Archive Past Exhibits and Events
Keith Lewis: The Saddest Aisle (Spring 2024)
Baskets, rescued from the saddest aisle of a Goodwill thrift shop in Ellensburg, Washington, where Keith Lewis lives, serve as both inspiration and material for the American jeweler’s latest series of brooches and pendants. Presented in partnership with Gallery Loupe.
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SHOP @ TJL: Ornament Party (December 2023)
Featuring our new collection of jewelry-inspired ornaments created by @murch.studio, along with a super fun mix of sparkly contemporary and vintage jewelry, books, cards, refreshments, and lots of surprises.
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NYC Jewelry Week 2023
Invisible Thread, an exhibition of works by artists Mari Ishikawa, Mikiko Minewaki, and Sayumi Yokouchi, based on Senryu, a form of Japanese poetry. Adorning America, an exhibition on the history and legacy of the Schreiner Jewelry Company, offering a glittering display of jewels by one of North America’s foremost designers of high-end costume jewelry. And lots of happenings in The Great Room @ TJL!
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SHOP @ TJL: Adorn (Fall 2023)
For NYC Jewelry Week 2023, dive into the world of Adorning America: The History and Legacy of the Schreiner Jewelry Company and shop the show at SHOP @ TJL: ADORN, an ode to American Costume Jewelry of the 20th Century inspired by the exhibition. With bold and sparkly contemporary pieces by artists whose work explores, references, transforms, and celebrates the fun and fanciful world of vintage costume.
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Rethinking Design Through Disabled Perspectives (Fall 2023)
An online presentation with multi-sensory artist, designer, and educator Sugandha Gupta in celebration of World Sight Day/World Blindness Awareness Month. Borrowing from her own experience as a person with low vision, Gupta discusses how disabled perspectives lend inclusive and generative approaches to design.
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SHOP @ TJL: Textiles (Fall 2023)
SHOP @ TJL launched with textile-based jewelry and wearable art by contemporary and vintage makers working with a wide range of materials, from rags and textile scraps to luxury fibers.
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Dorothy Liebes: The Mystery of the Matching Cuffs (September 2023)
Our latest Jewelry Detectives event on American textile designer, weaver, and color authority Dorothy Liebes, with Charlotte von Hardenburgh, design historian and Research Fellow for the current exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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Restringing the Pearl (Spring 2023)
An exhibition and sale curated by Petra Class and Biba Schutz, exploring personal and cultural perspectives on pearls as classic symbols of elegance, status, and chic. See the pieces and listen to the artists tell their pearl stories!
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LOVE.MAKE.LOVE. (February 2023)
A fashion-jewelry-art-and-design showcase for Valentine's Day. LOVE.MAKE.LOVE. brings together makers who believe in the healing power of human touch and the intimate connection between makers' hands and a final object.
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What's Precious? (November 2022)
When we deprioritize jewelry’s monetary value, what else is precious to us in adornment? The artists participating in What’s Precious? offer ways to acquire adornment other than exchanging money.
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Hidden Treasures: Selections from the Helen Drutt Gallery (November 2022)
Travel back in time with renowned gallerist, craft historian, writer, and lecturer Helen Drutt, to shop a trove of jewelry from the storied “back room” of her eponymous Philadelphia gallery.
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A Curriculum on Collecting: Part Four (November 2022)
Featuring artists Ada Chen, Kate Connell, and Michelle Hisae Nakata-Murray for a provocative discussion about the value of collections, tackling questions like: what are the systems that shape our understanding of value? how do artists create value? is there a balance between monetary value and sentimental value? We also get to hear about Ada and Kate’s NYC Jewelry Week exhibition What’s Precious?
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Tag, You're It! with Kiff Slemmons (October 2022)
Another round of Tag, You're It! with Kiff Slemmons, featuring over forty artists and jewelers, with all proceeds from sales to benefit Amigos del IAGO (Friends of the Institute of Graphic Arts), founded by artist Francisco Toledo to develop cultural and educational projects in the state of Oaxaca.
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Part Three, Spaces for Collections, features Margaret Zyro, Exhibition Designer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Matthew Bird, Independent Curator and Senior Critic: Industrial Design at RISD, for a discussion about the ways in which collections are considered spatially–at the personal scale, gallery scale, and global scale.
