Art Movement

Will mass-produced contemporary jewelry achieve museum-grade credibility? Recent efforts by some makers to adopt gallery codes of conduct insure that it will. But unless jewelry artists concurrently expand their modes of production and reach out to the greater public with affordable work, that enriches their lives with disposable wonders, those museum captions might one day read like epitaphs to an art movement with no circulation. (Lignel, 2008)

While writing my 1st chapter I came across this paragraph in one of the articles in Klimt02. It took me awhile to figure out exactly what he was trying to say but I think Lignel is saying that as jewellers we should be making a concerted effort to make our jewellery more accecessable to the public, it should have a wide appeal and not be only seen as art works to be kept in museums.