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GIA’s 7th Annual Jewelery Design Competition Celebrates Emerging Talent

01/08/2025 Syifa

Recognizing the outstanding talent of GIA (Gemmological Institute of America) Jewelery design students from around the world globally, the Institute was recently awarded the seventh Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation Award for Excellence in Jewelery Design. The award, created with the Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation in 2018, was presented during the annual GIA Alumni Collective celebration in Tucson, AZ, to Suhan Wang, a graduate of the GIA school in Taipei.

“On behalf of the Gianmaria Buccellati Foundation and Rosa Maria Buccellati, we want to congratulate Ms. Suhan Wang, this year’s award winner, plus all the other designers whose work has honored this competition,” said Larry French, chief officer for North American strategies at the foundation. “We appreciate the talented GIA design instructors whose skill and efforts helped the students on their journey to celebrate the art of Jewelery design in the highest way, an art that means so much to our founder Gianmaria Buccellati.”

The judges for this year’s competition were Nanz Aalund, Jewelery designer, goldsmith, and educator; Cathy Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Jewelers; Victoria Gomelsky; editor-in-chief of JCK; Charles Lewton-Brain; Jewelery artist and co-founder of the Ganoxin Project; Remy Rotenier, fine Jewelery designer and design teacher; and Shelly Sergent, collections manager of

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Robbers steal $91k worth of jewelry from Downtown Brooklyn shop: NYPD • Brooklyn Paper

29/08/2024 Syifa

Two armed robbers stole thousands of dollars of jewelry from a Downtown Brooklyn store.

Photo courtesy of Envato Elements

An alleged armed robber was cuffed on March. 17 for stealing a load of precious jewelry from a Downtown Brooklyn store.

Cops said two men carrying firearms walked into Contessa Jewelry on Fulton Street and started looting the store, grabbing up gold chains, bracelets, and diamond rings from display cases.

The thieves left the store weighed down with $91,200 worth of jewelry.

After reviewing the store’s security cameras, cops identified and arrested a 26-year-old man that evening and recovered the stolen jewelry. The second perp still remains at large.

Overall crime is up more than 15% in the 84th Precinct, where the heist took place, per the latest NYPD data, and robberies are uo 200% year-over-year, with at least 48 robberies reported in the precinct so far in 2024 Last month, a pair of thieves stole more than $600 worth of cannabis products from a Brooklyn Heights smoke shop.

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