BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ical@bgc.bard.edu//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bard Graduate Center X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-RELCALID:f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1578@www.bgc.bard.edu DTSTAMP:20260807T104351Z DESCRIPTION:The New York firm Marcus & Co. (1892–1942) created exceptional jewelry for an art-loving\, wealthy elite. Travels throughout India in 189 5 inspired their first distinctive body of design\, featuring elaborate go ld and colored stone jewels. In the following years\, annual visits to the Paris Salons and encounters with the work of Lalique\, Colonna\, and Veve r resulted in an original response to the Art Nouveau style. In this talk\ , Sheila Barron Smithie and Beth Carver Wees—coauthors of the new book Mar cus & Co.: Three Generations of New York Jewelers—will focus on their turn -of-the-century work\, produced under the leadership of the family’s secon d generation\, highlighting the firm’s body of extraordinary plique-à-jour enamel jewelry. Surviving objects and archival drawings from two sources reveal new aspects of the firm’s history.Paul Hollister (1918–2004) was a pioneering critic of contemporary studio glass and a glass historian. Iren e Hollister (1920–2016) was a philanthropist\, advocate for glass scholars hip\, and founding administrator of the Association for Computing Machiner y. The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass were established at Bard Graduate Center in 2007.Sheila Barron Smithie\, FGA\, has been a jewelry specialist\, researcher\, and appraiser at auction houses and galleries. S he is a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain (FGA) and the recipient of its 2005 Christie’s Prize. As an adjunct faculty member a t Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York\, she designed and taught the cou rse Gems and Jewelry: History and Markets for master’s degree students. Fr om 2013\, she consulted on jewelry for the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, he lping to research the institution-wide collection for the 2018 exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed. Beginning her early career as a financial a nalyst at Goldman\, Sachs & Co.\, she worked in investment banking\, commo dities\, and equity research sales and trading in New York\, Mexico City\, and London. She is a graduate of Harvard University.Beth Carves Wees is c urator emerita\, the American Wing\, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, w here for twenty years she oversaw the collections of American silver\, jew elry\, and other metalwork. Prior to joining the Met’s staff in 2000\, she was curator of decorative arts at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown \, Massachusetts. She lectures internationally and is the author of numero us articles and books\, including English\, Irish & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1997) and Early American Silve r in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013). Beth holds degrees in art hist ory from Smith College and from the Williams College Graduate Program in t he History of Art. An alumna of the Attingham Summer School and Royal Coll ection Studies\, she currently serves as President of the Board of the Ame rican Friends of Attingham. She also sits on the advisory boards of the As sociation for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts and of the Silver Soci ety in England. Beth was one of six organizing curators for the Met’s 2018 –19 exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed as well as a contributor to i ts catalogue. Her exhibition Jewelry for America was on view at the Met fr om June 2019 to May 2021. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T170000 SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: From Carved Emeralds to Plique-à-jour Enamels END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR