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Greetings!
The lazy month of August is here and everyone is on vacation or cramming in a bit more of it before school starts again. So this newsletter is going to be short and sweet. Enjoy a few more weeks of leisure before it's back to the excitement that comes with fall, and if you need some reading material in the meantime, have a look at our website. Good stuff!
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Jane Adlin
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Ursula Ilse-Neuman
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On my recent visit to New York I saw Unique by Design, a show of the collection of Donna Schneier at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and checked out the MAD museum show Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography again. AJF members participated in the exciting openings of these two shows in May. But on this trip I was sad to discover that both of the curators, Jane Adlin at the Met and Ursula Ilse-Neuman at MAD, have left their positions at their respective museums. These two brilliant ladies are seasoned curators and scholars and are now open to new projects. The field needs to help them keep busy. Any suggestions?
À bientôt,
Susan Cummins
AJF Chair
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WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST SUPPORTERS
Please find a list of all our donors on our website, and let me introduce our newest supporters: Julie Burkhart-Haid, Holly Frank, Manukau Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand), and University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). These new supporters became part of the AJF community in the past month. Thank you to each and every one of them. |
JOIN THE DISCUSSION ON CRITICALITY
AJF interviews artists and curators for the blog section of the website and we find it a constant challenge to ask the question that will entice the interviewee to re-examine their assumptions about their work or give them the opportunity to tell their story. It's not exactly critical writing, but it deals with the part of thinking critically that asks questions.
We have gotten some interesting feedback to our questions about the idea of criticality, with comments from Ruudt Peters, Nanz Aalund, Kristin D'Agostino, and crownmistress.
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GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, SOLD!
It's that time of year again! Penland is hosting its annual auction. There are many jewelry items available. Check out the catalog and if something catches your eye, you can register to participate in absentee bidding here.
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TAKING YOU BACK TO 2012!
AJF is going back in time to capture important events! We are archiving some excellent lectures, interviews, and workshops about contemporary jewelry. Most recently, we've added a video of Kiff Slemmons giving her lecture More Than One to Make One, about her work in Oaxaca, Mexico, making paper jewelry with skilled local artisans, as well as much more about her thoughts on jewelry.
Thanks to Billie Jean Theide at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for making the video possible.
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FEATURED EXHIBITION REVIEW
Jennifer Navva Milliken, recently appointed as the Curator of Craft at the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington, is a new AJF writer who reviewed Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection. The exhibition is open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until the end of August, but if you can't make it, reading the review is almost as good as being there.
Take a look!
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AJF PUBLICATIONS
These books make a great addition to any craft-conscious library!
<<< Damian Skinner's survey of different facets of the field, Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, with contributions from many thinkers on the topic, is a great introduction to the wide world of contemporary jewelry.
>>> Benjamin Lignel's AJF Best of Interviews is a look behind the scenes into the private thoughts of makers, curators, and collectors.
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AJF ARTIST AWARD: DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
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SUPPORT AJF
Take advantage of Amazon's new feature, AmazonSmile.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Art Jewelry Forum every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection, and convenient shopping experience as at Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price (0.5%) to AJF.
You shop. Amazon gives to Art Jewelry Forum.
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