Calder began making jewelry for his sister’s dolls at age 6, and produced 1,800 pieces in his lifetime, always carrying pliers and wire in his pockets. “I think best in wire,” he once said. Read More
Only three years after graduating college, Niki Grandics of ENJI Studios has racked up a pile of awards and grants for her edgy but wearable handmade jewelry. Here's the backstory of this talented emerging designer. Read More
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. Read More
Crowds will pile into the Museum of Modern Art this weekend to see Yoko Ono’s art. Saturday night they will applaud... Read More
Thomas Mann made his reputation in the early ‘70s as a pioneer of the art jewelry movement. He grew up... Read More
As jewelry models go, no one is more available than you. Ask anyone who posts jewelry regularly on Instagram. Most... Read More
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. Read More
Niki de Saint Phalle's pop art from the late '60s are everywhere lately - on display and at auction. Her cartoon-like snakes and plump, joyful women became one of the era's most resonant feminist messages: a battle cry for women's liberation. Her cartoon snakes and joyful, leaping women were translated into all media, including jewelry by Gem Montebello. An enticing collection is on display in London now. Read More
In this day of mass production, with high-end craft galleries shuttering at an alarming rate, studio jewelers feel a mounting... Read More
Joyce Scott’s beaded jewelry is often figurative, and not in a subtle way. Her figures swell beyond jewelry proportions: faces... Read More
A ring containing a portrait of Dora Maar made for her by Pablo Picasso in the 1930s is expected to fetch half a million at Sotheby's this month. That's a lot more than it sold for at the 1998 estate sale in Paris following Maar's death. No one knew Picasso had made jewelry by hand but the news was overshadowed by those paintings. Read More
So thrilled to learn Baltimore art jeweler Joyce Scott is among the MacArthur Fellows for 2016! Announced yesterday, winners of... Read More
SOFA comes to Chicago next weekend bringing, among other things, amazing examples of art jewelry, past and present. Now on... Read More
Earliest use of photos in jewelry were locket-style portraits, an extension of the painted miniatures people were wearing by the... Read More
On September 11, what’s left of the amazing jewelry Joan Sonnabend once wore and sold at her New York City... Read More