The Earring Show 2025
Craft Council of BC 1386 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, British Columbia V6H 3R8
Yee-Je Lee
(courtesy of the Craft Council of BC)
The Craft Council of BC is pleased to present The Earring Show, an annual exhibition that highlights contemporary jewellery design. The exhibition sheds light on the timeless connection between craft and culture, and how they influence each other.
The Earring Show serves as a unique space that presents earrings as art, culture and a snapshot of contemporary high-level craftsmanship. The exhibition recognizes the importance of earrings throughout history in their various roles, from adornment and status markers, to protest and cultural statements.
Earrings are never neutral; they express a passion for art, design, technique, a societal concern, a cultural statement or simply the physical expression of the artist’s craft. Through the exhibition, these unique pieces and their stories have the potential to become a part of the wearers’ own story. This reflects one of the goals of the Show: to create shared experiences around craft between makers and wearers.
The Earring Show began as a one-day local event, and over the past 12 years has grown in its scope, meaning and representation – while always acting as a contemporary reflection of craft and culture.
Today, The Earring Show is a hybrid event, displaying earring submissions both at the CCBC gallery in Vancouver and online.