IAC’s forthcoming 28th annual American Art Conference Multiple Modernities will explore manifestations and meanings of the modern in American art from the late 19th through the mid-20th century through talks, panels, conversations, and private events. We are grateful to American Fine Art Magazine for featuring a preview about our upcoming event taking place May 9-11 in New York City at Heritage Auctions. IAC is delighted
Honored to have been invited to speak by CIBJO in Vicenza, Italy where I will contribute to an event jointly supported by CIBJO’s Jewellery Industry Voices and IAC: Halo to Hammer: Reward and Risk in Social Media Marketing. This panel discussion takes place January 20, 2024 from 1:00 – 1:50pm (GMT+1) You can watch the panel discussion live here.
IAC’s 2024 Arts and Crafts conference will take place during this October in Philadelphia and in the Brandywine River Valley. Highlights will include visits to Philadelphia institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Frank Furness & George Hewitt, 1876) and to the studios of NC and Andrew Wyeth at the Brandywine Museum of Art, where we will also view the landmark exhibition,
Save the Date for Expanding Horizons! Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 14th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference. The conference will take place July 15 – 17, 2024 in New York City.
Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities, will take place at Heritage Auctions at 56th and Park Avenue in New York City, May 9 – 11. Conference participants will be guests of The American Art Fair's invitation-only Gala Preview.
“Fewer, better things” (in the words of Glenn Adamson), an approach consonant with UN Sustainable Development Goal 12, “responsible consumption and production” and embodied the work of Giovanni Corvaja. Born in 1971 in Padua, Italy, this extraordinary goldsmith and jeweler began work in metalsmithing at 13 with Francesco Pavan and Paolo Maurizio. In 1988, he was awarded the Diploma di Maestro d’Arte, and in 1990,
Join us at Expanding Horizons, IAC's 14th Gold + Diamond Conference, July 15 – 17, 2024, in New York City “No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.” – Zora Neale Hurston
Expanding Horizons Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 14th Annual International Gold + Diamond Conference July 15 – July 17, 2024 New York City Initiatives in Art and Culture’s annual Gold + Diamond Conference has firmly established its credentials as a critically important vantage point from which to examine jewelry and the jewelry industry as a business, cultural and artistic endeavor, within the context of contemporary
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.
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 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
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.
Unforgettable: from our arrival in Sao Paulo where I met with Richard Fizsman (@richardfiszman , @fiszmanjewel), Laìs Demarchi (@lais.demarchi), Silvia Furmanovich (@silviafurmanovich), and Kelly Amorim (@kellyamorim12) to our journey to and experience of Cruzeiro Mine with Douglas Neves (@douglaswn) and his exceptional team. This was a deep dive into many manifestations of responsible practice: cleaving to principle fueled by joy. Was honored to be there.
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