March 2023, Half 1
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Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.
JOIN US FOR THESE AJF EVENTS AT SCHMUCK
+ E-book Presentation by Arnoldsche and AJF: Friday, March 10, 2023, 10 a.m., Galerie Handwerk, Max-Josef-Str. 4, 80333 Munich
+ AJF in Dialog: Commerce a Pin/Inform a Story: Saturday, March 11, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m, Galerie Handwerk auditorium, Max-Josef-Str. 4, 80333 Munich
+ AJF Member Dinner, Friday, March 10, 6 p.m., Seidelei Restaurant, Reitmorstraße 3, 80538 Munich. For AJF members solely. RSVP and purchase your ticket here.
+ AJF Presents the 2023 Susan Beech Mid-Profession Grant Winner: Saturday, March 11, 5:15 p.m, Internationale Handwerksmesse Principal Stage
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KHANYA MTHETHWA WINS THE SUSAN BEECH MID-CAREER ARTIST GRANT
The award-winning jewellery designer, born in Kwa-Zulu Natal, at the moment works as an educational on the College of Johannesburg, South Africa. The grant will help a venture that makes use of 3D-printing to reimagine the designs of indigenous cultural objects. Learn more.
AJF LIVE WITH CAROLINE BROADHEAD, MARCH 22, 12 PM EST
Whether or not you journey to Munich and see this 12 months’s Schmuck particular exhibition or not, you’ll study extra about it straight from its curator! Register here.
Uncertain what 12 p.m. EST means in your time zone? Go here, then scroll to the underside.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover these listings and lots of, many extra on our dedicated exhibition page:
- Alex Sepkus Trunk Show, De Novo, March 9–10, 2023
- Joo Hyung Park, Four, Göteborg, Sweden, by March 18, 2023 (proven at left)
- Sam Woehrmann: Geometry of Gems, Shibumi Gallery, by March 20, 2023
- Meet Me, Baltimore Jewelry Center, by March 31, 2023
- Pistachios Artist Series III, Pistachios, by April 2, 2023
- Margit Jäschke, Galerie Biró, March 9–April 15, 2023
APPLICATIONS FOR 92Y RESIDENCY CLOSE MARCH 31, 2023
Time is operating out! The Worldwide Jewellery Artist Residency is a juried residency for cutting-edge, rising, and established jewellery artists to develop their work within the multifaceted New York Metropolis artwork scene. This residency provides artists the chance to create new work in one of the crucial esteemed jewellery facilities throughout the nation. Artists can discover a brand new physique of labor or full analysis whereas participating with New York Metropolis’s cultural group. The Worldwide Jewellery Residency contains entry to 92NY Residence, 24-hour personal studio working house, and journey bills to and from New York Metropolis. For extra info, go to 92NY.org/JewelryRes. Apply in the present day!
FIRST MASIERAAD APPLICATION DEADLINE LOOMS: MARCH 15, 2023
The 2-year grasp’s program in up to date jewellery design is hosted by PXL-MAD, in Hasselt, Belgium. The core educating crew consists of Aldo Bakker, Ruudt Peters & Estela Saez Vilanova, Ted Noten & Kalkidan Hoex, and Liesbeth den Besten & Alena Alexandrova. The premise: there’s no such factor because the “proper” jewellery. Info.
THE MUNICH TORNADO STARTS TODAY
(Thanks, Monica Gaspar, for this witty method of placing it!) The occasion whirls and twists by Sunday, March 12, 2023. Get this system for IHM’s occasions here. Discover information for the Munich Jewelry Week occasions here.
HELEN WILLIAMS DRUTT WILL LECTURE AT THE PINAKOTHEK
In individual, in Munich, on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at 11 a.m.
NOEL GUYOMARC’H GUEST STARS ON THE JEWELRY JOURNEY
The gallerist talks about why brooches are the very best sort of jewellery for artists to precise themselves, how he selects items and artists to signify at his gallery, and why he’s hopeful that the monetary and inventive worth of artwork jewellery will enhance with time. Listen to the podcast.