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Pearl Deep Dive (Summer 2022)
"He who would search for pearls must dive below..." John Dryden, The Wild Gallant, 1669
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The second installment of our series A Curriculum on Collecting: Six Virtual Conversations, moderated by Luci Jockel and Emily Jockel. Part Two, The Artful Transformation of Objects, features mixed media artist Demetri Broxton and jeweler Lauren Newton.
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The Heirloom Room – Reception (June 2022)
Bridging poetry and jewelry to explore concepts of cultural legacy and inheritance. TJL was proud to host an afternoon reception celebrating the work of the participants of The Heirloom Room, a bi-weekly bilingual (Spanish/English) poetry and jewelry workshop at the ARC XVI Senior Center in Washington Heights, developed and led by artist-in-residence Rosario Moore.
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The Jewelry Edit x Radical Jewelry Makeover (Spring 2022)
T.J.E. x R.J.M. transformed donated unwanted jewelry into new pieces that raise awareness for sustainable production and design. We were proud to host T.J.E. x R.J.M. for an exhibition and sale at TJL.
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The first installment of a year-long project moderated by Luci Jockel and Emily Jockel. The Birth of a Collection: What Do We Collect and Why? features guest panelists Adam Irish, Tina Jockel, and Sarah Nehama.
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Jewelry Detectives: The Case of the Missing Pendant (March 2022)
A call from a graduate student researching her thesis, a school essay written in the 1940s, and a dog-eared scrapbook filled with designs by turn of the century “jewelers’ jeweler” Gustav Manz turns magazine editor and Manz’s great-granddaughter Laura Mathews into a Jewelry Detective. Follow the trail to the untold mysteries of Manz as Mathews takes us on a fascinating decade-long journey.
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News from Central Asia (Winter 2021)
For NYC Jewelry Week 2021, curator Aida Sulova asked Central Asian artists, makers, and designers to share the news from their home country in the form of a wearable object. The resulting works reflect political protest, environmental issues, collective memory restoration, historical events, and transformation caused by modernization.
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Sisterhood: Bodies in Proximity (Winter 2021)
Artists Luci Jockel and Emily Jockel first shared a bedroom in their family’s home in western Pennsylvania. For NYC Jewelry Week 2021, they presented a joint exhibition representing a creative inquiry born in sisterhood.
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Ohio Silver 50th Founders Reunion (November 2021)
Ohio Silver, a funky small-town jewelry shop founded in the early 1970s by two brothers from a family of makers, turned fifty. Tune in to watch Tucker and Kris Viemeister and a handful of the friends who made Ohio Silver possible reminisce about the early days!
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#JewelryGeography / NoMad Jewelry Walking Tour (June 2021)
The second event in our #JewelryGeography series – an intimate summer stroll through NoMad with jewelry historian Anna Rasche. From famous jewel houses to forgotten diamond shops, and a hotel where dandies and swindlers showed off their glittering collections, we explored a few remnants of the neighborhood's Gilded Age jewelry past.
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New York Blossoming (Spring/Summer 2021)
"New York City is blossoming, awakening our senses after a long and tumultuous year—from the gorgeous peonies in the shops of our Flower District neighbors, to the numerous floral celebrations around town." Take a walk around the neighborhood with us and check out our flower-focused photo essay.
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The Tiffany Diamond Feather (March 2021)
More than a talk, RISD Professor Matthew Bird’s presentation is the ultimate research project, a thrilling visual adventure! While TJL always loves a good jewelry detective story, this is more of a courtroom drama…What happened? Tune in to find out!
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Jewelry Detectives: The Mystery of the Indian Necklace (January 2021)
Jewelry Detective Jan Krulick-Belin shares the story uncovered when she investigates a mysterious piece from her own jewelry box, in the latest installment of our storytelling series on great jewelry finds.
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Kiff Slemmons / Tag, You're It! (November 2020)
Presented by Gallery Loupe and The Jewelry Library during NYC Jewelry Week 2020, Tag, You're It! features the work of Kiff Slemmons and 25 artists, jewelers, and friends. Tag, You're It! explores how jewelry both identifies us and draws together our diversities.
