OPEN CALL

APPLY BY 16 MAY 2025!

4-day intensive online workshop for contemporary jewelry artists and designers.

Workshop date: 7 + 8 June 2025

Until quite recently the following sentences pictured the jewelry artist’s reality:

• Artists make art and galleries sell it.
• Artists get grants to support their practice and institutions collect their work.
• Artists pay low studio rentals and find teaching jobs easily.
• Artists show their work in fairs and weeks and customers buy their art without gallery representation.

After four years of stagnation, if not a decrease in assignments, sales, funding opportunities, many jewelry artists start to wonder what is wrong. Not rarely, artists ask themselves what happened to their customers.

Lack of information, fatigue, fear of exposure and rejection, peer pressure, but also a negative attitude towards earning money block the vision of many jewelry artists who have no idea of how to navigate this unusually hard situation influenced by major political, ideological, economic, military shifts and conflicts.

Contemporary jewelers who wish to flourish will have to learn managerial and communication skills, to read and understand the news, to value and to protect their assets, to evaluate their investments, and plan for the future based on facts. It will get tougher out there for the ones who refuse to change, and the sooner one realizes it, the more time he/she has to embrace and initiate change. Only realistic strategies, and solid knowledge of the sector and the opportunities that arise in synergies and new initiatives will help jewelry artists draft their own survival plan.

Success requires hard work and a shift in mentality, however the results will be most empowering and rewarding.

The online workshop Survival Workshop for Jewelry Artists offers a two-day intensive meeting & interaction on 7 and 8 June 2025.
Customized exercises, solid knowledge of economics and the sector’s reality, as well as over thirty years of professional experience in art practice, curation and education guarantee that participants will leave the workshop with a realistic vision of how to move on.    

WORKSHOP DETAILS

The Survival Workshop for Jewelry Artists: Outline

• Jewelry is magic, status, power.
• Clarity, facts, perspectives of the contemporary jewelry sector and the international situation. The role of academia, state institutions, galleries and art dealers, corporate sponsors.
• Mind blockers. Ideology and other limiting beliefs.
• Your assets.
• Drafting your business plan.
• Ethics. Law and agreements. Intellectual property. The dark side of jewelry: thieves, crooks, liars.
• Savoir vivre.
• Synergies.
• How to price and sell your work?
• Storytelling.
• Are galleries and art dealers still needed?
• Principles of successful visual communication.
• Jewelry in times of war. The years of radical change are yet to come.

DATES & FEES

Number of participants:  The workshop is designed for a group of 4 to 6 participants.

Workshop date:  Sat 7 + Sun 8 June 2025

Duration:  12 hours (2 x 6 hours)

Participation fee:  per participant – 380,00 EUR

HOW TO APPLY

Email your application with cover letter introducing yourself and stating your incentive to participate in the workshop program. Include your bio/CV and website/blog or instagram link.

Application deadline is Friday, 16 May 2025.