New Opportunities, the Politics of Art Performance, and Museum-Style Accessorizing

Jewelry Culture | Come and Get it

AUGUST 1, 2016

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Art Jewelry Forum is looking for three (3) volunteers to join our board committees in active advisory roles to help direct our activities and bring ideas into action. There are three committees at AJF whose advice and decisions guide the organization's future: marketing, publications, and fundraising. If you are interested in providing your expertise in any of these areas in a volunteer capacity, please email Rebekah for more information. We would love to add your voice to the conversations that carry AJF forward, especially now as AJF enters our 20th anniversary year!


	Susan Beech

In other news, we are very excited to offer the 2017 Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant--be sure to share news of this opportunity with your networks. A $20K grant for a jewelry artist is a rare thing indeed.

And last, don't forget to register for the Los Angeles Trip to celebrate the opening of the Lois Boardman collection at LACMA. It will be a full weekend of jewelry events, good food, and excellent conversation. We hope you will join us.

Xo,

Art Jewelry For um

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Critical Craft Forum Session at College Art Association 2017

Deadline for Submissions: Aug 30 2016

Critical Craft Forum: Gender and Jewelry

Chair(s):Namita Gupta Wiggers, Critical Craft Forum, and Ben Lignel

Email(s): namita_wiggers@yahoo.com, editor@artjewelryforum.com

Despite the connection between jewelry and the body, significant critical analysis of the relationship between gender and adornment - particularly of contemporary art jewelry - is nascent at best. Namita and Ben are seeking papers that explore connections between this subject and forms of adornment, ornament, and art jewelry.

Proposals should focus on one specific question or issue in your research or art practice.

Follow this link for the full project proposal.

Namita and Ben welcome proposals from graduate students, artists, curators, educators, within and outside the field of art history.

Please submit proposals directly to Namita and Ben for review.

BRIEFING

MADE TOGETHER:

Thrills and Pangs of Participatory Jewelry

by Benjamin Lignel

...[t]he notion of "participation" continues to loom large in cultural programs around the world, in all artistic fields: It ties in nicely with institutional outreach programs, finds its way up into policy making (as a way to dump part of the social bill onto the artist's lap), and into the lingo of web 2.0 users. This general, diffuse interest is my alibi: I care, because jewelers' ventures into participation are embedded in a much larger cultural zeitgeist.