Talk
Explore the connection between jewelry and personal identity
Pei Ling Chan Garden Amphitheater
When
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018
5:33 p.m.
Where
Admission

This event, sponsored by the SCAD Museum of Art, is free and open to the public.

Join famed art historian Toni Greenbaum for "Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Jewelry as Cultural Marker," a lecture about the role jewelry plays in revealing one's identity.

Common to all eras and societies, jewelry is an eloquent device that defines style, status and sentiment, while simultaneously proclaiming membership, conviction and alienation. Greenbaum examines this universal artifact within the broader context of history, tradition, ethnography, popular culture, political discourse and contemporary aesthetics.

About Toni Greenbaum

Toni Greenbaum is an art historian specializing in 20th- and 21st-century jewelry and metalwork. She has written countless journal articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogs, and is the author of "Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960." She is currently writing a monograph on modernist jeweler Sam Kramer.