Beth Carver Wees

Emily Stoehrer

   Ulysses Grant Dietz

It's a reliably wonderful treat to visit a museum and stroll through the jewelry collections. As ASJH members and jewelry lovers, we've all gone out of our way to find hidden treasures in special exhibitions and marvel at the iconic pieces in permanent collections. We've learned valuable jewelry history from the notations near the pieces, and we've all bought catalogs and postcards to take a bit of the magic home with us after our visit. But who plans all this magnificence? Who does all the behind-the-scenes work - choosing the pieces, researching the jewels and their provenances, making sure it's all correct - and how do they do it? We've invited three experienced curators to share their knowledge and stories with ASJH members worldwide. Beth Carver Wees is the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Dr. Emily Stoehrer is Rita J Kaplan and Susan B Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Ulysses Grant Dietz was Curator of Decorative Arts and Chief Curator at The Newark Museum for 37 years. These three curators bring lifetimes of experience to us as they share their memories, knowledge, experience, and personal favorites in this 60-minute presentation.

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