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New York City Jewelry Week 2020
A look at our NYCJW2020 lineup, including an exhibition with artist Kiff Slemmons, co-presented by Gallery Loupe, and a presentation on Legacy: Jewelry Making in Building African American Communities, Preserving Heritage, and Pushing Creative Boundaries, with Sebastian Grant, curator, art historian, and professor at Parsons School of Design.
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#JewelryGeography / Greenwich Village Virtual Walking Tour (September 2020)
Jewelry historian Toni Greenbaum took us to 1930s-1970s Greenwich Village, a mecca for studios and shops specializing in handmade "modernist" jewelry, for a visit with extraordinary and influential jewelers such as Sam Kramer, Art Smith, Francisco Rebajes, Winifred Mason, Paul Lobel, Bill Tendler, and Ed Wiener.
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The Scoop – Virtual (August 2020)
We rounded out our Summer of Stories and got back to The Scoop with a virtual ice cream social and storytelling show, featuring storytellers from around the country.
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These Days (Spring 2020)
A note from quarantine. In this period of uncertainty and growing concern, we look forward to brighter times ahead and are sending well wishes worldwide.
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Jewelry DNA (Spring 2020)
We have been thinking about our families and the generations before us, telling stories about those we inherited our Jewelry DNA–and our jewelry–from, in an ongoing series.
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Ways We Say I Love You (February 2020)
A look at how we express love with modest as well as lavish materials and simple as well as grand gestures in a show of contemporary and vintage jewelry curated by Jewelry Week co-founder JB Jones and TJL’s Karen Davidov.
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Valentina Caprini Artist Talk (January 2020)
Visiting contemporary jeweler Valentina Caprini, based in Florence, Italy, shared her story and her work in The Great Room @ The Jewelry Library before leading a three-day workshop on one of her specialties, contemporary filigree, at Brooklyn Metal Works.
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New York City Jewelry Week 2019
A look at our NYCJW2019 lineup, including News from the Netherlands, an exhibition showcasing the work of two Dutch contemporary jewelers, Liesbet Bussche and Koen Jacobs, who embrace an uninhibited approach to jewelry. Curated by Liesbeth den Besten and Alexandra van Strien-de Groot.
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Open Book: Dreaming in Silver (Summer 2019)
A deep dive into Dreaming in Silver, Penny Morrill's dual-language English/Spanish treatise on vintage and contemporary Mexican jewelry. The exhibition featured a range of works, many straight from the pages of the book, with an emphasis on artists and jewelers with stories that are lesser-known.
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Demo at Brooklyn Metalworks (July 2019)
As part of Open Book: Dreaming in Silver, we teamed up with Brooklyn Metal Works and silversmith Preston Jones to examine more closely the process of repoussé and chasing.
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Paper as Protection and Gift / Recent Work by Kiff Slemmons (May 2019)
In this exhibition, American artist Kiff Slemmons continued to investigate past jewelry forms through an ongoing exploration of paper as a material. These works addressed the simultaneous strength and fragility of paper, the historical and cultural significance of the material, and the use of paper and jewelry as a way to both protect and connect.
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Jewelry Detectives: Rediscovering Eda Lord Dixon (February 2019)
The first in our Jewelry Detectives storytelling series. Medill Harvey and Lori Zabar took us through an engrossing tale that started with a mysterious new acquisition and led to the fascinating rediscovery of American jeweler, enamelist, and silversmith, Eda Lord Dixon.
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Holiday Pop-Up / Baubles, Books, and Bubbly (December 2018)
We collaborated with a few of our favorite galleries (thank you Sienna Patti, Mark Mcdonald, Mark Goodstein, Michael Rodriguez, and Pauline Ginnane Gasbarro) to create a selection of vintage and contemporary pieces for the holidays.
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The Kinship Between / American Women Jewelers, Part I (November 2018)
Curated by Mark McDonald and Sienna Patti, The Kinship Between featured vintage works by three mid-century jewelers and new work by four contemporary artists. The show explored shared aspects of their craft as metalsmiths and the kinship between their ways of working and their design process as well as their shared use of form and material.
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