For this year’s community challenge, the BJC invited artists to create jewelry or personal objects that evoke a sense of place. How artists chose to interpret place may be political and speak of a sense of identity and nationality, may be personal and resonate with a sense of home, or may be associated with memory and imagination.
Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore/New Works is an exhibition celebrating the culmination of Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore, a community jewelry mining and recycling project that draws attention to the creativity and skills of local jewelers and designers and encourages people to consider their habits of consumption.
Chromatics is a solo exhibition of works by Lyndsay Rice that demonstrates an interest in ornamentation, structure, texture, and color as bionic augmentation for the body. She creates forms that operate as both signifiers and ornaments, investigating the parallels between plumage and badges, status, sexuality, and honor.
CrossPASS is a project featuring collaborative and solo works by artists Demitra Thomloudis and Motoko Furuhashi that examines place through expanded media and the intimate lens of jewelry and small objects. The project targets a distinctive stretch of the Interstate 10 corridor connecting the unique borderplex region of El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
