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