Looking for jewelry inspiration? Whether you make it or collect it, it's nice to have a magazine on your favorite niche land in your mailbox every month or two. Here are a few to consider.
So thrilled to learn Baltimore art jeweler Joyce Scott is among the MacArthur Fellows for 2016! Announced yesterday, winners of...
Fortunately for snowbirds, there is plenty to do outside before, during and after the Tucson Gem Show. Many shows take place in the open air, within walking distance of the convention center. Here is my favorite part of The Strip shows and my recommendations for post-show adventures.
SOFA comes to Chicago next weekend bringing, among other things, amazing examples of art jewelry, past and present. Now on...
She paved the way for the women who paved the way. They called her Mrs. Newman. Launching her career in...
An Alabama art jeweler began making jewelry from used motorcycle inner tubes and coffee pods, and it ended up on runway models and fashion magazines.
As enamel jewelry takes off again, a new generation of artists and collectors are discovering, experimenting, and reinventing. Many types...
Tucson becomes a gem shopping paradise starting at the end of January, when gem dealers from around the world land in the desert to display their wares. With 55,000 buyers and 45 shows, where do you begin? Successful designers share their secrets.
John Hatleberg has done just about everything imaginable with rare gems: pasting them on naked women, making vegetables out of...
Grant Robinson designs and constructs kinetic jewelry, usually in the form of animals or plants that spring to life when...
There is much we don't know about the history of women jewelers. But we know they were designing and making jewelry, even running businesses, back to the mid-19th century. Here are just a few women who paved the way.
Mariella Pilato is an Italian designer based in Bali who uses unusual gem material in unexpected ways, set in textured silver pieces, sometimes eye-catchingly large. Only a rock star can pull this jewelry off, so get out your inner rock star.
A year or two out of college, these jewelry artists are winning awards for creativity and craftsmanship, even on a budget. How do they do it? With the perfect saw and a portable photography studio.
In this day of mass production, with high-end craft galleries shuttering at an alarming rate, studio jewelers feel a mounting...
If you talk to studio jewelers about their jewelry, you wind up discussing technique. And it’s impossible to talk about...