Could 2023, Half 1
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Listings gathered with help from Carrie Yodanis.
FEEL LIKE SEEING A JEWELRY SHOW?
Discover these listings and plenty of, many extra on our dedicated exhibition page:
+ Mirrored Our bodies: Sharon Portelance (proven at left), at Jewelers’Werk, by way of Could 3
+ Nicole Jacquard: Stories from Scotland, at Pistachios by way of Could 7
+ Fliegenschmuck: Pour Les Precieuses Presque Ridicules, at Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h by way of Could 13
+ New Makers, at ATTA by way of Could 14
+ Colourful Minds, on the Baltimore Jewelry Center by way of Could 19
+ Terhi Tolvanen + Yaksh Verma, at Galeria Reverso by way of Could 20
+ Colour Shift: Blanche Tilden + Marcus Sholz, at Gallery Funaki by way of Could 28
+ Breeze | Ute Kolar, at Thereza Pedrosa Gallery by way of Could 28
+ Sawa Aso, at Four Gallery Could 5–June 3
+ Pearl, at Platina Stockholm by way of June 3
+ Restringing the Pearl, at The Jewellery Library by way of June 6
+ Timothy Veske-McMahon | Vanillaroma, at Gallery Loupe Could 6–June 10 (opening reception Could 6, 6-8 p.m.)
+ Leslie Shershow, at Sienna Patti Could 12–June 11
+ At Ornamentum: Terhi Tolvanen, by way of August 26; Hanna Hedman, Could 13–June 11
ORIZZONTI D’AUTORE BIENNALE INSPIRES A MASTER’S THESIS
The biennale, curated by Thereza Pedrosa on the Civic Museum of Asolo, in Italy, is the topic of a grasp’s thesis from the IULM College of Milan! It’s known as “Orizzonti d’Autore: An Instance of Digital Communication for Modern Jewelry,” by graduate scholar Martina Citti.
MELANIE GEORGACOPOULOS IS CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT PEARLS
The maker works with supplies in new methods to launch their potential and stimulate new interpretations. She talked with Sharon Berman on The Jewellery Journey. Listen to the podcast.
EXHIBITION AT THE BJC: WOMEN I KNOW
On view on the Baltimore Jewellery Middle Could 26–July 7, 2023, the physique of labor in Women I Know, an exhibition by Angela Caldwell, represents the power and assist ladies supply one another by way of their making. Using acquainted instruments related to conventional feminine crafts, Caldwell creates wearable, armor-like representations that embody the spirit of girls and supply a perspective on the power they supply. Utilizing modern practices and supplies like powder coating and metallic thread, Caldwell positions her trendy voice inside the context of a wealthy historical past of feminine makers.
LECTURE: “WEARABLE ART: A CONVERSATION ABOUT JEWELRY”
Be a part of Bella Neyman, co-founder of New York Metropolis Jewellery Week, for a dialog about modern jewellery with journalist Jennifer Altmann. After the speak, Patti Bleicher, of Gallery Loupe, will current jewellery by Israeli artists Vered Kaminski, Esther Knobel, Noam Elyashiv, Attai Chen, and Shachar Cohen, out there for buy. In East Brunswick, NJ, Could 8, 2023, 7 p.m. Info/tickets.
“ART IS ALWAYS EVOLVING TO REFLECT CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN SOCIETY”
Take a look at AJF member Sharon Massey’s “Meet Our College” interview on the Indiana College of Pennsylvania web site.
CALL FOR ENTRY: THE REJEWELRY COMPETITION
Apply to the first-ever Radical Jewellery Makeover (RJM) juried jewellery competitors and exhibition, The Rejewelry Competitors! Prime prizes embrace a solo exhibition at Alma’s Gallery, in Richmond, VA, US, and an invite to hitch the RJM Artist Undertaking. RJM raises consciousness of the connection between mining, metalsmithing, activism, collaboration, and artwork. It takes donations of damaged, undesirable, or out-of-date jewellery and redistributes these already-mined persistent uncooked supplies filled with inventive potential into the arms of makers. Deadline: June 1, 2023. Info.
LEARN TO BEAD WITH SÉBASTIEN CARRÉ AT HIS “THREAD AND BEADS” WORKSHOP
Over 5 days, you’ll discover totally different textile strategies with the goal of associating and mixing them: beadwork with the needle in embroidery or in peyote sew (weaving), crochet strategies, macramé or embroidery shall be approached in line with your initiatives and needs. Practice round totally different modules to find or deepen your beading, crocheting or macramé. Accessible to all, learners in addition to superior. You’ll begin by conceptualizing your creation by drawing or making a mannequin, and get the fundamentals to provide and finalize a piece. June 25–July 1, 2023, in Varen, France. Value: 650€, contains meals, supplies, and instruments. Registration deadline: June 1. Info.
