About the Conference

Courtesy Tadema Gallery, London

The Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, LLC is an organization dedicated to the advancement of jewelry studies in schools, museums, and institutions of higher learning. It is also committed to the dissemination of knowledge to anyone who is interested in the history of jewelry. ASJRA takes a broad approach to the subject, seeking to understand and place jewelry within a variety of contexts, including from the ancient past to present day, the decorative arts, and fashion.

One of our most important activities is organizing an annual conference as a forum for curators, academic historians, and scholars and artists to present new and interesting information about jewelry. Anyone who is interested in jewelry will enjoy attending the conference. It's a chance to learn and network with people who collect, appraise, study and research jewelry history.

This year’s conference, One More Time: Jewelry Fakes, Revivals, Recycling and Reproductions was held on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at a prestigious private club off Fifth Avenue in midtown New York City.

The co-directors of the conference are:

Elyse Zorn Karlin, publisher of Adornment Magazine, co-director of ASJRA, past president of the American Society of Jewelry Historians, author and lecturer.

Yvonne Markowitz, Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, co-director of ASJRA, past editor of Jewelry:The Journal of the American Society of Jewelry Historians, author, and lecturer.

Contact Information:

Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts, LLC
246 North. Regent Street
Port Chester, NY 10573

ekarlin@usa.net
(914) 286-7685

Conference directors: Elyse Zorn Karlin and Yvonne J. Markowitz