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AJDC Members win 2019 MJSA Vision Awards and a new generation of jewelry designers emerges.

Marylouise Lugosch | May 31, 2019 |

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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 Merry Lee Rae, Freedom, CA won 1st Place Enamel Distinction In addition, Timo Krapf, the son of AJDC member Barbara Read More

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Get to know AJDC President Linda MacNeil

Marylouise Lugosch | March 27, 2019 |

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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. Read More

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AJDC elects Linda MacNeil New President

Marylouise Lugosch | March 18, 2019 |

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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

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AJDC Presents Benne Award to Alan Revere

Marylouise Lugosch | March 10, 2019 |

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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

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Alan Revere to receive AJDC Benne Award

Marylouise Lugosch | October 27, 2018 |

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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

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CONVERGENCE Opens at the Headley-Whitney Museum of Art

Marylouise Lugosch | June 18, 2018 |

  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

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David Freda’s Stag Beetles Featured in Film

Marylouise Lugosch | April 13, 2018 |

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

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AJDC Announces New Museum Exhibition

Marylouise Lugosch | January 26, 2018 |

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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The Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts has closed.

Marylouise Lugosch | July 27, 2017 |

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After nearly 40 years, Alan Revere has decided to retire from teaching and directing the school that he founded in San Francisco. The Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts closed its doors on December 15, 2017, with the graduation of the 34th Jewelry Technician Intensive class. The school will Read More

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Barbara Heinrich Profiled in Ornament Magazine

Marylouise Lugosch | June 28, 2017 |

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AJDC President Barbara Heinrich is profiled in the current issue of Ornament Magazine. http://www.ornamentmagazine.org/blog/barbara-heinrich-volume-394   Read More

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