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Museum Collections as Artist Resource
June 17, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for BGC Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
How can museum collections serve as a resource for jewelry artists? Beth Carver Wees, Dr. Emily Stoehrer, and Sasha Nixon discuss inspiration, education, and preservation.
Sasha Nixon (BGC MA ‘18) is a curator, historian, and practicing metalsmith. She specializes in the study of contemporary art jewelry, particularly how individual artists are influenced by ancient and historical jewelry styles and techniques.
Dr. Emily Stoehrer is the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stoehrer curated Past is Present: Revival Jewelry (2017 – 2018) and co-curated Boston Made: Arts and Crafts Jewelry (2019 – 2020) and Metalwork and Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen (2015).
Beth Carver Wees is the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum, where she oversees the collections of American silver and jewelry. Prior to joining The Met’s staff she was Curator of Decorative Arts at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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