Start Date: 5/14/2020 5:30 PM EDT
End Date: 5/14/2020 6:00 PM EDT
Venue Name: Zoom
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Womens Jewelry Association
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The Women's Jewelry Association in collaboration with The Jewelry Library presents Sneak Peek: Stories from the Archives, where jewelry historians and writers share their latest research finds in short sound-bytes.
Bring a glass of wine and get inspired by these engaging "jewelry detectives" whose discoveries are sure to spark the creative imaginations of jewelry designers, marketers and entrepreneurs.
FREE for WJA Members and Non-Members
PART 1
Featuring The Jewelry Library's Karen Davidov in conversation with Toni Greenbaum on her new monograph, Sam Kramer: Jeweler on the Edge
Dubbed “Surrealistic Jeweller” in The New Yorker (1942) Greenwich Village shop-owner Sam Kramer inspired not only his contemporaries but subsequent generations of studio jewelers. A professed “rockhound,” he habitually incorporated minerals, both precious and profane, into his fantastical creations. In fact, Kramer’s most characteristic “stones” are not gems at all, but glass taxidermy eyes.
Toni Greenbaum is a New York-based art historian specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century jewelry and metalwork. She wrote Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960, along with numerous book chapters, exhibition catalogues, and essays for arts publications. She has written a monograph on modernist jeweler Sam Kramer, which was published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, in December 2019 and an essay on Sam Kramer and contemporary jeweler Karl Fritsch for Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019, to be published by the Museum of Arts and Design and Arnoldsche in fall 2020. Greenbaum has lectured internationally at institutions such as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah. She has worked on exhibitions for several museums, including the Victoria and Albert in London, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York. Greenbaum is a Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches a course in Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Jewelry.
Karen Davidov is the founder of The Jewelry Library, a research and gallery space in New York City that hosts a wide range of exhibitions, talks and events all across the jewelry-spectrum, collaborating with both contemporary and vintage gallerists, artists and collectors, as well as storytellers, historians, makers and wearers. As an independent curator and public art producer, Karen worked with local artists and community institutions such as New York City Public Schools, DC Public Libraries and The American University of Central Asia. In addition, she recently launched an educational initiative that teaches curatorial practice to public librarians. Karen began her career as a 20th century decorative arts dealer and theater producer.
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Jennifer Markas is the Executive Director of the Women's Jewelry Association, Inc. Jennifer has 18 years of experience working in the non-profit and creative fields ranging from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Citibank Foundation to the award-winning architecture firm, Thomas Phifer and Partners. Most recently, Jennifer managed sustainability communications at Tiffany & Co. and was integral in establishing the company's first global women's employee resource group. Jennifer is an advocate for women's equality and empowerment and was the founder of Damsels in Design, a professional community for creative women in NYC which brought 3,000 women together across all creative fields. Jennifer holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Boston University and a Master of the Arts from Parsons School of Design in the History of Decorative Arts & Design. Jennifer focused on material culture from 20th century Vienna and Mid-century modern furniture design. Her first jewelry memory is of receiving a small emerald (her birthstone) ring in a gold setting from her mother when she was 4 years old. Jennifer has the ring to this day.
