Have You Heard – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board
September 2024, Half 2
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Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.
AJF FEATURED IN GARLAND
The journal’s September subject celebrates organizations that assist craftspeople. Our mission is to advocate for and promote artwork jewellery, so that they invited us to take part. Extra.
OUR NEXT AJF LIVE GUEST STARS HELEN DRUTT—OCTOBER 16, 2024
Drutt was the founder/director of her eponymous gallery in Philadelphia (1973–2002), one of many first US galleries to commmit to the fashionable and modern craft motion. In 2002, 800 jewellery and associated works from The Helen Williams Drutt Assortment completely entered the Museum of Advantageous Arts, Houston. Drutt has revealed quite a few essays within the area of jewellery, conceived jewellery exhibitions, and curated American studio jewellery for the Museo del Gioiello. This will probably be a ticketed occasion. Extra data to come back.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover these listings and plenty of, many extra on our devoted exhibition web page:
- Paperwork and Snakepits by Idiots, at Gallery Door via September 26
- The Technicolor World of Rachelle Thiewes, at Mobilia via October 1
- Takayoshi Terajima, at 4 Gallery via October 19
- Shared:Floor, at Gallery Funaki via October 19
- Misplaced in Translation, at ATTA Gallery via October 20
EVENTS
We have now a devoted web page for them. Go right here to see the checklist.
ON VIEW—ORIZZONTI D’AUTORE: BETWEEN BODY AND SOUL
In Asolo, Italy, via January 6, 2025: an exhibition of works by 20 worldwide invited artists; a retrospective of the work of Robert Smit (additionally introduced with the Archeometra Lifetime Achievement Award). Additionally: guided go to with Eliana Negroni, October 26, 2024; presentation of the guide Bruno Pedrosa: Between Worlds, November 30, 2024. Extra data about this biennial right here.
ZU DESIGN & JANE BOWDEN REVIEWED
“Bowden introduces a (actually) dazzling array of neckpieces, bangles, earrings, brooches and rings – the result of intricate (and regularly evolving) new methods she has developed for this spectacular physique of labor,” writes Wendy Walker of the exhibition at JamFactory. Learn the evaluate.
BJC FOCUS: IN THE MAKING—OCTOBER 5–6, 2024
The symposium will examine the function of reminiscence and archiving within the processes artists and makers use to supply inspiration, conduct analysis, create work, and doc their initiatives. Featured audio system: Lamar Gayles, Ana María Jiménez, Maria Konschake, and Manon van Kouswijk. A day of on-line lectures and conversations will probably be adopted by a day of free workshops within the Baltimore Jewellery Heart’s studio, every linked to the symposium theme. The occasion will culminate with a cost to artists to take part within the BJC’s group problem, which is able to have interaction the group in launching the BJC’s latest initiative: a digital archive capturing our historical past and evolution. Information.
LOOSE ENDS, AT JEWELERS’WERK: SEPTEMBER 21–OCTOBER 12, 2024
Lydia Martin is tying up unfastened ends with this exhibition, wrapping up a physique of labor whose lengthy course of of making, considering, and fixing the unresolved started in 2017. Her palms torsion, knot and stretch, and bend and movement silver—the steel of her alternative—in elastic methods, liberating it from preconceived kinds, shapes, or notions of metalworking perfection. Extra.
METAL MUSEUM HOLDS CEREMONIAL GROUNDBREAKING
Rust Corridor, on the former Memphis Faculty of Artwork’s campus in Memphis, TN, is coming again, this time because the Metallic Museum’s new residence. Throughout a ceremony on August 29, 2024, attendees lit sparklers as an alternative of celebrating with shovels and dust. “We don’t tear down our historical past, we embrace it,” Memphis Mayor Paul Younger mentioned throughout the occasion. “I can’t await the Metallic Museum to deliver new life into this constructing.” Extra.
BISCHOFF + BABETTO, AT THEREZA PEDROSA GALLERY THROUGH OCTOBER 20, 2024.
Works by Manfred Bischoff and Giampaolo Babetto—iconic masters of artwork jewellery—will probably be showcased collectively for the primary time. Bischoff was recognized for telling tales via his items. Babetto’s clear, modular designs are celebrated for his or her sculptural high quality. In collaboration with Quittenbaum Gallery. Extra.
DRAG AND DROP, AT PLATINA THROUGH SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
For this second version, Isabelle Busnel, Sébastien Carré, and Juan Riusech every chosen a historic piece of jewellery and, with out revealing it, wrote a press release describing the work emotionally. The others needed to think about and re-create the historic items with that data. In a subsequent step, all of them made interpretations of the originals—now revealed—with their most popular supplies and kinds. It’s difficult to mimic somebody’s else work with completely different supplies and methods! Extra.
