Baltimore Jewelry Center
This Must Be The Place

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.

This Must Be The Place

Proposed Excavation

In Proposed Excavation, a solo exhibition by Demi Thomloudis, systems, colors, forms and marks are observed and excavated from the built environment and reorganized in a new system to now inhabit the space on the body as ornament. Roles have been reversed. Now, instead of our bodies moving in and around the space, the language of these spaces occupies the intimate landscape of the body. Thomloudis intends to challenge the construct of jewelry as a means to examine value, material sign systems and extensions of identity through the lens of place. Her jewelry is a means to connect us closer to the world we are surrounded by.

Common Threads

Common Threads

Fashion can be a marker of cultural history, tracking historical movements through the lines, patterns, materials, and even hemlines of a garment or an era. Common Threads is an exhibition of jewelry and sculptural objects that were each inspired by an iconic fashion piece. The items used as inspiration are highly notable, whether because of their innovativeness, craftsmanship, or the way in which they are significantly tied to a moment in history.

Into || Not Through

Into || Not Through

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.

Jewelry Edition Vol.4

Jewelry Edition Vol.4

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.

Icons of the Flesh

Icons of the Flesh

Lauren Kalman’s Icons of the Flesh is comprised of two series of work, Embodiers and Avatars, that visualize the body in ways that promote positive identification with anatomy and sexuality. Works in the Embodiers series are described as badges, collars, and buttons, rather than necklaces or brooches, allusions to wearable communication devices as seen in military use or in political movements.