PIN - Associação de Joalharia Contemporânea

PIN was born in September 2004 from within the community of jewellers who, since long, have aimed for an association through which one could create projects, develop interchanging programs and launch new platforms for a discipline that more and more claims the encounter with other arts. Many of the people who dedicate their lives to jewellery, its study and its teaching belong to PIN – Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery.

Being the cultural association it is, PIN envisions the enhancement of contemporary jewellery promoting on a collective basis the exchange of information and experiences, building theoretical and practical projects within the arts specially those related to jewellery.

Like a pin grabbing different layers all together, the scope of our association aims the promotion of workshops, study sessions and other pedagogical activities related to contemporary art and jewellery, such as the organization of meetings, debates, seminars, artists’ residencies, exhibitions and other cultural initiatives, both nationally and internationally.

At the core of its marketing actions, PIN also wants to target other audiences towards contemporary jewellery, while establishing and/or reaffirming partnerships and mobility and exchange programs, particularly those throughout national and international networks and within cultural and artistic realms.

PIN’s founding members, Cristina Filipe, Maria Marília Miraand Paula Paour are all renown for their contribution to Author Jewellery, with a leading role in the national movement of New Jewellery in the 1980’s and 90’s. Soon along with their personal work, they all started teaching courses of Jewellery in Portugal.

Currently, PIN’s board members are: Ana Albuquerque (Jeweller and co-author of the Meet Jewellery Project), Cristina Filipe (Jeweller and Dean of the Jewellery Department at AR.CO – Centre for the Arts & Visual Communication), Dulce Ferraz (Jeweller and Executive of IPPAR – Ministry of Culture), Maria João Afonso (Library Studies, Curatorial Project Consultant) and Raul Boino Lapa (Anthropologist, Art & Design Project Consultant).