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Boris Bally
Chris Ramsey
Susan Ganch
Anya Kivarkis
Arline Fisch
 Lynda LaRoche
Cynthia Eid
Jim Bove
 Sue Amendolara
THE JAPANESE JEWELRY DESIGN ASSOCIATION recently showed Pioneers of Art Jewelry from America exhibition, showing at the Sendai Mediatheque Gallery, 2-1, Kasuga-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Japan 980-0821. Over sixty pieces of contemporary jewelry by twelve American jewelry artists were displayed. These artists were participants in the Japan jewelry Art Competition 2008. The exhibit will tour five cities in Japan, with the next location at the Design Gallery, 4th floor of the International Design Center, in Nagoya, on display for five days, July 2 to 7. The Pioneers of Art Jewelry from America exhibition closes at the Mitsubishi Artium Imz 8th floor in Fukuoka, from August 27 to September 15. Shown is work by Boris Bally, Chris Ramsey, Susan Ganch, Anya Kivarkis, Arline Fisch, Lynda LaRoche, Cynthia Eid, Jim Bove and Sue Amendolara.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
ARIZONA
 THE ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM holds Set in Stone: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest, an exhibit running through February 2010. This exhibition explores how the quest for turquoise, shell and copper—and eventually silver and gold—shaped the character of the Southwest. It will cover Native American jewelry, from prehistoric work over two thousand years old to contemporary Indian jewelers. Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721; 520.626.8381; www.statemuseum.arizona.edu.
ARIZONA
THE PHOENIX ART MUSEUM presents Chado Ralph Rucci at the Ellman Fashion Design Gallery. In 2002, Ralph Rucci became the second American fashion designer to be a member of the haute couture in Paris. This exhibition of Rucci’s elegant, contemporary clothing features examples from his twenty-five year career as a distinguished artist and visionary.
1625 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685; www.phxart.org.
CALIFORNIA THE DESIGN MUSEUM AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS features a series of “Eco-exhibitions” through 2008. The exhibit construction, installation and museum operations incorporate green design, sustainable practice and design research. One such exhibit, Fashion Conscious: Designs That Will Change the World One Garment at a Time, running from May 15 to July 13, 2008, will explore sustainability and how it relates to the clothes we buy.
145 Walker Hall, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CAa 95616; www.designmuseum.ucdavis.edu.
CALIFORNIA THE SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM recently closed A Day in Pompeii, an exhibition displaying over two hundred fifty assorted art objects and artifacts. Included in the exhibit are mosaics, jewelry, sculptures, and frescoes. The San Diego Natural History Museum was one of only four museums that hosted this exclusive exhibition. A Day in Pompeii is a collaboration of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei and the presenting American institutions: the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the San Diego Natural History Museum, and Discovery Place.
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101; www.sdnhm.org.
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM hosts Mood IndigoKENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM hosts Mood Indigo, an exhibit ending August 31. The famous dye has been a dominant force in fashion, and has a history extending thousands of years. Though indigo dye was found in an Egyptian mummy’s bandages from circa 2400 B.C., the dye’s use is said to have originated in India where the earliest archaeological evidence dates from 2000 B.C. Mood Indigo features over sixty textiles and garments from around the world. From humble Japanese kimonos to French Haute Couture, the history of one of the oldest and most important dyes will begin with a study of the origin and global dissemination of the indigofera plant. Rockwell Hall, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001; www.kent.edu/museum.
INDIANA
THE FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART displays American Modernist Jewelry: 1940-1970, showing from May 3 to August 24. At the opening event on May 2 Marbeth Schon will give a lecture drawing from her soon to be published book Form and Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970. Over fifty collectors and living jewelers have consigned some of the best examples of modernist jewelry from 1940-1970 for the exhibit, which will also include sculpture by Jose de Rivera and Peter Macchiarini.
