Harlan W. Butt is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas. His work is represented in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Art & Design, the National Gallery of Australia and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Read MoreI have taken a series of photos of the institutional buildings of a former mental asylum Grangegorman, Dublin, and transformed them through enamels into a small series of brooches, trying to convey the images of the building on a brick framework. I want to capture the fragile nature of the buildings before they were demolished or rebuilt. The decaying and unstable buildings were comparable to the crumbling minds of its former patents.
Read MoreFor several years, she searched for a link between jewelry and graphic design and thanks to enamel, she found this link. She can paint with the powders, the colors, the transparencies with a technique she learned in Idar-Oberstein (Germany). In the beginning, she searched for the boundary between art and kitsch. By combining several materials (raw stones, wood, silver…), she retrieved the balance.
Read MoreThe enamel exhibition Plus One started with the idea of the plus one on an invitation. I wanted to expand thecircle of artists I normally look to or consider when thinking of enameling and allow for each person who Iinvited to then in-turn invite a fellow enamelist. The result is a small collection of a variety of techniques byartists ranging in age, experience and geographical location. - Jennifer Wells
Read MoreMesteshukar ButiQ is a Bucharest based social enterprise working on revaluing traditional Roma craftsmanship. MBQ represents an ethical and responsible alternative to mass produced market goods. In other words, the project emphasizes and encourages interaction in order to discover the craftsmanship and meaning embedded in each collection piece displayed. MBQ is the social statement for hundreds of objects handcrafted by Roma artisans and designed by international and local designers.
Read MoreAfter having earned a degree in Art History with a final dissertation on the Greek Goldsmith, the artist attended Salvatore Gerardi’s Goldsmith School and at the same time a renowned silverware workshop in Rome. In 2002, she started her workshop. She prefers the lost wax microsculpture that allows her to “stage” emotions, memories and passions in the form of small wearable stories. Jewelry is an expressive means that can be combined with all the art forms.
Read MoreThe Art History graduated Roman artist has devoted herself to the jewelry world for several years, deepening her studies at the Ornamental Arts School in Rome and attending a CAD course at Le Arti Orafe, a jewelry school in Florence. She took part in various events: an intercultural exchange between Rome and Algiers, an exhibition at Castel dell’Ovo in Naples and at RIBA North in Liverpool, both with the Amedeo Modigliani Foundation, and at the Giorgio and Isa De Chirico Foundation in Rome.
Read MoreWhen I was little, my mother had a custom ring made in Craiova, while she was attending high school. It really fascinated me and I admired it throughout my childhood. This was. perhaps, the spark that made me want to learn jewelry design. It was quite the challenge, but eventually I turned from a jewelry consumer into a jewelry maker. Later on, between 2017 and 2019, I graduated several courses from Assamblage Jewelry School.
Read MoreThrough my creations I translate my experiences, subtleties and dreamy vision into forms and structures. I like to discover, in general to experiment with different materials, unconventional or conventional, precious metals, various elements of nature, wood, leather, paper. Most of the time nature is what inspires me and that is why I am grateful for the things that are ethical, environmentally friendly, for recycling. Accuracy and detail, harmony and effervescence are things I love. I favor a certain removal of uniformity from jewelry.
Read MoreIn November 2017 ____c_a_r_a____ begins the fascinating journey into the world of handmade silver jewelry. ____c_a_r_a____ is a structural engineer in her day to day life and jewelry designer in her free time. The two domains naturally combine, applying in each designed piece, the principles given by geometry and the materials used in engineering. Each piece of jewelry is unique and based on an original and bold concept.
Read MoreI am a self-taught artist for most of the techniques that I use in my work. I have a sound basis in jewelry design and basic techniques for jewelry making as a result of an online distance class on NYIAD platform. I was a Teacher in the Polymer Clay Adventure 2017 and 2020 (a yearly online art retreat). I was a finalist in several jewelry contests organized by Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. Teacher at the Polymer Clay Symposium 2020.
Read MoreJewelry has all the time in the world because it dilates time. When I work, I don’t look at my watch. And my watch doesn’t look at me either because I stopped wearing it. I will create a jewel that will allow me to live forever. I’m taking my time, and I will do it happily. And if I am happy, I hope to give joy to others when it is their turn to open the door.
Read MoreBehind the jewelry at DACO, there is Daniela Copadineanu. She studied cinematographic arts and economy, and she remarked herself in varoius fields before finding her true calling – the creation and craft of jewelry. Her work refers to mainly three essential qualities: simplicity, proportion, and beauty. Using simple and minimalist shapes, classic proportions and outstanding materials, she is transposing her ideas in ready-to-wear designs, counting on the person wearing them to give each piece a meaning.
Read MoreNature, as main source of inspiration of all the pieces, offers a wide variety of shapes, from fluid ones to rigid, straight ones. Spring, out of all seasons, provides a variety of colors and shapes both in the vegetal world and in the world of insects.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, in my youth, I was "possessed" by stage design and theater costumes, as a transmission vector of the artistic message contained in the dramatic text and the directorial intention. Diverging towards jewelry, I discovered an artistic craft alternative that somehow reminds the intention of the scenographer. The only difference being that, in this case, the dialogue is established between the designer and the person who wears the object.
Read MoreMagdalena Pelmus, visual multimedia artist, performer and jewelry designer, was born in 1974, in Constanta, Romania. In 2019 she graduated Assamblage’s school jewelry courses and started MaNa Jewelry project. Her art is about identity, fragility, memory and human condition. “I believe jewelry is a statement to the outside world, objects to perform with to express your identity.”
Read MoreArchived Prototypes is a collaborative duo between the Romanian jewelry designer Mara Grigoriu and the Japanese fashion designer Yusuke Hotchi. Archived Prototype’s distinctive approach to jewelry displays endless possibilities of intricate patterns made possible by Digital Fabrication (such as 3d printing) that brings forth a new dimension to the creation and production of “artifacts”.
Read MoreThe Milano Jewelry Week is the new event of the Milanese schedule all focused on the shades of contemporary jewelry. The first edition took place from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th October 2019 the first took place.
Read MoreKrama was created with the purpose of inducting students into the contemporary thought and trends of jewellery.
Along with experimentation, knowledge and creativity, we focus on the methodology and cultivation of thought, the concept of free individual expression, the knowledge and processing of materials, the adequacy of construction and the evolvment of technicians. Throughout this process, the personal way of expression through jewellery, of each individual student, is discovered.
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Jewelry is the carrier of sentiments, it’s also the design product resulting from externalizing concepts. Its design language has emotionally bridged the creator and the spectator, allowing the power of design to leave a vibrant and everlasting aftertaste in people. I attempt to convey the metaphorical emotions by designing with the external form.
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