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. 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.

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 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 pretty short at 40 pages, especially for the £4.95 price tag. Compared with the other two UK jewellery making magazines (Make Jewellery and Making Jewellery) Fine Silver is nowhere near the same value for money. It's exclusively about PMC, being published by the PMC Studio, the UK PMC distributor. It's very glossy and the first edition has several projects, a page of news items, some feature articles about making PMC your business and an article about Hallmarking. Much of the content promotes the PMC Studio's Accredited Teaching Centres in one way or another. 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. A taster copy was given out at the Metal Clay World Conference in Chicago in July 2009. This issue can be downloaded here. To subscribe to this magazine go to the website and download the form or pay online using Paypal. It's available for free subscription to read online. This is made available to view after the publication date.

Metal Clay Today

This free online magazine 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.