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Today in Art Jewelry: Member Recommendations, Books, Interesting Links, Education
By Art Jewelry Forum

AJF shares the news that members of our community find noteworthy. Find out what shows and books AJF members have enjoyed recently, and learn about new things to see and read, workshops, and more. Here’s a taste:

  • Helen Drutt shares five of her most beloved pieces of jewelry and the stories behind them
  • AJF member Mette Saabye has a promotional video for her upcoming group exhibition, Echoes of a Meal
  • The new book Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection accompanies the exhibition of the same name

Caption: Helen Drutt wearing a brooch by Merrily Tompkins, photo copyright Will Figg
See the catalog for AJF member Ariel Lavian's 2018 solo exhibition Material World. The pieces in the show were taken from eight separate series. You'll experience them as a journey through an imaginary universe created in a difficult-to-decipher era. The forms and shapes that emerge appear at once familiar and alien, mysterious, speculative, stimulating to the senses. The worlds Lavian generates raise questions about the range between the natural and the artificial, preservation and disintegration, the arbitrary and the intentional, life in the present and that of the future.

AJF's Library is a free sortable database of digital media related to art jewelry. It gives you another way to explore our field and includes exhibition catalogs and brochures, book and magazine excerpts, dissertations, and much, much more. Visit the Library here. Contribute your own writings to the Library here.

Caption: Ariel Lavian, Amberlization, 2018, ring, amber, epoxy, photo courtesy of the artist
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