American Jewelry Design Council

appreciating original jewelry design as art

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

The Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts has closed.

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

Linda MacNeil:Jewels of Glass opens at Museum of Glass

Linda MacNeil:Jewels of Glass will open January 21, 2017 at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA.  MacNeil’s innovative use of glass to create elegant, wearable jewelry provides a unique opportunity forMuseum of Glass (MOG) to present its first exhibition of jewelry, Linda MacNeil: Jewels of Read More