311 E. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802; www.fwmoa.org.
MASSACHUSETTS
THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM presents Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony, beginning April 26 and ending September 14. Featuring approximately one hundred thirty objects, this show presents work by famous artists such as Pablo Picasso alongside historic and couture gowns, ceremonial items and rare jewelry.
161 Essex St., Salem, MA 01970; 866.745.1876; www.pem.org.
MASSACHUSETTS
THE MUSEUM OF AMERICA partners with the Armenian Library to deliver an exhibition featuring jewelry from the Holocaust. A survivor of Auschwitz, Meyer Hack kept secret for more than sixty years a small collection of pocket watches, a diamond ring, a gold bracelet set with emeralds, and other pieces of jewelry that Jewish Holocaust victims owned when they went to their deaths. Hack was an inmate at the concentration camp for four years where he worked on the camp’s laundry crew processing clothing the Nazis had taken from the camp’s new arrivals and handing out uniforms to other prisoners. Sometimes he would find jewels and other valuables in the pockets or sewn into garments, and he kept them hidden in a sock. He would eventually put these on display at the Museum, where it began showing January 20. An end date has not yet been announced. One of the reasons for this joint venture is the hope of resolving a dispute between members of the Armenian and Jewish communities.
65 Main St., Watertown, MA 02472; www.almainc.org.
THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART displays Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan
 THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART displays Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan
THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART displays Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan, continuing until July 20. Though quintessentially Japanese, the kimono form has influenced fashion designers around the globe. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition featuring approximately eighty kimono created in the early to mid-twentieth century, one of the most dynamic periods in the history of this dress form. The examples in the exhibition, drawn from the Montgomery Collection of Japanese Art in Lugano, Switzerland, have never previously been exhibited in North America.
Fairmount and Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130; www.philamuseum.org.
MASSACHUSETTS
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON presents Art And Empire: Treasures From Assyria In The British Museum, beginning September 21 and ending January 4, 2009. Most of the artifacts were discovered during excavations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at the Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh by noted archaeologists Austen Henry Layard and Max Mallowan. Monumental carved wall reliefs that document Assyria’s domination of the area—from Iran to Egypt—are featured in the exhibition. They shed light on daily life, religion, sport, warfare, and the luxurious cosmopolitan lifestyle enjoyed by the king. An array of smaller objects—jewelry, bronzes, ivories, cylinder seals, and tablets—address the administration of the empire, trade, personal beliefs, and relationships between religion, magic and medicine.
Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115; www.mfa.org.
NEW MEXICO
THE WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM hosts From the Railroad to Route 66: The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico, which ends April 19, 2009. Starting with the arrival of the railroad in 1880, Pueblo and Navajo artisans collaborated with non-Indian dealers to invent artifacts that had no purpose but to satisfy the demand for Indian goods. The curio trade would eventually produce a number of talented jewelers, many of whom are included in the exhibition.
704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505; www.wheelwright.org.
SOUTH CAROLINA
THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM presents Clothes to Dye for: Colorful Textiles from the Charleston Museum Collection, running until April 18. This year-long exhibition focuses on the power of color, its richness and intensity and examines color symbolism and color theory. The Museum will change colors each quarter of a year, focusing on a specific hue, from blue to gold to red and finally green.
360 Meeting St., Charleston, SC 29403; 843.722.2996; www.charlestonmuseum.org.
THE JOSLYN ART MUSEUM hosts Elegance of the Qing Court: Reflections of a Dynasty Through Its Art. The exhibition spans the entire dynasty, presenting over two hundred porcelain, metal, lacquer, ivory, and jade objects. Most of these items were made for the court or its officials, but are contrasted with several commercial pieces. Included are examples of porcelain from the Imperial kilns at Jingdeshen, textiles demonstrating court dress, furniture from the Summer Palace, and smaller objects such as belt buckles and abstinence plaques. The exhibit will be showing at the Swanson Galleries, Yanney Gallery and Gallery 15. Shown is Left: a Surcoat for wife of official, late nineteenth century, silk embroidery on silk, Private collection, and Right top: Two-piece belt buckle, eighteenth century, hornbill, Marilyn and Robert Hamburger Collection; Right bottom: Oval belt buckle, nineteenth century, hornbill, Marilyn and Robert Hamburger Collection.
