In her latest series, Emily Culver presents a collection of new works in the form of jewelry, objects, and image configured to mimic intimate places. The works exhibited inhabit an active place of being; somewhere between converging, dissipating and vibrating. Suggestion of these parts and particles in flux populate the forms, imagery, and patterns utilized throughout. By acknowledging these gaps – between inside and outside, matter and void – new space is generated. This new space, like a portal, is one to be gazed into but not through.

The Baltimore Jewelry Center presents Metal Shop 2019. In this exhibition, each artist represented in our retail shop, Metal Shop, will present a small body of work to be showcased on our gallery walls.

Brice Garrett’s Casting Shadows is an installation of jewelry, sculpture, and print. The work uses production materials, techniques, and the language of adornment to explore associations with the body, labor, and value.

Metal as a material is intrinsically linked to the history and production of utensils and implements for the home.

The exhibition Drawing Down will explore the intersection between the practices of drawing and materials commonly used in jewelry-making.

I source and celebrate imagery and histories of women that rebel against cultural expectations of how women are supposed to act.

Through time immemorial and through a variety of means and methods, humans have altered, modified, constricted, extended, and aided our bodies.

The cameo has a vast and varied history, from antiquity to the present day. It has acted as a signifier of prestige and status, a memento for travel, and an indicator of desire.

Time Shares is an exhibition showcasing photos by artist Jill Fannon that capture five contemporary jewelers’ work.

JE was started by Kat Cole and Laura Wood in 2012 as a new type of opportunity for early career artists to gain national exposure. Through our diverse network we are able to offer many different exposure and sales opportunities to the jewelers selected for JE. Over the last three years JE has exhibited 18 artists and traveled their work to different locations including galleries, conferences, institutions, and public spaces.

Pairings is an exhibition partnering the work of select national and international contemporary art jewelers with Baltimore-based artists working in other media.

To tempt, to seduce, to bewitch, to entrap, to wink, to flash, to caution, to scream. The duality of Sirens conjures vivid images that can be linked to the powerful capabilities of jewelry. Sirens is a collection of new work from the JV Collective, a group of six female artists based in Philadelphia.

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.

Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore is a community jewelry mining and recycling project. The project breathes new life into unwanted or discarded jewelry by challenging artists to utilize donated jewelry to make new work.

Touchy/Feely is an exhibition that explores the tactile experience of jewelry. Adam Gopnik writes “Touch is the unsung sense–the one that we depend on most and talk about the least…the work of the world is done by handling it.

With Moves Like MacGyver examines the creative lengths to which makers will go in order to complete a piece that they did not originally have the tools necessary to do so.

FormAdorn celebrates the synergy that results when media collides. Baltimore Clayworks and the Baltimore Jewelry Center have partnered to showcase the work of ceramicists, metalsmiths, and jewelers who create wearables or vessels utilizing an intersection of clay and metal.