April 2023, Half 2
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Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.
AJF LIVE GOES TO MEXICO, April 26, 2023,
We’ll meet with Lorena Lazard. She is going to introduce us to her personal work and that of three different vital modern jewellery makers in Mexico: Cristina Celis, Martacarmela Sotelo, and Raquel Bessudo. To register, click on here.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Maral Rapp, at Gallery Lulo
Ruff: Mielle Harvey, at Galerie Door by April 22 (proven at left)
Janne Peltokangas, at Four Gallery by April 29, 2023
Terhi Tolvanen + Yaksh Verma, at Galeria Reverso beginning April 25
Mirrored Our bodies: Sharon Portelance, at Jewelers’Werk, by Might 3
Nicole Jacquard: Stories from Scotland, at Pistachios by Might 7
Fliegenschmuck: Pour Les Precieuses Presque Ridicules, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h by Might 13
New Makers, at ATTA by Might 14
Colourful Minds, on the Baltimore Jewelry Center by Might 19
Colour Shift: Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz, at Gallery Funaki, April 26–Might 28
Pearl, at Platina Stockholm by June 3
LITTLE TREES—BIG IDEAS
When are air fresheners—like those hung from rear-view mirrors—jewels? The necklaces in Timothy Veske-McMahon’s Vanillaroma sequence stability Dada humor with purposefully perplexing iconography. When the American artist conceived them, the world was combating the isolations and sociopolitical fallout of COVID. George Floyd’s homicide was forcing a nationwide confrontation with the perpetual risks and iniquities confronted by Black folks in America. Viewing the automotive freshener as a perfect image for racial issues within the US, Veske-McMahon discerns an exoticized and commercialized chemical simulation of scents related to the colonial slave commerce: vanilla (loaded with that means and a code phrase for “white”), coconut, and sugarcane, in addition to the exportation of American nationalism to isolationist political views resurfacing in Japanese Europe. More info. See Vanillaroma at Gallery Loupe Might 6–June 10, 2023.
MAD ABOUT JEWELRY, APRIL 25–29, 2023
April 25–29, the Museum of Arts and Design will current MAD About Jewelry, its annual profit sale of up to date jewellery that includes designs from 50 rising and acclaimed worldwide jewellery artists. All of the artists, from 20 completely different international locations, will probably be current. MAD About Jewellery has develop into referred to as the last word pop-up store for modern, artist-made jewellery, the place collectors and jewellery fanatics have the uncommon alternative to satisfy and purchase items from a few of the most modern creators within the subject. Along with jewellery in treasured metals and semiprecious stones, there will probably be work in many various supplies that embody 3D-printed nylon, glass, wooden, leather-based, and repurposed, recycled supplies. MAD About Jewellery is free with Museum admission.
EXHIBITION CELEBRATES WOMEN IN DESIGN … AND JEWELRY
The Montreal Museum of High quality Arts’s Parall(elles) adopts a broad definition of design that extends from artisanal craftwork to industrial design. The web site Designed by Women was developed along side the exhibition. Mary Lee Hu! Eva Eisler! Taisha Carrington! Tanya Crane! Lam de Wolf! Joyce J. Scott! Susanna Heron! Margaret De Patta! Rebecca Hannon! And so many others! The web site’s a bit of clunky, so that you’ll must dig round—not a foul factor. Thanks, Eleanor Moty, for bringing this to AJF’s consideration!
IN MEMORIAM: SHARON CHURCH
Metalsmith journal invited private remembrances from Church’s neighborhood shortly after her demise. It features a pleasant photograph from years previous of the artist dressed up as—guess who?—for Halloween. Learn it here.
HOW THEREZA PEDROSA INTRODUCES CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY TO ART LOVERS
The Italian gallerist spoke to Sharon Berman on the Jewellery Journey podcast. Listen.
CONTRIBUTE PHOTOS TO PARTICIPATE IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH ON JEWELRY AND AI
Anneleen Swillen, lecturer and researcher at PXL-MAD College of Arts and Hasselt College, and founding father of Synthetic Intelligems, explores intersections of AI and jewellery. For the present Synthetic Intelligems venture, she invitations you to take part by sharing images of bijou being worn. By contributing your images, you’ll assist prepare a machine studying algorithm and co-create Ornamisms alongside members from all all over the world. By means of this experiment, Synthetic Intelligems goals to discover the inventive potential of machine studying within the context of bijou, but in addition the potential dangers of those self-learning applied sciences for making, presenting, and experiencing jewellery. Human-centered design, materiality, worth, and authorship are critically questioned within the course of. Visit the website to study extra and be a part of the venture. Questions? Email.
