Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship 2012

 

Call for Applicants for the 2012 Romero-Weber

Jewelry Camp Scholarship

Application deadline is April 30, 2012.

Centereach, NY, November 7, 2011— Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, “Jewelry Camp,” Directors Edward/Sandy Lewand invite all interested to apply for the Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship.

Named for the late Christie Romero and Barry Weber, the scholarship honors the pair’s countless, longstanding contributions to the jewelry industry and provides the recipient with the cost of tuition for the Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, “Jewelry Camp,” that will be held July 27-29, 2012, at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel in White Plains, New York.

“All of us in the jewelry community were greatly saddened by the loss of Christie Romero to cancer in late 2009,” said Jewelry Camp Director Sandy Lewand. “In tribute to Christie, Barry Weber of Edith Weber Jewelry had the idea to establish a Christie Romero Scholarship Fund for Jewelry Camp. Yet, just one year later, Barry, too, succumbed to the disease. To carry on Christie’s and Barry’s remarkable legacies, Edward and I will continue to offer this memorial scholarship, which we have renamed the Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship Fund.”

Applicants for the 2012 Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship must compose a brief essay or email that explains why he or she should be selected to receive the award. All applications should be sent to jewelrycamp@me.com no later than April 30, 2012. The award recipient will be announced in May to allow ample time to make arrangements to attend the conference. While the scholarship covers Jewelry Camp tuition, the costs of lodging, travel, and food remain the responsibility of the recipient.

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About Jewelry Camp

Open to jewelry-industry professionals, collectors, and the public, Jewelry Camp is an educational forum focused on antique and estate jewelry and comprises three days of lectures, breakout groups, and networking events. Participants have opportunities to meet and learn from top experts in buying, selling, appraising, and collecting. This year’s featured speakers will include Donna Bilak, a 19^th- and early 20^th-century jewelry historian; Education Director for the Phoenix Museum of Art, Jan Krulik-Belin; and Roy Rover of Roy Rover Antiques.

For more information about Jewelry Camp, visit: http://www.jewelrycamp.org and http://jewelrycamp.blogspot.com/.

For more information regarding the 2012 Romero-Weber Jewelry Camp Scholarship, please email: jewelrycamp@me.com.

The Antique Jewelry & Art Conference – “Jewelry Camp”

(631) 471-1922 or (631) 377-9766

Email: jewelrycamp@me.com

www.jewelrycamp.org

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Antique and/or Vintage Costume Jewelry?

FULL OF SURPRIZES ESTATE & TAG SALES PRESENTS:

N Woodmere/Valley Stream on Friday January 14th @ 760 Oakleigh Rd. from 9:30-4:00 p.m.  Downsiziing and selling pretty items to help decorate your home including Lovely Dining Room Set that extends to seat 18, Costume Jewelry, Clothing, Decorative items, Baccarat, Cartier.. Come see! Go to website to see pic Oceanside: Sunday January 16th @ 4 Rose St from 9:30-4:00  Lots of small items for sale including Thomasville Wall Unit, lots of sterling costume jewelry and a life of smalls. Go to website to see photos: CL

www.fullofsurprizes.net/

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New Seminar Posted on Website

Nicolas Luchsinger, Van Cleef & Arpel’s (Morning Lecture)

Unique pieces and prestigious special orders :

an illustration of

Van Cleef & Arpels creativity

Masterpieces in the heart of the royal romances and historical events throughout the continents  and in the hearts of the stars, from screen icons to divas.

If you have not yet registered please do so as soon as possible as space is filling quickly.  Call Sandy for Group and Student discounts.  631-471-1922

Happy Holdiays!!

Sandy Lewand

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New Seminar Posted on Website

Harrice Miller 

Bling’s the Thing

For eons humankind has found a way to express individuality, creativity, status and community through personal adornment. For modern women it often takes the form of jewelry and in the 20^th century to the present time, costume or fashion jewelry has allowed both designers and wearers to express themselves with the unfettered usage of materials and imagination.

Harrice Miller will illustrate colorful examples of breathtaking costume jewelry from the 1930s up to the present time including designers Chanel, Haskell, Kenneth Jay Lane, Mazer, Marcel Boucher, Eisenberg, Trifari, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Prada, Vera Wang, Lanvin, Marni and others.  Modern day couture designers have entered an age of celebrating the sparkle and glamour costume jewelry lends to their creations, as seen in the pages of the leading fashion magazines and on the runways of New York, Paris, London and Milan.

