The Plus One Collective

Artist list

Drew Baker, Ben Cooke-Akaiwa, Courtney DiMare, Daniel Dicaprio, Sarah Loch-Test, Susan Mannion, Barbara McFadyen, Cathy Timbrell, Marlene True, Grant Turner, Sishi Wang

The first exhibition in 2020 at Romanian Jewelry Week, began with a group of invited artists who were then asked to select another enamelist whom they admired to be their “plus one” in the exhibition. The result was an intimate collection of a variety of enamel techniques by artists ranging in age, experience, and geographical location.

Since 2020 the Collective has become an annual event, to which new artists are continually invited to be the “plus one” of the previous year’s invitee. In this way the Collective has begun to take on a life and history of its own. Each year a group of artists step down and a new group enters, offering participants two years of participation between being the invitee and being the inviter to the Collective. My hope is that this Collective will continue for many years, have artists participate from around the world and offer a brief telling of the story and history of enamel.
/ Jennifer Wells

For 2024/25, the fifth edition of the Plus One Exhibition has traveled to multiple venues. Starting with Slovenia Jewelry Week in May of 2024, then onto Romanian Jewelry Week for October and for December 2024 the Exhibition will be on display at Le Arti Orafe in Florence Italy for two weeks, before heading to the U.S for its final stop at Creative Metalsmiths in North Carolina at the start of 2025.

For December 2024 the Exhibition will be on display and open to visitors at Le Arti Orafe, Via dei Serragli 104 Florence.

The opening event will be December 5th from 16:30-18:00 h.

Daily open hours for the exhibition will be Monday- Friday from 10:00- 18:00 h from December 6th – 19th.