Kalkidan Hoex, a jewelry artist from Ethiopia, creates a collection called When Lions Learn to Swim, which explores her identity and experiences in a third world. She moved to the Netherlands from Ethiopia as a two-year-old, causing friction and adaptation in her identity and cultural background. The collection reflects her in-between world, highlighting the in-between world where frictions in identity and adaptation occurred. Kalkidan's experience as part of the StimuleringsFund allowed her to step back and reevaluate her practice, learning new techniques and traveling to Ethiopia. She compared her work to western art and Ethiopian art, focusing on the reasoning behind making and the importance of the maker's story. The collection combines wearable and conceptual jewelry with photography and moving images, reflecting the complexity of Ethiopian culture and mindset. The collection is an installation that combines jewelry with photography, textiles, and moving images, showing the realm where this blur of worlds exits.

Kalkidan Hoex, a jewelry artist from Ethiopia, creates a collection called When Lions Learn to Swim, which explores her identity and experiences in a third world. She moved to the Netherlands from Ethiopia as a two-year-old, causing friction and adaptation in her identity and cultural background. The collection reflects her in-between world, highlighting the in-between world where frictions in identity and adaptation occurred. Kalkidan's experience as part of the StimuleringsFund allowed her to step back and reevaluate her practice, learning new techniques and traveling to Ethiopia. She compared her work to western art and Ethiopian art, focusing on the reasoning behind making and the importance of the maker's story. The collection combines wearable and conceptual jewelry with photography and moving images, reflecting the complexity of Ethiopian culture and mindset. The collection is an installation that combines jewelry with photography, textiles, and moving images, showing the realm where this blur of worlds exits.

‘Crucible: Publication 21’ in collaboration with Current Obsession Magazine during the annual Munich Jewellery Week in 2021, are presenting an open call for underrepresented individuals and communities that identify as black, brown, people of colour women/womxn Artists, Thinkers, Community groups, Collectives, Jewellers, Writers, Experiencers, Academics, Philosophers, Storytellers and Truth-seekers to be part of a printed publication space of creative agency and free self-expression.*

The intention for this publication is to explore various ways of ‘subverting the gaze’ and creating an oppositional gaze experienced by black, brown, people of colour, women/womxn and B.I.L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+. Publishing unheard voices to question the gaze, expanding our awareness of the gaze and taking ownership where possible.

The Crucible:P21 publication will be curated with care by African, Caribbean and Asian heritage womxn who wish for many more women/womxn and non-binary voices to be showcased and celebrated; we welcome submissions from all art based disciplines able to translate their work and/or narrative onto our 2D platform including photography, poetry, journal extracts, academic and research.

This space was developed in response to the urgency for dialogue surrounding unheard voices within our communities.

We are happy to announce,Ted Noten’s partner tutor, at MASieraad Hasselt-Amsterdam:  Kalkidan Hoex, a young maker who only recently graduated at Maastricht Institute of Arts. Kalkidan’s mixed background inspired her to define The New Tribe, a concept that deals with identity, and living between different worlds. We are happy to announce that the board of MASieraad has decided, due to COVID-19 issues, to extend the deadline for applications to March 8,2021 

Black couture, beauty & styles

Co-curator and Diversity Rules-founder Janice Deul: “Black people are often said to be the Curators of Cool, but this isn’t always recognized or acknowledged where it matters. This lack of recognition has all to do with power and history. And that’s why I’m so excited about this show. It's a celebration of black beauty, talent and culture that we hope will provide food for thought and give models and designers the credit they deserve.”

A major new fashion exhibition entitled Voices of Fashion. Black Couture, Beauty and Styles. is set to open at the Centraal Museum. The show will be the first ever staged by an art museum in the Netherlands to query the white gaze as the default vantage point from which to present, wear and collect fashion. Underpinning the exhibition are years of research by black, brown and white people that show that the fashion world and our relationship with it continue to be shaped by the legacies of European colonialism. Voices of Fashion takes you on a little told story of fashion, with a stunning exhibition design by Afaina de Jong of AFARAI.