AJF Award 2010

The Art Jewelry Forum, founded in 1997, is a non-profit organization with the mission to advocate the field of contemporary art jewelry by promoting education, appreciation, and support for contemporary art jewelry. The award was established in 1999 and its first recipient, Yeon-Mi Keong, received the award at the 2000 Conference of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. 



This is the 10th year that AJF has awarded a contemporary jewelry artist a $5000 cash award with no strings attached.

The purpose of the award is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of an emerging jewelry artist and to help to advance the artist's career.
The competition is open to makers of wearable art jewelry who:

. have completed their academic/professional training,
. have been out of school for one year or more, and
. have not had a solo artist exhibition in a commercial gallery or museum. 

Submitted work must have been unsupervised if from an academic setting.

Jurors for the 2010 competition are: 
Namita Wiggers, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon
Susan Beech, long-standing member of AJF and a collector of contemporary jewelry
Sharon Massey, jewelry artist and recipient of the AJF's 2009 Award. 

The deadline for submission is June 14th.



Gail Hufjay
914-282-9844
info@artjewelryforum.org