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Speaker's Biographies
The curator of 114 exhibitions during his tenure, Mr. Dietz is particularly proud of his work on The Newark Museum’s 1885 Ballantine House, which was re-interpreted and restored as the centerpiece of the decorative arts department in 1994.
In 1997, he was the project director for The Glitter & The Gold: Fashioning America’s Jewelry, the first-ever exhibition and book on Newark’s once-vast jewelry industry.
In 2003, Ulysses organized and co-authored Gems from the East and West, an exhibition and catalogue of Doris Duke’s remarkable jewelry collection. Additionally, he has published numerous articles on decorative arts, as well as books on the Museum’s American art pottery and 19th century furniture, and jewelry collections. His last book for the Museum was Jewelry from Pearls to Platinum to Plastic and was published in 2017.Elyse Zorn Karlin, is the curator of Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective, the co-director of ASJRA and the publisher of Adornment, The Magazine of Jewelry & Related Arts. She is the author of Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition, An Artist in the Studio: The Jewelry of Sally Ann Wekstein, and the catalog International Art Jewelry, 1895- 1925. She is also the co-author of Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry and editor of Maker & Muse: Women and 20th Century Art Jewelry.
Her curating credits include: Jewelers of the Hudson Valley and International Art Jewelry, 1895-1925 and Finer Things: Jewelry and Accessories from the 1880s-1930s. She also curated Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age and Maker & Muse: Women and 20th Century Art Jewelry. She is currently curating Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective which opens May 24, 2024 at the Driehaus Museum and then moves to the Muskegan Museum of Art, MI.
Ben Macklowe is the President and second-generation owner of Macklowe Gallery, the world's premiere dealer of museum-quality 20th century decorative arts and estate fine jewelry, and the largest global home of authenticated Tiffany lamps.
Ben has been recognized in the industry as a thought leader and lectures regularly at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Industry Appraisal events. He has been quoted as an expert in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Together with the gallery's team of curatorial experts, Ben has authored books on Art Nouveau sculpture and jewelry that have become standards in the field.Aimee Newell is a Research Program Administrator at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She has extensive experience as a museum curator and director at several history museums including the Nantucket Historical Association, Old Sturbridge Village, the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, and the Luzerne County Historical Society. She has a PhD in History from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University. She regularly writes and talks about American material culture.
Janis Staggs is Director of Curatorial and Manager of Publications at Neue Galerie New York. She is curator of the forthcoming exhibition, Klimt Landscapes, opening in February 2024, and has previously organized or co-organized various shows, including Wiener Werkstätte Fashion and Accessories, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary, Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty, Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold, and Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry, among others for the Neue Galerie. Janis has contributed essays to various Neue Galerie as well as outside publications. A specialist in the decorative arts, her work focuses on the intersection between the fine and decorative arts with an emphasis on the Vienna 1900 era. She has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts.
Dr. Emily Stoehrer is the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Senior Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, At the MFA she oversees a collection that spans 6,000 years and includes more than 25,000 objects—highlights include ancient jewelry, a growing collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century high-style jewelry, and the Daphne Farago Collection of contemporary jewelry. Emily managed the 2024 renovation of the jewelry gallery and the installation of Beyond Brilliance: Jewelry Highlights from the Collection, she alaso curated
--Past is Present: Revival Jewelry
--co-curated Dress Up,
--Boston Made: Arts & Crafts Jewelry and Metalwork
--Hollywood Glamour: Fashion & Jewelry from the Silver Screen.
Emily is a frequent lecturer and has been invited to present at museums, conferences, and organizations around the globe. The diversity of Emily’s interests in the field are evidenced in her publications and lecture topics, which range from nineteenth century jewelry to works by contemporary makers and designers. In addition to her work as a curator, Emily has spent more than a decade teaching at Boston-area colleges and for four years managed three robust undergraduate programs in fashion design and merchandising. Emily holds a PhD in Humanities from Salve Regina University, and a Master of Arts in Fashion & Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts.
Stefanie Walker Stefanie Walker is an independent scholar who specializes in the history of jewelry and objects of precious metal, among other fields. After training as a goldsmith in Germany, she studied art history and received her PhD from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Since then, Stefanie has worked as a curator, teacher, and lecturer for over 25 years.
At the Bard Graduate Center, she curated the exhibition Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry and co-edited the catalog (2004), for which she was made an honorary member of the Roman Goldsmiths’ Guild.
Stefanie has published essays and book chapters
on Renaissance jewelry and on palace culture, including an article
on collecting silver in Rome for The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance
Mystery, an exhibition and catalog at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art (2017). She has been a frequent lecturer for Smithsonian Associates
in Washington, most recently Marie-Antoinette: Life, Art, Myth.
When she is not thinking about jewelry, Stefanie manages grant
programs for the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington,
DC.
Beth Carver Wees is
Curator Emerita, The American Wing, at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, where for 20 years she oversaw the collections
of American silver, jewelry, 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, MA.
Beth lectures internationally and has written widely on the subjects of silver and jewelry. She holds degrees in art history from Smith College and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. An alumna of the Attingham Summer School and Royal Collection Studies, she serves as President of the Board of the American Friends of Attingham.
She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, and on the Advisory Board of The Silver Society 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 its catalogue. Her exhibition Jewelry for America was on view at The Met from June 2019 to May 2021. She is currently writing a book with Sheila Smithie about the New York jewelry firm, Marcus & Co.
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