2017 NICHE Awards

Great news! Free entry this year!
Final Weeks to Enter

Entry Deadline: Extended to October 1st

NICHE magazine is still accepting applications for the 2017 NICHE Awards, a prestigious juried competition recognizing excellence in fine craft design. Professional and student artists may apply online.

Contest categories include ceramics, fiber, glass, metal, wood and jewelry arts. Recently added new categories seek original artist-made holiday ornaments and decorations; objects for the kitchen and for dining; and jewelry made from alternative materials.

Judging of entries is based on three main criteria:

• Technical excellence, both in surface design and form
• Distinct quality of unique, original and creative thought
• Market viability (professional entries only)

Application, rules and guidelines are now available at NicheAwards.com.

Call for Entry: With moves like MacGyver

Makers + smiths are a crafty bunch! This exhibition will highlight this as well as examine the creative processes of 15-25 individuals, giving viewers a glimpse at the processes these artists use to improvise, exquisitely craft, or get downright inventive to help get the job done. 

The exhibition will feature two pieces by each maker selected: one jewelry object or small sculptural piece displayed alongside a specialized tool that was created by the maker for the sole purpose of completing that object, with the premise that neither item would exist without the other.

Jurors are Randy Long and Tim Lazure. 

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Deadline: 1 October 

Entry Fee: $25

Friedrich Becker Prize Düsseldorf 2017

The Friedrich Becker Prize Düsseldorf is to be awarded for the seventh time by the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. in Hanau. The prize of 5000.00 euros is presented for outstanding, independent design with the highest quality of execution. 

Theme/material: Jewelry, hollow- or flatware as a one-of-a-kind piece or as a prototype for a series may be submitted. The work/s (3 maximum) must have been created within the past three years. New materials and techniques are equally as desirable as the traditional materials of jewelry, hollow- and flatware design. 

Gold- and silversmiths, jewelry and metal designers both domestic and foreign are invited to participate. The selection of the works will take place in two jury sessions, a photograph and an object jury. 

Entry fee is 45.00 euros. 

Deadline December 2, 2016.

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