JOHN ROSE APPOINTED VP OF ORANGE COUNTY FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
Rose has labored with nationwide and worldwide nonprofit arts organizations for 50+ years. He’s an expert artist and companion in 2Roses, an award-winning worldwide design studio. He has additionally led AJF’s advertising and marketing committee since 2014 and is on our Editorial Advisory Committee.
UTE DECKER WILL EXHIBIT AT GOLDSMITHS’ FAIR
The main annual occasion showcases the work of Britain’s foremost internationally famend and rising studio jewelers and silversmiths, whose work represents modern jewellery, classical high-quality jewellery, modern silver, and classical silversmithing. Accompanied by talks and curated exhibitions. Held within the splendid Goldsmiths Corridor over two weeks, every week showcases a special group of makers. Discover Ute Decker week one, September 24–29, 2024. Extra.
OCFA SHOWCASE GALLERY SEEKS JEWELRY ARTISTS
Orange County Advantageous Arts is a member-driven group whose mission is to develop the Southern California arts group via alternatives to point out artwork and advance careers. The gallery will now exhibit artisan-made modern jewellery. All media is welcome. For information about exhibiting your work, e mail the gallery’s director, Gina Barnes.
SIERAAD FAIR CLOSES DOWN PERMANENTLY
“Maarten will quickly flip 72—we have now to select,” wrote organizers Astrid Berens and Maarten Bodt in a publication. “Though organizing the final version within the picturesque city of Buren was a variety of enjoyable, we have now determined that it was our final version.” SIERAAD was based in 2001.
NICOLE ACOSTA: HOOPS, AT RACINE ART MUSEUM THROUGH NOVEMBER 23, 2024
Milwaukee-based artist Nicole Acosta has created portraits of people in hoop earrings. Acosta gathers the voices of individuals as they share tales prompted by the query, “What do hoop earrings imply to you?” The pictures evoke the persona of the sitter and have interaction in a dialogue concerning the symbolic energy of jewellery. Extra.
HELEN BRITTON IS WORKING TOWARD A MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION
Britton would be the tenth artist within the exhibition collection Dwelling Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, at Australian Design Centre. These exhibitions function eminent Australian craftspeople, celebrating their mastery of talent and the distinctive place they occupy within the nationwide design tradition via a touring exhibition and a serious monograph publication. The main focus is on present work. Extra.
ROB KOUDIJS PASSED AWAY AT AGE 80
He based Galerie Rob Koudijs, in Amsterdam, in April 2007. It performed a crucial function within the Dutch jewellery group. In an interview revealed on AJF, Kamal Nassif requested Koudijs to explain his assortment in a single sentence. Koudijs’s reply: “Progressive, sculptural artistic endeavors enhanced by the presence of craft and method that may virtually at all times be worn as jewellery.” Our ideas exit to his husband, Ward Schrijver, and their family and friends.
MARZEE GRADUATE PRIZE
The present champions the work of a brand new era of jewellery artists. The 2024 prize recipients, chosen from 75 individuals on present, are: Affo Bishara, Esther Gleuwitz, Sonia Jurado, Hyung-Chan Lee, Erik Lijzenga, Joe Pillari, Helena Renner, Miriam Strake, and Hong Zhou. Congratulations! At Galerie Marzee, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, via October 26, 2024. Extra.
QUITTENBAUM ART AUCTIONS SEEKS JEWELRY CONSIGNMENTS
The public sale home needs objects to promote in its December 5, 2024, public sale. E-mail their knowledgeable, Nadine Becker, right here.
STREET STYLE EMBRACES BROOCHES
The old style accent is being up to date by a youthful era carrying pins in fanciful methods. A enjoyable photograph essay from Ladies’s Put on Each day, right here.
PARCOURS MODE, BIJOUX, DESIGN, AT MUSÉE DES ARTS DECORATIFS
Thirty trend silhouettes and 100 jewels free-associate with massive names in design, revealing new museum acquisitions in three areas. Contains jewellery by Dixon-Ward Bin, Claude Boisselier, Cartier, Claude Chavent, Yu-Fang Chi, Costanza, Marion Delarue, Jean Després, Albert Duraz, Iris Eichenberg, Jean Garçon, Jacques Gautier, Annabelle d’Huart, Roger Jean-Pierre, Gilles Jonemann, Inari Kiuru, Claude Lalanne, Florence Lehmann, Jean Lurçat, Carlier Makigawa, Sally Marsland, Claude Momiron, Jean Schlumberger, Verena Sieber-Fuchs, Ettore Sottsass, Catherine Truman, Van Cleef & Arpels, Lise Walker, and Alberto Zorzi. In Paris, via November 11, 2024. Extra.
SECOND BLOOM EXHIBITION AT RADIANT PAVILION
Vicki Mason’s present of jewellery and wall sculptures explores themes of regeneration expressed via Australia’s iconic motifs, the wattle and eucalyptus flower. The wall works are created from waste: pedestal fan covers, plastic packaging strapping for the stamens, discarded paints and so on. Saved out of landfills, these assets are remodeled into jewels writ giant. At Studio Ingot via September 28, 2024. Extra. Mason writes incessantly for AJF.
THERE’S POETRY IN THE MARINE JEWELRY OF TINEKE VAN DER EECKEN
Mags Webster opinions Concurrencies, an exhibition of castings, art work, poetry, and objects by multidisciplinary inventive practitioner Tineke Van der Eecken, drawn from and impressed by the ocean. Extra in Garland.
LINDSAY MACDONALD REVIEWS SUNDAY FUNNIES
Nick Rosin has “exquisitely fabricated artifacts of day-to-day life, from cigarette packets to quick meals wrappers, and emblazoned them with comic-style scenes of modern-day revelry. From tea and pie to bodily capabilities and leisure drug use, in Rosin’s world, nothing is sacred.” Extra.
PERIDOT IS THE GEM OF THE SEASON
The August birthstone is similar slime shade because the trending hue of this summer time. Extra.
CERF+ GET READY GRANTS FOR CRAFT ARTISTS
The grants, via CERF+ (Craft Emergency Reduction Fund), present as much as $1,000 to particular person artists working in craft disciplines to hold out actions that can assist safe their studios, defend their companies, plan their legacies, and put together for emergencies. Deadline: October 29, 2024. Extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: [QUEERPHORIA] VOL.4: CONNECTION
This immersive in-person exhibition, at NYCJW24, will construct on the earlier three volumes and discover the idea of connection in its broadest kind. Candidates ought to submit work or have interaction in discussions that discover their various interpretations of this theme. Deadline: September 20, 2024. Extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: SHiNY THiNGS
For this semi-annual pop-up exhibition of latest jewellery at Kendall Reiss Gallery & Studio, in Bristol, RI, rising and established modern jewelers could submit as much as 5 works for consideration. The gallery seeks wearable jewellery objects that characterize all issues shiny: glitz, glam, disco, glimmer, pow, dialog starter! Deadline: September 30, 2024. Extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: UNCHAINED
For its annual vacation group present, Galerie Lewis, in Quebec Metropolis, seeks items that discover the notion of “Unchained,” whether or not it’s the symbolic exploration of discovering freedom or turning into untethered, or a direct exploration of the bodily chain itself. Deadline: October 31, 2024. Extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
This exhibition on the Kentucky Museum will spotlight the inclusivity of contemporary metalworking in a juried artwork present, accompanied by a wide range of interpretive programming to showcase steel’s hyperlinks with different creative and historic kinds. Deadline: October 1, 2024. Extra.
ARTIST RESIDENCY AT A PHILADELPHIA WASTE RECYLCING CENTER
Two residency applications, in Philadelphia, PA, give entry to the waste stream of an organization referred to as Revolution Restoration. RAIR’s employees works carefully with all residents, each whereas choosing within the yard and within the studio. Deadline: September 30, 2024. Extra.
CORE FELLOWSHIP AT PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT
A two-year work-study fellowship for early-career artists seeking to broaden technical expertise and materials fluency whereas working to assist the day-to-day operations of a craft faculty. Artists of all backgrounds who need to advance their instructional targets and discover their capability to contribute to a thriving inventive group are inspired to use. Deadline: October 9, 2024. Extra.
GEMZ TALENT ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
Initiated by Present Obsession to assist a brand new era of younger makers as they develop their voices, the primary targets of GEMZ are to foster relationships between younger creatives, cultural establishments, and the business, in addition to to construct resilient, scalable, and sustainable particular person practices or manufacturers. Deadline: October 1, 2024. Extra.
OPEN CALL: STRING & WIRE
A present to have fun craftspeople and artists utilizing string and wire as materials or conceptual floor. Deadline: September 25, 2024. Extra.
OPEN CALL: DREAM MACHINE 2024
DM2024, which will probably be in view at NYCJW, seeks submissions that discover themes of identification, autonomy, and individuality. Deadline: September 30, 2024. Extra.
LOVE LETTERS AND OTHER CORRESPONDENCES, BY ROSEANNE BARTLEY
This artist-curated guide delves right into a fascination with the alphabet by presenting a curated collection of love letters sourced from each native and worldwide writers and creatives, interwoven with pictures showcasing artist jewellery from Bartley’s An Alphabet of Rings. By way of a mix of wordplay and tangible representations, the guide explores the convergence of jewellery and language, inviting readers to interact with the tactile and conceptual interaction between the 2 realms.
IF JEWELS COULD TALK, BY CAROL WOOLTON
Delves into the historical past, cultural significance, and eclectic trivia of jewellery. As a jewellery historian, jewellery editor at British Vogue, and now podcast host, Woolton is uniquely certified to guide a whistlestop tour via historical past by way of seven objects: hoops, rings, beads, charms, brooches, cuffs, and head ornaments. Extra.
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