Catalogue Your Jewelry Collection with Rebekah Frank

Jewelry That Makes You Think.

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CATALOGUING YOUR JEWELRY COLLECTION

Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

by Rebekah Frank

As the former director of Art Jewelry Forum, Rebekah Frank has a wealth of knowledge about different aspects of the art jewelry field. One area of importance that was much discussed in the panels and conversations she led over the years was the importance of cataloguing and archiving your art jewelry collection. Here, Rebekah provides some ways to begin this important process.

SPOTLIGHT ON

JORUNN VEITEBERG

Juror for the 2020 Young Artist Award

Jorunn Veiteberg has greatly influenced the field of art jewelry as a craft historian, curator, lecturer, guest professor, head of arts at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, writer, and editor-in-chief of the Norwegian arts and craft magazine Kunsthandverk.

Beyond that, she has assembled a collection of contemporary jewelry by the likes of Liv Blåvarp, Sigurd Bronger, David Bielander, Caroline Broadhead, Jing Yang, Lisa Walker, Hilde De Decker, Gésine Hackenberg, Lucy Sarneel, Bernhard Schobinger, and many others. In 2018, the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum displayed 300 pieces from her collection in the exhibition These Are a Few of Her Favourite Things.

Veiteberg belongs to the 10-member Norwegian Cultural Council, served as a jury member for Danner-Preis and Talente, and was the juror for Schmuck 2014. She now brings her appraising eye to the 2020 AJF Young Artist Award. “Small objects can deal with big issues,” says Veiteberg. Applications for this impressive $7,500 prize are open to jewelry artists through January 12, 2020. Find the guidelines here .

The 2020 AJF Young Artist Award Guidelines are now available.

Applications will be accepted through January 12, 2020.

Get your applications ready!

FEATURED AJF LIBRARY CONTENT

Excerpt from Shannon Stratton's essay regarding Anna Lindsay MacDonald's 2016 solo exhibition, Re: Halcyon Dream: "Anna Lindsay MacDonald’s work seems to resonate with Soulilliou’s theory of ornament, playing with the idea of appearance and disappearance in the face of technology. Her black and white palette recalls dazzle camouflage, but even more so, predicts a future prevalence of anti-surveillance camouflage, when humans will 'hide in plain sight' from facial detection online and IRL through a combination of black and white face paint, severe hair cuts, and other headgear that scrambles the technology meant to capture our likeness for data, observation, and 'security.'

The work in Re: Halcyon Dream imagines a line of luxury jewelry from the future, where people choose their body ornaments as a means to pass undetected by technology yet still remain visible and distinct to one another—a fascinating future conundrum where both objectives, visibility and invisibility, will be at play simultaneously both online and on the street."

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