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Price and Value Tension
(Note: Yesterday I rather casually tossed off a suggestion to beaders that was criticized by one artist. In the following, I hope to clarity my thinking and meaning.) Beading, the technique of using complex stitches and tiny seed beads to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Jewelry Design, Sales
Tagged art jewelry, beaders, beading, pricing work
Stepping Out of Your Niche to Achieve Your Design Objectives
When I ran the gallery, I represented artists who worked in a variety of mediums, precious metals and gemstones, aluminum, resin, even one who produced really striking jewelry using the pages of comic books. For every one artist I represented … Continue reading
Posted in Jewelry Design
Tagged art jewelry, jewelry design, metelsmiths, pearls, pendants
Artists Have Obligation to Participate in the Marketplace
Call me a curmudgeon, but if there is one thing that truly irritates me it’s the practice of some artists of putting out their work and then announcing it’s not for sale. When I ran the gallery, if an artist … Continue reading
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Tagged art jewelry, studio jewelry
Transforming Technique into Art
Bead and pearl stringing refers to the techniques we use to assemble jewelry. But good design is what transforms technique into art and this is true whatever medium you work in. In the years I ran a craft gallery which … Continue reading
Posted in Jewelry Design
Tagged art jewelry, Hunterdon Art Museum, studio jewelry