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Above & left: Joan Dulla - Best of Competition Pearl Tube Necklace, of hand-crocheted 18K gold, with 10 mm white pearls (inside tube), and 3 mm pearls. 24" x 1" x 1 ". Photo: W. Scott Mitchell. For the third year in a row, our offices at Lapidary Journal have been flooded with images of beautiful, original jewelry from around the world — a parade of truly impressive work from hopeful jewelry artists vying for recognition in our Jewelry Arts Awards 2004. As the envelopes with exotic postmarks (Australia! Japan! Ohio!) arrived, we were excited to see what each contained, but as the stack grew, we were somewhat relieved that we wouldn’t have to make the choice between so many worthy entries. The job of viewing the entrants and selecting winners in six different categories, broken down by type of jewelry, plus one separate Best of Competition (above and right) winner, fell to our slate of judges (see "Our Esteemed Judges"), who rated each entry on the basis of overall design, visual appeal and impact, originality, and execution. The resulting collection of winners does credit to the diverse and gifted readership of Lapidary Journal, as artists working with a huge range of materials - from ocean rocks to fossilized mammoth tusk to aquamarines to diamonds - take the stage and take a bow. We offer our hearty congratulations to all of our winners, and our sincere thanks to our judges, who took the time and effort to give each piece its due, and to all the entrants, whether their names appear on the list of winners or not. And to all those who design and make their own jewelry, we invite you to enter the 2005 Jewelry Arts Awards - entry forms are available for download at www.lapidaryjournal.com/contest.

First Place: Tectonics, Lewis Kant, Erendira Contis Designs Second Place: Spring Stream Ring, Dmitri Pavlov, DP Studios
Lewis Kant, Erendira Contis Designs First Place, Rings Tectonics, of 12K pink gold, 14K white gold, 18K yellow gold, and four round diamonds. 26 mm x 24 mm x 16 mm. Photo: Lewis Kant.	Dmitriy Pavlov, DP Studios Second Place, Rings Spring Stream Ring, of 18K white palladium gold and diamonds; pierced and hand engraved; bezels for setting the stones are carved in the metal. 7 1⁄2 mm x 7.8 mm x 1.4 mm.

First Place: Geodesic Evening Basket, Bobbie Winger Second Place: Cupola San Pietro Ring, Jenny Greco
Bobbie Winger First Place, Miscellaneous Jewelry Geodesic Evening Basket Bag (evening bag); pierced sterling silver sheet cold connected with rivets, hinged top, brushed finish. 10 cm x 9.5 cm x 3.3 cm. “One of a series of pieces inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller. Loosely based on a sketch of a geodesic done.”	Jenny Greco Second Place, Miscellaneous Jewelry Cupola San Pietro ring, pendant, and container; fabricated sterling silver. 4.5 cm x 2.5 cm. “This piece is made of three different parts that fit together and become a cathedral. It is a container, a pendant, and a ring. There is also detail in the inside of the dome.” Photo: Jenny Greco.

HAP SAKWA has been involved in the visual arts during his entire adult lifetime. Prior to his current incarnation as a commercial photographer, he produced both design and sculptural objects, recognized by numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, The American Craft Museum, and the Mint Museum. As a photographer, Sakwa calls himself “an artist’s assistant, collaborator, and associate. The relationship formed between artist and illustrator goes deeper than fee or service. Illustrating art requires sensitivity to the maker and the object — no two are the same.”
JEAN STARK, born and raised in Pennsylvania, majored in art and science at Penn State University; after moving to New York, she studied painting at the New School and the Brooklyn Museum of Art School. Introduced to ancient jewelry techniques by Robert Kulicke, she co-founded the Kulicke-Stark Academy of Jewelry Art, where the two researched, redeveloped, and taught ancient techniques. Ms. Stark was the first teacher for the jewelry degree program at Parsons School of Design. In 1983, Noma Copley and Jean Stark, Inc. — now Jean Stark, Inc. — was formed to create one-of-a-kind jewelry. She continues to teach, study, and make jewelry. Her book, Classical Loop-in-Loop Chains and Their Derivatives, co-written with her sister, Dr. Josephine Reist Smith, is in its third printing.
CAROL WEBB is a studio jeweler based in Santa Cruz, California. She has been exhibiting in nationally juried shows for the past 13 years. Her work is a unique combination of silver and blackened copper often including 18K or 22K gold. She is known for the use of pattern in her jewelry, with an emphasis on the relationship of pattern to form as applied to pins, pendants, beads, and earrings. She also teaches workshops employing her unique technique of laminating copper sheet onto silver sheet and etching through the copper layer to generate patterns and images. Her work has been featured in various publications, including Lapidary Journal.

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