Jewelry That Makes You Think.
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AJF has a powerful new benefit that comes with a Silver-level membership: the Maker profile page. Your Maker page is an invaluable tool for promoting your practice. It features an unlimited quantity of photos of your work along with your bio and portrait, your artist’s statement and CV, and your contact information. Check it out!

Along with this benefit, you’ll also get the exclusive opportunity to keep your work front and center by publishing your news in The Report, AJF's bi-monthly roundup of the latest happenings in art jewelry.

Have you won any awards, special honors, commissions, teaching positions, grants, or fellowships? Share the news with the largest international audience of art jewelry buyers, collectors, makers, gallerists, and institutions on the globe! To get these benefits—and many more—become a Silver member of AJF!
PS: Want to learn more about the other benefits of Silver membership in AJF? They’re listed here.

Caption: The AJF Makers landing page
This 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 prize advances the careers of rising artists by recognizing innovative work created by a jewelry artist early in their career. Through the Young Artist Award (YAA), Art Jewelry Forum supports new and exciting work that will direct the future development of the art jewelry field.

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 Seulgi Kwon, winner of the 2014 YAA,Vanishing Rainbow, 2015, brooch, silicone, pigment, thread, plastic, fabric, 130 x 115 x 60 mm, photo: Myoungwook Huh
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