Sam Kramer. Jeweler on the Edge: Book signing and Talk by Toni Greenbaum

Join AJF and Arnoldsche Art Publishers for Psychoanalysis in Silver: The Fantastical Jewelry of Sam Kramer, a talk by author Toni Greenbaum, plus a sale and signing of her new book, SAM KRAMER: JEWELER ON THE EDGE. Exhibition of selected studio jewelry pieces by Kramer will accompany the book sale and signing.

About Toni Greenbaum
Toni Greenbaum is a New York-based art historian specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century jewelry and metalwork. She wrote Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960, “Women Jewelry Designers” (with Pat Kirkham) in Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, “Body Sculpture: California Jewelry” in California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style, and the jewelry and metalwork portions of Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, along with countless book chapters, exhibition catalogues, and essays for art publications. Greenbaum has lectured internationally at institutions such as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague; Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia. She has co-curated exhibitions for several museums, including the Victoria and Albert, London, and the Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y, New York. Greenbaum is a professor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Hours

Hours: Thursday, March 12, 9:00 - 11:00 pm.
Doors open at 9:00 to enjoy coffee and pastries, and the talk will begin at 9:30.