February 2025, Half 2
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AJF’S EVENTS IN MUNICH
We’ve organized a sturdy program! We’ll host a every day speaker collection in our share a sales space with Arnoldsche. Nineteen presenters will discover a spread of compelling themes. | We now have two occasions at Galerie Handwerk: 2023 Susan Beech Mid-Profession Grant winner Khanya Mthethwa will give a particular presentation. And we’ll current the brand new e book Feast, about American collector Susan Beech, with a panel that features Beech, Toni Greenbaum, Barbara Gifford, and Susan Cummins. | We’ll announce the winner of the 2025 AJF Solo Exhibition Award. Who will get $20,000 to placed on their present? | And don’t miss our AJF member dinner. Full particulars here.
AJF TRIPS IN 2025
AJF’s extremely curated journeys present a possibility to journey with like-minded fans and offer you entry to venues and actions you couldn’t do by yourself. We now have two journeys deliberate. Registration for the primary journey—Santa Fe, New Mexico, Could 12–15, 2025—is presently open for Silver members and above (register here). The opposite journeys shall be in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, September 7–10, 2025, and in Oaxaca September 12–14. You’ll be able to go each locations in Mexico, or select only one. Develop into a member on the Gold stage for precedence invitation to AJF’s journeys. Additional information here.
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EVENTS
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MUSEUM ACQUIRES WORK BY CATHERINE SHEEDY
Noel Guyomarc’h, who represents the artist, informed us that final January the Nationwide Museum of High quality Arts of Quebec acquired a piece by Catherine Sheedy referred to as Chercher Sa Stabilité 9 (In search of One’s Stability 9), from the Le Fleuve Porteur d’Histoires (The River that Carries Tales) Collection.
AURÉLIE GUILLAUME WORK ACQUIRED BY MUSEUM
Noel Guyomarc’h additionally informed us that the Nationwide Museum of High quality Arts of Quebec additionally acquired a brooch referred to as She Likes You Not, from the Say It with Flowers Collection. Guillaume performs with the longstanding hyperlink between enameling and storytelling. Whereas makers from different centuries may need introduced spiritual narratives of their brightly coloured objects, Guillaume appears to avenue artwork, comics, and different types of standard tradition. In her work, a single character is frozen in the course of a narrative that is still hidden from the viewer.
NEW SHOW AT SALOTTO SPJ: FEBRUARY 19–26, 2025
Happening within the middle of Milan, Italy, Pleasure BC’s solo exhibition will supply a considerate exploration of bijou as a medium for storytelling, id, and cultural reflection. Famend for her sculptural strategy and deeply researched narratives, Pleasure BC’s work attracts on historic references, mythology, and private reminiscence to create modern items. RSVP to @salottospj by DM or email.
MORE ABOUT NEW AJF MEMBER SALOTTO SPJ
Salotto SPJ’s challenge, in central Milan, opened in January with an exhibition of labor by Giovanni Corvaja. You’ll be able to sit up for a present of labor by Charlotte De Syllas in March; Chloé Valorso in April; and Yeena Yoon in Could. More.
OBJECTS BEAUTIFUL AT COLLECT: FEBRUARY 26–MARCH 3, 2025
Objects Stunning’s theme is wearable artwork. You’ll discover clothes by Nurit David. The jewellery is a brand new assortment, Rock & Locks, created by the gallery’s 35 jewellery artists desperate to work with hair and reclaim the romance and tenderness of hair-scapes. More.
SEE WORK BY MARGIT HART IN MUNICH
Hart’s Schattenflug · Fleeting Shadows items (2018, pigment print on metal, acrylic, silver) shall be a part of the exhibition Lückenfüller, at Room to Dream, March 12–16, 2025. “Shadow and light-weight, picture and fragment. Mild as a cosmic and bodily phenomenon. And lightweight as a sensual expertise that opens up the floor into the pictorial area.”
LOLA BROOKS NAMED MASTER OF THE MEDIUM
The James Renwick Alliance for Craft honors Brooks, a metalsmith whose work explores the wealthy symbolism of bijou as a cultural artifact. Brooks combines conventional craft with modern innovation. Her items problem typical notions of worth by juxtaposing stainless-steel with gold, remodeling sentimental motifs into profound creative statements.
SOLO EXHIBITION BY KHANYA MTHETHWA
Abantu: Threads That Bind Us celebrates South Africa’s various indigenous cultures by means of an exploration of id and tribute to the resilience of African reminiscence. Impressed by South African tradition previous and current, this exhibition bridges the gap between the 2 by means of creative interpretations of archival supplies and modern design. At FADA Gallery, February 27–March 28, 2025.
CHERYL R. RILEY TO EXHIBIT IN “THE STORY MAKERS”
See Sculptures within the Type of a Necklace on this group present, curated by Sebastian Grant, on view at Gallery Loupe April 5-Could 5, 2025. Grant write an in-depth, 10-page article that includes Riley’s sculpture necklaces within the Spring 2024 concern of Metalsmith.
