AJDC President Linda MacNeil and AJDC member David Freda were among the featured artists in the exhibit 'Mastery in Jewelry and Metals' at the 48th Annual SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Conference in Chicago, IL May 25-29, 2019. 'Mastery in Jewelry and Metals' was curated Read More
Adam Neeley and Alishan Halebian win design awards
Adam Neeley received Second Place in the Gold and Platinum category for the 2019 Saul Bell Awards. Adam's pendant Cosmos Star Hen features a Madeira Citrine cut by award-winning lapidary Mark Gronlund. The unique concave facets of this gemstone create a spiraling effect and project a Read More
AJDC Members win 2019 MJSA Vision Awards and a new generation of jewelry designers emerges.
The Annual MJSA Vision Award winners were announced on May 31, 2019. Mark Schneider, Mark Schneider Design, Long Beach, CA won 1st Place in Design Excellence This platinum and 18k yellow gold men’s band features a 0.70ct tsavorite garnet, 1.01ctw black diamonds, and 0.69cts canary Read More
Get to know AJDC President Linda MacNeil
Linda MacNeil is an artist – jeweler, who makes one of a kind works, concentrating mostly on neckpieces and brooches since 1976. A compelling profile of MacNeil appeared in Ornament Magazine in 2018. Ornament Magazine Cover Vol. 40.3 Read More
AJDC elects Linda MacNeil New President
At its semi-annual members meeting in Tucson, AZ on February 9, 2019, AJDC announced new Executive Board members. Linda MacNeil was elected President of AJDC, succeeding Barbara Heinrich. Pascal LaCroix will continue to serve as Vice President and Adam Neeley was selected as Treasurer, Read More
AJDC Presents Benne Award to Alan Revere
The American Jewelry Design Council, which recognizes and promotes the appreciation of original jewelry design as art, bestowed its rarely given Benne Award for Lifetime Achievement on designer, metalsmith, teacher, and author Alan Revere on February 8, during the Tucson gem shows. The Read More
Alan Revere to receive AJDC Benne Award
The American Jewelry Design Council will present its highest award, the Benne Award, to Alan Revere during the Tucson Gem Fair on February 8, 2019 Named for the Italian renaissance goldsmith and sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini, the lifetime achievement award honors an individual who has Read More
CONVERGENCE Opens at the Headley-Whitney Museum of Art
5 THEMES • 36 ARTISTS • 92 PIECES • ONE DESTINATION: CONVERGENCE: The American Jewelry Design Group at the Headley-Whitney Museum of Art’ will open to the public on June 13, 2018. A gala opening is scheduled for Saturday, June 23, 2018. In 1996, AJDC began the annual Read More
David Freda’s Stag Beetles Featured in Film
Several years ago, AJDC member David Freda created a sterling silver, steel and glass Stag Beetle for an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Now film maker Robert Brody has created a stop action film of two of the beetles fighting! It's well worth a Read More
AJDC Announces New Museum Exhibition
AJDC is happy to announce that a new exhibition of it's Annual Design Projects will open in June at the Headley-Whitney Museum of Art in Lexington, Ky. This new exhibit will feature pieces from the Ice, Wave, Fire, Transformation and Stripes Design Projects by all current members of the Read More
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