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REVIEW 2019 HAYSTACK SUMMER CONFERENCE REVIEW Considering Craft: Past, Present and Future by Atiyah Curmally Over four days in early July, a group of close to 100 artists, curators, collectors, and scholars came together to attend the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2019 Summer Conference. Called Craft & Legacy: Writing a History, Preserving a Field, the conference was presented by Haystack in collaboration with the Center for Craft and “designed to surface issues and identify solutions to vital questions facing the preservation and legacy of the field of American craft.”

The 2020 AJF Young Artist Award Guidelines are now available.  Applications will be accepted from July 22, 2019–January 12, 2020. Get your applications ready!

SPOTLIGHT ON BONNIE LEVINE AJF Board Member and Award and Grant Program Committee Chair    Volunteers make many of the programs at Art Jewelry Forum function. As the Award and Grant Committee Chair, Bonnie Levine will keep the numerous intricate parts of the application process for the 2020 AJF Young Artist Award moving smoothly, and she’ll help the jury members coordinate like a well-oiled machine.   Bonnie's passion and commitment to the field of art jewelry is invaluable. AJF thanks her for being a part of our organization and for managing the many different details of the 2020 AJF Young Artist Award! Read the full press release about this impressive $7,500 prize open now to jewelry artists.

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SUBMISSIONS: AJF LIBRARY AJF believes that making information about jewelry as an art form available is an important step in advocating for the field. We are pleased to create a digital library to support the jewelry community by providing online access to jewelry scholarship that would otherwise be impossible to find.   Please share your digital media .

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