SÉBASTIEN CARRÉ TO TEACH WORKSHOP
Discover the various aspects of textile methods and remodel threads and beads into distinctive creations. June 23–28, 2025, at Le Sel de la Foremost, in France. More info.
UTE DECKER SELECTED FOR 100 RINGS, 100 MAKERS
Goldsmiths’ Honest presents 100 Rings, 100 Makers at Acquire 2025, celebrating the modern ring as miniature sculpture and intimate object. Decker, identified for her daring assertion rings, is showcasing Rose in 18-karat honest commerce gold. This distinctive hand sculpted ring explores transformation and renewal: a daring sculptural ring that, when worn with a torque, transforms into an intriguing pendant. Acquire is the main worldwide artwork honest for modern craft and design. Go to Stand E11 to expertise these miniature masterpieces firsthand. Info.
OPEN POSITION AT THE BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
The BJC is providing one three-year educating fellowship; begin date August 2025. Along with gaining educating expertise, the chosen fellow will develop pedagogical expertise, construct management expertise, obtain mentorship from skilled educators, and play an influential a part of a vibrant academic group. The perfect candidate is captivated with metalsmithing and artwork jewellery in addition to educating and studying. They need to be keen to have interaction with college students in a wide range of settings, from the studio to group occasions. Candidates ought to have an MFA in metals and/or jewellery, or a BFA in metals and/or jewellery and work expertise (in educating or different features of the sector). More info.
ONE DAY YOU’LL SEE, AT THE BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
A solo exhibition of works by picture and object maker Laurel Fulton. The exhibition consists of a collection of ocular gadgets that shift the members’ visible notion of the world and people round them. After we say “I see,” we imply “I perceive” and we regularly assume “to see is to consider.” Nonetheless, after we see, we’re decoding, figuring out, and evaluating the information our eyes ship us. In consequence, there is no such thing as a singular or common strategy to interpret the world. Seeing is influenced by our personal expertise, which alters our personal understanding and capability for realizing. More.
MOBILIA GALLERY PREVIEWS JEWELRY FEATURED IN MASSART AUCTION
Preview the 32 items of artwork jewellery featured within the 2025 MassArt Auction, and different works from by taking part artists and grasp jewelers, Saturday, March 1, 2025, 12–4 pm. Strive on the works, meet native artists taking part within the public sale, and luxuriate in some refreshments. RSVP by email. Jewellery that’s a part of the public sale shall be obtainable for bidding beginning March 17, 2025. Bidding web site is here.
UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
Metalsmith and multidisciplinary artist David Harper Clemmons and jewellery artist Tzu-Ju Chen are among the many honorees. More.
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR MAKES JEWELRY FOR TAIWANESE DANCERS
Clayton Salley is collaborating with skilled dancers to develop and doc performances that merge dance and choreography along with his jewellery designs. This interdisciplinary strategy has the potential to exhibit new methods physique adornment can foster human connection. More.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF “BEYOND THE GALLERY”
This dialog addressed the boundaries of the artwork gallery as an area for valuing craft. These limits embrace the way in which expertise is restricted to the visible sense and objects are introduced as representations of the world, fairly than issues for use in it. With Ben Lignel, Monica Gaspar, and Kevoin Murray. Watch here.
NATIVE AMERICAN JEWELRY HAS A SHOWCASE IN SANTA FE
All yr lengthy, makers promote their creations on the portal on the historic Palace of the Governors. More.
A NEW TREND IN JEWELRY?
Taylor Swift wore a bauble on her thigh to the Grammys. How quickly until jeweled garters are in all of the shops? More.
OPEN CALL: PARCOURS BIJOUX
Each three years, Parcours Bijoux celebrates modern jewellery in Paris, presenting over 300 artists from world wide in some 50 occasions over 5 weeks: group exhibitions, solo reveals, conferences, publications, seminars, and performances. Open to jewelers, artists, designers, artwork historians, colleges, curators, gallery house owners, journalists, and collectors. Be a part of the 2026 version by making use of by June 15, 2025. Info.
OPEN CALL: CONTEMPORARY WEARABLES ’25 BIENNIAL JEWELLERY AWARD AND EXHIBITION
With this award and exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Artwork Gallery promotes excellence in modern adornment. The award was established in 1989 and is a discussion board for experimental and modern modern jewellery and object apply. Juried and judged by main business professionals, it showcases the work of Australia’s distinguished and rising modern makers. 2025 awards embrace: $6000 Excellence Award, $4000 Innovation Award, $2000 Pupil Award. Entry Type and Tips here. Deadline: Could 2, 2025. More
JEWELLERY – FORM – CONTENT
This publication from the Museum of Ornamental Arts in Prague brings collectively jewellery previous and current, exploring it not chronologically however when it comes to the methods wherein it may bear meanings. The e book illustrates these by analyzing fairly various items. It covers the total vary of bijou, not simply bodily objects but additionally work that exists extra as an idea or occasion. It embraces auteur and collective items, and jewellery confrontational and standard. More.
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