JEWELRY IN PERSPECTIVE ASJRA 2024 CONFERENCE Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts
Press Release
Elyse Zorn Karlin
www.jewelryconference.com
The Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts (ASJRA), has announced the dates for its 19th Annual Conference, Jewelry in Perspective. This year the conference is being co-sponsored by the Driehaus Museum, Chicago, IL in conjunction with the exhibition Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective, which will be on view at the Museum May 24-Septembeer 22, 2024.
The conference will be held virtually on two afternoons, Saturday and Sunday, June 1/June 2.
A virtual cocktail party—back by popular demand—will be held after the Saturday session with recipes for “gem” cocktails provided.
The lectures will be available for 4 weeks online after the conference for those who are registered.
Speakers include:
Darcy Evon, Clara Barck Welles: The Kalo Shop’s Feminist Founder and Her Legacy
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, Revival Jewellery in Europe: From Inspiration to Fakes
Marie Betteley, The Astounding Discovery of the Royal Thai Collection of Fabergé: a Personal Story
Janis Staggs, Essentially Feminine: Modern Viennese Jewelry
Beth Carver Wees, Cameo Fever: From Catherine the Great to Scarlett O’Hara
Bill Drucker, The Jewelry of Georg Jensen
Elyse Zorn Karlin, Contemporary Chicago Jewelers, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria’s Bejewelled Watch
In addition, highlights of the exhibition and the Driehaus Museum’s permanent collection will be the subject of two talks.
Non-ASJRA members are invited to sign up for the conference.
For further details, speakers’ biographies, and to register please go to www.jewelryconference.com
ABOUT ASJRA
ASJRA is dedicated to the advancement of jewelry studies and committed to the dissemination of knowledge to anyone who is interested. The association takes a broad approach to the subject, seeking to understand and place jewelry within a variety of contexts, including from the ancient past to present day, the decorative arts, the fine arts, and fashion.
The co-directors of ASJRA are Yvonne Markowitz, Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Jewelry Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Emerita and Elyse Zorn Karlin, a jewelry historian, freelance curator, writer and editor.
ABOUT THE DRIEHAUS MUSEUM
The Driehaus Museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions are presented in an immersive experience within the restored Samuel Mayo Nickerson Mansion, completed in 1883 at the height of the Gilded Age. The Museum’s collection reflects and is inspired by the collecting interests, vision, and focus of its founder, the late Richard H. Driehaus.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elyse Zorn Karlin
410.465.9775
ekarlin@usa.net
