Sara Picard

Wordsmith/Metalsmith allows for exploration of the communicative energy written text brings to jewelry and metalwork, a highly personal form of visual art. Showcasing contemporary artists from around the world, including the Boris Bally, Kristin Beeler, Liz Hamman, Keiith Lo Bue, Mary Hallam Pearse, and Katherine Richmond, these artist draw attention to symbolic language, making objects […]

Rhode Island Jewelry History presentation by Laura Johnson, Associate Curator at Historic New England, in conjunction with the jewelry exhibition Wordsmith/Metalsmith. Laura Johnson situates RI as a jewelry powerhouse from the eighteenth century on and explores reasons why RI was so successful until the crash of the 1970s. She will use a combination of pieces […]