NYC Jewelry Week: Commence Jewelry Graduate Showcase

NYC Jewelry Week aims to create an immersive, engaging and global jewelry experience. This year, they welcome the best and brightest in the industry from around the globe to deliver through leadership, exhibitions, shopping experiences, retail collaborations, and first look designer discovery at Industry City. Their programs push boundaries, ask hard questions, and highlight little-known stories.

Jewelry is not solely ornament or accessory, but lives as elements communicating our most intimate selves. This virtual, educational initiative serves to partner with graduating jewelers and metalsmiths to create a unified culture of discourse, empathy, and community.

A hub for graduating students, educators, curators, historians and collectors, this webpage dedicates itself to archiving BFA, MFA, and Collective jewelry and metalwork. Commence Jewelry supports rising jewelers and metalsmiths directly from within our maker community. NYC Jewelry Week’s focus is the minimizing of vulnerable reflexes that develop after leaving physical educational spaces. Programming posted on this site draws open the curtains to expand the view of our field, broadening its current scope.

NYC Jewelry Week amplify the work of graduating students and emerging jewelers by organizing virtual and physical exhibitions, promoting the production of independent artist publications, posting articles that support the advancement of metalsmithing processes, and sharing a yearly documentation of talent. Through generating and sharing a diverse range of opportunities online, this platform serves as a compass to establish new points of connection that advocate for this generation’s radical and holistic spirit.