Elyse
Zorn Karlin is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Adornment, The
Magazine
of Jewelry and Related Arts.
She is a past president of The American Society of Jewelry
Historians and is currently the co-director of the Association
for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts (ASJRA).
She runs the Annual Conference on Jewelry & Related
Arts and the Annual Jewelry History Series in Miami, FL every
winter.
Karlin is the author of:
• the definitive book on jewelry of the Arts and Crafts
movement, Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition
• the catalogues International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925
and Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age
She is the co-author of:
• Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry (accompanied
the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston)
• Maker and Muse: Women and Early 20th Century
Art Jewelry (also the editor for this book which accompanied
the exhibition of the same name at the Richard H. Driehaus
Museum, Chicago)
Karlin’s curating credits include:
• Jewelers of the Hudson Valley (The Forbes
Galleries, NYC)
• International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925 (The
Forbes Galleries)
• Finer Things: Jewelry & Accessories from
the 1880s –1930s, Stan Hywet House and Gardens,
Akron, OH, (the home of Franklin Seiberling, the founder
of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company)
• Out of this World: Jewelry in the Space Age (The
Forbes Galleries and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
and Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville, GA)
• Maker and Muse: Women and Early 20th Century Art
Jewelry, (Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago and traveled
to a number of venues)
Karlin was a contributing editor to Collector’s, Clocks
and Jewelry Magazine and has written for a number of
other publications.
She is co-producing the film, A Story to Wear: A Jewelry
History Documentary.
• Karlin is a graduate of the University of Missouri
School of Journalism.
• She has been listed in Who’s Who in American
Women and Who’s Who in American Writers, Artists,
and Poets.
• She is a member of The Society of Jewelry Historians,
Great Britain; The American Society of Jewelry Historians,
The Decorative Arts Society of America, and The Decorative
Arts Society of Great Britain,
She is currently working on several jewelry book projects.
Websites:
www.asjra.com
www.jewelryconference.com
www.jewelryandrelatedarts.com
www.storytowear.com
www.asjra.com
Lectures:
Karlin lectures frequently at museums, private clubs, universities,
libraries and for associations. This is a partial list of
where she has lectured:
Neue Galerie, New York City; Dixon Gallery and Gardens,
Memphis, TN; The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Paine Art Center
and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI; American Association of Appraisers;
International Association of Appraisers; National Association
of Jewelry Appraisers; Jewelry History Series, Miami; Annual
Conference on Jewelry and Related Arts; Gemological Institute
of America Alumni Association (New York, Chicago, Washington,
D.C.); University Club, New York City, Boston Antiques Weekend;
Minneapolis Institute of Art; Stan Hywet, Akron, OH; Applied
Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD;
Pratt Institute Graduate Program, New York City; 92nd St.
Y, New York City; Lille St. School, Chicago; Woman’s
Athletic Club, Chicago; Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago’ At
Home on the Sound, Larchmont, NY, Everhart Museum, Scranton,
OH; Woman’s Jewelry Association, Metro Chapter, New
York City; Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL; Stickley Farms,
Parsippany, NJ and others.
Contact Elyse through this website or at (410) 465-8775. |