Tag Archives: Spectrum Awards

Torontonian nabs Spectrum Award

October 29, 2020

The results are in for the 2020 American Gem Trade Association Spectrum Awards, and a Canadian designer is among this year’s honourees.

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Finding inspiration in pearl

February 18, 2020

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.

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JB columnist among 2019 Spectrum Awards honourees

August 7, 2019

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.

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AGTA announces 2018 Spectrum Awards winners

August 8, 2018

The results are in for the 2018 AGTA Spectrum Awards, and new voices and new materials are at the fore.

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Judges chosen for 2018 Spectrum Awards

June 14, 2018

As the 2018 Spectrum Awards competition creeps closer to its June 29 deadline, the American Gem Trade Association has announced its selected judges.

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Submissions open for 2018 Spectrum Awards

February 15, 2018

Finished jewellery pieces incorporating coloured gems or cultured pearls, as well as lapidary entries, are now being accepted for AGTA’s 2018 Spectrum Awards.

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Sir Zoltan David pendant named centrepiece of Smithsonian exhibit

August 24, 2017

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.

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AGTA announces winners of 2017 Spectrum Awards

August 10, 2017

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.

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Details for the 2017 AGTA Spectrum Awards released

February 23, 2017

The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) has released the deadlines for the 2017 Spectrum Awards.

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AGTA Spectrum Award’s Best of Show goes to suite of demantoid garnets

August 8, 2016

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).

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