Initiatives in Art and Culture curates an immersive educational experience on the Arts & Crafts Movement in Detroit. By Lisa Koenigsberg IAC celebrates the complexities and contradictions of the Arts & Crafts movement. For its 25th anniversary Conference, IAC returns to the Midwest—often overlooked for its contributions to the movement—and zooms in on Detroit and environs, where conditions were optimal because automation and industrialization ushered
Detroit and Environs September 27 – October 1, 2023 View the conference agenda. Register for the conference here.
All attending Maintaining Purpose, IAC’s 13th Annual Gold + Diamond Conference, were riveted by John Richmond and Toby Pomeroy’s presentation on mercury-free processing of gold. They discussed GOLDROP, an innovative system using elutriation to separate gold from sediment without employing mercury. GIA has approved grant-funded testing of GOLDROP. For more information on GOLDROP visit Sluice Goose and Mercury Free Mining. For those who missed the
September 27 - October 1, 2023 Detroit and Environs Register now and use promo code THEATER for $100 off a full-priced ticket. The World of Theater: The Players and the Fox Theatre The Players The Players, an amateur gentlemen’s theatrical club, while founded in 1911 would only find a permanent home in 1925 with the construction of the Playhouse (William Kapp of Smith, Hinchman and
IAC was honored to welcome Gaetano Cavalieri, president of CIBJO, and his son Aurelio to New York and to our 13th annual Gold + Diamond Conference where we launched our collaboration in a session on intellectual property and protecting creativity. We look forward to continuing this partnership, next on a panel at the CIBJO conference in Vicenza, Italy in September, and then in India in
The window is closing! Book your Detroit stay at this historic boutique hotel now! Step into Detroit in the 1920s with a stay at the Siren Hotel, originally the Wurlitzer building (Robert Finn, 1926). The building and many of its interior finishings have been restored based on documentation in an article appearing in 1926. Architectural features of interest are complemented by an ambiance that allows
Delighted to have been invited and to have been in conversation with Thomas Johnson about mentorship, its impact, and fulfilling the role of a mentor. The serendipity of finding someone who plays such a role is an adventure in itself. The podcast can be found on any podcast streaming service, or here on the GetupNGetFitWebsite.
Delighted to have been asked by Kate Nixon and Arts and Crafts in August to participate in a webinar that will shed light both on IAC’s 25th Anniversary Arts and Crafts conference broadly and more specifically on the Edsel and Eleanor Ford house. Looking forward to discussing the essence and paradoxes of the Arts and Crafts movement as exemplified in the Ford House by its
Highlights from Wednesday's proceedings at IAC’s 13th annual Gold + Diamond Conference, “Maintaining Purpose.” For those who missed it, the conference proceedings are archived here.
Pippa Small received IAC’s 6th annual award for Leadership in Responsible Practice in Jewelry while Satta Matturi received IAC’s 3rd annual award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Diamond and Jewelry Industries. We were thrilled to honor their accomplishments at a festive evening event. For those who missed it, there are various ticket options that allow you to view all or part of the two-day conference!
Highlights from Tuesday's proceedings at IAC’s 13th annual Gold + Diamond Conference, “Maintaining Purpose.” For those who missed it, the conference proceedings are archived here.
Grateful to Heritage Auctions for a spectacular kickoff reception which featured welcoming remarks from Roberta Kramer (Vice President - Strategy and Business Development at Heritage Auctions). Key to the evening was lively conversation with friends and colleagues reuniting, and new relationships being formed.
All of us, from those upstream in supply chains to those realizing an artistic vision in fine jewelry, must maintain purpose: we must do the work, ever-committed to effecting the change we seek. Join these extraordinary women, all leading experts, at Maintaining Purpose, IAC's 13th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference, Monday – Wednesday, July 17 – 19, 2023, in New York City.
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
In the 1920 – 30s, LGBT nightlife and culture was booming in Europe. Before the rise of fascism and the Nazi burning of Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, an early sexology research center and one of the first transgender clinics, many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/gender nonconforming people could live somewhat open lives, evident in certain artistic circles around Europe such as those that artists Gluck and
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