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 challenge, she invitations you to take part by sharing photographs of jewellery being worn. By contributing your photographs, you’ll assist prepare a machine studying algorithm and co-create Ornamisms alongside members from all all over the world. Via this experiment, Synthetic Intelligems goals to discover the inventive potential of machine studying within the context of jewellery, but in addition the attainable 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 be taught extra and be a part of the challenge. Questions? Email.
SEEKING IMAGES OF POWDER-COATED JEWELRY TO PUBLISH IN BOOK
Jewelers and artists are invited to submit photographs of their powder-coated work to be included in Powder Coating for Jewellery Artists (working title). This ebook focuses on powder coating as a way of making use of colour as a ending course of for jewellery objects. We search pictures of distinctive, colourful, well-crafted items that showcase totally different sorts of powder-coating strategies and purposes (ESD, gradients, sift & dump, stencil, decal, transparents, and many others.). Chosen photographs shall be utilized in picture galleries all through the publication. Accepted artists obtain full credit score in captions. Software deadline: June 21, 2023, at 11:59 pm (EST). Info.
NEW YORK’S MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN SHOWCASES THE BEST NEW JEWELRY DESIGN
So stated Forbes in regards to the MAD About Jewellery annual profit sale at MAD. They described the jewellery as “the weird, the sudden, the never-before-seen.” Learn the interview with the occasion’s director and curator, Bryna Pomp, in Forbes here. Harpers Bazaar additionally coated MAD About Jewellery, here.
METALSMITH SEEKS PHOTOGRAPHY
The journal invitations submissions of creatively styled photographs of artist-made jewellery, adornment, and metalsmithing in all types and supplies that inform a narrative and current works exterior of the everyday white background. Juried. Deadline: Could 15, 2023. Info.
ALL THAT GLITTERS NOT RENEWED
The BBC’s talent competition for jewelers first aired in 2021 and its first season averaged 2.3 million viewers throughout six episodes. The TV present got here again for a second season in 2022. The final episode was filmed in a specially-built workshop in Birmingham’s historic Jewelry Quarter.
CCBC’S GALLERY’S EARRING SHOW OPENS THIS WEEK
The tenth version of the exhibition options over 200 pairs of earrings by nearly 125 artists from all over the world in a big selection of mediums, strategies, and supplies. On view and on the market beginning Could 4, 2023, each in-person (Could 4–18) and on-line (Could 4–July 31, 2023). Info.
AUTOR: MAY 6–7, 2023
Takes place in Bucharest, Romania. Info.
SLOVENIAN JEWELRY WEEK: MAY 11–19, 2023
A spotlight would be the exhibitions of greater than 100 Slovenian and worldwide jewellery designers. The exhibitions will happen in Ljubljana, Maribor, Izola, Radovljica, and Slovenj Gradec, and shall be joined by different occasions in these areas. Along with exhibitions this system will embrace quite a few displays and programs for fans of all generations. These embrace displays, workshops, lectures, and guided excursions of exhibitions, studios, museums, and faculties. Info.
SIERAAD 2023: MAY 18–21, 2022
The 20th version of the occasion will happen at Amsterdam’s iconic spherical Gashouder. Info.
GOLDSMITHS’ FAIR, LONDON: SEPTEMBER 26–OCTOBER 8, 2023
Bringing collectively 136 of the UK’s most extraordinary silversmiths and goldsmiths working with quite a few strategies, from wire work to 3D printing, conventional goldsmithing to intricate engraving. The exhibitors mix historic strategies with modern-day applied sciences, making certain there’s one thing for everybody with a ardour for positive jewellery and modern silver. Info.
CONTEMPORANIA HIGH CRAFTSMANSHIP BARCELONA: SEPTEMBER 28–30, 2023
Previously Joya, this shall be an area for nationwide and worldwide modern crafts, and a commerce truthful for artists, establishments, galleries and collectives to current and promote their creativity in utilized arts similar to ceramics, artwork jewellery, lacquer, steel, 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.
ROMANIAN JEWELRY WEEK: OCTOBER 4–8, 2023
Takes place at The Nationwide Library of Romania, in addition to in a number of museums and galleries throughout Bucharest.
BOOK: SCHMUCK UND KÖRPERBEZOGENES OBJEKT ALS REFLEXIVE PRAXIS (JEWELRY AND BODY-RELATED OBJECTS AS REFLECTIVE PRACTICE)
Offers insights into the work, positions, and ideas of scholars and graduates of the Jewellery and Physique-Associated Objects division on the HAWK Design College, in Hildesheim, Germany. The ebook brings collectively initiatives by 24 college students from numerous semester initiatives in addition to theses from the years 2020 to 2022. It reveals how jewellery and body-related objects could be considered, which backgrounds move into discussions and works, and the way an expanded idea of jewellery could be formulated each theoretically and virtually. Info.
CO-ADORN’S BOX UP: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 28
Jewellery has a particular relationship to the field. Work is presented in a field, saved in a field, even shipped in a field. Jewellery can be displayed in a field and mounted to the partitions of a gallery, usually known as a “white field.” For this exhibition, Co-Adorn asks you to create a bit of jewellery that explores the field and suits into a selected small white field. Info.
