Marjorie Simon

Everybody knows Pat Flynn. Pat Flynn, the jewelerly jeweler. Pat Flynn the goldsmith’s goldsmith. The bear of a man from...

This article is a book review published in the 1997 Fall issue of the Metalsmith Magazine reviweing "Uber den Schmuck...

For more than 20 years Judith Hoyt has parsed the human figure in metal and mixed media. Beginning with a...

'The Art of Gold,' curated by Michael Monroe, is the first major survey of contemporary American goldsmithing. The traveling exhibition...

Silver has been a part of American domestic ritual and tradition since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when bourgeois families...

Visitors to craft shows may know Steven Ford and David Forlano by their company name, CityZenCane, the polymer clay guys,...

When Venetian glassmakers sold out their state secrets to Czech glassmakers, Jablonec began its hegemony in glass beads. The region...

The classics never go out of style. Classicism as a design principle has come to mean simplicity, proportion, restraint, and...

Once upon a time, all art was about nature, the simplification or elaboration of natural forms. Egyptians assembled leaves of...

Two new European jewelry books crossed my desk this summer. One offered an uneven survey of jewelry concepts and the...

One of the best things about a retrospective book is having a window into the mind of an artist, meandering...