SEEKING IMAGES OF POWDER-COATED JEWELRY TO PUBLISH IN BOOK
Jewelers and artists are invited to submit photos of their powder-coated work to be included within the e book Powder Coating for Jewellery Artists (working title). This e book focuses on powder coating as a method of making use of coloration as a ending course of for jewellery objects. We search pictures of distinctive, colourful, well-crafted items that showcase completely different sorts of powder-coating strategies and purposes (ESD, gradients, sift & dump, stencil, decal, transparents, and many others.). Chosen photos will probably be utilized in picture galleries all through the publication. Accepted artists obtain full credit score in captions. Utility deadline: June 21, 2023, at 11:59 pm (EST). Info.
GALERIE ROB KOUDIJS CELEBRATED 16 YEARS ON APRIL 1
To mark the event and kickstart the gallery’s new technique of being an “adjusted gallery,” it introduced its newest on-line catalog, New Crop, 30 Artists. Check it out. Additionally, the gallery will probably be at KunstRAI Artwork Amsterdam, Might 5–7, 2023, sales space 15, presenting new work by Niklas Hyperlink and Ambroise Degenève.
JOANA VASCONCELOS DESIGNS A MIND-BLOWING CATWALK FOR DIOR
The Portuguese artist began as a jeweler, however grew to become a sculptor recognized for super-sized works that “fuse collectively on a regular basis objects to discover the standing of ladies, commercialism, society, and communal id.” To provide a way of scale, the horizontal upholstered platforms function seating for the viewers. See Dior’s Fall 2023 ready-to-wear presentation. Or learn an interview with set images.
JEWELRY MADE FROM ALUMINUM
The New York Instances featured jewellery produced from aluminum, probably the most ample metallic on earth, with quotes by Elisabetta Cipriani, Bella Neyman, and lots of others! Check it out.
PRATT INSTITUTE BFA JEWELRY EXHIBITION 2023
April 18–26, 2023. Registration inspired for out of doors company.
EXHIBITION: THE MANY LIVES OF A BRILLIANT MIND
Nearly three years after GianCarlo Montebello’s demise, the present goals to supply some preliminary reflections on this advanced and extraordinary determine, innovator, artist, and inventive. At Babs Art Gallery, Milan, by Might 5, 2023.
EXHIBITION: FACETTES: A LOOK AT CERAMIC JEWELRY
Twenty-five jewelers, ceramists, visible artists, and designers from everywhere in the world query the strategy of ceramic jewellery within the crucible of up to date artwork by 100 highly effective works. Centre Céramique Contemporaine de Giroussens, Giroussens, France, April 15–June 18, 2023. Info.
ROMANIAN JEWELLERY WEEK—APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED
You’ve got till April 27, 2023. Info.
BURKE PRIZE—APPLICATIONS CLOSE SOON
A biannual $50,000 prize for artists working in glass, fiber, clay, metallic, or wooden.
Deadline: April 28, 2023. Info.
THE FUTURE GENERATION ART PRIZE—APPLICATIONS CLOSE SOON
Open to artists 35 or youthful from anyplace and dealing in any medium. One winner will obtain $60,000 in money and a $40,000 funding of their follow, and 5 particular prizes totaling $20,000 are awarded to help different tasks. Deadline: April 30, 2023. Info.
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS FROM WJA
The Girls’s Jewellery Affiliation Basis, affords various scholarships and grants to help the skilled development and academic endeavors of ladies within the jewellery and watch industries. Deadline: April 30 and October 31, 2023. Info.
CALL FOR ENTRY—ART IN ODD PLACES 2023: DRESS
Artwork in Odd Locations invitations artists who use costume as a medium to use for its 18th annual pageant, which can happen alongside 14th Avenue in Manhattan October 1315, 2023. Works could take the type of clothes, textiles, vogue design, costume, efficiency, sculpture, and set up. Deadline: Might 14, 2023. Info.