Not registered yet?  It's not too late!  Call Sandy 631.471.1922 or email jewelrycamp@me.com

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Join Us!

Join us at “FIT”, January 23, 2011

For the First One Day Jewelry Camp

Join us January 23, 2011 for an educational day at The Fashion Institute of Technology.  The day begins with 2 main room lectures with Tom Burstein of “Harry Winston” and Nicolas Luchsinger of “Van Cleef & Arpel’s.”  A luncheon (included) will follow the morning lectures after which we will have 3 Breakout Sessions consisting of 4 classes each session.  The classes are approximately 1 1/2 hours each (some classes may run over by a few minutes due to questions and answers.)

Speakers for the Breakout Sessions to Include:

Donna Bilak

Harrice Miller

Ulysses Grant Dietz

Cindy Edelstein

Reema Keswani

Michael Coan

Registration is limited to 125.  

$295.00 (includes luncheon)

Special Group and Student Discounts Available.

Please call for more information  631.471.1922 or 631.377.9766

Email    jewelrycamp@me.com

http://www.jewelrycamp.org

Summer Dates For Jewelry Camp 2011

We are please to announce the dates for the Summer Session of Jewelry Camp 2011.  The dates and location are as follows:


July 22, 23 and 24th, 2011
Hofstra University

REGISTRATION will be LIMITED


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Happy Holidays to Everyone!!!!


Sandy and Edward
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631-377-9766 cell





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Oz. Pt added to design contest prize

New York—Metal supplier and refiner Johnson Matthey NY is adding one troy ounce of pure platinum to the prize package offered for its new platinum jewelry design contest.

The ounce, which is the equivalent of 20 pennyweights, is intended to help the contest winners—three will be chosen in total—craft the piece they sketched out to enter. The ounce is an addition to the $30,000 in prizes already on the table for the contest's trio of victors.

The "Johnson Matthey Sustainable Design Award" contest is open to American-based emerging designers—those with less than five years' design experience, postgraduates or those in their final year of school—whether independent or working for a manufacturer or retailer. Designers who wish to enter should submit a drawing or image of a unique, wearable and sustainable piece in 950 ppt platinum to sustainabledesign@jmusa.com. Though stones and other materials can be included, the design should be predominately platinum.

The deadline for entries is Nov. 25. Only the three competition winners selected by the judges will have to make their pieces. Winning pieces will be on display at an invitation-only cocktail party during the Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America's (MJSA) Expo on March 15 in New York City.

For more information on Johnson Matthey NY sustainability, visit JMNY.com. For contest questions, e-mail Johnson Matthey's Mark Danks at mark.danks@jmusa.com or call (212) 245-6790.

Award sponsors include Platinum Guild International, Rare Creative, Carrera Casting Corporation and media sponsor MJSA. 

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Womens Jewelry Association Holiday Party

 If you haven't registered for the Women's Jewelry Associations annual holiday party time is running out!  Just click on the link to get started. 

See you there!

Sandy



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A Couple of Seminars Available at Jewelry Camp in January at FIT!

Donna Bilak

The Rise and Fall of the French Crown Jewels: A Biography of an Auction

The 1887 auction of the French Crown Jewels by decree of the French Third Republic was a major event that resonated around the world. Essentially, the republican government that replaced the overthrown emperor Napoleon III intended to scatter these historic symbols of royalty to foreclose any attempt to restore the monarchy. But for the French jewelers whose creations made the collection famous, it was their reputation and cultural heritage that was on the block. And for the American jewelry house Tiffany & Co., it was the making of a market. This lecture explores the collection from various angles, considering the interrelationship between Empress Eugénie’s taste in floral jewelry, 19^th-century botany, and the aesthetic of the French Crown Jewels during the Second French Empire; the role of the collection in Belle Époque society on both sides of the Atlantic; and the ramifications of the auction itself in terms of the design and production of European and American haute joaillerie.

Cindy Edelstein, Jeweler's Resource

How to Grow Your Business & Connections Using Social Media

Everyone is twittering but how do you make sure you don't sound like a twit? They're all on Facebook but who should you friend? And "like"? And more importantly, who will friend you? And why?

Spend 60 minutes with Cindy Edelstein and explore your options, learn who's doing what online and how you can jump into the social networking fray and have it be more than a fun time zapper. If you're not networking online you're not in the game and you're not maximizing your professional marketing.

Learn how to help your business reach out to today's fans and the next luxury consumer - the Gen Y shopper who's totally plugged in and interested in information, connection and 24/7 communication.

I will be posting the seminars as available!