Llyn L. Strelau details the creative process behind his baroque pearl sculpture, ‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat,’ which received an honourable mention in the Objects of Art category at the 2019 American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum Awards.
The results are in for the 2019 American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum Awards, and a Jewellery Business contributor is among this year’s celebrated designers.
Finished jewellery pieces incorporating coloured gems or cultured pearls, as well as lapidary entries, are now being accepted for AGTA’s 2018 Spectrum Awards.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., has made Sir Zoltan David’s 2016 American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Spectrum Award-winning necklace, ‘Iris,’ the centrepiece of the new moonstone collection in the Feldspar Exhibit.
The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) has announced the winners of the 2017 AGTA Spectrum Awards, the preeminent coloured gemstone and coloured pearl design competition.
For the second year in a row, the top spot at American Gem Trade Association’s (AGTA’s) went to cut gemstones. Ruben Bindra of B & B Fine Gems took home Best of Show with a suite of round, brilliant Russian demantoid garnets (24.67 ctw).