Magazines and Periodicals for Jewelry and Metal Clay Artists
This page has links to magazines and periodicals you might find interesting.
Art Calendar
Business based magazine for visual artists. The website has business themed instructional videos you can buy.
Art Jewelry
Product reviews, projects, gallery and features. Every issue has a metal clay tutorial or feature. Keep up with the latest news and trends in all forms of art jewelry.
Bead and Button
Interesting articles, projects and tips and hints. Gallery of artists work.
Bead Magazine
UK magazine available as a print magazine and also as a digital download.
Beads and Beyond
Subscribe to this magazine for lots of projects, pictures and useful information. The website also has great projects.
Bead Trends
Beautifully photographed magazine featuring projects, news and information for beaders.
Belle Armoire Jewelry
Projects, tips and techniques plus lots of lovely pictures. They invite projects and pictures from artists, have a look here for their submission information.
Craft and Design
Craft and Design is an exciting and vibrant magazine all about British Crafts, with 100 pages of up to the minute features and down to earth information. They also have a very good website which artists can submit their images and information to for a small annual fee.
The Crafts Report
Useful magazine for all types of crafts people. Especially recommended for those selling their work.
The Enamelists Magazine - Glass on Metal
Online resource for enamelists.
Fired Arts and Crafts
Subscribe to this monthly magazine for great tutorials, projects and news about fired arts.
Fine Silver Magazine
Launched in June 2010, this magazine is still pretty short at 52 pages (March/April 2011 edition), especially for the £4.95 price tag. Compared with the leading two UK jewellery making magazines (Make Jewellery and Making Jewellery) Fine Silver is nowhere near the same value for money. It focusses on PMC, being published by the PMC Studio, the UK PMC distributor. The March/April 2011 edition has several tutorials, some general interest features and a reference section which is the same in every issue. Much of the content promotes the PMC Studio's Accredited Teaching Centres in one way or another. The demographic it aims for is muddled, carrying beginner level PMC tutorials alongside an article about lost wax casting. It reads a bit like an extended advert and brochure for the PMC Studio but beginners might find the projects interesting. Subscriptions are available from the website.
Glass Craftsman Magazine
Glass Craftsman Magazine features the work of the top glass artists, studios and designers. Every bi-monthly issue offers a mix of articles on artists, step-by-step techniques, as well as information on fusing, leading, copper-foil, soldering, slumping, kiln crafting, painting, studio health and safety, equipment maintenance and more. the latest workshops and event information, book and video reviews, the newest product and business information and much more to help you improve your glass skills and expand your knowledge.
Jewelry Artist/Lapidary Journal
News, projects, new products and gallery.
Make Jewellery Magazine
UK based publication - be careful not to confuse it with Making Jewellery Magazine! This frantic and highly colourful magazine features lots of jewellery making projects. Heavy on beading, wirework and polymer clay with a little metal clay, its style is sometimes hard on the eye but you can't argue with the amount of information they cram in! Available on subscription from the website or in UK magazine outlets.
Making Jewellery Magazine
UK based publication. Not to be confused with Make Jewellery Magazine, this UK based magazine features more metal clay projects than its rival publication. A number of UK based metal clay teachers write for this magazine and their project tutorials regularly feature. The magazine combines jewellery making with fashion quite successfully. Available on subscription from the website or in UK magazine outlets.
Metal Clay Artist Magazine
This magazine was launched in October 2009. It has very high production values and is targeted at intermediate and advanced level metal clay artists. Written by metal clay artists for metal clay artists, it's the only print magazine in the world devoted totally to the metal clay arts. High quality articles, tutorials and artist profiles make it THE magazine for metal clay artists everywhere. It's available by subscription and at a variety of outlets around the world including Barnes and Nobel and Borders in the USA. To subscribe to this magazine if you live in the USA or Canada click here. UK and EU subscribers can take advantage of reduced price subscriptions by buying from the Metal Clay Academy website here. It's also available by subscription to read online.
Metal Clay Today
This online magazine used to be free but from January 2012, they are charging for each full edition or you can sign up for a 12 month subscription. The magazine originally launched on18th September 2009. It features interesting projects, the latest products and the newest techniques. It offers information on competitions, awards, societies, guilds, shows, fairs and trade shows. In each issue it will spotlight an established artist, a new “Rising Star” and many articles on working with our favorite medium, Metal Clay.
Metalsmith - Society of North American Goldsmiths
- Inspirational, innovative, and thought-provoking
- Fascinating articles, intriguing artists
- Engrossing guest columns
- Captivating exhibition and book reviews
- Illustrated throughout with gorgeous images of stunning work
- Stimulating intellectual and visual interest
Now in its third decade, award winning magazine Metalsmith is the document of record for jewelry and metalsmithing in North America.
Metallurgia
This French language webzine is well worth checking out.
Ornament Magazine
Magazine celebrating the art and craft of personal adornment.
Professional Jeweler Magazine
Professional Jeweler's mission is to provide short, well-written, information-rich articles in an organized layout sequence. The magazine's format helps subscribers quickly learn the latest about selling their key products, creating an image in their communities, managing their stores and educating their employees. They serve their subscribers best by always screening stories for their usefulness.
