In September 2022 the Budapest Jewelry Week was organised for the eighth time. The utmost goal of the event is to familiarise an audience as wide as possible with the genres of contemporary jewelry by creating opportunities for local and foreign artists to present their latest works. Apart from the exhibitions the organisers of BJW aim to motivate the Hungarian and international designers and enable them to form a community via professional reports and themed workshops.
Read MoreThe cyclical International Jewellery Competition is the leading event of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER organized by the Gallery of Art in Legnica since 1979. The competition is dedicated to the designers and creators of artistic jewellery and has been promoting creative explorations in the field of artistic jewellery and, at the same time, creative statements on the problems of the contemporary world for over 30 years.
Read MoreI am a designer mostly working with fashion jewelry and accessory. My past experience in studying science and engineering major encourages me to transform ideas and inspirations geometrically. I like to integrate different materials and media into my design, especially 3D printing. 3D print provides lots of different materials; therefore, I could work with different materials and colors based on my expectation.
Read MoreAudrey Aronson is a jewelry artist from the United States. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a BFA in 3D Studio Art and Art History and received her MFA in metalsmithing from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her work has been recently shown at #Social2021 at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in South Korea and at the Best of 2022, Ohio Designer Craftsman traveling exhibition at the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
Read MoreLes Brucelles asbl is a non-profit association, created in 2021 to organise the first Brussels Jewellery Week, which took place in spring 2022. With a major exhibition at MAD, “In Fieri”, as well as “Be.Next” for Belgian contemporary schools and a Tour in Brussels galleries and workshop, it was the first important event ever dedicated to contemporary jewellery in Belgium.
Read MoreI am from Zhejiang, China. My works are inspired from my self observation. Maybe we always want to show a perfect self in front of others, but I have to admit that the imperfect and flawed me is the real me. I think the one we should understand and accept most in our life is ourselves, so I hope to remind people to know and discover ourselves through my works.
Read MoreZhuwei Lu was born in a suburb of Shanghai, China. After graduating from high school, she went to college in Wuhan to learn the traditional Chinese art of lacquer. After college, she chose to pursue her dream of becoming a jewelry designer and she came to the United States to study jewelry design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Read MoreVivienne Varay is an artist with a background in contemporary jewelry. During her studies she discovered that adornment objects gave her the opportunity to create audacious and provocative works about intimacy. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia while studying under Mary Hallam Pearse and Lola Brooks. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at TAG Gallery in
Read MoreDeath in Mexican culture is the core of my thesis. In Mexican culture, death has been constantly present. From pre-Hispanic times when it was a vital part of the cycle of life, until today in its festive and colorful representation through the Day of the Dead. But how does the perception of death change in a country where injustice and violent death reign?
Read MoreAlma lion is a graduate cum laude of Shenkar College of Engineering, art and Design and a graduate student in industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design . Her work has been shown at many international group exhibitions. She has been the winner of ARTS THREADS x GUCCI 2021 and of the 2021 Galeri Marzee Graduate Prize .
Read MoreIlaria Demo De Lorenzi (1995) is an Italian art director and artist. She graduated with hons from NABA, Milano in Arts and Fashion Design in 2018. In 2020 she attended the “Art Direction for Fashion” course at Central St. Martins College in London and the “Enamelling” course at the Ambrosiana Goldsmith School in Milan.
Read MoreJennifer Wells is a studio artist and educator originally from the U.S but currently living in Italy. She holds an MFA, in Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design and has completed artist-in- residencies at: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, Pocosin Arts in Columbia, NC and the Jentel Foundation near Banner, WY. She has worked for several U.S based Craft Schools, in a variety of roles.
Read MoreSharon Massey is a metalsmith, jeweler and enamelist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her artwork has been exhibited in Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Canada, Brazil and Australia, as well as across the United States. Sharon’s work has been included in numerous publications, including American Craft and Metalsmith magazines
Read MoreNICOLE JACQUARD is currently a Professor and Area Coordinator of the Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Program at Indiana University. She received her BA from Indiana University in 1991 and her first MFA in 1994 from The University of Michigan. While on a Fulbright Fellowship in Australia she received her second MFA from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 1995.
Read MoreMi-Sook Hur is an award-winning enamelist and metalsmith who is a professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University. Her work focuses on the realistic images inspired by nature and she explores the modern studies of Limoges enamels. She received a BFA in Metalwork and Jewelry from Seoul National University in Korea and an MFA in Metals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read MoreBen is a jeweler and metalsmith in Bloomington, IN. He graduated from Indiana University in 2019 with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design. He has supplemented his education through workshops at Arrowmont Craft School and short apprenticeship in Japan. He has participated in artist residencies at the Baltimore Jewelry Center and Arrowmont. Ben has exhibited his work internationally, in The United States, The Netherlands, Germany, and Canada.
Read MoreBarbara is born in Augsburg/Germany. After her goldsmith apprenticeship and the journeyman’s examination, she works freelance. In search of a way to bring colour into her mostly silver cast jewellery, she came to the enamel. That’s why she studied the basic knowledge at the „Akademie für Gestaltung und Design“ in Munich by Bettina Dittlmann. Since then, she has been „infected“ by enameling.
Read MoreBarbara McFadyen is a metalsmith and enamelist who has been designing jewelry in gold, silver, and enamel for nearly five decades. Barbara received her MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University and BA from Eckerd College. Her award-winning work is nationally recognized through exhibitions with the American Crafts Council, the Smithsonian Institution, SNAG, and the Enamelist Society, and gallery exhibitions such as the Craft Council of British Columbia who awarded her.
Read MoreAaron Decker is a US based Jeweler and enamellist. Having received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art under Iris Eichenberg, Decker now calls the Midwest US home. A queer artist who grew up in the military, Decker’s work thematically trails innocents of childhood, and the violence of war. Decker shows internationally and is represented by Ornamentum Gallery, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, OONA Galerie, and Galerie Reverso.
Read MoreNora Kovats is a contemporary jewellery designer, illustrator, writer and botanical enthusiast based in Bamberg, Germany. Fire – heating metal and enamelling – is Nora’s language of creating. She finds herself drawn to enamelling as a technique because of its uniqueness and its seductive possibility for spontaneity, dictated by the firing process.
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