The cameo has a vast and varied history, from antiquity to the present day. It has acted as a signifier of prestige and status, a memento for travel, and an indicator of desire.

Time Shares is an exhibition showcasing photos by artist Jill Fannon that capture five contemporary jewelers’ work.

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.

Pairings is an exhibition partnering the work of select national and international contemporary art jewelers with Baltimore-based artists working in other media.

To tempt, to seduce, to bewitch, to entrap, to wink, to flash, to caution, to scream. The duality of Sirens conjures vivid images that can be linked to the powerful capabilities of jewelry. Sirens is a collection of new work from the JV Collective, a group of six female artists based in Philadelphia.

Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore/New Works is an exhibition celebrating the culmination of Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore, a community jewelry mining and recycling project that draws attention to the creativity and skills of local jewelers and designers and encourages people to consider their habits of consumption.

Chromatics is a solo exhibition of works by Lyndsay Rice that demonstrates an interest in ornamentation, structure, texture, and color as bionic augmentation for the body. She creates forms that operate as both signifiers and ornaments, investigating the parallels between plumage and badges, status, sexuality, and honor.

CrossPASS is a project featuring collaborative and solo works by artists Demitra Thomloudis and Motoko Furuhashi that examines place through expanded media and the intimate lens of jewelry and small objects. The project targets a distinctive stretch of the Interstate 10 corridor connecting the unique borderplex region of El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Radical Jewelry Makeover: Baltimore is a community jewelry mining and recycling project. The project breathes new life into unwanted or discarded jewelry by challenging artists to utilize donated jewelry to make new work.

Touchy/Feely is an exhibition that explores the tactile experience of jewelry. Adam Gopnik writes “Touch is the unsung sense–the one that we depend on most and talk about the least…the work of the world is done by handling it.

With Moves Like MacGyver examines the creative lengths to which makers will go in order to complete a piece that they did not originally have the tools necessary to do so.

FormAdorn celebrates the synergy that results when media collides. Baltimore Clayworks and the Baltimore Jewelry Center have partnered to showcase the work of ceramicists, metalsmiths, and jewelers who create wearables or vessels utilizing an intersection of clay and metal.

From cave paintings and illuminated manuscripts to Art Nouveau objects and still lifes, flora and fauna have been a continuous theme in our visual culture. It is only logical that plants and animals play such a large role in the decorative arts.

True Blue was a juried exhibition organized by the Baltimore Jewelry Center. The color blue calls to mind a feeling of vast openness: the color of the sky and the ocean depths.

Metal Shop showcased the contemporary jewelers represented in our new gallery retail shop.

co:operation | Garnish is a collaborative exhibition, curated by Brigitte Martin and Rachel Timmins. A modern metalsmith/metal artist can be found working in traditional metals as well as in nontraditional materials.

Our inaugural exhibition in the Baltimore Jewelry Center gallery was Passing From One Hand: Betty Cooke, Joyce J. Scott, Shana Kroiz and a Tradition on Metalsmithing and Jewelry in Baltimore.