Jewellery has long been an essential method of transporting wealth, perfectly combining practicality with cultural and aesthetic expression. Join Associate Professor Kerianne Quick of San Diego State University for a discussion looking at jewellery’s remarkable capacity to reconnect us with the people, places, and cultures of our past. As objects of recall that transport us to the past, jewellery is a point of synchrony—where the boundaries of time are dissolved.
Kerianne Quick is an Associate Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork at San Diego State University and the co-founder of Secret Identity Projects and Craft Desert. In 2000, they studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, going on to work in their jewellery studio from 2001-2. Their contemporary jewellery work is internationally recognized and included in the collections of the LACMA, MFA Houston, and the Netherlands Design Museum (Stedelijk). Highlights from their exhibition record include Craft in America Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Museo Franz Mayer (CDMX), the National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.), and Salon del Mobile (Milano). They are currently researching jewellery’s role in migration and the conveyance of objects as it relates to memory, belonging, and longing.
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Transmutations 17 (2017), Foraged brick, inherited pearls, silk, sterling silver (crop)
Courtesy of Kerianne Quick