Jewelry Arts Awards 2022: Winners and Honorable Mentions | Jewelry
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Offered by Interweave, the Jewellery Arts Awards: Tucson Show Tutorial Cover Levels of competition was open to any maker/designer functioning in conventional or other elements employing any techniques. Two Grand Prizes ended up awarded, alongside with Group Winners and Honorable Mentions in three divisions: Gemstones, Metalsmithing, and Sterling Silver.
Entries were so awesome that we could not pick just just one Grand Prize Winner! John Dyer’s Oregon Sunstone and Julie’s Glassman’s cloisonne necklace every look on the address of the print and electronic editions of the 2023 Tucson Demonstrate Manual..
Listed here are the amazing parts that caught the eyes of the judges.
Grand Prize Winners
Grand Prize Winner
Title: Oregon Sunstone Dreamscape Cut
Artist: John Dyer
Most important Approaches: Faceting, carving
Oregon sunstone sellers use the time period “schiller” to describe the twinkling result of copper inclusions in sunstone. John thinks “schiller can seriously include to the attractiveness of the gem when it is correctly put together with the style of the minimize.”
Check out more of John Dyer’s do the job on his internet site.
Grand Prize Winner
Title: Sonoran Desert Dance
Artist: Julie Glassman
Primary Procedures: Cloisonne enamel, soldering, stone placing, sawing, polishing.
“Lines, shade, and light rule my earth and convey to my tale in enamel,” claims Julie. “All my do the job is motivated by my mother and her struggle with cancer… her memory is my muse.”
Perspective extra of Julie Glassman’s work on her site.
Gemstones Class
This classification capabilities beautiful thoughts for setting, carving, or otherwise highlighting a stunning gemstone (or stones). Thank you to our sponsor: Hearth Mountain Gems and Beads.
Class Winner
Title: Camouflage in the American West
Artist: Jill Tower
Key Elements: Hell’s Canyon petrified wooden, sterling silver, great silver, 24K gold, enamel
Jill shares her inspiration for this piece, “Tucson plays host to many national and worldwide people for the length of its demonstrates, and I preferred to share a piece that uniquely represents the American West for all people coming to this area.”
See far more of Jill Tower’s do the job on her web-site.
Honorable Mention
Title: Riding the Wave
Artist: Barbara McLaughlin
Main Resources: 18K gold, sterling silver, boulder opal, diamond, carved chrome chalcedony
Look at far more of Barbara McLaughlin’s function on her internet site.
These entries choose full gain of common and present-day metalsmithing techniques to notify their stories. Thank you to our sponsor: Susan Lenart.
Group Winner
Title: Alhambra-Influenced Salt and Pepper Shakers
Artist: Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano
Principal Methods: Forming, soldering, hammering, sawing, photoetching, patina
“My jewelry is affected by my encounter of the planet all over me – the diverse expressions of nature and cultures that I experience by my travels. This piece was motivated by the Moorish architecture and design that I encountered in southern Spain. The designs photoetched on to the surfaces are identified in the Alhambra, situated in Granada.”
Honorable Point out
Title: Past Snow
Artist: Adrienne Cantler
Key Tactics: Sawing, soldering, forging wire, stone setting
Look at extra of Adrienne Cantler’s operate on her site.
Sterling Silver
These submissions extend our tips about what jewelers can do working with sterling silver as the primary material. Thank you to our sponsor: Halstead.
Group Winner
Title: Scaffold Bangle
Artist: Neil Ramsay
Most important Approaches: Wireframe, CAD, casting
With types that blend engineering and sculpture, Neil is “proud to create wonderful jewelery assertion parts that are intended to be wearable, but also just a very little outdoors the each day.”
Honorable Mention
Title: Hexavalent Bond
Artist: Jonathan Bassett
Main Elements: .925 sterling silver wire, gemstones
Look at much more of Jonathan Bassett’s work on his site.
Linked: 2022 Bead Arts Awards Winners
Make confident to choose up the two print copies of the Tucson Clearly show Guidebook this year to have both lovely addresses! You can obtain the digital version, which contains both equally handles, now!
