2020 Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award

The Art Jewelry Forum's Young Artist Award acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of early-career artists and helps advance their careers. The award consists of an unrestricted cash award of $7,500.

The competition is open to makers of wearable art jewelry who are 35 years of age or younger at the time of the application deadline and who are not currently enrolled in a formal academic degree program or vocational training program. Work submitted must have been made within the past two years (2017–2019) and without supervision; work from BFA/MFA thesis and/or graduation shows may not be submitted. Applicants who applied previously must submit new work; prior submissions may not be resubmitted.

Applicants must submit: a current resume (one page maximum, without your name); an artist statement relating to the work submitted (approximately 200 words or less than 1000 characters, without your name); and a maximum of ten digital images showing up to eight pieces of work. One image must show a piece being worn on the body, and one must show the back or underneath side of a piece. Each image must include the title of piece, year produced, dimensions in millimeters, materials, and photo credit (without your name). All images submitted as jpegs must also be available in high-resolution (300 dpi or higher TIFF file) if the application reaches the finalist round. Five finalists will be selected from which the winning artist will be chosen. Jurors include the 2018 Artist Award winner Bifei Cao (China), collector Jorunn Veiteberg (Norway), and curator Barbara Paris Gifford (United States). The submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time on January 12, 2020. Incomplete or late entries will not be accepted.