The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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

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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery

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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streamlining our pages

Started by Rebecca Skeels Oct 11, 2020. 0 Replies 1 Like

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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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 5, 2016 at 7:31am: Making Space is thrilled to be working in collaboration with Aspex for the 2016 CRAFT EMERGENCY, an open submission competition for craft & design.

CRAFT EMERGENCY seeks to highlight the work of emerging designers and makers working in all media from anywhere in the UK or abroad.

The deadline is this Sunday (10 July) You can see more information and download application forms from our website. http://makingspace.org/craft-emergency/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 5, 2016 at 4:14am: ACJ DIGITAL NETWORKS

LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3628898
2,810 members

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/The-Association-for-Contemporary-Jewellery...
2670 likes

CRAFTHAUS http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/associationforcontemporaryjewellery
66member

Gain full membership here: http://acj.org.uk/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 5, 2016 at 4:09am

Research in to taught jewellery and silversmith in the Renfrewshire area.

capped fee £2000 + expenses

Application deadline: July 11th 2016

Deadline: 11th July at midnight

About the Company: Vanilla Ink is Scotland’s unique jewellery studio, with the aim of developing new talent by providing a supportive incubator ‘pod’. Vanilla Ink enables the UK’s best new designers to develop and grow their business in a fully equipped workshop, with each 'Inker' given tailored mentoring and monthly professional development workshops throughout the year- the perfect starter package to ensure each ‘Inker’ develops confidence and business skills to last a lifetime.

Vanilla Ink also has the skills, facilities and resources to teach the next generation of makers who will be at the forefront of the Scottish Jewellery and Silversmith industry.

Job Description: Vanilla Ink is looking to commission a researcher to investigate the current landscape of jewellery being taught in the Renfrewshire area.

We want the researcher to cover the following:

Where does Jewellery sit within the local schools curriculum?
What do the current qualifications offer across secondary education in the area?
How do Jewellery and the wider Crafts industry engage with young people in Renfrewshire?
How do schools, young people and their parents/guardians value jewellery and craft skills education?
How and where do young people progress to develop their craft skills and knowledge after secondary education?
What does the local industry look like and where is it located?
How does the local industry view its role in skills development?
What are the national and regional crafts and other agencies that need to be engaged?
How is the Modern Apprenticeships in Jewellery and Craft businesses delivered locally?
What would Vanilla Ink’s role and functions from a skills perspective be in Renfrewshire?
What are the key partnerships Vanilla Ink will need to establish to deliver these roles effectively?

Deliverables:

A written report of 2000 words, giving a visual and engaging response to the findings in laymen’s terms.
Mix of desk and user centric research.
The report will be submitted to the research funders Skills Development Scotland and Vanilla Ink Studios Ltd.

Contract details:

Start date is 18th July
End date is 15th August
Rate is capped fee at £2000 plus travel expenses. £1000 paid upfront, remaining balance and expenses paid upon delivery of the report.
Location is Self-directed (Scotland)
The role would suit a graduate position.

Contact details: hellovanillaink@gmail.com; http://www.vanillainkstudios.co.uk

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:19am: For London Design Festival 2016, Oxo Tower Wharf will be hosting a number of exciting exhibitions, events and activities across its gallery spaces, courtyard and design studios.

Designersblock are back at Oxo Tower Wharf for 2016. This year they will be presenting ‘Creative Matters’, a 4 day programme of installations, exhibitions, talks and events that invites creative thinkers, practitioners, institutions and businesses to come together to debate, forecast and shape the future of our creative economies. The programme will address the value and impact of regional economies and local creative structures on design industries, policy and thinking. Events include; panel discussions, workshops, master-classes, round table discussions and networking platforms.

In addition we will present Designersblock's showcase of 100 independent designers and companies presenting new work and ideas across all exhibition sites at Oxo Tower Wharf: Bargehouse, Courtyard, G11 and gallery@oxo.

Plus there will be creative events hosted by the design studios and shops based at Oxo Tower Wharf, including at Josef Koppmann, Mr Jones Watches, Innermost, Designed in Colour, Philip Watts, JeDeCo, Lauren Shanley and Wagumi:

http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/london-design-festival-o...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:13am: The Crafts magazine summer party. Us, you, beer and craft on 7 July. Perfect.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/listings/crafts-summer-party?utm_so...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:11am: The dying breed of craftsmen behind the tools that make scientific research possible
Caltech's glass blower
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassblower-20...

Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask.

Blowtorch in hand, he pulled the softened glass apart like taffy, tweezing out glass shards with a flick of his wrist. Peering into the dancing flames, he examined his work for wrinkles — imperfections invisible to the untrained eye.

“It not only should be functional,” he said, smoothing the rim with a carbon rod, “it has to look good.”

Here in Caltech’s one-man glass shop, where Gerhart transforms a researcher’s doodles into intricate laboratory equipment, craftsmanship is king. No two pieces of scientific glassware are the same, and for more than two decades, students and Nobel laureates alike have begun each project with Gerhart’s blessing that, yes, he can create the tools to make their experiments possible.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:10am: THE IJL SEMINAR PROGRAMME

We are delighted to announce the launch of the IJL 3-day seminar programme. IJL 2016 is set to deliver a varied series of industry-renowned seminars and an impressive line-up of speakers.

Simply register for IJL to take part in this complimentary seminar programme. http://www.jewellerylondon.com/register?utm_campaign=IJL2016_VisPro...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:07am: Make Your Mark - Save the Date

This year’s Make Your Mark is moving to November and promises to be bigger than ever! The leading event for students on a precious metal related course in the UK will take place at Goldsmiths’ Hall on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd November 2016. More details will follow shortly but make sure you save the date in your diary.

As part of this year’s event, we will be launching the Make Your Mark Awards. If you are a current student, or graduate from a precious metal related course (ending July 2015 or July 2016), watch out for information about this exciting new competition in the next few weeks.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on July 3, 2016 at 6:05am: West Virginia Flooding - Emergency Notice to Artists

CERF+ would like to make sure that any professional artist working in a craft discipline seriously affected by the flooding is aware of the emergency relief assistance available from CERF+. First, we hope you and your neighbors are safe and have been able to avoid loss from the disaster.

If you are an artist and have suffered losses, please contact us when you're able to.

If you reach out to artists through your organization, please pass this information onto them. If there are organizations that work with artists in your community, please send us their contact information.

CERF+
PO Box 838
Montpelier, VT
05601
(802) 229-2306

craftemergency.org
studioprotector.org