This year's holiday sale will run Friday, December 6th - Sunday, December 8th and features a unique array of work, all made by members of the BJC community. The BJC hosts a limited number of sales each year to provide opportunities for jewelry artists working in the studio to sell their work and patrons a chance to buy handmade jewelry and engage directly with makers.
With holidays right around the corner, our Holiday sale is a perfect opportunity to pick up gifts for loved ones or something special for yourself.
Work will be for sale in the BJC studio from 5-8 PM on Friday, December 6, and 12-6 on Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, and a limited selection will be available for purchase online.
Winter Classes Are Around The Corner!
Registration is open for our Winter 2025 class session!
We've got a whole host of classes on offer, including beginner-friendly courses like Waxworking 1 with J Diamond or skill-building courses like Soldering Intensive with Andy Lowrie. Take a look at a majority of our class listings below and see the full list of fall courses on our website here.
With classes at every length for every skill level, there's something new to learn for everybody at the BJC this winter. Save up to $25 per course on up to two courses with our Early Bird discount by registering for a class by December 16.
Opening Tomorrow:
In The Making: A Community Archiving Project
Join us at 5 PM tomorrow night for the opening reception of In The Making: A Community Archiving Project! For this iteration of our annual community exhibition, we are inviting community members near and far to share artworks, artifacts, and anecdotes related to your time with the BJC to help capture our community-sourced history and serve as the foundation for our archive.
The gallery walls will begin blank and over the course of the 2 months project, they will be populated with a collection of artwork, artifacts, and stories submitted by our community. The resulting collection will be a visual celebration of community, learning, and making, which is at the heart of everything we do. Objects, artworks, and stories shared as part of the exhibition will be documented and added to the BJC’s digital archive, where they will be accessible as a resource for future generations of jewelers and metalsmiths.
Submitted work and stories will be displayed in the gallery from through January 24th with the gallery shifting and changing as new work and stories are added over the two month duration of the show. Though the exhibition will be on view starting December 6th, we welcome and encourage members of our community to contribute additional objects and stories to the show through its entire runtime.
Applications for our 2025-2026 cycle of artist residencies are open!
The BJC offers a number of one-month and three-month residencies for emerging and mid-career artists from all around the world. Learn more about the application process and what our residencies entail by visiting the BJC's residency page here. Applications are open through February 1st, 2025.
We were recently featured in American Craft Magazine!
Check out The Scene: Craft In Baltimore to read about Baltimore-based artists, galleries, and studios, including ours. You can find the article in the print copy of American Craft or online here.
Photo: Kelvin Bulluck
Help Support the BJC with End-of-Year Giving!
During this season of reflection and gratitude the staff at the BJC are particularly grateful to have a community of engaged and supportive patrons and students that have made the BJC part of their lives. During our end-of-year campaign, we are asking you, our community, to continue supporting the work we do everyday so that the BJC can thrive. As a thank you for any donations made between now and the end of the year we'll be continuing to offer our Giving Tuesday gifts as a thank you for your impactful contributions.
This season, your donation can get you a host of limited-run pieces of BJC merchandise or a unique piece of art jewelry:
Donate at the $300 level and receive a brooch designed by emerging artist and BJC community member Anna Morse
Donate at the $150 level and receive a bandana utilizing the tool design of former BJC Intern Apollo Hendricks
Donate at the $75 level and receive a new enamel pin designed by BJC Intern Apollo Hendricks and BJC Studio Manager Elliot Keeley.
Donate at the $25 level and receive a sticker pack with designs by former BJC Intern Apollo Hendricks and BJC Studio Manager Elliot Keeley.
Your donation helps support the BJC's core programs like scholarships and work-study positions, workforce development programs, and artist residencies. The BJC welcomes gifts of any size and we greatly appreciate your show of support.
Tickets are available now for Ornamenta, our annual benefit party!
While Ornamenta is definitely a fun time, it's also our biggest fundraising event of the year and an opportunity for community members, like yourself, to support the programs that you know and love from the BJC. Purchasing a ticket will help to support our core programs like student scholarships, our artist residency, exhibitions, and youth workforce development, as will participating in events at Ornamenta like our annual auction, raffle, and fund-a-need campaign.
Ornamenta 2025 will be held on February 8 at 2640 Space. Purchase your ticket by December 31 to save $15 per ticket with our Early Bird discount.
This month's Metal Shop Feature is Joanna Gollberg. While in college, Joanna Gollberg took a two-week course in enameling and basic jewelry at the Penland School of Crafts. This class changed the course of her life, leading her to become a professional jewelry designer and maker.
Joanna teaches jewelry making at noted craft institutions, such as the Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. Her jewelry has been published in Art Jewelry Magazine, Lapidary Journal, Ornament Magazine, 1000 Rings, 500 Wedding Rings, 500 Enameled Objects, and 21st Century Jewelry, among many other title