2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102; www.joslyn.org.
NEW YORK THE MUSEUM AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY displays Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion, an exhibit which will run through November 8. This exhibition is the first chronological survey focusing on the female creators, promoters and clients who have shaped fashion’s course for more than two hundred fifty years. Arbiters of Style features approximately seventy looks, from the work of female designers to clothing and accessories worn by female department store executives, influential clients, magazine editors, muses, and models.
Seventh Avenue at 27 St., New York, NY 10001; www.fitnyc.edu/museum.
NEW YORK THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART unveils an exhibition exploring pop culture in Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. In recent years superheroes are enjoying a surge in mass popularity not seen since the golden age of comic books in the 1940s. The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan explores the symbolic and metaphorical associations between these fictional characters and fashion in this new exhibit being shown through September 1.
1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028; www.metmuseum.org.
OHIO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM hosts Mood Indigo, an exhibit ending August 31. The famous dye has been a dominant force in fashion, and has a history extending thousands of years. Though indigo dye was found in an Egyptian mummy’s bandages from circa 2400 B.C., the dye’s use is said to have originated in India where the earliest archaeological evidence dates from 2000 B.C. The exhibit features over sixty textiles and garments from around the world. From humble Japanese kimono to French haute couture, the history of one of the oldest and most important dyes begins with a study of the origin and global dissemination of the indigofera plant.
Rockwell Hall, Kent, OH 44242; www.kent.edu/museum.
WASHINGTON, D.C. THE BEAD MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C., presents Treasures of the Earth, an exhibition that delves into the process whereby a gemstone becomes jewelry. Rough materials such as amber, jade, turquoise, and other unusual specimens are paired with a finished bead, faceted stone, ring or wearable object. The exhibition continues to September 2008.
The Jennifer Building, 400 Seventh St., N.W., Ground Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004.
THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I ART GALLERY hosts Writing With Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities from September 21 to November 30. This exhibit features over five hundred pieces of clothing and silver ornaments from a collection of southwest Chinese ethnic minority costumes unmatched in the world. Over the last seventeen years, the Evergrand Museum in Taiwan, under the direction of Huang Ying-feng, has assembled the most extraordinary examples of the textile arts of the southwest region of China. Costumes from fifteen ethnic groups and nearly one hundred ethnic subgroups will be shown in the United States for the first time. Shown is a Miao Fenghuang and Shidong style outfit.
2535 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, Hawai’i 96822; www.hawaii.edu/artgallery.
WASHINGTON, D.C. THE TEXTILE MUSEUM holds an exhibition on traditional Bolivian textiles entitled The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands, which ends September 18. This exhibit features a number of belts, bags, hats, and other accessories made and used by the indigenous people of the Bolivian highlands. A large group of traditional Bolivian textiles acquired by the Museum in late 2007 inspired the exhibition and comprises the bulk of the more than one hundred objects on view. Complementing these objects are other Bolivian textiles drawn from the Museum’s collection.
2320 S St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008; www.textilemuseum.org.
WISCONSIN THE RACINE ART MUSEUM presents Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro through August 10. An acclaimed metalsmith and jeweler, Pardon contributed much to the rise of American studio jewelry in the latter half of the twentieth century. Although Pardon is best known as a jeweler, this exhibition explores his multi-faceted career as a painter, sculptor and gardener, as well as demonstrating his affinity with the Abstract Expressionists.
