Double Feature: A Painter Who Makes Jewels & the Texas Metals Symposium

Jewelry That Makes You Think.

This week we have a little extra content for you!

Read on for this week's two featured articles.

INTERVIEW

BEPPE KESSLER: A PAINTER WHO MAKES JEWELS

... And a Jewelry Maker Who Paints

by Margherita Potenza

"If I were to describe myself as an artist, I would say that I’m a painter who makes small things and a jewelry maker who paints. Painting and “making small things” are, to me, very closely interrelated practices: The jewelry emerges from the painting, and the other way around. Both the paintings and the jewelry reflect my thoughts and feelings on life."

Image caption: Beppe Kessler, Eyebright, 2011, brooch, balsa wood, bone, photo: Daniele de Carolis

PHOTO ESSAY

THE 2019 TEXAS METALS SYMPOSIUM

October 12, 2019

by Alejandra Salinas

The 2019 Texas Metals Symposium took place at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, TX. The conference coincided with the exhibition of Not So Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers , which was on at the Museum of Texas Tech University and featured the work of 38 Texas metalsmiths and jewelers. See some glimpses of the event, as well as the exhibition.

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FEATURED AJF LIBRARY CONTENT

The proliferation, in recent years, of demonstrations in public spaces prompted writer Pedro Sequeira to reconsider and rethink the public sphere, and jewelry's function within it. His resulting essay, Visibility. Public sphere and private sphere, was published in the January/February 2014 issue of the Portuguese magazine Attitude. In Portuguese and in English.

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