The 2020 Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Collection Is Here!

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Does anyone miss the year 2020? No? I didn’t think so. But you might have missed some of the inspiring, diverting, and skill-enhancing features, projects, and specially focused columns or departments in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Now you can find every page from every 2020 issue, all in one convenient digital format: easy to store, easy to find, easy to search.

ABOVE: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist’s 2020 Tool & Supply issue includes bench tools, cut and rough gemstones, cabbing units, and more. Such as? Equipment for bringing metals and gems out of the earth before they’re refined, milled, cut, or polished. Sterlium Plus sheet and wire, cut sapphire, garnet, amethyst, and aquamarine courtesy Stuller, Inc.; photo: Jim Lawson

Our line-up includes info-packed quick hits on everything from tools and gemstones to running your own jewelry business from our regular columnists. You’ll also find some of your own ideas expressed both as letters and through your jewelry art, along with detailed jewelry and gem projects and stories. Here’s a look at what’s inside every issue.

Smokin’ Stones

Cabochon, faceted, carved, and in the rough gem standouts take a bow, complemented by essential dos and don’ts for use, plus a little romance to boost sales. The column is paired with a project or demo on setting an example in jewelry or cutting one. Stones featured in 2020 include Mexican opal, aquamarine, and pyrite-in-agate.

Net Profits

Learn how to harness the power of the Internet for promoting and selling your handmade jewelry;  more tips and links in the Net Profits blog. Inspired by the pandemic, advice for remote ways to connect with customers dominated in 2020, avenues that will only continue to grow in importance regardless of Covid.

Cool Tools & Hip Tips

Here you’ll find a close-up on a different studio helper from brand-new to classic. Stamping, soldering, and wire tools and supplies are among those covered in 2020.

Trends

See what’s on the runway in Milan or what’s selling down the street. From dots to doing good, discover how the latest in fashion and popular thought influences jewelry style.

Their Turn

Lots of magazines have contributors’ pages, with little head shots and short bios about the authors. We let you know more about our experts in this gallery of outstanding designs from Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist contributors and sources.

Doer’s Profile

This one-page, mini profile gets to the heart of what makes one artist tick, and shows off an example of the work she or he creates. Learn about established designers and meet others who are up and coming.

Your Turn

We love to learn your thoughts, and we’re just as excited about seeing and sharing your designs. So we publish selected Reader Letters + Design Challenge entries riffing on what’s shown in each issue.

Facets

A little bit of everything, Facets offers industry news from what’s new on the market to fabulous exhibitions and auction results and other notable events. It’s the short version of our feature coverage on artists, tools, techniques, materials, business, or science relating to the jewelry arts.

How To

Projects and demos offer hands-on, illustrated instruction on jewelry or findings fabrication or casting, stone setting, and gem cutting. Elsewhere in an issue you’ll often find in-depth explanations of a related technique, tool, or material. The combination makes for a better understanding of how something works and offers practice at doing it yourself.

Our Turns

Everyone should get a turn for self expression. So we call all these departments Turns: My Turn from the editor, Your Turn from readers, and Their Turn from contributors. Thank you for sharing!

Merle White is Editor-in-Chief of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist.