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December 2024, Half 2
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GET $20,000 TO MOUNT AN EXHIBITION OF YOUR JEWELRY!
The Solo Exhibition Award, from AJF, will assist a solo exhibition for an artwork jewellery maker of any age or nationality. The jurors are Caroline Broadhead, Mike Holmes, and Grace Lai. Purposes accepted via January 12, 2025. Get tips right here.
SAVE THE DATES FOR AJF TRIPS IN 2025!
AJF’s extremely curated journeys present a chance to journey with like-minded lovers and offer you entry to venues and actions you couldn’t do by yourself. We now have two journeys deliberate. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Could 12–15, 2025. And Mexico Metropolis, Mexico: September 7–10, 2025, with an optionally available Oaxaca add-on September 12–14. Develop into a member on the Gold stage for precedence invitation to AJF’s journeys. More information right here.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover listings from around the globe on our devoted exhibition web page.
EVENTS
We now have a devoted web page for them. Go right here to see the record.
ORNAMENTA: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The Baltimore Jewellery Heart’s annual profit get together will happen 7–11 p.m. at 2640 Area. Ornamenta features a silent public sale the place you may bid on lovely items of artwork jewellery to develop your assortment, in addition to a raffle of goodies from BJC supporters. This yr’s occasion is impressed by all issues diamond, and your most interesting cocktail apparel is requested! Even in the event you’re not native to Baltimore there are methods you may assist the BJC’s annual fundraiser! Get extra data and buy tickets right here.
NEW WORK BY ARATA FUCHI AT MOBILIA GALLERY
Fuchi’s sensible technical abilities and background in industrial design are evident in his varied methods and supplies, together with Shibuichi, a standard Japanese alloy of copper and silver. For the gold spheres within the earrings, he makes use of Keum-Boo, the traditional Korean gilding method. Fuchi’s work is within the collections of The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Dallas Museum of Artwork; the Alice and Louis Koch Assortment; and different establishments. See extra.
CALL FOR ENTRY: JEWELLERY FESTIVAL SILVER
The subsequent version of the Jewelry Pageant SILVER will happen in Legnica, Poland, on Could 9–10, 2025. The principle occasion of the pageant is the Worldwide Jewelry Competitors. Its present version has the theme “WOW Impact!” A post-competition exhibition will happen. Participation within the competitors is free (members cowl solely delivery). Deadline: January 20, 2025. Data.
VIRTUAL CONTENT FROM NYCJW24
Did you miss any of the in-person talks hosted on the Museum of Arts and Design on November 19? You get one other likelihood: Movies can be found on NYCJW’s YouTube channel. Go right here.
CORRINA GOUTOS NAMED 2025 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT FvdB FOUNDATION
Goutos has twice been a finalist for AJF’s Younger Artist Award, most lately in 2024. She coined the time period “Anthrosmithing” to explain her interdisciplinary apply. She renounces the idea of a “uncooked materials,” as a substitute contemplating a craftsperson however one among many brokers continuously reshaping a cloth. The Françoise van den Bosch residency is made doable by Rian de Jong and Herman Marres.
CALL FOR THE IN THE MAKING: A COMMUNITY ARCHIVING PROJECT EXHIBITION
The Baltimore Jewellery Heart invitations group members close to and much to share paintings, private artifacts (sketches, notes, pictures), and tales associated to your engagement with the BJC to assist seize its community-sourced historical past and launch its digital archive challenge. Submitted work and tales shall be displayed within the gallery December 6–January 24, with the gallery shifting and altering as new work and tales are added over the two-month period of the present. Extra.
CAROLINE BROADHEAD TO LECTURE AT DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG
Free, in English, within the Pinakothek der Moderne Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium, March 16, 2025, 11 a.m. Extra data.
JURGITA LUDAVIČIENĖ TALKS ABOUT THE SCHMUCK SPECIAL SHOW
As juror, she chosen 60+ artists from the just about 800 who submitted. “Jewelry wants a whole lot of house as a result of simply as a lot power, energy, concepts, and hours of labor go into a bit of jewelry as into a big sculpture,” she says. Extra.
