An informal moment: IAC President Lisa Koenigsberg at the UN during Climate Week with friends from the platinum community, former Platinum Guild International (PGI) CEO, Huw Daniel, and President of Platinum Guild International USA, Jenny Luker.
The first two days of our 26th Annual Arts & Crafts Conference have been magical. We are already looking forward to gathering next year! Follow us and stay tuned for exciting Arts & Crafts updates.
IAC President Lisa Koenigsberg was honored to join the CIBJO panel, “The Growing Separation of the Natural and Laboratory-Grown Diamond Markets” in Vicenzaoro September 2024. You can watch this important session here. The panel was moderated by Edahn Golan, CEO of Edahn Golan Diamond Research & Data. Other panelists included Martin Leake, Special Advisor - Precious Stones at the DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre); and
A highlight of IAC's 14th Annual Gold and Diamond Conference, Maintaining Purpose, was the presentation of IAC's 2024 awards for Leadership in Responsible Practice in Jewelry and for Extraordinary Contributions to the Diamond and Jewelry Industries. It was an honor to confer on Gaetano Cavalieri (President, CIBJO / World Confederation of Jewellery Organizations) IAC's Fourth annual Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Diamond and Jewelry
Talk value and markets with us at Expanding Horizons, IAC’s 14th International Gold + Diamond Conference, taking place July 16 - 17, 2024 in NYC at Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street! Moderator Brecken Branstrator (Editor-in-Chief, Gemworld International, Inc.) is joined by Avi Levy (President, IGI North America), Mmetla Masire (CEO, Okavango Diamond Company), Douglas Neves (CEO, Cruzeiro Mine) & Marcelo Ribeiro (CEO, Belmont
How will we train the next generation of makers? The answers aren’t simple. Join Lorraine West (Designer, Lorraine West Jewelry; member, Black in Jewelry Coalition [BIJC]), Karen Smith (Executive Director, We Wield the Hammer) & Longo Mulaisho-Zinsner (Founder and President, JGAA Jewellery and Gemstone Association of Africa) to tackle the challenge at Expanding Horizons, IAC’s 14th International Gold + Diamond Conference, taking place July 16
How do we best address the urgencies of our time? Join Gaetano Cavalieri (President, CIBJO), Iris Van der Veken (Executive Director, Watch and Jewelry Initiative 2030), Satta Matturi (Creative Director, Matturi Fine Jewellery & diamond industry expert and Board Member, Responsible Jewellery Council) & John Mulligan (Director and Climate Lead, World Gold Council; President, Sustainable Development Commission, World Jewellery Confederation CIBJO) to explore cross-industry convergence
IAC Founder and President, Lisa Koenigsberg, traveled to Las Vegas last week to participate in JCK, the largest global gathering for the jewelry retail trade. Delighted to be in the company of Alyssa Fontaine from the Responsible Jewellery Council, the important work of which we support.
Joy from the first day of our 28th Annual American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities!
Participants in IAC’s upcoming American Art Conference will enjoy an exclusive viewing of Heritage Auctions’ upcoming American Art sale featuring an exceptionally important work by Agnes Pelton, “Purple Star Icon,” an extraordinary example of Pelton’s transcendental abstractions. Conceived in 1936 and completed ca. 1939 – 1940, “Purple Star Icon” was known only through archival records until now and is one of only four such transcendental
A preview of IAC’s upcoming American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities, May 9 – 11, 2024, appeared in American Fine Art Magazine’s May/June 2024 Issue. Commenting on the program, Lisa Koenigsberg, founder and president of IAC, observed: “It’s an extraordinary gathering of people coming together with all different perspectives and points of view and various approaches to that pesky word ‘modern'.” Also discussed is the cross-disciplinary
On April 17, IAC President and Founder, Lisa Koenigsberg participated in Luxury Roundtable’s Luxury Marketing Summit 2024 and spoke on the panel “Luxury Leaders on Sustainability and Aligning Customer Values.” Alongside Caroline Mayhew Gardner (The RealReal @therealreal ) and Liam Bailey (Knight Frank @knightfrank ), Lisa addressed issues related to sustainability and responsible practice with regard to the gold, diamond, and jewelry sectors, stressing the
A warm congratulations to Lisa’s mother, Nancy Koenigsberg, for her successful exhibition at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery (February 1 – March 16, 2024). Known for her tactile woven, knotted, crocheted, or otherwise manipulated sculptural works using various weights and colors of copper, steel, and aluminum wire, Koenigsberg was made a fellow of the American Craft Council in 2022. To view more of Nancy’s work, visit
As we count down the days to IAC's 28th Annual American Art Conference, we have been looking back at previous American Art Conferences where scholarship, joy, community, and discovery coalesced: wonderful memories and lasting connections made! We hope you will join us for our upcoming American Art Conference. Multiple Modernities, Thurs. - Sat., May 9– 11, 2024. Clockwise from upper left: Fred Hill, partner, CollisArt and
333 East 57th Street
Thirteenth Floor
New York, NY USA
Tel: +1.646.485.1952
Email: [email protected]
Stay up to date on IAC's activities and never miss an exclusive offer!
