Back from New York City
Just returned from a fantastic 2 day conference in New York City planned by Adornment’s Elyse Karlin (A Place in Time: Jewelry within the Context of the Decorative Arts). If you can make it to any of these in the future it is well worth the effort. Luckily, I am close enough to be able to take the train to NY. Subscribe to Adornment either way!
The first night had dinner with the conference host & most of the speakers and the second night with long time friends Ornament Magazine’s Robert K. Liu & Carolyn Benesh and jewelry artist Jan Yager.
Jeannine Falino did double duty filling in for one speaker who could not make it as well as her own scheduled talk about the work of Daniel Brush. Seeing close details of his work blown up on a huge slide screen was amazing.
Elyse gave a great talk about Medusa who I have always had a fondness for. Must be the hair thing. I have to dig up and scan an old Halloween image of me dressed up as her to send along.
Ruthie Katzenstein spoke about her great-grandfather Meyer D. Rothschild (fine jeweler, gemologist/author, attorney, entrepreneur, fisherman, humanitarian). Remember his name. You will be hearing more about this fascinating man. I would love to see a book written about him after listening to her stories and looking at the all the photos.
See you there next year!