MONICA BLIND PÅVE AND KAREN ROY ANDERSSON TEAM UP FOR THE IIGO LEA EXHIBITION
Påve works with silver and with duodji—conventional Sami handcraft. She attracts inspiration from her personal tradition however develops the standard types and methods in her personal method. Andersson’s work is characterised by repetitions. The 2 artists met throughout an artist residency. In the course of the collaboration with Monica, Andersson found a brand new materials—reindeer disguise. Info.
FASHIONISTA NAMES RING REDUX ONE THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022
Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Assortment, by Ursula Ilse-Neuman, was listed among the many 33 finest books of 2022. “Ring Redux reexamines the standard picture of the ring as not simply jewellery, however a up to date artwork type, discovering inspiration within the trendy and sculpturally reimagined rings within the Susan Grant Lewin assortment.” See the list.
5 GENTLEMEN DOING THINGS, AT GALERIE ZINK IN COOPERATION WITH ARTCURIAL GERMANY DURING MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK
David Clarke, David Bielander, Karl Fritsch, Rudolf Bott, and Paul Kooiker. What all 5 artists have in frequent, other than classical coaching, is their free play with totally different, typically uncommon, supplies and appears. They keep away from the slender boundaries between craft and superb artwork and as a substitute intention to unite these two poles. Info and hours.
JEWELCACHING: FIND HIDDEN TREASURES IN MUNICH
College students from Sint Lucas Antwerpen have created their very own model of geocaching in celebration of Schmuck. Three “jewelcached” containers shall be hidden throughout the town. When you discover a jewel cache and open it, you’ll discover a piece of silver jewellery inside. You may take it, however solely in trade for one in every of your individual charms of equal worth. March 8–11, 2023. Jewellery hunters ought to register here. The coordinates shall be communicated in the beginning of the occasion.
INDIGENOUS JEWELRY DESIGNERS NIIO PERKINS AND ERICA DONOVAN SHOWED AT MILAN FASHION WEEK
The Globe and Mail experiences on six designers who introduced Canadian Indigenous views to style’s world stage. Read it.
FANTABULOUS JEWELRY|ADJACENT WORK
The Swiss-Brazilian artist Melissa Meier makes mind-blowing kinetic wearable sculptures utilizing leaves, stones, eggshells, rice, quills, and pinecones. More.
SCHMUCK: MARCH 8–12, 2023
The biggest gathering on the planet for jewellery takes place at Handwerk & Design commerce honest, in Munich. Info.
MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK: MARCH 6–12, 2023
The annual, unbiased, artist-run up to date jewellery initiative takes place in Munich each March. It has gained a popularity for being a very powerful occasion for the sector worldwide, and the primary supply for brand new expertise within the discipline through probably the most experimental and revolutionary jewelry displays one can discover. Runs in tandem with the Schmuck occasion placed on by IHM (straight above this itemizing). Info.
AMBER TRIP—19TH INTERNATIONAL BALTIC JEWELLERY SHOW, MARCH 15–18, 2023
Takes place in Vilnius. As yearly, the most important jewellery occasion within the Baltic States will carry collectively skilled jewelers, amber craftsmen and designers, and producers of technological gadgets and models supposed for jewelers, beneath one roof. Info.
ORNAMENTA, PRESENTED BY BALTIMORE JEWELRY CENTER
A number of occasions all through March and April. Signature Ornamenta Occasion: Saturday, March 4, 7:00-11:00pm at 2640 Area, that includes meals by Blacksauce Kitchen and an open bar. Ornamenta On-line: Saturday, April 1, 1:00-2:00pm EST, that includes a dialog with Susie Ganch. Ornamenta Emerald Unique: Friday, April 14, 7:00 – 10:00pm, that includes a customized meal, bar, demonstrations, and extra. Info.
AMBERIF: MARCH 22–25, 2023
Every part amber, in Gdansk, Poland. Info
NELSON JEWELLERY WEEK: APRIL 13–23, 2023
With workshops, exhibitions, and occasions, Australia’s NJW celebrates up to date jewellery for everyone: makers, wearers, viewers. Info.
MAD ABOUT JEWELRY 2023: APRIL 26–29, 2023
Opening profit preview: April 25, 2023. This annual present and sale of one-of-a-kind up to date jewellery advantages the Museum of Arts and Design, in NYC. Options 50 revolutionary worldwide jewellery artists, who shall be on-site to current their collections. Info.
