The outcomes are in for the 2022 American Gem Commerce Affiliation (AGTA) Spectrum Awards, and new voices and weird supplies are on the fore.

“We had a variety of first-time multi-award winners, they usually have been ecstatic upon listening to the information,” says the affiliation’s CEO, John Ford, a 10-time Spectrum and Reducing Edge Award winner.

Development-wise, this yr’s entries included extra tourmalines and spinel, yellow gold jewelry, and step-cut gems, whereas kornerupine and dumortierite have been among the many rarest and most uncommon gems. Total, the whole variety of entries was practically 10 per cent larger this yr as in comparison with final yr, AGTA reviews.

This yr’s judges have been Susan Harrison (Jewellery Emporium), Derek Katzenbach (Katzenbach Designs), Sharon Khazzam (Sharon Khazzam Studio), Carter Malouf (Carter Malouf Personal Jeweler), and Mark Patterson (Mark Patterson Tremendous Jewellery). The panel evaluated every of the submissions primarily based on magnificence and wearability, innovation, materials use, client enchantment, and high quality of gems and workmanship.

“Calling all of the award winners was one of the vital gratifying experiences I’ve had with AGTA,” says Kimberly Collins, president of the affiliation’s board of administrators. “There have been so many tears of pleasure, which jogged my memory of the influence a Spectrum or Reducing Edge Award can have on a person and the momentum of his or her profession.”

“Our workforce is happy to develop the competitors and proceed casting spotlights on well-deserving jewelers and cutters,” Ford provides.

Learn on for an inventory of this yr’s prime winners.

Better of Present

Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 210.55-carat ballerina carving in inexperienced beryl

Finest Use of Color

Robert Galustian, Robert Guild Jewellery Corp. – 18-karat blonde gold QEII earrings, that includes two cushion-cut mint inexperienced tourmalines (21.54 ctw) accented with two matching pair keystone-cut yellow sapphires, calf-cut kornerupines, 72 spherical amethysts, 66 spherical diamonds, and 6 marquise-cut inexperienced tourmalines

Finest Use of Pearl

Laurie Reid, LFR Studios – 22-karat yellow gold ring, that includes a 13.2-mm cultured Golden South Sea pearl

Vogue Ahead

Jeffrey Bilgore, Jeffrey Bilgore, LLC – 18-karat yellow gold and black ceramic ring, that includes a 4.03-carat pure fancy deep yellow diamond accented with 15 tsavorite garnets (0.17 ctw)

Better of Single Entries (Reducing Edge)

Robert Knupfer, Knupfer Worldwide Gems, Inc. – Pair of blue/inexperienced briolette drop tourmalines (75.57 ctw)

Better of Single Entries (Spectrum)

Buddy Austin, Third Eye Meeting – 18-karat yellow gold, platinum, 22-karat rose and inexperienced gold, 24-karat yellow gold, and 18-karat white gold ‘Underworld’ ring, that includes a 1.62-carat black opal, accented with tsavorite garnet, sapphire, and diamond

Finest Use of Platinum and Color

Mary van der Aa, Mary van der Aa – Platinum ‘Aria’ ring, that includes a 2.10-carat demantoid garnet accented with blue zircons (3.0 ctw) and diamonds

Finest Use of Platinum Crown

Brenda Smith, Brenda Smith Jewellery – Platinum hand-fabricated ring, that includes a 6.54-carat trillion-cut Tanzanite accented with spherical diamonds (1.25 ctw)

Bridal Put on

First Place

Gabriel Angulo, Pompos Jewellery Company – Platinum ring, that includes a 2.55-carat rectangular emerald-cut Colombian emerald accented with 24 spherical emeralds (0.31 ctw), 22 custom-cut baguette diamonds (2.77 ctw), and 62 spherical sensible diamonds (0.22 ctw)

Enterprise/Day Put on

First Place

Zoltan David, Zoltan David – Excessive-polished metal, iridescent blue and purple metal, platinum, 18-karat, and pure gold inlay ‘Into the Mystic’ cuff bracelet, that includes spherical and marquise-shaped tsavorites (5.60 ctw) accented with blue sapphires (0.48 ctw) and diamonds (1.20 ctw)

Classical

First Place

Gabriel Angulo, Pompos Jewellery Company – Platinum ring, that includes a 6.29-carat blue Ceylon sapphire accented with 14 custom-cut baguette diamonds (2.27 ctw), 10 princess-cut sapphires (1.79 ctw), 30 spherical sapphires (0.44 ctw), and 58 spherical sensible diamonds (0.29 ctw)

Night Put on

First Place

Jeffrey Bilgore, Jeffrey Bilgore, LLC – 18-karat yellow gold and black ceramic ring, that includes a 4.03-carat pure fancy deep yellow diamond accented with 15 tsavorite garnets (0.17 ctw)

Males’s Put on

First Place

Zoltan David, Someplace In The Rainbow – Knight metal and 24-karat yellow gold ‘The Kings Ring,’ that includes a 29.09-carat purple-red cabochon tourmaline accented with 10 crimson spinels (0.15 ctw), diamonds (0.02 ctw), and patent inlay bead gold

Editor’s Selection – Spectrum

Ian Delucca, Khobe Delucca – 18-karat yellow gold and ruthenium plated Artwork Deco ring, that includes blue emerald-cut tourmaline (4.84 ctw), spherical tourmaline (0.38 ctw.), and diamonds (0.42 ctw)

Editor’s Selection (Reducing Edge)

Jaimeen Shah, Prima Gems USA – Suite of 23 multi-coloured, Portuguese-cut zircons (228.64 ctw)

Reducing Edge

Traditional Gems

First Place

Joseph Ambalu, Amba Gem Corp. – 4.43-carat no oil emerald-cut Colombian emerald

All Different Reduce Gems

First Place

Ben Kho, Kho Worldwide, Ltd. – 32.50-carat sunburst-cut kunzite

Carving

First Place

Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 210.55-carat ballerina carving in inexperienced beryl

Progressive Faceting

First Place

John Dyer, Someplace within the Rainbow – 147.96-carat orange golden citrine titled, ‘Crescendo’

North American Mined Gems

First Place

Ben Kho, Kho Worldwide, Ltd. – 11.46-carat vintage cushion-cut rhodochrosite from Colorado

Objects of Artwork

First Place

Dalan Hargrave, GemStarz Jewellery – 900-carat ametrine, accented with citrine and chrome diopside essence bottle

Honourable Point out

Llyn L. Strelau, Jewels by Design – Bronze and 18-karat inexperienced, crimson, and white gold ‘Life within the Jungle’ carved Labradorite chameleon, with petrified wooden, quartz, agate, Labradorite, spinel, pearls, tsavorite garnets, sapphires, rubies, and diamonds

Pairs and Suites

First Place

Robert Knupfer, Knupfer Worldwide Gems, Inc. – Pair of blue/inexperienced briolette drop tourmalines (75.57 ctw)

Phenomenal

First Place

Desmond Chan, Gem Arts Worldwide – 14.90-carat scorching pink to purple colour-change modified spherical sensible pyrope garnet titled, ‘Cosmic Kaleidoscope’

For a whole listing of this yr’s winners, click on right here.