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 January 16, 2016 at 8:39am: The Jewellery Skills Award

Jewellery Skills Award
http://www.acj.org.uk/index.php/2-uncategorised/386-the-jewellery-s...
Creative & Cultural Skills is a campaigning organisation that, mainly through the National Skills Academy, champions youth employment and fair access.
It has a charitable mission to:
• give young people opportunities to work and learn in the creative industries
• ensure that employers benefit from a skilled generation of talent
• help the creative industries continue on a course of economic growth.
UK-based C&C Skills has been fully involved in the theatre and music sectors for many years; only relatively recently becoming a welcome advocate and instigator of development in the jewellery and silver industry. Over the last two years a viable apprenticeship structure has been established, while most recently the organisation has been enabled to conduct its own training programmes.
The ACJ is a Supporter of C&C Skills and is pleased to help promote their annual awards.
In addition to recognising notable achievements by apprentices these awards celebrate inspirational mentors and managers in the creative industries who epitomize Creative & Cultural Skills’ values:
• give young people opportunities to work and learn in the creative industries
• ensure that employers benefit from a skilled generation of talent
• help the creative industries continue on a course of economic growth.
Last year, the first Jewellery Skills Award was presented to Brian Hill; a well-deserved recognition for his involvement over many years with training and promotion of skill development through his work with students at Rochester and the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council.
Nominations for the 2016 Awards, relating to apprentices and mentors, are now being requested.
Details may be seen at http://ccskills.org.uk/supporters/awards/nominate though please note that the deadline for receipt of nominations is 8th January!

Terry Hunt

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 8:28am: Regional Director, Southend

This post will be a key part of Metal’s Senior Management Team.

Application deadline: January 29th 2016

This post will be a key part of Metal’s Senior Management Team, bringing wide experience and knowledge of developing and delivering large-scale arts programmes across a range of artistic disciplines as well as an excellent knowledge of artists in the UK and internationally and experience of attracting a diverse range of funding and strategic partnerships.

Responsible for the continued development of Metal’s permanent programme of activities in Southend-on-Sea, the successful candidate will understand how to work effectively with communities as well as managing a programme of regular artist’s residencies, events, activities and partnership relationships.

We are looking for an experienced, senior arts manager with a strong track record of delivering high impact arts programme with a particular set of highly developed skills around participation. Dealing with a broad range of activities from internal and external sources you will be highly organised and pro-active in developing and implementing effective, high impact arts projects.

You will be able to operate effectively under pressure with excellent communication skills, good humour and energy and, as a representative of Metal, maintain our policies for working with and serving diverse communities.

Read more at http://www.metalculture.com/vacancies

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 8:17am: Dodge the shredder

Thursday 10 March 2016, 10.30am - 4.30pm

A full-day workshop empowering artists and individuals to fundraise effectively and create a financial strategy for their projects. Created, developed and delivered by Emilia Telese. The session looks at:

approaching galleries and funding bodies with a great proposal

minimising rejection when applying for funding

creating a financial support strategy for your projects

writing about your practice effectively

finding out about the best sources of funding for your activities

“It was very interesting, informative and inspiring. Magnificent speaker / presenter too.” - Feedback from a previous session..https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dodge-the-shredder-eastbourne-ticket...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 8:04am: Have you voted yet in our 2016 craft&design Selected Maker Awards?

It’s your chance to support your favourite designer makers and help them to perhaps win one of the

six Gold or twelve Silver Awards, or even our coveted 2016 Maker of the Year Award!

Our specialist judges will be taking over once the online voting has closed, they’ll each be choosing one Gold

and two Silver Award Winners from the shortlist of six Finalists in their particular category.

The Gold Award winner who polls the most votes overall wins our craft&design 2016 Selected Maker of the Year

Award, along with a cheque for £1,000. Voting online is really straightforward and your vote really does count!

We’re delighted to welcome this year’s Judges:

Place your votes now and enjoy

browsing our online gallery of work

by some of Britain’s most skilled and

talented designer makers!

www.craftanddesign.net/awards/selected/#vote

You can read more about all of this

year’s Judges at:

www.craftanddesign.net/awards/selected/2016/judges

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:47am: http://yearofmaking.com/?List_Weekly_Roundup_-_15_January_2016&...

2016 is being declared Sheffield’s ‘Year of Making’.

The high-profile, £1.5 million festival will involve a big programme of events, bringing together craftspeople, artists, musicians, the business community and academics.

The aim is to celebrate what Sheffield does best - from advanced manufacturing to visual arts, theatre, music, heritage crafts and more - as well as identifying new paths to success for the city.

It is being led by the Sheffield Culture Consortium - set up in 2011 and comprised of the city’s arts chiefs - along with major partner Sheffield University. The campaign is also being backed by Sheffield Hallam University, the Chamber of Commerce, Made in Sheffield, The Cutlers’ Company and Sheffield Council.

A ‘rich, city-wide’ programme is promised, ranging from exhibitions and theatre to heritage trails and concerts.

New elements of existing events, such as Tramlines and Off the Shelf, will be incorporated under the Year of Making banner.

The official launch is planned for February, but the first date on the calendar is In The Making, an exhibition at the Millennium Gallery exploring Victorian art critic John Ruskin’s ideas of making.

In July a further Millennium Gallery show simply called Made In Sheffield is planned, and a production at the Crucible by the Sheffield People’s Theatre will begin in June.

Read more: http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/out-and-about/a-year-to-celebrat...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:45am: Touch, specify and discover 1000s of surfaces for the built environment at Surface Design Show 2016 (9-11 February at London's Business Design Centre).

Registration to attend is free for professionals via the website >> http://surfacedesignshow.co.uk/

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:37am: foursweden.wix.com/fourhtml?utm_campaign=1.15.2015%2BNewsletter%2B2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=1.15.2016%2BNewsletter%2B2

Welcome to the fitting room!

22/1 - 23/1

During Kulturnatta, 22nd and 23rd of January, Sofia Bankeström and Wan-Ying Lin from HDK - School of Design and Crafts, will welcome you into a dressing room where they will present and equip you with wearable sculptures. The materials might seam familiar but take a second look and they might offer you a surprise. The pieces are inspired by confrontations and the interaction between people, now it is your time to react and put your imprint on them!

Opening hours, 22nd and 23rd of January: 18.00 - 21.00

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:34am: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/craft-club?utm_source=Ma...

Craft Club relaunches with a new quarterly newsletter bringing together maker stories, fantastic activity ideas for those running Craft Clubs, competitions and must-see craft events.

Craft Club is all about championing craft learning and building communities where you can create together.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:25am

Design delights in Dubai

This coming March, the Crafts Council will exhibit at Design Days Dubai, the Middle East’s leading design fair.

“British craft is revered around the world for its quality, energy and innovation, and the market is strong." Annie Warburton, Creative Director, Crafts Council.

Eleven makers including Full Blown, Stuart Ackroyd, Sarah Angold and Neil Musson will be flying the flag for British craft.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on January 16, 2016 at 7:24am: If you want to apply to be part of this established and respected programme then make a note in your diary - applications for Hothouse 2017 open this summer! http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/hothouse?utm_source=Mast...