Jeanne Gutierrez (MA 2012) will present a paper “Brilliant Currencies: The Jewelry Collections of Isabella Stewart Gardner” at the 2015 NCSA conference in Boston.

Susie Silbert’s (MA 2012) exhibition, Material Location, which investigates the current state of glassmaking and glass thinking in New York, opens at UrbanGlass in downtown Brooklyn on January 21. She is also a finalist for the American Craft Council Emerging Voices award, a 2014 - 2015 Fellow of the Emerging Leaders in the New York Arts, and new board member for the Furniture Society, a national organization committed to advancing the art of furniture.

In October, Emily Zilber (MA 2007) celebrated four years as Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This January, she will open the exhibition Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics. An exciting look at this rich area of the MFA’s collection, it celebrates several recent gifts representing the Arts and Crafts movement, mid-century modernism, and studio craft ceramics.