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MARCH 1

2015

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Art+ Feminism Beginner Training Video Part 1
Art+Feminism Beginner Training
Video Part 1
Did you know there's a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia? It's called Art+Feminism and it hosts in-person, communal updating of Wikipedia entries. Here's a video explaining how the process works. AJF is working on a similar project to correct and add to the record of contemporary jewelry on Wikipedia, because it's painfully lacking. A small workshop will be hosted by AJF during the SNAG conference in Boston on May 20. 

If changing the way contemporary jewelry is represented in the largest global repository of digital knowledge sounds like something you can get behind, contact AJF at info@artjewelryforum.org.

#artandfeminism 

FEATURED BOOK REVIEW


Signs of Life

 

Jewelry and Jottings by Lin Cheung

Lizzie Atkins

 

This self-published retrospective is an intimate record of Lin Cheung's creative thinking and a counterpoint to the way an artist, as opposed to a curator or historian, contextualizes their work. The artist will be signing copies on Saturday, March 14, at Chrome Yellow Books.

 

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FEATURED ARTICLE

 

The "World's First Rapper" Shows Off Her Bling 
One on One nº14

Toni Greenbaum

 

Jewelry as armor, layered to provide security to a woman struggling with her unconventionality in a world not quite ready for her. Toni Greenbaum's look at poet and spoken word artist Edith Sitwell is a unique look at a memorable personality.


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ANOTHER WAY TO SUPPORT AJF

AJF has recently set up a brokerage account, which allows donors to gift stocks, bonds, or mutual funds to the organization. For information on how to do this, please email Melissa Cecil at melissa.cecil@stephens.com or call her at 501-377-8136.
NEW INTERVIEWS





Platina: Sofia Björkman
Everything as Material
Stockholm, Sweden
Attai Chen
AJF Artist Award Finalist

Benedikt Fisher
AJF Artist Award Finalist
Lauren Kalman
AJF Artist Award Finalist

The AJF Artist Award winner, Seulgi Kwon, and the four finalists will show their work in Platina's booth (#B1.783) during Schmuck. 
Read their interviews on AJF--two more to be published--then come see their amazing work! 






MEDIA SIGHTINGS

ArtNews
Advice for Art Writers: Keep Your Standard of 
Living 
Very Low
Sarah Douglas
Cracked
Honest Jewelry Ad

GQ

Oscar Trends 2015: The 

Man Brooch 

 

David Bazner 

Hyperallergic
Rare Pearl Fished Out of Seaweed Stew Heads to Auction 
Benjamin Sutton
FEATURED GALLERIES






Didier Ltd
Jewels of the Modern Italian Masters
The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, Netherlands
Galerie Ra
Sigurd Bronger: In Between
Amsterdam, Netherlands

J. Cotter Gallery
Pat Flynn

Vail, Colorado, USA
Putti Art Gallery
Emmanuel Lacoste: The Seven Deadly Sins
Riga, Latvia
Sienna Patti
Jonathan Wahl: Gem Drawings
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA

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AJF PUBLICATIONS
CJIP
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.