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Glancing Back at 2021
By Nathalie Mornu

The year is coming to a close. As we begin planning for next year’s publishing, it’s worth taking a look back at what AJF produced in 2021. Among the 83 articles we published over the last 52 weeks, we posted

  • 12 On Offers
  • 19 Reports
  • 17 interviews
  • 8 reviews
  • 5 remembrances
  • 9 photo essays
  • 11 articles that landed outside of the above categories
  • 17 AJF Lives
  • 22 new submissions to AJF’s PDF Library

We also published a couple press releases. Let's look at some highlights ...

Caption: Rebekah Frank started off our year of publishing with an article called The Excitement of Discovery: A Path to Becoming a Collector of Art Jewelry. Read it here. Work by (left to right, top to bottom) Roberta and David Williamson, Judith Hoyt, Brooke Marks-Swanson, Lisa & Scott Cylinder, and Wendy McAllister, from a private collection, photo: Rebekah Frank

The biennial competition offers a prize of US$7,500 for the winner and US$1,000 for each of the four finalists, as well as an exhibition at Schmuck—art jewelry's biggest and most prestigious annual event—in March 2022.

The Young Artist Award (YAA) recognizes innovative work created by a jewelry artist early in their career. Through the YAA, Art Jewelry Forum supports new and exciting work that will direct the future development of the art jewelry field.

This prize advances the careers of rising artists. Ambitious contemporary jewelry artists age 35 and under are invited to apply for this international prize in contemporary art jewelry, which acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality. The distinguished jurors are collector and gallerist Karen Rotenberg, curator Chequita Nahar, and 2020 YAA winner MJ Tyson.

  • Guidelines are here.
  • The application site is here.

Caption: Work by Lynn Batchelder, winner of the 2016 YAA, photo courtesy of the artist
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