Question from our reader:
“You have quite a lot of materials about sewing workshops, international competitions, but everything is about clothes. Maybe you have something in store about international jewelry competitions? It would be very interesting to find out more deeply"
We studied international jewelry competitions and selected the five most interesting ones in which young jewelry designers can participate.
Saul Bell Design Award
A competition based in Albuquerque (USA) and established in honor of local jeweler Soul Bell. The Saul Bell Design Award is aimed more at young jewelry designers - the competition even has separate categories for jewelers under 18 and under 22. The Saul Bell Design Award, unlike some other international competitions, does not skip a single year; applications for it are accepted in the summer and fall, and the results are announced in the spring.
Contestants must pay fees that increase depending on when they submit their entries: $75 by August 31st, $100 by September 30th, $125 by October 27th. Designers who take part in junior categories are exempt from fees. Saul Bell Design Award winners receive cash prizes - $3,000 for Grand Prize, $2,000 for first place and $1,000 for second place. Most likely, this is what membership fees go towards.
In the competition, in addition to two junior categories (designers under 18 and designers under 22), there are the following categories: “gold/platinum”, “silver”, “enamel”, “alternative materials”, “metal clay”, “dishes”.
Jewelry museums
Moscow
Private Museum of David Yakobashvili “Collection”, Moscow, Solyanka, 16
Museum of Jewelry Art from Almaz-Holding in Moscow: VDNKh, Kosmonavta Volkova Street 7, building 2
Kostroma
Two museums of jewelry art in Kostroma - our review (the Amethyst museum on Sovetskaya, 7 and the Almaz-Holding museum on Tchaikovsky, 11. UPD: the Almaz-Holding museum CLOSED in January 2018)
Jewelery Design Awards
Jewelery Design Awards is held as part of Dubai International Jewelery Week. Both professionals and novice designers can take part in it. Applications are accepted until September 15, and the final of the competition is held in early December in Dubai, during the already mentioned jewelry week.
Participants in the competition do not have to pay fees, but there are no cash prizes in the competition. The main reward is the opportunity to display and sell your product in one of the jewelry stores and at the International Jewelry Week in Dubai. For beginners, internships and training programs are provided.
Competition categories: “Culturally Inspired Jewelry Design”, “Freestyle”, “Gemstone of the Year” (several stones are selected in advance, one of which must be used in your competition project), “Technique of the Year”, “CAD Design”, “ Art object". At the same time, novice designers and experienced professionals compete separately.
Jewelry design galleries
An updated selection of online and Instagram galleries of modern jewelry design (including some presented offline), which includes quite a lot of Russian resources
Some foreign jewelry design and art galleries are listed in this report of an online conference with their representatives (September 2020)
As well as the French ALLIAGES gallery in Lille, the British DazzleExhibitions, which holds exhibitions in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh 4 times a year, exhibitions in the Dutch gallery Marzee (Nijmegen, Galerie Marzee), galleries Galerie Rob Koudijs and (Amsterdam), Estonian museum ETDM, A-gallery and other galleries in various countries.
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Works by designers from the JEWELIRUM catalog
- Co.Cos Jewelry
- Co.Cos Jewelry
- Taiga Jewelry, Tomsk
- Taiga Jewelry, Tomsk
- Ilya Maksimov, Crimea
- Ilya Maksimov, Crimea
- UBIRING
- UBIRING
- Diamonds are Forever
- Diamonds are Forever
- Rings in natural style, Sergacheva Jewelery
- Earrings with pearls, Sergacheva Jewelery
- Cabochon ring, Minty Sky
- Fly earrings, Minty Sky
- Ring, Precious Park
- Ring, Precious Park
- Snake skin ring, Stoyanova Jewelery
- Chain earrings, Stoyanova Jewelery
- Children's pendant - stick, Matthew&Daniel
- Pendant for a child, Matthew&Daniel
- Bracelet, Svetlana Subbotina
- Ring with Slavic symbols, Svetlana Subbotina
- Indian style ring, Anna Goffman
- Indian style ring, Anna Goffman
- Earrings, ISTA
- Geometric ring, ISTA
- Earrings with enamel, PNJewelry
- Ring with enamel, PNJewelry
- Ring, Khramtsova Jewelry
- Ring, Khramtsova Jewelry
- Wedding rings to order, obruchalki.com
- Wedding rings to order, obruchalki.com
- Earrings, Yuri Bylkov
- Earrings, Yuri Bylkov
- Titanium bracelets, LanaMuransky
- Titanium pendant, LanaMuransky
- Brooch Elephant (after Salvador Dali), THING
- Ring Veil, THING
- Mace earrings, VLADIMIR MARKIN
- Cufflinks, jewelry mechanics, VLADIMIR MARKIN
- Drop-shaped ring, EKATERINA TOLSTAYA
- Drop-shaped earrings, EKATERINA TOLSTAYA
- Necklace with amber, LETA
- Earrings with amber, LETA
