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 has beeb co-director of the Association for the Study of Jewelry & Related Arts (ASJRA) for 20 years with Yvonne J. Markowitz, the first jewelry curator in America (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Elyse runs the Annual Conference on Jewelry & Related Arts and ran the Annual Jewelry History Series in Miami, FL for six years.

She is the author of:

The definitive book on jewelry of the Arts and Crafts movement, Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition

Sally Ann Wekstein: An Artist in the Studio

The catalogues International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925 and Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, Jewelers of the Hudson Valley

She authored a chapter in Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective

She co-authored 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 (she was the editor for this book which accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago)

She contributed an essay to Radiant Echoes: 35 Years of Victoria Lansford's Metal Mastery

She is co-author of Aletto Five Generations of Jewelry due out in early 2025

Elyse’s curating credits include:

• Jewelers of the Hudson Valley (The Forbes Galleries, NYC)

• International Art Jewelry: 1895-1925 (The Forbes Galleries, NYC)

• 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, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the 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)

• Chicago Collects: Jewelry in Perspective, Richard H. Drieshaus Museum, May 22-Septemer 22, 2024 then travels to the Muskegaon Museum of Art in October 2024 and the Osh Kosh Public Museum in 2026

Karlin was a contributing editor to Collector’s, Clocks and Jewelry Magazine and has written for a number of other publications including Heritage Magazine, the Archibald Knox Society Journal, Gems and Gemology Magazine, Adornment Magazine, American Society of Jewelry Hisorians’ Newsletter, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine, Metalsmith Magazine, and others. She is co-producing the film, A Story to Wear: A Jewelry History Documentary.

• Elyse holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from 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.storytowear.com

Lectures:

Elyse 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. chapters)
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
Ellicott City(MD) Library Sytem
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
National First Ladies’ Library
New York City Jewelry Week
And others

Contact Elyse through this website or at (410) 465-8775.