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The Cultured Pearl Association of America (CPAA) has just announced the start of the 9th annual, international pearl design competition.



Driven by the new Executive Director Jennifer Heebner, some dramatic changes are happening within the competition this year. You can read all about them in the press release on the CPAA's website and in this recent article in National Jeweler.

Notably, there will be a domestic and and international division this year. The competition will also separate...

The Swiss Gemmological Institue of Basel, Switzerland, has recently released a new online research library covering research they've done of the last few decades. Though often very academic in nature, there are plenty of articles and presentations about pearls that are not available elsewhere online.

For those of you would just can't get enough pearl knowledge, there are some seriously fascinating articles in their archives.



Jeremy Shepherd
Pearl Paradise

The 2018, Las Vegas Couture show officially kicked off today at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, and through all the hustle and bustle, I managed to snap a few pieces of pearl eye candy.

We have to start with little h, the inventor of the sliced, genuine gem-set pearl. Her lines now include Pearl Geode, Finistrino, Spiral, and most recently, Piccolo. This is her first time exhibiting at Couture and it is clearly a fit.






Our friends from Jewelmer never disappoint, with a booth filled with...

Cultured Pearl Association of America Kicks Off $250,000 Marketing Campaign to Promote Its Pearls As One Education



Cultured Pearl Association of America Kicks Off $250,000 Marketing Campaign to Promote Its Pearls As One Education

Via PR Newswire

New York City – May 21, 2018. The Cultured Pearl Association of America (CPAA) has unveiled a $250,000 digital marketing campaign to promote its proprietary online pearl education PearlsAsOne.org (PAO).



The PAO Pearl Specialist...

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The Cultured Pearl Association of America Inc. has held its governing board elections.
The elections took place during the 2017 JCK Las Vegas. Outgoing President Peter Bazar of Imperial has held two two-year terms.
The newly elected board members are:


Elected president: Aziz Basalely, Eliko Pearl, New York.
Elected vice president: Anil Maloo, Baggins Inc., California.
Elected treasurer: Jeremy Shepherd, Pearl Paradise, California.
Elected secretary: Richard Blake...

Tonight on NatGeo Wild at 10pm!

Filmed along one of the wildest coastlines on the planet, this is the intriguing story behind the world's most exclusive marine gem: the South Sea pearl.

Check it out here!






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