Introducing Chicago Collects | With Exhibition Curator Elyse Zorn Karlin

Thursday, May 23, 2024

It’s the opening day of our new exhibition, Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective, and we are celebrating with an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at how it came to be, featuring exhibition curator Elyse Zorn Karlin in conversation with Executive Director Lisa Key. From assembling over 200 pieces of jewelry and decorative arts from across four centuries to exploring their artistic origins and merits, Karlin will share her expertise and insights into the history of jewelry design and the story Chicago Collects tells.

This ticket includes museum admission.

About the Speaker:

Elyse Zorn Karlin is the curator of Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective and previously curated the Driehaus Museum exhibition, Maker & Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry. Karlin is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry & Related Arts, and the co-director of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts. She is also the author of Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, the definitive book on the jewelry of the Arts & Crafts Movement circa 1900; the catalog International Art Jewelry, 1895-1925; the book Sally Ann Wekstein: An Artist in the Studio; Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry, and editor of Maker & Muse: Women and 20th Century Art Jewelry. She is currently co-authoring a book in progress: Aletto Five Generations of Jewelers.

Photo credits: Bob Rozycki for December WAG, Jeremy Lawson