Hi all, I’m forwarding this email from a Canadian list that Brian
Adams posted to, because I think its a very interresting example of
how art/craft jewellers can get together to make change and educate
the public. check out the gallery web site he mentions below as well,
very interesting. Charles
JAM <http://www.adam.co.nz/jam.htm is a festival of contemporary
jewellery events running Oct, Nov and Dec 1999 in and around Auckland
New Zealand.
We had the ‘Showing Off’ Party at a pub the other night, most of the
contemporsry jewellers in Auckland in a special room in a cafe, all
wearing their work - ‘Showing Off, where the jewellery on show will be
what you wear!’ I wore my latest little 25mm disc silver specs that I
fitted with my 10 year old prescription lenses an hour before the
party.
Margaret West from Sydney was there, as was Cynthia Cousens from
Britain, here on a 3-mth residency. And a few surprises were the
jewellers from Wellington - travelled 400 miles up to Auckland. They
have a ring show on which you can see at this great website:
http://www.craftinfo.org.nz/diary/moreinfo/deeper.html.
Fingers Jewellery invited their ‘stable’ of about 48 contemporary New
Zealand jewellers to exhibit in ‘925’ their silver anniversary group
exhibition. See pictures from the opening last Monday night
http://www.fingers.co.nz.
JAM is a unique event. Put on by a disparate (desperate?) group of
interested people who had never done this before. I hope you there in
Canada will appreciate the energy that goes into such a ‘festival’,
and the rewards from getting it done. Here’s a short history of the
development of JAM published in the JAM Publication 1999 and reprinted
with permission.
Let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Bri