Reflecting on the last 50 years of her work, jeweler and advocate Kiff Slemmons examines jewelry’s place in culture—both past and present—including its capacity for meaning and metaphor, its reflection of identity, its potential to offer protection, and its release from convention. Presented in conjunction with the current installation American Jewelry: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. Generously sponsored by the Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lectureship Fund.
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Hybrid Program, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art, "From the Outside Out"
Kiff Slemmons, Big Between, Chicago, 2020–21. Silver, wood, paper, graphite, horsehair, and mixed media. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Susan Grant Lewin and with the Lisa Koenigsberg, M.A. 1981, M.Phil. 1984, Ph.D. 1987, and David Becker, B.A. 1979, Fund. © Kiff Slemmons