Current Exhibitions

There are currently no guild exhibitions.

Future Exhibitions

Process: 2011 NJMAG Juried Members Exhibition
September 1 - October 21, 2011
Entries due: June 17
Download entry form

Process: “a systematic series of actions, physical or mental, directed to some end”
—The Oxford English Dictionary

When we see a finished work of art, we don’t often grasp the many steps taken to arrive at that point of completion.

Artists’ digital submissions of finished work will be juried, and, once notified that works will be exhibited, artists will provide a documentary record of their process for each work. This record is open and may include: sketches, photographs of materials, video, written or pictographic sources of inspiration, models, etc. The documentation of the process will be exhibited alongside the finished pieces.

We hope that by presenting documentation of “process” in addition to artwork, people will gain a deeper understanding of the maker’s intimate experience of creating a work of art.

About the juror
Elyse Zorn Karlin is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry and Related Arts. She is the past president of The American Society of Jewelry Historians and the author of the definitive book Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition and co-author of Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry and several other books.

She is currently the co-director of The Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts, LLC and The Annual Conference on Jewelry & Related Arts. She lectures frequently at museums and universities. Karlin is curator of Jewelers of the Hudson Valley, an exhibition at The Forbes Gallery, New York City (April 9-June 25, 2011). She is currently working with Yvonne Markowitz, Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on a book about the jewelry of the American First Ladies.

Past Exhibitions

NJMAG Members Exhibition
October-December, 2009
New Jersey City University
Ulysses Grant Dietz, Senior Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, juried this very first NJMAG Members Exhibition.