Open Call for So Fresh + So Clean 2025. Ethical Metalsmiths Students Online Exhibition

How do you see the jewelry and metalsmithing field evolving in a world of limited resources? What does this mean for you as an artist in this ever-changing landscape? Consider what alternative processes and materials jewelers and metalsmiths might use in a future where materials like gold continue to rise in price and have economic, social, political, and environmental impacts. Investigate how the jewelry and metalsmithing field could adapt over the next 10, 20, or even 100 years.

This year, we invite you to explore how jewelry and metalsmithing can embrace or become powerful tools for sustainability. Examine how your practice can contribute to a more sustainable future. What role can you play as a steward of the craft? Consider what jewelry has to offer, both to society, and you as the creator. How does the transformative process of making jewelry shape you into a more thoughtful, responsible artist who makes work that meaningfully contributes to the good of all people and the health of our planet?
This is an opportunity to showcase your creativity, share your thoughts about the future of metalsmithing, and inspire future generations of students.

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing your exciting work!

A Note to Educators:
We hope that educators will consider adopting this Call for Entry in your courses this semester. To assist you with this, consider using the collection of curriculum materials found on the Call for Entry page.

Key dates:
Call for Entry deadline: May 31.
Notification of acceptance: July 1.
Exhibition Launch: August 1.
Guest Juror’s Choice page launch: September 1.

>> Click here for the Entry Call

Awards this year:

• Guest Juror's Choice: $500.
• EM Students Choice: $300.
• Innovative Use Of Material: $300.
• Best Presentation/ Use of Photography: $300.
• Outstanding Contribution to Ethical Practices: $300.

The Jurors:
Tanya Crane.
Lynn Batchelder.
Debra Dowden - Crockett.
Cole Kamerick Alfelt - Eller.

Application Requirements and Guidelines:
Applicants must be a current student-level member of Ethical Metalsmiths. You are eligible for EM Student membership if you have enrolled in a Jewelry or Metalsmithing related course at a high school, college, craft school, or workshop during the current year of student membership, OR if it has been less than 2 years since you graduated from a degree-granting program. For the 2025 exhibition, students must have graduated no earlier than June 2023.
 
>> Click here to sign up and become an EM Student Member