2010 DIVA CompetitionDeadline: April 15
DIVA Design Competition
The annual WJA DIVA Design Competition is a competition created to promote and encourage jewelry design by women. Open to all women, regardless of experience, formal training or background in jewelry or jewelry design, the competition is judged by a panel of industry experts who evaluate designs based on their originality, creativity, wearability, and interpretation of an annual theme. The 2010 DIVA Design Competition Theme is A New Dawn.
Find more Call for Entries detail right here.
The WJA Shining Star Awards are designed to highlight the efforts of WJA members who give so much time to their chapters but might not get recognized on a national level. Each of the chapters chooses its own Shining Star who is awarded with a ticket to the Women in the Know Conference in New York City and up to $500 for airfare and hotel.
Kimberly Vagner has been in the jewelry industry for eight years. She received her bachelor's degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University. Half way through school she decided she wanted to go a different route than politics, and become a gemologist. To learn more about the field she started volunteering in the mineral sciences department of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Surrounded by boxes and binders full of slides she set to work cataloging their image collection. After graduating she moved to San Diego where she got a job working at GIA and started taking their distance education courses in gemology. In 2005 she obtained her G.G. She still works at GIA, in the museum, where she assists the curator.
Kim is an active board member of the San Diego Women's Jewelry Association chapter. She served as events co-chair the past two years, and is currently marketing co-chair.
Empowering women to achieve their highest goals in the international jewelry, watch and related businesses. For more information please visit the national website: www.womensjewelry.org