441 Main St., Racine, WI 53403; www.ramart.org.
UNITED KINGDOM THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM opened its new William and Judith Bollinger Gallery on May 24. The gallery contains thirty-five hundred jewels from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. The new gallery will center principally on the story of European jewelry during the last eight hundred years. On show will be jewels that reflect the splendor of courtly life, some of the finest designs from the great jewelry houses of the twentieth century and jewels designed by important contemporary makers. Over one hundred forty living goldsmiths and jewelers are also represented in the gallery.
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL; www.vam.ac.uk.
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
 
CALIFORNIA DE NOVO displays the work of Todd Reed from September 13 to October 11. Reed’s distinctive jewelry utilizes numerous raw diamonds and gold to create detailed work.
250 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301; 650.327.1256.
THE LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAFTSMEN hosts its seventy-fifth annual Craftsmen’s Fair. The first Fair was established in 1933 to provide League members with a venue to showcase and sell their craft. The annual Craftsmen’s Fair gives visitors a unique opportunity to experience the world of fine craftmaking. There is something for everyone: hands-on craft workshops, craft demonstrations, museum-style exhibitions, in-depth tours of craft booths, informative lectures, and over three hundred fifty juried craftspeople. This year’s Fair is being held from August 2 to 10 at Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury, New Hampshire. Shown is a pendant by Lynn Adams.
Route 103, Newbury, New Hampshire 03255; www.nhcrafts.org.
MASSACHUSETTS
MOBILIA GALLERY hosts Nora Fok: Nylon Botanicus II, an exhibit through July 26. Fok creates meticulously crafted pieces of wearable art inspired by the The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Boston.
358 Huron Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; 617.876.2109.
NEW JERSEY GALLERY LOUPE recently showcased Out of the Shell: Recontextualizing the Pearl. Curated by Sherry Simms, the international exhibition featured the pearl as the primary component as interpreted by eighteen contemporary jewelry artists.
6 Midland Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042; 973.744.0061.
NEW MEXICO
PATINA GALLERY exhibits the collection of Charon Kransen, internationally respected curator and critic, from June 6 to July 6. His collection consists of jewelry and accessories by renowned and emerging artists. The focus is on the artists’ personal vision and an innovative approach, characterized by the use of a wide spectrum of materials from paper to precious.
131 West Palace Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501; 505.986.3432.
NEW YORK THE FORBES GALLERIES recently featured the work of Leila Tai in the National Jewelry Institute’s 2008 Designer Showcase. This exhibit hosted works by approximately twenty-five noted designers. Tai utilizes the process plique à jour, which literally means stretched in such a way that the light of day may pass through. The enamel is laid up in a network of metal cells with no backing. When fired, it creates an effect that resembles miniature stained glass windows. The exhibit next travels to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, from July through December 2008.
62 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011; 212.206.5548.
JANE BOOTH 1921 - 2008
Jane Booth was a remarkable pioneer in glass jewelry, who flawlessly combined this difficult medium with metal. She was proficient in both borosilicates and soft glass, although clear Pyrex was her preferred canvas. Using sophisticated and aesthetic cold connections, Booth fabricated dramatic and wearable neckpieces that were scintillating in reflective and refracted light. She was the first contemporary jeweler that Ornament presented as a cover feature in 1975, when we still published under our former title, The Bead Journal. While an accomplished artist in the 1970s, Jane Booth worked from 1979 to 1994 as the Photograph Archivist, along with her husband Larry, the Curator of the Photograph Archives at the San Diego Historical Society. Organized, hard-working and well-loved by the staff, she was a major contributor to the book, Collection, Use and Care of Historic Photographs, that was written by Larry and Robert A. Weinstein. She was especially motivated to document the photographic history of women in San Diego. Even after retiring in 1994, she volunteered several days a week at the museum. As a result of working with her on the 1975 article, my wife and I became friends with Jane. We loved her warmth, good advice and her manifold skills. In the 1970s, Booth got me my first oxyacetylene torch, which I still use. She is survived by her daughter Jeanie Booth-Rex, three grandchildren and five great grandchildren. It is hoped that her jewelry will find a home at a major contemporary craft museum. Shown is choker of Pyrex elements and silver, 1975.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
THE FREER GALLERY OF ART hosts a continuing exhibition of small glass vessels and sculpture collected by Charles Lang Freer. The exhibit consists of a number of ancient Egyptian sculptures of wood, stone and bronze, as well as amulets, glass beads and inlays, and other objects purchased by the gallery’s founder.
