ARTICLES
AN ECHO FROM A DISTANT PAST
Tamara Marbl Joka, 2023 Herbert Hofmann Prize Winner
At the Schmuck show, in Munich during the Internationale Handwerksmesse, one of the most prestigious and important awards in the field of contemporary jewelry, the Herbert Hofmann Prize 2023, was given to Tamara Marbl Joka for her brooch Mirror of the Past. After the announcement of her win, many Instagram accounts and jewelry communities started to repost an image of this piece, which had the ability to tell a lot, even without words, just by its appearance.
UKRAINIAN JEWELERS
When Workshops Turn into Bomb Shelters
During the first days after Russia invaded Ukraine, I could not believe it had happened. I’m here to tell you a few words about jewelers from Ukraine, along with a bit of my own story. I was born in Belarus, a state bordering both Russia and Ukraine, and lived there until just a few weeks ago. I have many friends and colleagues both in Russia and Ukraine. I’ve been in both countries hundreds of times. I woke up February 24, 2022, and the first news I read was about the war. Although this is not Belarus’s war, I still immediately realized that life would never be the same again.
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