Retaining Value at Expanding Horizons

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

Retaining Value at Expanding Horizons2024-11-12T14:18:41-05:00

Training for the Future at Expanding Horizons

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

Training for the Future at Expanding Horizons2024-11-12T14:21:02-05:00

Cross-Industry Convergence at Expanding Horizons

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

Cross-Industry Convergence at Expanding Horizons2024-11-12T14:20:03-05:00

An Exclusive Viewing of a Remarkable Discovery: Agnes Pelton’s “Purple Star Icon”

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

An Exclusive Viewing of a Remarkable Discovery: Agnes Pelton’s “Purple Star Icon”2024-05-06T15:36:13-04:00

American Fine Art Magazine Feature on IAC’s Multiple Modernities

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

American Fine Art Magazine Feature on IAC’s Multiple Modernities2024-11-22T13:59:40-05:00

Looking Back on the American Art Conference

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

Looking Back on the American Art Conference2024-11-12T15:02:42-05:00

Speakers at Multiple Modernities, IAC’s 28th American Art Conference

At Multiple Modernities (May 9 – 11 in NYC), an impressive gathering of speakers will explore the synchronicity of modern expressions and movements in American art. This multiplicity—which can be traced to changes in perception of what constituted art, the forms it could take and how and by whom it might be created—is the focus of IAC’s 28th annual American Art Conference.  To register, and

Speakers at Multiple Modernities, IAC’s 28th American Art Conference2024-11-12T12:02:30-05:00

IAC Featured in American Fine Art Magazine!

IAC’s forthcoming 28th annual American Art Conference Multiple Modernities will explore manifestations and meanings of the modern in American art from the late 19th through the mid-20th century through talks, panels, conversations, and private events. We are grateful to American Fine Art Magazine for featuring a preview about our upcoming event taking place May 9 – 11 in New York City at Heritage Auctions. IAC

IAC Featured in American Fine Art Magazine!2024-11-12T14:26:25-05:00

Join IAC’s Lisa Koenigsberg at Vicenzaoro!

Honored to have been invited to speak by CIBJO in Vicenza, Italy where I will contribute to an event jointly supported by CIBJO’s Jewellery Industry Voices and IAC: Halo to Hammer: Reward and Risk in Social Media Marketing. This panel discussion takes place January 20, 2024 from 1:00 – 1:50pm (GMT+1) You can watch the panel discussion live here.

Join IAC’s Lisa Koenigsberg at Vicenzaoro!2024-03-12T13:59:54-04:00

Making the Modern: The Ongoing Spirit of the Arts and Crafts

IAC’s 2024 Arts and Crafts conference will take place during this October in Philadelphia and in the Brandywine River Valley. Highlights will include visits to Philadelphia institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Frank Furness & George Hewitt, 1876) and to the studios of NC and Andrew Wyeth at the Brandywine Museum of Art, where we will also view the landmark exhibition,

Making the Modern: The Ongoing Spirit of the Arts and Crafts2024-02-11T12:08:21-05:00

Save the Date for Expanding Horizons! Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 14th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference, July 15 – 17, 2024 in New York City

Save the Date for Expanding Horizons! Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 14th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference. The conference will take place July 15 – 17, 2024 in New York City.

Save the Date for Expanding Horizons! Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 14th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference, July 15 – 17, 2024 in New York City2024-03-12T14:01:38-04:00

Save the Date for Multiple Modernities! IAC’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, May 9 – 11, 2024, New York City

Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities, will take place at Heritage Auctions at 56th and Park Avenue in New York City, May 9 – 11. Conference participants will be guests of The American Art Fair's invitation-only Gala Preview.  

Save the Date for Multiple Modernities! IAC’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, May 9 – 11, 2024, New York City2024-03-12T14:03:12-04:00

Responsible Practice and the Work of Giovanni Corvaja

“Fewer, better things” (in the words of Glenn Adamson), an approach consonant with UN Sustainable Development Goal 12, “responsible consumption and production” and embodied the work of Giovanni Corvaja. Born in 1971 in Padua, Italy, this extraordinary goldsmith and jeweler began work in metalsmithing at 13 with Francesco Pavan and Paolo Maurizio. In 1988, he was awarded the Diploma di Maestro d’Arte, and in 1990,

Responsible Practice and the Work of Giovanni Corvaja2024-03-13T15:39:52-04:00
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