Independence Avenue and 12th St., S.W.; www.asia.si.edu
FAIRS, MARKETS & SHOWS
NEW YORK
 
THE AMERICAN CONCERN FOR ARTISTRY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP announces its twelfth annual Craft as Art Festival at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York, from October 11 to 13. One hundred twenty craft artists will offer original, handcrafted and professional work to around nine thousand customers.
One Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor, NY 11576; 516.484.9338.
THE WESTERN DESIGN CONFERENCETHE WESTERN DESIGN CONFERENCE holds its 2008 symposium at the Snow King Center in Jackson, Wyoming, from September 4 to 6. The internationally attended Western Design Conference includes an exhibition and sale, a popular fashion show and now the newly added jewelry show. “We wanted to give jewelry makers the opportunity to showcase their work without the barrier of the runway,” explained Nancy McCullough-McCoy. “In previous years the jewelry was part of our fashion show, but we felt spectators would appreciate an up-close-and-personal look.” Artisans and craftspeople from furniture to jewelers display work drawing on artistic influences including Adirondack, Asian, Southwestern, Hispanic, Native American, rustic, lodge, and modern. Shown is Chief Joseph pendant and earrings from Western Vintage Revival. 400 East Snow King Avenue, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 83001; www.westerndesignconference.com.
EAST MALAYSIA
THE SARAWAK CRAFT COUNCIL AND THE TOURISM BOARD presents the Rainforest World Crafts Bazaar running from July 7 to 15, which will be held at the Sarawak Museum in Kuching. This event will coincide with the Rainforest World Music Festival (www.rainforestmusic-borneo.com). Part of the Music Festival’s workshops will be conducted at or near the venue of the Rainforest World Craft Bazaar; participants in the Bazaar will receive a complimentary ticket to attend one night’s performance at the Music Festival. The main focus of the Rainforest World Craft Bazaar is the use of traditional materials and traditional skills enhanced by competent modern design. Modern materials, in well-designed applications, also have a place in the Rainforest World Craft Bazaar; there is particular interest in the novel use of recycled substances such as metals, plastic and textiles.
Tun Abang Haji Openg Rd., Kuching, Sarawak 93566, Malaysia.
CONFERENCES, LECTURES & SYMPOSIA
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FLORIDA
 THE HANDWEAVERS GUILD OF AMERICA recently sponsored Convergence 2008, an international biennial conference for those working or interested in sewing, dyeing, beading, knitting, weaving, spinning, and the fiber arts. Over five thousand fiber enthusiasts met at the the Tampa Bay Convention Center. Convergence 2008 hosted Marcy Petrini, Kathy Hays and Catharine Ellis as the featured speakers. It also provided thirty workshops, forty studio classes, more than one hundred seminars, and over twenty-five exhibits throughout the community of Tampa Bay.
www.weavespindye.org.
HAWAI’I THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA holds its 2008 biennial symposium, Textiles as Cultural Expressions, in Honolulu from September 24 to 27. New York-based artist Kimsooja will present the keynote address, A Needle Woman. Other speakers include Maile Andrade, an assistant professor at the University of Hawai’i and Marques Marzan, a fiber artist who works in Cultural Collections at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
www.textilesociety.org.
THE MINT MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN presents Masters of Disguise, an exhibit on display until July 20. The show explores concealment in various artforms, from masks and clothing to jewelry and household objects. It includes seventy-four selected works, primarily from the Mint Museum’s permanent collection. These items address not only man’s relationship with self-transformation, but also examine disguised forms, materials and environments. The included pieces range from an ancient Mayan chocolate vessel to a contemporary trompe l’oeil sculpture by California Funk artists. Shown is Purple Mink Hanging Wrap Necklace by Tina Rath, Imagine Reflessa Neckpiece by Evert Nijland, and Lapis Matrix Ring by Ruudt Peters.
2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, North Carolina 28207; www.mintmuseum.org.
INDIANA
THE INTERNATIONAL PRECIOUS METAL CLAY GUILD announces dates for its fourth biennial conference, which will be held July 17-20, 2008, on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette.
www.pmc-conference.com.
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
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ITALY
 TOSCANA AMERICANA WORKSHOPS presents in conjunction with the Center for Beadwork and Jewelry Arts and Land of Odds the workshop Contemporizing Traditional Etruscan Jewelry: The Art, Technique and Design of Bead Stringing and Bead Weaving. This workshop will take place in Cortona, Italy from June 28 to July 5.
www.toscanaamericana.com.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CALIFORNIA
MYSPACE CELEBRITY KAILA YU has become one of the first artists to link the release of a new song with a line of new jewelry. Both the song and the jewelry collection are named Hello Drama, and the twenty-four year old California artist-entrepreneur said that her music and her jewelry flow out of the same creative process. The jewelry line is inspired by Yu’s music, which serves as the backdrop to all the pieces. Yu describes her Hello Drama Jewelry as a L.A.-based, rock, anime, and lyrically inspired jewelry line.
www.hellodrama.net.
GEORGIA
THE CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND has been reaching out to artists and arts organizations in Atlanta and surrounding communities in Georgia, following the March 14 tornado, and in Arkansas, Missouri and parts of neighboring states, which experienced severe flooding. Craft artists who were affected by these recent disasters, may contact CERF directly at 802.229.2306.
P. O. Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601; www.craftemergency.org.
CRAFT IN AMERICA, the PBS documentary three-part series on the history, artists and techniques of our nation’s rich craft culture, has been awarded television’s highest honor, the prestigious Peabody Award. Craft in America was created by Carol Sauvion, the project’s co-executive producer. Joining her in her effort were fellow Californians Kyra Thompson (co-executive producer and writer) and Jacoba Atlas, former PBS vice president of programming. KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, is the presenting station for Craft in America. Also part of the Craft in America project were the publication of Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects, an exhibition, Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, curated by Jo Lauria, that travels nationally for two years, and the website www.craftinamerica.org. New programs in the series will air in primetime, nationwide on PBS in 2009.
MARYLAND
NICHE MAGAZINE, part of The Rosen Group, issues a call for entries for the NICHE 2009 Awards Competition. Application forms, rules and guidelines for the 2009 program are available for download at AmericanCraft.com through the NICHE Awards link. The entry deadline for professionals is August 30, 2008. The deadline for student entries is September 30, 2008. Categories include fiber, ceramics, glass, metal, wood, and jewelry. New categories added to the professional division this year are art quilts and fashion accessories.
The Rosen Group, 3000 Chestnut Ave., Baltimore, MD 21211; 410.889.2933.
NEW YORK  THE TIFFANY FOUNDATION has become the major supporter of the study center and exhibition gallery for contemporary jewelry at the Museum of Arts & Design’s future home on Columbus Circle, in New York City, opening in 2008. The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery, named in recognition of the foundation’s generosity, will be the first resource of its kind in the country. In addition, the museum has announced the appointment of Ursula Ilse-Neuman as the Museum of Arts & Design’s first Curator of Jewelry. 
VERMONT
THE CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND, known as CERF, has announced that assistance is available to artists who suffered from the Southern California fires. For more information visit www.craftemergency.org.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
 THE BEAD MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C., launched its first annual juried design competition in December 2007. Applications may now be submitted until July 25, 2008 via mail, or August 8, 2008 via email.
The Jennifer Building, 400 Seventh St., N.W., Ground Floor, Washington, D.C. 20004.

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