Free Presentations
Enjoy!Don’t miss GIA’s Alumni Party, Exciting Show Specials, New Products and More – Only at the Tucson Shows!
GIA Education
Save $150 on any online School of Business course starting April 21. Ask a booth representative for details or apply at the show! Visit us on the Galleria Level of Tucson Convention Center during the AGTA Show.
GIA Instruments
Check out great deals on the most advanced tools of the trade, available only during the AGTA GemFair! Visit the GIA Instruments booth for a demonstration of the new GIA FacetScan™ optical scanner. This powerful yet easy-to-use device measures diamonds, accesses the GIA Facetware™ Cut Estimator Database to return estimated GIA Cut Grades for round brilliant diamonds, and does much more – making it the perfect selling tool for the savvy retailer. And, see how GIA’s DiamondSure, DiamondView and Digital Microscopes can also enhance your business.
Subscribe to Gems & Gemology – and receive an extra issue on us.
Subscribe to Gems & Gemology at the AGTA GemFair, and get the new Winter issue (a $19 value) FREE with your paid 1- or 3-year subscription.
In G&G’s Winter 2007 issue, you will learn how to identify the latest high-quality CVD-grown synthetic diamonds. With Apollo’s product now on the market, knowing what to look for in CVD synthetics is time-critical. And with significant improvements in size, color and clarity, as well as new colors – the identifying characteristics are even more elusive. Until now. G&G’s Winter 2007 issue gives you the in-depth analysis that can protect your business. It also features reports on Canary tourmaline, fluorescence spectroscopy and the Napoleon Diamond Necklace.
Visit G&G on the Galleria Level of the Tucson Convention Center during the AGTA Show.
Take the GIA Gemology Challenge
Put your skills – and intuition – to the test and WIN a 3-year subscription to Gems & Gemology!
Stop by GIA’s Galleria booth and identify the specimens we have on display. If your entry is selected and you have the correct answers – you will win a 3-year subscription to Gems & Gemology!
Get your copy of American Cut: The First 100 Years.
In this groundbreaking book, diamond-cut expert Al Gilbertson chronicles the evolution of what is referred to as the 'Ideal Cut' from its earliest beginnings. It was originally known as the American Cut because of Henry Morse, a diamond cutter in Boston, who by 1873, with the help of his shop manager, built the first bruting machine to make a diamond perfectly round. Prior to this, diamonds were rarely cut as round shapes.
American Cut carefully documents others who also influenced the development and perceptions about the Ideal Cut, including Frank Wade, Herbert Whitlock, Marcel Tolkowsky, Robert Shipley and Richard Liddicoat. This book will alter your understanding of how diamonds came to be cut the way they are today. Pick up your copy at the G&G booth on the Galleria Level of the Tucson Convention Center during the AGTA Show.
Paperback, 214 pp
$29.95
You can also order your copy of American Cut now, right here.
Special Event: Meet the Author and Book Signing
Have your copy of American Cut: The First 100 Years signed by Al Gilbertson!
GIA Booth, Galleria Level, Tucson Convention Center
Saturday and Sunday, February 9-10
2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Visit booth No. 1900 to pick up your free, limited edition 2008 GIA Collection poster
GIA’s Education, Research, and Museum are the focus of our show display this year. Discover how gifts to the GIA Collection are treasured and put to immediate use in our classrooms, research laboratory, library, and for display in museum exhibits.
And, pick up your FREE, limited edition 2008 GIA Museum Collection Poster featuring the Sir Ernest Oppenheimer Student Collection of rough diamonds. Just visit Booth No. 1900 in the AGTA GemHall.
2008 Alumni Association Auction & Dance Party
“The GIA Lounge”
Friday, Feb. 8
The Marriott University Park Hotel
880 East Second Street, Tucson, Arizona
6:45 p.m. Silent auction, cocktails, heavy hors d'oeuvres, dancing
7:30 p.m. Presentation of the 2007 Alumni International Achievement awards and Richard T. Liddicoat Scholarships
8:15 p.m. Live auction
8:25 p.m. Cash drawing
8:30-11 p.m. Dancing
Admission: GIA Alumni $45* / Others $55
RSVP: Make your online reservation now or call 760/603-4204 or email events@gia.edu
Dress: casual evening or business attire
Shuttle provided from Tucson Convention Center to hotel courtesy of AGTA.
*If paid by noon on Thursday, Jan. 31. No refunds for cancellations after Feb. 4.
Attendees grant permission to GIA to utilize their image and likeness. If you do not wish GIA to use your name, image or likeness, please contact Jan Tilton, Alumni Programs and Events Manager, at 760-603-4139, prior to attending this event.