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It is the great hot summer of 2010. Take a break from the heat and check out Valeria Vallarta's review of Broochmania, the student show from the jewelry department of the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, recently on display at Rob Koudijs Gallery in Amsterdam. Stephen Knott reviews Hans Stofer's exhibition Walk the line at Gallery S O that was on view during AJF's trip to London earlier this summer. But perhaps most exciting is AJF's extensive coverage of recent graduates of jewelry departments from around the world. We'll be publishing these posts on the blog over the next month, and you can see a few of them in this newsletter. (The rest will be coming in September's newsletter.) There is a lot of great new talent coming our way so make sure you take a look. And of course we have included some terrific posts from the AJF blog that you may have missed. Thank you for your support.
It is never too hot for jewelry!
Mike Holmes
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A LETTER FROM THE AJF BOARD CHAIR
AJF is trying to cover everything of interest about art jewelry from all over the world in our blog, and that is a big job in and of itself.
Meanwhile we are also still working on our original Awards Programs. This year's Emerging Artist Award has been chosen and will receive $5000, and for the first time it goes to an artist outside the United States. The winner is Agnes Larsson from Stockholm Sweden. Her necklaces will be on display at SOFA Chicago 2010 and she will also give a brief talk about her work during the lecture series. Congratulations Agnes! Next up will be the Jewelry Exhibition Award for another $5000 to be awarded in the fall. And finally the board has also approved a new grant category called the Jewelry Writers Award, where five writers will be given $1000 each to produce new writing about art jewelry. You'll soon be seeing the results of their work published on the blog and website. These Programs - plus the trips planned around specific jewelry events - promote contemporary jewelry and educate all of us. Thank you for help supporting this and for being part of this community.
Susan Cummins
AJF chair
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| JUST PUBLISHED ON OUR WEBSITE
 WE HAVE A WINNER!
Susan Cummins, Chair of the Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), and Susan Kempin,
Award Program Chair, are pleased to announce this year's Emerging Artist
Award winner, Agnes Larsson. Larsson was chosen from among 117 entries,
from 38 countries. Click to read more |
 ADORNMENT ASSIGNMENT
by Valeria Vallarta Siemelink A title such as Broochmania conjures images of a somehow
frantic exhibition. A craze of brooches, where the viewer is confronted
with a wild and endless display of the ornaments that have accompanied
mankind for a long, long time. Click to read more |
 TOOLING AROUND
by Stephen Knot Gallery S O houses its temporary exhibitions in a small hall behind its permanent salesroom in what used to be a string factory. Click to read more |
 BROOCHING THE SUBJECT
by Thomas Mann It's an important moment in the history of contemporary jewelry design
in New Orleans. Click to read more. |
LINKS TO OUR MANY NEW BLOG POSTS
 SUNY NEW PALTZ
by Arthur Hash
The SUNY New Paltz Graduate Metal program is directed by Professor Jamie
Bennett and Professor Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, and includes Arthur Hash and
John Cogswell as prominent faculty. We believe a graduate program
should be a place that inspires and challenges students to combine
making and thinking toward dynamic outcomes. Click to read more.
 CENTRAL ST MARTINS
by Caroline Broadhead
The BA (Honours) Jewelry course is highly distinctive in that it
promotes understanding of a wide variety of approaches and contexts that
contemporary jewelers can operate in. The course provides a stimulating
learning environment in which innovation, originality and excellence
are encouraged and developed.
Click to read more. EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
by Robert Ebendorf
The ECU Metal Design program offers BFA, BFAED, and MFA degrees and
students work in a recently renovated, state of the art facility. The
four metals faculty, Linda Darty, Robert Ebendorf, Tim Lazure and MiSook
Hur, have diverse strengths and talents contributing to the wide
variety of approaches that individual students pursue. Click to read more. WESTWARD HO!
by Damian Skinner
Should you find yourself in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the next four
days we suggest you make a visit to SOFA West and check out the high-end
craft and contemporary jewelry on display from 8-11 July 2010. Click to read more.
 TRADES
by Jillian Moore For makers, collecting can be a dangerous addiction. It's hard to
justify buying another artist's work if you're barely making ends meet
selling your own. Click to read more.  MARK MAKING
by Julia Turner
I have many times visited the question, 'why jewelry?' The choice to
make small, wearable, durable objects rather than large, impermanent,
edible, inhabitable or otherwise different objects is one I think about a
lot. Click to read more.
 DO IT YOURSELF
'For the Love of God' is an amazing piece by Damien Hirst that
consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8.601
diamonds including a massive pear- shaped one on the forehead. It cost
14 million pounds to produce.
Click to read more.
 AMERICAN ADORNMENT
by Damian Skinner
While we here at AJF like to think of ourselves as particularly
contemporary in our jewelry tastes, we can't help but admit to a
weakness for the well-presented antique jewel. Click to read more.
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