ARTIST RESIDENCY AT CRAFT ALLIANCE
Take part in an 11-month program, in St. Louis, MO, US, that runs September–July. Artists share a non-public studio and have entry to Craft Alliance’s six predominant studio areas exterior of instructing class; obtain a month-to-month supplies stipend {and professional} growth reimbursement fund; tuition waivers for workshops per session; instructing and different skilled growth alternatives; and a culminating group exhibition in Craft Alliance Staenberg Gallery. Software deadline: Could 26, 2023. Info.
JEWELER IN RESIDENCE AT PLATTFORM SCHMUCKKUNST
The chosen jewellery artist will be capable of use the group workshop in Graz, Austria, for all the month of July 2023 and present their final result over the past week of their keep within the type of a solo exhibition, on-site and on-line. As well as, the artist will maintain a workshop.” Software deadline: June 7, 2023. Info.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: PREZIOSA YOUNG
The biennial competitors, exhibited at Florence Jewelry Week, is devoted to worldwide rising artists, goldsmiths, and designers. It goals to contribute to the circulation of what’s new in analysis jewellery, in addition to showcase what the brand new generations of goldsmiths/designers/artists are brewing. With a world jury of curators, artists, and critics. Software deadline: November 15, 2023. Info.
MAKE AWARD: INNOVATION IN AUSTRALIAN CRAFT AND DESIGN
The winner of the MAKE Award, an award for Australian designer/makers, will obtain a money prize of $35,000 with a second prize of $10,000. Open to designers/makers working throughout craft disciplines together with jewellery. Entries are inspired from designer/makers with a excessive stage of ability both working with supplies which might be new to their follow, new or conventional supplies, or working in new and revolutionary methods. Deadline: June 9, 2023. Info.
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS FROM WJA
The Girls’s Jewellery Affiliation Basis, gives plenty of scholarships and grants to assist the skilled progress and academic endeavors of girls 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 is able to happen alongside 14th Avenue in Manhattan October 1315, 2023. Works could take the type of clothes, textiles, trend design, costume, efficiency, sculpture, and set up. Deadline: Could 14, 2023. Info.
OPEN CALL—JURIED INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL KORU8
Theme: Heading for the woods. Forests play an important position in local weather change and the sixth mass extinction. Globally forests cowl nearly one-third of the land, and their cultural and social which means varies between cultures and context. Forests are residence to human and non-human animals. What’s a forest within the context of latest jewellery? Open to professionals or artist teams working in jewellery, and to artists from different fields who deal with creating new ideologies and aesthetic views within the sense of latest jewellery. Software deadline: October 25, 2023. Info.
OPEN CALL—CHEONGJU INTERNATIONAL CRAFT COMPETITION 2023
“The CICC, launched in 1999, is an area of alternatives the place craft artists at residence and overseas can present the world what they’ve obtained…The Craft Competitors solicits craft artworks reflecting tendencies in modern arts and crafts and conveying values of the longer term. Open to craft artists in Korea and overseas. Deadline: Could 7, 2023. Info.
APPLICATIONS OPEN—NYCJW
Searching for proposals from artists, designers, curators, and retailers for exhibitions, pop-ups, conversations, and retail activations which might be revolutionary and revelatory, jewellery that’s fantastically crafted and significant, applications which might be filled with storytelling and shaping the business. NYC Jewellery Week will happen November 13-19, 2023. Deadline: June 30, 2023. Info.
CLAIRE MCARDLE REMEMBERS HER 2013 EXHIBITION
The maker writes about Gilty—and its “gilty” secret—in a latest article for Garland. Read it.
“I CAN’T STOP BUYING BROOCHES”
Is that this a “drawback” you may relate to? Wait. Downside? What drawback?! Jenny Walton claims she didn’t notice how sensible brooches have been till she relocated to Milan and wanted a approach to instantaneously change up her outfits with out weighing down her suitcase. (However take a look at her IG for the final 12 months. There’s no scarcity of faaaaabulous outfits … and solely two brooches to be seen!) The influencer shares some favorites and related options. In New York magazine.
EVIL EYE JEWELRY FROM ANTIQUITY GOES ON DISPLAY
Designed in Roman occasions to guard a younger woman within the afterlife, the jewellery was found 50 years in the past however forgotten in a field on the Israel Antiquities Authority. It was just lately proven on the forty eighth Annual Archaeological Congress in Israel. Watch a video on it from—unusually—the China International Tv Community.
NEW ETHICAL MINES SUPPLY COVETABLE AQUAMARINES
An article in regards to the Zambian tribes producing Bond Avenue stones. Read it.
IS ALUMINUM JEWELRY TRENDING IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY?
The NYT just lately printed on this subject, now News 18 had a information story on it, too. Apparently India’s Dainik Bhaskar newspaper began the reporting, calling the steel eco-friendly, inexpensive, and common in India, China, and the UK.
