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Last Updated: 1/18/2010
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If you're considering attending or teaching at one of our shows, or planning on
entering one of our competitions, we'll be posting a regular list of important
dates each month to keep you on track.
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class proposals for all our 2010 events here.
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| Conferences,
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| Revere Academy Masters Symposium
The Revere Academy will hold a series of workshops during its 2010 Masters
Symposium, held April 3-25 in San Francisco. The Academy will host 14 master classes
taught by leading goldsmiths and other experts from around the globe. Instructors
and classes this year include Michael Boyd, Gem Carving at the Bench; Linda Darty,
Enameling in Depth and Cloisonne; Wayne Werner, Hot & Cold Connections; Hap
Sakwa, Photography for Jewelers, and more. Classes are two and five-day workshops
and are open to students of all levels. More at www.revereacademy.com.

SUNFLOWER. Linda Darty. Brooch in fine silver, enamel, and drusy. Photo by
the artist.
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PENDANT. James Binnion. Mokume gane, sterling silver, copper and brass. Photo:
Hap Sakwa.
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| Madeleine Albright’s Pin Collection at MAD
The first major museum exhibition of jewelry from Madeleine Albright’s
personal collection is currently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
in New York City. Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection features
more than 200 pins, many of which the former secretary of state wore to impart
a certain mood or her view on the situation at hand.
Included in the collection is a brooch made specifically for Secretary Albright
at her request with the head of Lady Liberty with two watch faces for eyes, one
of which is upside down, allowing both her and her visitor to know when the meeting
was over. The exhibition will be at MAD until January 31. More at www.madmuseum.org. |

LIBERTY BROOCH. Gijs Bakker, Netherlands, 1997. Silver 925, watches. Photo: John
Bigelow Taylor. Courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design.
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Tiffany Exhibit
The "Tiffany: Color and Light" exhibition will debut in Paris and then
be shown in Montreal and Richmond. Conceived by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
and organized in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Musee
du Luxembourg, the exhibition will celebrate the work of renowned designer Louis
Comfort Tiffany, who achieved original and spectacular effects in hand-blown glass
vessels, leaded glass windows and lamps. The exhibition's approximately 170 works
will include blown-glass vessels, lamps, decorative objects such as mosaics, bronzes,
and works in glass, jewelry and leaded-glass windows, along with paintings, watercolors,
architectural elements, furniture, and silver. The exhibition will be on view
at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 11-May 2, 2010; and at
the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, May 28-August 15, 2010. For
more information, visit www.vmfa.museum |
Amethyst
Necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany |
| Ring On the Move
Claudio Pino is known for his sculptural rings that often include movement,
so it only seems fitting that one of his rings has been making the rounds. His
Magnficence Stellaire was recently shown as part of the exhibition Union and Diversity
at the Canada— Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2009 in South Korea.
Now the ring is on its way to Vancouver, where it will be exhibited during the
2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Pino contributed his Kinetic Moonstone Ring
as a project and was featured in the September
2008 issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. More at www.pinodesign.net.
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MAGNIFICENCE STELLAIRE. Claudio Pino, 2009. 4.5” x 2.5” x 4.7”.
14K gold, 925 sterling silver, opal, chrome diopsides, emerald, moonstone, freshwater
pearls.
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| Large Diamond Unearthed
Petra Diamonds Limited, the international diamond mining group, recently recoverd
a 507.55 carat white diamond of exceptional color and clarity at the Cullinan
mine in South Africa. It is considered to be among the top 20 largest, high quality
rough diamonds ever found worldwide, and initial examinations point that it is
likely a Type II diamond. The Cullinan mine has produced several other large diamonds,
including the world's largest diamond ever recovered - a 3,106 carat piece of
rough. More at www.petradiamonds.com.
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A 507.55 carat rough white diamond recovered at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.
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| New Designer Award
Among designers recognized at this summer’s Jewelers of America show in
New York was Manya Tessler of Manya and Roumen, who was named winner of the Mort
Abelson New Designer of the Year Award. The husband and wife team, established
in 2009, specialize in cast metal pieces. More at www.manyaandroumen.com.

LAVA BANGLES. Manya Tessler. Sterling
silver and oxidized sterling silver. |

VOLCANIC RING. Manya Tessler.
18K gold, rubies, and diamonds.
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| Hoover & Strong Merger
Hoover & Strong, an eco-friendly refiner and manufacturer of precious metals,
has merged with Keystone Findings, Inc., a manufacturer of die-struck and cast
settings, solitaire wedding bands, and earrings. The merger will broaden Hoover
& Strong's product offering to jewelers. For more information, visit www.hooverandstrong.com.
E-bookshelf:
10 Cold Connected Jewelry Projects ebook
Volume two of The Best of Jewelry Artist series has just been released.
Master the use of cold connections in your jewelry with these 10 inspiring, information-packed
projects. Learn how to join a variety of mixed materials, including standard jewelry
metals, with helpful tips, design options, and instructive photos to guide you
along! Available for download at www.interweavestore.com.
E-bookshelf:
10 Wire Jewelry Projects e-book
New from Jewelry Artist, this first of many e-books to come offers wire
jewelry projects using plier work, torching, or fabrication complete with helpful
tips, design options, and more. Progress with the medium of wire through projects
selected from the archives of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Available
for download at www.interweavestore.com.
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Bookshelf
Read Ettagale Blauer's' review of The
History of Beads by Lois Sherr Dubin.
Read Helen Driggs' review of Chasing
and Repoussé by Nancy Megan Corwin.
500
Plastic Jewelry Designs, Lark Books
Put together by juror Susan Kasson Sloan, 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs
incorporates a vibrant and technically diverse collection of contemporary jewelry.
Designs range from simple to sophisticated, some incorporating recycled materials
- such as sunglass lenses and knitting needles - and others produced using CAD-CAM.
Artist represented include Jantje Fleischhut, Adam Paxon, Svenja John, and Margaux
Lange. More at www.larkbooks.com.
Agates and Jaspers by Ron Gibbs
Agates and Jaspers is a pictorial guide to more than 150 varieties
of agates and jaspers. The stone structures are shown in macro-photography, micro-photography,
and in representative thin-sections. Agate and jasper formation is described and
diagrams of their internal structure and structural characteristics are show in
the more than 1,000 photographs. More at www.theimagesbooks.com.
Estate Jewelry: 1760-1960
This easy-to-follow book by Diana Sanders Cinamon is a thorough reference to antique
and period jewelry, created over a 200-year period, in Canada, Europe, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. It presents the changes in construction techniques
and jewelry styles with more than 680 color photographs, clear descriptions, and
explanations. For more information, visit www.schifferbooks.com.
Opal & Gemstone Jewelry by Paul B. Downing
Opal & Gemstone Jewelry is a newly updated and expanded combination
of Paul Downing's two award-winning books, Opal Cutting Made Easy and Opal
Advanced Cutting & Setting. Everything from both books is included, plus
new locations, contacts, example stones, and more. The new edition also covers
cutting your first gemstone, properly doming an agate, designing and assembling
intarsia, creating lost wax jewelry designs, and more. More at www.paulbdowning.com.
More book reviews available in our Book Reviews section.
Corrections
In “More Impact with Less Metal” (April 2009), the main
stone in Patrick Murphy’s necklace was misidentified as Picasso jasper —
a common name in the trade for the stone. However, the material is metamorphic
limestone and more accurately a marble. It is usually called Picasso stone or
Picasso marble.
In Ask the Experts (April 2009), the wrong location was given for the
William Holland School of Lapidary Arts. The school is in Young Harris, Georgia.
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