{"id":42372,"date":"2015-12-08T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=42372"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:47:26","slug":"how-were-supporting-emerging-jewelry-designers-at-jck-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/how-were-supporting-emerging-jewelry-designers-at-jck-tucson\/","title":{"rendered":"How We&#8217;re Supporting Emerging Jewelry Designers at JCK Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2014\/7-didnt-handmade-jewelry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_0623-548x365-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0623-548x365 (1)\" width=\"548\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are only as successful as the artists and designers we work with. Their unique creations are what keep our lights on and the reason our customers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uncommongoods.com\" target=\"_blank\">visit our website\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a title=\"Catalog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/static\/sitecatalog.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">read our catalogs<\/a>. \u00a0Our passion for identifying the very best designs to add to our assortment of uncommon goods is why we&#8217;ve decided to partner with jewelry industry authority JCK on the first-ever<a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegas.jckonline.com\/en\/Press\/Show-Press\/JCK-Tucson-Reveals-Design-Competition-with-UncommonGoods\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0&#8220;UncommonGoods Design Challenge&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tucson.jckonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JCK Tucson<\/a>. JCK Tucson is an event catered to jewelry industry professionals that displays one-of-a-kind collections of finished jewelry and loose gemstones. The event takes place February 2-7 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort &amp; Spa in Tucson, AZ.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to becoming an official UncommonGoods vendor, the first place winner of the &#8220;UncommonGoods Design Challenge&#8221; will receive $1,000, an UncommonGoods marketing package, a feature in JCK Magazine and additional press coverage. Second and third place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively plus media recognition and exclusive mentoring sessions with our Jewelry Buyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2013\/uncommon-personalities-meet-sharon-hitchcock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Hitchcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Submit\" href=\"http:\/\/tucson.jckonline.com\/Events\/UncommonGoods-Design-Challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Submissions for the challenge are open until January 8, 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 11pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Stone, the JCK Show team&#8217;s first Design Ambassador believes, &#8220;If we put our focus back where it belongs, creating beautiful wearable art, then we can&#8217;t go wrong.&#8221; We agree! Read more from our interview with Jacqueline and learn how UncommonGoods is partnering with JCK to support emerging jewelry designers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":42645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742],"tags":[123,1912,1926,80,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42372"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44924,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions\/44924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}