ISRAEL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY SECOND EDITION
“Echoes of the Untaken Path” displays on the probabilities left behind. It invitations you to discover what stays within the wake of a choice: the unchosen futures, the silent potentialities, and the unseen forces that form our journeys. Seventeen artists had been chosen: Aimee Clinger, Andrzej Boss, Antal Zilahi, Beatrice Chiang, Denis Music, Eden Danieli & Carmel Shahar, Eden Herman Rosenblum, Elisabeth Drude, Fanni Nagy, Ildikó Dánfalvi, Ji Younger Kim, Lorena Lazard, Maya Shochat, Michał Fatyga, Sara Marzialetti, Tatiana Mazaeva, and Yier Lu. View it on-line via digital eternity, right here.
AOTEAROA JEWELLERY TRIENNIAL OPENS MARCH 8, 2025
The year-long occasion offers alternatives for New Zealand curators and artists to supply distinctive and high-quality work with impression. It’s primarily based on the previous idea of the Dowse Jewelry Biennial and is offered in partnership with museums and galleries. Web site.
FINALIST FOR TURNER PRIZE: PIO ABAD
Abad critiques how museums gather, show, and interpret. Objects tackle new resonance when displayed alongside his personal drawings and sculptures made along with his spouse, Frances Wadsworth Jones. Kiss the Hand You Can not Chunk, for instance, reimagines Imelda Marcos’s big bejeweled bracelet, a bit from a jewellery hoard seized by US customs. “We had been taking part in with other ways of decoding these jewels, taking part in with scale,” Pio stated in an interview with Vogue. “It’s for the our bodies of people that carry the excesses of empire; we wished that very same sense of encountering a corpse.” Extra from the Tate, the place the work of winner Jasleen Kaur and the finalists is on view.
CREATING HOLES IN AN OVERFULL WORLD
The Gap, an exhibition in Shenzhen, China, embodies the interaction of potentiality and transformation. The holes signify spatial constructs, each bodily and imagined, that function pathways via time and house, mixing tangible and intangible realms. With practically 80 works, the exhibition presents a stress between stable and void, actual and digital. The exhibition is merely a node; the meanings it evokes will proceed to increase and unfold. By January 5, 2025. Data.
YOUR JEWELRY COULD POWER YOUR DEVICES
Researchers have developed a expertise that may enable wearables to be powered by the human physique. It makes use of the physique’s means to transmit radio frequency power and wirelessly distributes it to units worn on the physique—eliminating the necessity for batteries. Now they want artists who can design enticing jewellery for the tech! Extra.
ARTISTS ARE TURNING AIR POLLUTION INTO JEWELRY
Daan Rosegard/Studio Roosegaarde compresses disgusting smog particles into rings. They’ve a ready record of three,200+ individuals who need one! Extra. (For more information about tasks by different artists, take heed to this BBC program.)
SEEKING JEWELRY AND METALSMITHING INSTRUCTORS
Positions obtainable to show grownup and youngsters’ jewellery and metalsmithing lessons and workshops at EatMetal Inc. Studio, NJ. Areas of curiosity: inexperienced persons to superior stone setting, wax carving, fabrication, hole forming, chain-making, silversmithing, forging, and extra. Data.
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FEAST: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM THE SUSAN BEECH COLLECTION
Marvel on the house of American collector Susan Beech. Since 1991, she has been remodeling her home into a rare surroundings by which her in depth jewellery assortment interacts with craft and advantageous artwork, all towards a backdrop of Artwork Deco glamour. Magnificence is entwined with darker forces of demise and decay, and glimpses of delight are sophisticated by a nod to the surreal and uncanny. The end result: a completely unique and engaging stage for a serious assortment of latest jewellery thoughtfully assembled over 4 many years. Extra.
WARWICK FREEMAN: HOOK HAND HEART STAR
Freeman’s works inform of his life, tradition, and historical past, in addition to the historical past of Aotearoa New Zealand and the nation’s distinctive supplies. Freeman—the Pākehā, because the Māori name descendants with European roots—has lengthy been a mediator between the cultures. Within the Eighties he co-revolutionized the world of New Zealand jewellery, which led to a singular creative language. Freeman discovers varieties, symbols, and pictures that join Māori, Polynesian, and European civilizations via emblematic meanings that transcend their cultures. Extra.
ROBERT BAINES: PLENITUDE
Empowered by his in depth analysis into archaeometallurgy, Baines connects the artistry and methods of historical Greek and Etruscan goldsmiths with modern-day innovation. His creations, infused with wry humor and technical brilliance, problem our perceptions and captivate the attention. In his world, historical methods are revived and reimagined and mythology is each revered and playfully deconstructed. This isn’t only a guide; it’s a glimpse into the thoughts of a goldsmith. Extra.
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