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Editor’s Picks
Silver & Gold
These precious metals have been part of the lexicon of jewelers since humans mastered blacksmithing, thousands of years ago.
RAPHAEL SANZIO PENDANT
by Roberta and David Williamson.
Features and Departments
Maria Wolff Volume 44.3
Visiting with Maria Wolff, a multimedia jewelrymaker whose father was a Danish furniture maker and immigrant, reminds us of the power of our heritage.
Creativity in Glass 44.2
Exploring over thirteen hundred years of glass beadmaking, Ornament presents examples from its Study Collection to illustrate the beauty of these miniature adornments, past and present.
Queerphoria Volume 43.3
These jewelrymakers share how their identity, often paired with difficult experiences, gives them great joy.
Shuoyuan Bai Volume 43.1
The quiet and conscious aesthetic of Chinese jeweler Shuoyuan Bai, born in China but taught in America, is revealed in this article.
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Best of
Wearable Artists
As the 60s and 70s, the heyday of wearable art as a new medium, fade into the past, contemporary wearable art has become more refined, minimalistic, and influenced by fashion. This divergence has seen some of the spiritual successors to wearable art branch off into popular culture, such as Burning Man, cosplay, and fursuiting.
JACKET by K. Riley, of hand-carved blockprinted fabric, 2019.
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Having been an artist “since she was in utero”, Scott’s work has been an incredible tapestry, using beads as the medium for expressing the African-American voice.