How Do We Keep Teaching, Learning, Making?
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When schools began closing around the world, a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, students and teachers were all faced with the same question, “how do we keep teaching, learning, making!?”
As events unfolded around us, we became aware that jewelry was the perfect medium for communication during this unique moment in human history. We were being asked to clearly and boldly define personal boundaries, create social distance, develop new forms of greeting, and protect ourselves from one another. Jewelry has helped us do these things for millennia!
The Ethical Metalsmiths Education Committee seized the opportunity to invite professors and students to share ideas and solutions both finished and speculative. Our hope was to bring together our talented, curious, and thoughtful community through our shared interest, jewelry making, while exploring solutions to the variety of issues presented to us. The response was remarkable and diverse.
The result is a Collection of Work that acts as a time capsule for this transformative moment. We hope you will enjoy this exhibition but also gain insight and inspiration to take back into your studios and classrooms.
Thank you!
The Ethical Metalsmiths Education Committee
Lucy Louise Derickson, Susie Ganch, Kathleen Kennedy, Andy Lowrie, Elizabeth Shaw
“The result is a collection of work that acts as a time capsule for this transformative moment.”