- Children's earrings, combinable, FASHBY
- Children's earrings, combinable, FASHBY
- Ring of architectural form, Elizaveta Malafeevskaya MANU_L
- Architectural bracelet, Elizaveta Malafeevskaya MANU_L
- Set Ginkgo Leaf, SHABUT JEWELLERY
- Brooch Wearable porcelain, SHABUT JEWELLERY
- Architectural ring, GEOMETRY
- Brooch, porcelain, GEOMETRY
- Necklace made of polymer clay, LICORNE ART
- Brooch made of polymer clay, LICORNE ART
- Ring, avant-garde, VALERY SEREDIN
- Bracelet, avant-garde. VALERY SEREDIN
- Wooden set, Scandinavian/Japanese minimalism, VLADIMIR SHESTAKOV
- Ring, Scandinavian/Japanese minimalism, VLADIMIR SHESTAKOV
- Earrings, TON ANT
- Ring, TON ANT
- Architectural ring, ANCHOR
- Architectural necklace, ANCHOR
- Earrings, GOHFELD JEWELLERY
- Necklace, GOHFELD JEWELLERY
- Massive ring, YAKISCHIK
- Designer jewelry, YAKISCHIK
- Architectural ring, ONE DAY ART
- Architectural ring, ONE DAY ART
- Brooch, bionics, VALERIYA MARKOVA (TESSA)
- Unclosed ring, bionics, VALERIYA MARKOVA (TESSA)
- Ring, bionics, BEAVERS
- Earrings, bionics, BEAVERS
- Earrings, asymmetry, VAGANOVA JEWELRY
- Airplane ring, VAGANOVA JEWELRY
- Flower ring, ALCHEMIA JEWELLERY
- Set, ALCHEMIA JEWELLERY
- Pendant-cat, ethnic, STUDIO OF ILYA AND VERA PALKIN
- Earrings, STUDIO OF ILYA AND VERA PALKIN
Jewelers' Choice Awards
JCA is another American competition that is no longer designed to help young talented artists, but to support jewelers who already have their own business, albeit a small one. The winners are chosen by jewelry retailers who vote for their favorite pieces on a special private website.
Registration for the competition lasts until September, and the results are announced at the end of the year. The prizes are purely PR-related, with winners getting the opportunity to display their products at the JCA show, which takes place in the spring in Las Vegas, as well as a number of other promotions associated with the competition.
Categories: “jewelry with diamonds”, “jewelry with artificially grown stones”, “jewelry with tanzanite”, “jewelry with pearls”, “platinum jewelry”, “gold jewelry”, “silver jewelry”, “jewelry made of base metals”.
Which exhibitions to visit and which competitions to participate in?
To decide which exhibitions are interesting to you and where to go, we recommend reading our short reviews of the most notable jewelry exhibitions.
Moscow Exhibitions JUNWEX (from RESTEC JUNWEX)
Jewelry and mineralogical exhibition-fair “Symphony of Gems” (Amber Plaza)
Moscow Glass Fest
Art project, insert-sale “Jewelry” from vintage to the present day
Art project, exhibition-fair “Flea Market”
Design market at seasonal fairs of Seasons magazine (report on the Christmas fair 2014)
Jewelry and mineralogical exhibition-fair “Gems on Kuznetsky” (Moscow House of Artists)
Exhibition-fair “Gem Collapse” (Gemma)
Saint Petersburg
The second jewelry festival “Faberge Heritage - 2018” from Russian Gems: our impressions
How the design market “Intelligent Flea Market” is going - our report 2017
GOODWOOD: about wood, life and reasons for meetings, report 2018
Kostroma
Jewelry festival “Golden Ring of Russia”-2017 - our review
Foreign exhibitions Which international exhibitions are worth visiting?
Jewelry trends for 2021 from the BIJORHCA PARIS exhibition - 2015
Designer Ksenia Vokhmentseva - a story about participation in JOYA Barcelona
Ksenia Vokhmentseva about SIERAAD Amsterdam-2016 in comparison with JOYA
Alisa Letsius about SIERAAD-2016
About the international project Contemporary Jewelery Exchange
Olga Chernyshova about ARTISTAR JEWELS-2017 MILAN
Basel: vanity fair. Article by Elena Veselaya (H&W Russia, March 2016)
About the A'Design Awards & Competition (as well as news about the award for the collection of Igor Komov and “Alchemy”)
About the exhibition of contemporary (including jewelry) art PAD London - Natalya Filatova-Kietine, October 2019
Jewelry competitions
Interview with expert Irina Slesareva about which competitions are worth participating in. At the end of the article there is a list of the main regular jewelry competitions in Russia and foreign countries
Pendant “Aberration”
Thomas Dailing
, Los Angeles, California, USA
Best of Show
“I am a sculptor/inventor who makes beautiful jewelry. I create modern classics using innovative techniques and collector grade stones, almost exclusively concave cut by Richard Homer. I feel fulfilled when I am in the depths of creation, or stomping in the desert, or catching a big fish. "Aberration" is defined as extreme deviation from the norm. It is a deviation from the usual or expected."
Necklace “Green Melody”
Lillian Jones
, Raleigh, NC, USA
First place, Emal
“I have always loved incorporating bright color and light into my work, so when I discovered the beauty of cloisonne I was hooked. My work involves color, light and balance - whether abstract or figurative. I'm influenced by all the great jewelry of the past, but I'll try to give it a modern twist."