MELTING POINT: APRIL 27–30, 2023
A little bit birdy gave us the dates for the competition, organized by the jewellery division of the Escola d’Artwork i Superior de Disseny de València, in Valencia, Spain. Website.
AUTOR: MAY 6–7, 2023
Takes place in Bucharest, Romania. Info.
SIERAAD 2023: MAY 18–21, 2022
The 20th version of the occasion will happen at Amsterdam’s iconic spherical Gashouder. Info.
CONTEMPORANIA HIGH CRAFTSMANSHIP BARCELONA: SEPTEMBER 28–30, 2023
Previously Joya, this shall be an area for nationwide and worldwide up to date crafts, and a commerce honest for artists, establishments, galleries and collectives to current and promote their creativity in utilized arts reminiscent of ceramics, artwork jewellery, lacquer, metallic, textiles, glass, paper and wooden. Info.
PARCOURS BIJOUX: OCTOBER 2–29, 2023
Held in Paris each three years, with greater than 50 jewellery occasions deliberate. Info.
NEW BOOK—YEWN: CONTEMPORARY JEWELS AND THE SILK ROAD
To put on a up to date jewel by the famend Dickson Yewn, worn by the likes of Michelle Obama, is to delve again into China’s artistic endeavors and its historical past, blended with a up to date twist. Yewn’s up to date jewellery is a crystallization of 1000’s of years of Chinese language materials historical past. Sq. rings rub shoulders with vintage porcelain types, shapes taken from Ming furnishings, and the geometric latticework present in Chinese language structure. An in depth research of the jewellery creator by Juliet de la Rochefoucauld. More.
NEW BOOK: SACRÉS OUTILS!
The title may imply “holy instruments” … or “a hell of a software(s).” Abundantly illustrated, the primary chapter outlines the historical past of the illustration of the software and technical phenomena in jewellery from antiquity to 1975. Subsequent chapters study the methods wherein jewellery artists in the present day strategy the query of the software and take into consideration approach. Presents 30-odd artists to contemplate materials tradition as a complete. Info.
NEW BOOK:NEW JEWELLERY TECHNIQUES CURVED SCORING AND FOLDING FOR METALWORK AND SILVERSMITHING
Anastasia Younger and Paul Wells, each famend London-based jewelers, authors, and lecturers, have created a sensible visible handbook on curved scoring and folding methods utilized to jewellery and metalsmithing for small objects. Info.
OPEN CALL: MAD’S 2023 BURKE PRIZE
The winner of the biannual up to date artwork prize—for US artists aged 21–45 working in glass, fiber, clay, metallic, or wooden—receives an unrestricted award of $50,000. Deadline: April 28, 2023. Info.
CALL FOR ENTRY: 2023 SO FRESH + SO CLEAN STUDENT EXHIBITION
Ethnical Metalsmiths invitations you to answer this 12 months’s So Recent + So Clear design problem! What do you hope would be the life cycle of your work? How does that influence the supplies you select? In what methods do your studio habits help your want for sustainability? Software deadline: Might 15, 2023. Info.
BIPOC SCHOLARSHIPS AT SNOW FARM
“We worth being a group of various of voices, backgrounds, and experiences,” states the craft college, “but we acknowledge that BIPOC college students and artists are underrepresented on our campus because of obstacles which have existed traditionally and within the current. These scholarships present each entry and an invite.” The scholarships embrace full tuition and housing for a 4- or 5-day workshop of the recipient’s selecting—together with jewellery and metalsmithing. Provides, meals, and journey aren’t lined. Software deadline: March 26, 2023. Info.
CALL FOR ENTRY: BOX UP! EXHIBITION
Co-Adorn Artwork Jewelry proclaims an open name for its seventh annual members’ exhibition. Jewellery has a particular relationship to the field. Our work is presented in a field, saved in a field, even shipped in a field. Jewellery can also be displayed in a field and mounted to the partitions of a gallery, sometimes called a “white field.” For this exhibition, create a chunk of jewellery that explores the field and suits into this particular small white field. Software deadline: April 30, 2023. Info.
HOW ABOUT A JEWELRY COURSE IN FLORENCE, ITALY?
This spring, Alchimia Modern College is providing a collection of programs on unhazardous patinas, resin, and water-, sand-, and stone casting. Check them out.
