EVENTS
Eat lunch with Robert Ebendorf at Quirk Gallery
Friday, November 7. 2008
12:30 pm at Quirk
lunch will be provided free; limit 10
rsvp by October 17;
804.644.5450 or katie@quirkgallery.com
The Victoria & Albert open William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery
The Victoria & Albert Museum inLondon opened the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, which displays 3,500 jewels from the V&A’s jewellery collection. The new gallery will center principally on the story of European jewellery during the last 800 years, including jewels that reflect the splendour of courtly life, some of the finest designs from the great jewellery houses of the 20th century, and jewels designed by important contemporary makers.
Ahead of Its Time: Artistic Jewelry in the Milieu of 1900
The Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts’ most important activities are the publishing of “Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry and Related Arts” and its Annual Conference on Jewelry and Related Arts on October 11- 13, 2008. Registrations are due now.
“Ahead of Its Time: Artistic Jewelry in the Milieu of 1900″, this year’s conference to be held at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, will examine personal ornament as a decorative art against the background of the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. It will explore a number of emergent jewelry movements, including Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Jugendstil. All
stood in stark contrast to mainstream jewelry and represent an exciting phase in jewelry history.
Speakers will examine the philosophical and inspirational sources for these changes; the political, and social climate of the time; and the popular motifs and technological innovations that characterize the various movements. Several young scholars will have the opportunity to present their original research at the conference. It is being held in conjunction with the exhibition “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry” which will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through November 9 (opens July 23).
Speakers and Topics:
Yvonne Markowitz
(Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, co-author of “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry”)
“Art Nouveau Jewelry: A Collector’s Vision”
Elyse Zorn Karlin
(Publisher of “Adornment”; author of “Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition” and co-author of “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry”)
“Arts & Crafts vs. Art Nouveau Jewelry, the Similarities and Differences”
Kaitlin Shinnick
(Windgate Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“The Other Woman: Josephine Hartwell Shaw and the Boston Arts & Crafts Movement”
Meghan Melvin
(Curatorial project assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“Universal Designers: Artists at the Darmstadt Colony (1899-1914)”
Susan Ward
(Curatorial research fellow, Department of Textile and Fashion Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“Ex Unique: The Singular Career of Philippe Wolfers”
Jeannine Falino
(Independent museum curator)
“Louis Comfort Tiffany: His Life and Jewelry”
Barry Shifman
(Curator of Decorative Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
“The Art Nouveau and Art Deco Jewelry Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts”
For further information go to:
www.jewelryconference.com
www.jewelryandrelatedarts.com
www.asjra.net
You can reach ASJRA at (914) 286-7685 or ekarlin@usa.net.
The catalogue for “Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry” has just been
published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is available through the
museum, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and other online booksellers.
EXHIBITIONS
Memphis National Ornamental Metals Museum
“Edge Of The Sublime: Enamels By Jamie Bennett” Until August 15, 2008
http://metalmuseum.americommerce.com/on_exhibit.html
Heard Museum
Young Jewelers
Dec. 13 — Sep. 7 2008, Phoenix, Arizona http://www.heard.org
Neue Galerie
Wiener Werkstatte Jewelry
Mar. 27 — Sep. 1 2008, New York, New York http://www.neuegalerie.org
Racine Art Museum
Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro
Apr. 3 — Aug. 10 2008, Racine, Wisconsin http://www.ramart.org
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970
May. 3 — Aug. 24 2008, Fort Wayne, Indiana http://www.fwmoa.org
Imus Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
The Pioneers of Art Jewellery from America
Aug. 27 — Sep. 15 2008
Twelve dynamic American artists were selected by the Japan Jewellery Designers Association to present contemporary wearables in a special display at the association’s 25th art competition. http://www.jjda.or.jp/en/
Fuller Craft Museum
Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick
May 17 — Sep. 14 2008, Brockton, Massachusetts http://www.fullercraft.org
Figge Art Museum
When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection
May 31 — Aug. 24 2008, Davenport, Iowa http://www.figgeartmuseum.org
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art- at the University of Oregon Eugene, OR
“Thinking Body”
Now through September 7, 2008 http://jsma.uoregon.edu/exhibitions/
Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
“Out Of The Shell, Recontextualizing the Pearl in Contemporary Jewelry”
July 14/2008 through Octover 4 http://art.uakron.edu/exhibitions/out-of-the-shell/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe
Jul. 1 — Sep. 21 2008 New York, New York http://http://www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Fine Arts
When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection
Sep. 13 — Dec. 28 2008 St. Petersburg, Florida http://www.fine-arts.org/
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection
Aug. 16 — Jan. 4 2009 Charlotte, North Carolina http://www.mintmuseum.org/
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
The Thinking Body: A Contemporary Metalworks Exhibition
Oct. 17 — Jan. 4 2009 San Francisco, California http://http://www.sfmcd.com/
Walters Art Museum
Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry
Oct. 19 — Jan. 4 2009 Baltimore, Maryland http://www.thewalters.org/
Cleveland Museum of Art
Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique
Oct. 19 — Jan. 19 2009 Cleveland, Ohio http://www.clevelandart.org/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Calder Jewelry
Dec. 9 — Mar. 1 2009 New York, New York http://www.metmuseum.org/
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
Aug. 10 — Mar. 15 2009 Los Angeles, California http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/
Brooklyn Museum
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
May. 14 — May. 17 2009 Brooklyn, New York http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
McColl Center for Visual Art
“True Grit: Frames, Fixations and Flirtations”
September 5 through November 1, 2008
http://www.mccollcenter.org/site/nav.cfm?cat=16&subcat=75&subsub=289
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Calder Jewelry
Jul. 12 — Nov. 2 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.philamuseum.org
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry Jul. 23 — Nov. 9 2008, Boston, Massachusetts http://www.mfa.org
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Edge Of The Sublime: Enamels By Jamie Bennett
September 27- November 16, 2008 http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibitions/
AWARDS
Peabody Award
“CRAFT IN AMERICA” won the 2007 Peabody Award, television’s highest honor. The award citation for the series noted, “This three-hour chronicle of America’s rich, ongoing traditions of weaving, quilting, woodworking and other craft art was as carefully wrought and as beautifully shot as its subject matter…visually elegant, the programs also allow the creators to explain the deeply personal perspectives that define their work.” Carol Sauvion and Kyra Thompson, co-executive producers, are working on new programs in the series which will air in primetime, nationwide on PBS in 2009. For more information on the book and traveling exhibition, go to http://www.craftinamerica.org/?
Library Society Honors Cindi Strauss and Helen Drutt
Museum of Fine Art Houston´s Ornament as Art Exhibition Catalogue Receives Prestigious George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America. http://www.mfah.org/info.asp? Learn more.
Mary Lee Hu Wins the Twining Humber Award
The Twining Humber Award is an unrestricted award of $10,000 given annually to a Washington state female artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated a significant portion of her life to her art practice. The award recognizes creative excellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to the visual arts. See more.
Mary’s work is also present in a show at the Cooper Hewitt called “Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730- 2008.” Have a look.
