This two-day symposium explores the study, production, and function of jewelry in America along four themes: fashion and jewelry; materials and techniques; jewelry as social signifier; and love, loss, and remembrance. Hands-on workshops explore the Gallery’s contemporary, costume, and early American jewelry, as well as offer opportunities to visit studio jewelers on Chapel Street and to view gemstones and jewelry in the Peabody Museum’s new Hall of Minerals, Earth, and Space.

Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Symposium
The Art of Adornment: The American Jewelry Tradition from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
October 16 and 17, 9:15 am–5:00 pm

Keynote lecture, October 16, 5:30 pm
Objects of Desire: Contemporary Jewelry at the Crossroads of Ideas
Cindi Strauss, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Registration
Online registration is now closed. For more information please call 203.432.0615.
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