Meet JB Jones.
JB Jones is an entreprenuer with expertise in marketing, retail and project management. After ten years working in fashion and street art, she dove head first into jewelry with a mission to innovate how the jewelry industry engages consumers. With the launch of JB Jones & Co. she presents a modern and accessible approach to marketing & social media consultation by utilizing her unique multi-industry experience to help you grow and thrive in today’s fast-paced market.
JB is the Co-founder of NYC Jewelry Week and the Co-host of the leading jewelry business podcast Rough Cut, housed under the NYCJW brand. In 2022, JB co-launched Box, a flexible design-focused exhibition space attached to The Jewelry Library in NYC. She pens a monthly column on contemporary jewelry for the industry publication The Zing Report. This spring, she launches Space-in-Between, a multi-disciplinary focused educational program for creatives created in partnership with Chris Oliver, a London-based educational administrator.
JB has curated numerous jewelry and street art exhibitions, and has worked with artists such as Doze Green, Helen Britton, Logan Hicks, Lorraine West and Mallory Weston to name a few. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, WWD, Juxtapoz, Obey, TimeOut and more. She currently resides in Brooklyn. Read on to learn more about her individual projects.
NYC Jewelry Week.
Throughout history, we have marked our most precious human moments with jewelry: in an heirloom passed down from generation to generation, in the acceptance of an engagement ring, in the exchange of friendship bracelets as children. Jewelry serves not simply as a marker of these times and moments, but as a signifier of what we have in common, from ancient civilizations to today; at the intersection of material and meaning, we find jewelry, and our collective pursuit of joy. NYC Jewelry Week invites you to celebrate the grand scope of what jewelry can offer us in light of human connection: community, unity and joy.
Rough Cut.
Rough Cut is a podcast for jewelers and small business owners in the business of jewelry. Join us for straight talk, honest advice, business insights, trends you should be aware of, special guests, a touch of humor and a whole lot of unsolicited opinions about the jewelry industry, everyone and everything in it. Hosted by NYC Jewelry Week Co-founder JB Jones and Photographer Alain Simic.
Find Rough Cut on your favorite Podcast platform or listen through the link below.
Box.
In these transformational times, Box serves an open box to unify and support creative voices and diverse expressions. It is a physical community space for jewelry, art, design and cultural programs and a market place for curated shopping experiences. Box was created as an annex for the The Jewelry Library, it houses workshops, educational programs, curated exhibitions, trunk shows and anything else that suits the Box mindset. Located in the heart of NYC, Box is available to rent for your unique visions in an IRL world.
The Zing Report.
JB contributes a monthly column, Contemporary Jewelry with JB Jones, to the online industry magazine The Zing Report. The Zing Report is a new editorial platform for members of the jewelry and gemstone industries, brought to you by Jewelers Mutual Group, and featuring some of the industry’s most respected business-to-business writers and reporters.
Space-in-Between.
“Nothing creative happens in isolation.”
Over the last few years, we’ve expanded, we’ve withdrawn, we’ve created new paths and re-visited the old. We've discovered new ways to succeed, but too often we’ve made these discoveries in isolation. In light of the uncertain, yet exciting frontiers that exist ahead of us all, we invite you to experience the power of collaboration, re-discover the value of networking, and explore the space-in-between this Spring at an in-person event in the center of NYC.