the territory. Each bit exists as an autonomous ecosystem resting upon the pores and skin. The wearer turns into the guardian of those areas, the host who permits the article to exist. Might 30–31 and June 6–7, 2026,13:00–18:00. Extra.
DESTINATION BIJOU CAGNES-SUR-MER, JUNE 4–7 2026
Town on the French Riviera will host its second jewellery week. With its scenic medieval outdated city and Espace Solidor—the one museum solely devoted to modern jewellery in Europe—it’s the right location for a four-day occasion filled with a dozen exhibitions by worldwide collectives and galleries, lectures (in French and English), open studios of native artists, guided excursions, and workshops for teenagers and household. See an exhibition by Noel Guyomarc’h and Platina, and listen to a lecture by Jennifer Altmann. Extra.
3RD LISBON CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BIENNIAL—SEPTEMBER 17–27, 2026
With Coexistências/Coexistences, the biennial displays on how jewellery expresses and represents the online of relationships between people and the Earth’s ecology in its broadest sense. This version focuses on an urgently related theme: our ecological survival and the place of the human within the twenty first century. Artists discover utopian areas and various realities, combining fiction and spirituality to recommend new and radical types of coexistence. Activating the ability of creativeness turns into a liberating train in cosmopolitics, proposing connections to different programs of data—corresponding to mysticism, magic, and Indigenous epistemologies—in addition to to synthetic intelligence as a brand new approach of organizing and understanding the world. Registration for the masterclasses with Ted Noten and Sofia Bjorkman is now open. Information.
NACRE AND THE GRAIN: CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY AND THE SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE
Might 29, 2026, 10.30–11.15, at V&A Dundee. On this free presentation, Kristin Beeler and Professor Emeritus Dr. Sandra Wilson discover how Scotland’s landscapes encourage modern jewellery. From the sourcing of pure supplies corresponding to pearls (nacre) to scientific strategies to get well valuable metals from digital waste (grain), be taught in regards to the underlying connections between panorama and modern jewellery within the nation. Meet Scotland-based jewelers and see a showcase of their work. In collaboration with AJF and Craft Scotland. Extra.
ANNELEEN SWILLEN GIVES TALK ON MAY 27, 2026
What if jewellery is co-created with machines? Discover more-than-human adornment with Swillen, who will share her work and analysis round this topic at Atelier David Gotlib, in Antwerp. Free lecture, open to the general public, registration required as a consequence of restricted seating. Extra.
SOFIA BJÖRKMAN WINS AMBERIF DESIGN AWARD
The theme of the twenty ninth version of the Worldwide Amber Jewelry Design Competitors was The Magic of Matter. Björkman took the Silver Prize, for which she received 1 kilo of silver. Congratulations!
WILLIAM HARPER LAUNCHES WEBSITE AND ONLINE JOURNAL
After greater than six many years of making gold cloisonné enamel artwork jewellery, that is Harper’s first devoted digital presence. It options his full assortment and studio archive. A brand new editorial journal exploring the artwork and craft of enameling consists of “The Artwork of Gold Cloisonné Enamel: Inside William Harper’s Six Many years of Mastery,” an in-depth exploration of his approach and artistic course of, and “From Studio to Smithsonian: William Harper’s Everlasting Museum Collections Worldwide,” documenting his presence in 35+ institutional collections. Discover all of it right here.
TANYA CRANE CURATES RAM SHOWCASE: AFRICAN ADORNMENT
By means of February 20, 2027, at Racine Artwork Museum. This exhibition is comprised of objects with layered and doubtlessly uncomfortable histories. Particularly, these works are from a group of incised steel bracelets and neckpieces from West Africa that span the eighteenth by way of twentieth centuries. Objects like this have been used as foreign money, in change for native agricultural and luxurious merchandise. They have been additionally typically utilized in transatlantic slave commerce negotiations. Extra information.
COAGULATED TWIST, AT FOUR GALLERY, MAY 23–JUNE 18, 2026
For Danni Schwaag, the enchantment lies in making, in attempting issues out, experimenting with kind, colour, and materials. She should play with the fabric. A circle that twists, turns, begins over and by no means ends, a vibrating concept stabilizes and takes form. These works have been developed throughout a residency on the Jakob Bengel Basis and the Idar-Oberstein College of Utilized Sciences. Primarily manufactured from galalith, mixed with enamel and mother-of-pearl. Galalith is a 100-year-old precursor to in the present day’s plastics. Bengel’s firm used it in the course of the Artwork Deco and Bauhaus intervals to make jewellery and buttons. The fabric, not produced, conveys a tone of the previous.
LEGNICA JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER 2026: AWARDEES
The competition opened final week. Its awards ceremony acknowledged excellent works exploring this 12 months’s theme. Be taught extra right here.
ROWAN PANTHER FEATURED IN SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL
In “Simplistically Difficult: The Work of Rowan Panther,” matt lambert writes, “Utilizing muka for lacemaking is unconventional. A demanding fiber, its size is decided solely by the size of the leaves it’s harvested from. Muka fiber can’t be wound into spools like cotton or linen and is susceptible to breaking when used too firmly. Nevertheless, if manipulated too gently, the meant sample of the lace turns into distorted, requiring a better sensitivity whereas working. Panther views muka as a cloth that isn’t used, however somewhat labored with in collaboration.” Extra.
A PHOTO ESSAY ON SHAUN LEANE
@archiveddreams is “educating the youth.” It printed a put up with some good outdated images from Alexander McQueen’s archives, saying “There’s a second the place an object stops being simply an object and it crosses into one thing to a sense.” See the put up right here.
BOROSILICATE GLASS JEWELRY IS 🔥 IN BARCELONA
A few dozen years in the past, Agustina Ros began making adornments utilizing lampworking strategies. She additionally teaches the craft out of her studio, and a few of her college students have arrange their very own manufacturers, too. Their work is seen all around the metropolis. Extra.
FRIEDRICH BECKER PREIS 1999–2026
Since 1999, the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst (Affiliation for Goldsmiths’Artwork) has fostered worldwide networking throughout the jewellery and utensils scene through the Friedrich Becker Prize. The award commemorates the famend goldsmith and designer of kinetic objects, Friedrich Becker (1922–1997). This publication celebrates its tenth triennial, that includes a particular homage to its eponym alongside a complete chronicle of its historical past. This anniversary publication can also be dedicated to this 12 months’s competitors, which Veronika Fabian received. Presents a complete of 48 works, every showcasing craftsmanship, precision, and class mixed with highly effective inventive expression. Extra.
CHECK OUT ISSUE 4 OF POLISHING MAGAZINE
An initiative of the Affiliation for Up to date Metalsmithing and Jewellery, in Israel. Articles are in Hebrew, however whenever you hop on the web site your browser ought to mean you can set the web site for English. Extra.
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