Episode 29: Marrying Old and New: Ancient Treasures and Contemporary Statements with Sasha Nixon, Historian, Curator and Practicing Metalsmith
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Sasha Nixon is a curator, historian, and practicing metalsmith. She specializes in the study of contemporary art jewelry, particularly how individual artists are influenced by ancient and historical jewelry styles and techniques. She is co-curator of the Museum of Arts and Design\\u2019s (MAD) exhibition Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines (October 2018\\u2013March 2019) and received MAD\\u2019s 2018 Windgate curatorial internship. She also co-curated the exhibition ANTIQUEMANIA, presented at Pratt Manhattan during the inaugural New York City Jewelry Week (November 12\\u201318, 2018).
The Society of North American Goldsmiths awarded Sasha their 2017 emerging curators grant for her exhibition, A View from the Jeweler\\u2019s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements. She presented her paper \\u201cPixels Bejeweled: Modern Media, Contemporary Jewelry, and the Replication of Desire\\u201d at the Fashion Institute of Technology\\u2019s international symposium \\u201cDigital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st Century\\u201d in May 2018. That paper and \\u201cIn the Studio: Lin Cheung,\\u201d written for Metalsmith magazine, will be published later this year.
What you\\u2019ll learn in this episode:
- Sasha\\u2019s path to becoming a hands-on metalsmith as well as a jewelry historian and curator.
- The process for creating A View from the Jeweler\\u2019s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements.
- The challenges overcome when putting together the exhibition.
- What people will take away from visiting A View from the Jeweler\\u2019s Bench.
Additional resources:
- A View from the Jeweler\\u2019s Bench Exhibit \\u2013 ends July 7, 2019