Interdisciplinary. Community. Advocacy. Humor.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Website: http://www.acj.org.uk/
Location: UK
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2020
is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Founded as a membership association in 1997 and registered as a Limited Company in 2006, it recognises a need to foster discussion, debate and critical review and interaction amongst its members. To this end we organise conferences, lectures, seminars, workshops and an annual general meeting for our members. Our regular newsletter, findings, features reviews, information, comment, book offers and discounts and is of benefit to both our members and the wider public. We also produce a monthly e-bulletin featuring news and opportunities.
We welcome as members practising jewellers, associated designers and crafts people, educators, students, gallery owners and retailers, museum curators, critics and collectors - indeed, anyone with an interest in contemporary jewellery.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
PO Box 37807 London SE23 1XJ United Kingdom
Telephone: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4201
Fax: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4452
Email: enquiries@acj.org.uk
WHAT WE DO
• promote greater understanding of contemporary jewellery
• support jewellers’ creative and professional development
• develop audiences for this lively field of contemporary craft and design
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Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages.We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions, opportunities, seeing new work and generally chatting about jewellery.If you use these, please head over to our other pages on other platforms: -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Association.Contemporary.Jewellery/Linkedin Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3628898/Linkedin Business page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-contemporary-jewellery-limitedInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/acj.org.uk/and of course, our main website…Continue
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Announcing a Online Workshop
Yarn Scrap Earrings at creativebug.com
Have you seen Creativebug's amazing site yet? I am honored to be part of it and am in awe of the company I am in of amazing artists that are contributing.
My first workshop is a playful pair of earrings made using recycled bits of yarn, you may recognize that I use scraps from other projects of mine. I'll show you how to design the earrings with colors and textures that reflect your personal style. The finished earrings are lightweight but make a bold statement.
My creative bug profile:
http://www.creativebug.com/instructors/shana-astrachan
Yarn Scrap Workshop:
http://www.creativebug.com/workshops/yarn-scrap-earrings-2
My Open Studios is happening all weekend in Noe valley atTruesilver Gallery and I am having a special SALE offer! All stocked silver Stud Earring styles are priced at $30, that includes all of the NEW shapes I have added recently (hearts,
VELVET DA VINCI
Mirror-Mirror
October 24 - November 25, 2012
Curated by Jo Bloxham and Benjamin Lignel
Exhibition catalog available
A singer, model, writer and actress, Suzy Solidor (1900 – 1983) was an intensely iconic figure of the Parisian night-life during the roaring twenties: she owned a nightclub in Paris, where she used to woo her audience with a staple of sailor songs in homage to Surcouf, the corsair of St Malo she claimed as her ancestor, or chronicle the love affairs of men and women. A self-avowed sexual predator, she openly dated both, and became somewhat of a de facto advocate of sexual freedom. Popular with German troops during the Second World War, her first club - la Vie Parisienne - was closed shortly after the libération, and Solidor forbidden to run an establishment for 5 years. She opened her next club in 1949, and moved to the French Riviera in 1960, where she stayed until her death.
From the moment she arrives in Paris from Brittany, Solidor becomes a sought-after model for painters, sculptors and photographers. She sits for everybody, it seems, from Cocteau to Bacon, and what probably started as an easy bread-earner for the young provinciale beauty eventually became part of the singer's mise-en-scène of herself: she slowly built-up a collection of more than 200 portraits of herself, which lined the walls of her successive clubs...and some of which she took with her on her travels. Forty of these paintings now hang in a room dedicated to her in Château Grimaldi, which is situated next to Espace Solidor.
Solidor is a modern-day Narcissus: hers is a fretful form of self-commemoration, and she is probably closer to the doubting queen in 'Snow White' than to the self-engrossed mythological character. While some of her more transgressive contemporaries used photography and painting to pick-axe gender determinism, these portraits were not an opportunity for her to transform herself, and elaborate on the androgyny that so seduced her audience. She seems more interested in using art to multiply and reflect her own image: her collection of portraits track her through the day (from nudity to cocktail dress) and over the years (they were painted over four decades), but rarely outside a quite repetitive format. In short, she is not Claude Cahun (or Cindy Sherman) but rather the Queen Mother of mermaids, using the creative pluck of men (and some women) to amass evidence of her sway over them.
http://www.velvetdavinci.com/show.php?sid=153
2015 Polk Street San Francisco CA 94109 415.441.0109 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 to 6, Sunday 11 to 4
Architalx and the University of Southern Maine, Creative Intelligence & Innovation Lab invite you to:
The Eye in Time: Interactive Installation Design
Friday, October 19th from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, with Q & A after
Lee Auditorium, Wishcamper Center
University of Southern Maine, Portland
Admission is free
The visual interaction digital artist Matthias Oostrik and USM Professor Raphael DiLuzio will show and discuss their large-scale interactive video projection mapping project for Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx. This Ralph Appelbaum Associates designed installation will open on February 2, 2013, Portland Museum of Art.
AT 6pm, prior to the talk there will be an Open House at the USM Design Science Lab
USM Design Science Lab
C-Wing, 5th Floor Research Wing
Science Building
70 Falmouth Street
Portland Maine, 04101
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At the Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office we have one of the world’s largest collections of fake and forged silverwear and jewellery. The possibility of overlooking a fake or forged item continues to daunt experts, jewellers, curators and collectors and so we run a Fakes & Forgeries Seminar to teach you how to spot them. This seminar takes place atGoldsmiths’ Hall on Monday 26 November.
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