OPEN CALL—JURIED INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL KORU8
Theme: Heading for the woods. Forests play a vital function in local weather change and the sixth mass extinction. Globally forests cowl virtually one-third of the land, and their cultural and social that means varies between cultures and context. Forests are house to human and non-human animals. What’s a forest within the context of up to date jewellery? Open to professionals or artist teams working in jewellery, and to artists from different fields who concentrate on creating new ideologies and aesthetic views within the sense of up to date jewellery. Utility deadline: October 25, 2023. Info.
OPEN CALL—CHEONGJU INTERNATIONAL CRAFT COMPETITION 2023
“The CICC, launched in 1999, is an enviornment of alternatives the place craft artists at house and overseas can present the world what they’ve bought…The Craft Competitors solicits craft artworks reflecting tendencies in modern arts and crafts and conveying values of the long run. Open to craft artists in Korea and overseas. Deadline: Might 7, 2023. Info.
APPLICATIONS OPEN—NYCJW
In search of proposals from artists, designers, curators, and retailers for exhibitions, pop-ups, conversations, and retail activations which might be modern and revelatory, jewellery that’s superbly crafted and significant, packages which might be stuffed with storytelling and shaping the business. NYC Jewellery Week will happen November 13-19, 2023. Deadline: June 30, 2023. Info.
SNAG EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIPS
These exist to additional academic alternatives for college kids and professionals seeking to broaden their schooling in metalsmithing and jewellery. The overall quantity to be awarded for the 2023 funding cycle (ending June 30, 2024) is $10,000. Awards are given to pupil {and professional} artists. SNAG membership not required. Deadline: April 30, 2023. Info.
SNAG—CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
What depths of expression are potential after we push the boundaries of object documentation? What occurs after we eschew the sphere’s requirements of capturing a transparent picture of our works on a impartial background, or easy shows of labor on a physique? What enrichment is out there when the work turns into a part of a scene and a scene turns into a part of a chunk? Deadline: Might 15, 2023. Info.
“FILIGREE: JEWELLERY AND OBJECTS,” TAUGHT BY CARLA MOVIA
Filigree that has been current all through historical past in lots of cultures all over the world. This course goals to present an summary within the making of filigree jewellery and objects: college students will discover ways to make their very own solder from scratch, twist and kind pure silver wire in several methods and ultimately assemble their designs. At Alchimia, Might 4–7, 2023. Info.
“TRIGGER TO TALISMAN: TRANSFORMING GUN CULTURE ONE OBJECT AT A TIME,” TAUGHT BY BORIS BALLY
Have you ever ever wished to hone your craft abilities to create sculpture or jewellery addressing political points? By utilizing metalworking and jewellery abilities, college students will dissect and redirect disabled pistols acquired from a gun buy-back program (supplies will probably be offered to college students). Discover the method of transformation by reshaping these devices of violence into hand-fabricated, various private statements. At Haystack, July 16–28, 2023. More info.
“THE ANYTHING GOES APPROACH TO JEWELRY AND OBJECT MAKING,” TAUGHT BY EMILY CULVER
Develop your materials vocabulary and uncover varied methods to include various supplies into your inventive works. Numerous metallic chilly connections, mechanisms, and attachments will probably be coated alongside discussions of how you can strategy working inside supplies households: wooden, fiber, rubber, plastic, and many others. Uncover a world of potentialities and the way these alternatives can carry new that means and understanding to artistic works. Arrowmont, July 23–28, 2023. Info.
“TELLING STORIES IN CLOISONNÉ,” TAUGHT BY AURÉLIE GUILLAUME
Be taught the strategy of cloisonné enameling and discover its potentialities as a storytelling medium. Every pupil will create a fully-realized, one-of-a-kind cloisonné jewellery piece. At Penland College of Craft, July 16–28, 2023. Info.
“SIMPLY STEEL,” TAUGHT BY REBEKAH FRANK
Simply accessible, comparatively inexpensive, and steeped in materials historical past, metal would be the materials focus of this workshop. Members will fabricate small containers utilizing conventional metalsmithing strategies. At Haystack, July 30–August 11, 2023. Info.
