Compelling Art Jewelry Now More Visible Online



Niemeyer Museum of Contemporary Arts in  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



Are you tired of trekking through art fairs to find that one-of-a-kind piece of handcrafted art jewelry that will make your day?  Well, there a new boutique where jewelry designers can sell their wares. 

That place is actually online at Jewelspan.com galleries.

The online collection of art jewelry galleries is a new spinoff of Artspan.com, a web marketplace for over 4,000 professional artists and photographers. Professional jewelry crafters will be featured on both Artspan and Jewelspan.

Like artists at an art fair who have their own booths, jewelry artisans on Jewelspan.com will have their own domain names.

The handcrafted jewelry and fine art featured on both websites is very compelling.  When I visit the websites, I wonder if I am looking at the next era of museum quality works by a new generation of  artists and jewelry designers.

NEST'S VAN BERGEN LINKS JEWELRY ARTISANS TO MARKETS

Here comes the new economy we all hoped and prayed for, compliments of Nest, a nonprofit firm co-founded by Rebecca Van Bergen. Nest’s mission is to provide business development services and funding to jewelry artisans and other craft workers. Then Nest connects their clients to major market retail outlets.   

Here’s the website link to NEST’S programs.

PBS News Hour recently  did a report on Nest.

One family that Nest works with is a Kenyan family that produces brass jewelry in their home. Take a look-see at this YouTube video uploaded by PBS News Hour: