JCK Jewelry Agenda: Week Of Jan. 8

By Victoria Gomelsky | January 05, 2023

Happy New Year! We’re still getting acclimated to writing (and thinking) about 2023, and by the likes of it, so is the rest of the industry. That’s why the events schedule for the week ahead is pretty light: There’s a WJA welcome-to-2023 webinar, an IAC online panel discussion on mining, and a couple of not-to-miss exhibitions for those in New York City. Easy does it!

ATTEND

WJA 2023 Kick-Off Webinar: Jan. 12, 7 p.m. ET (online)

“Re-Engergizing For 2023 Through Connection & Community” is the subject of WJA’s first webinar of the year. The kickoff event will feature TEDx speaker and mental health expert Lauren Ross (pictured above), who will share insights into developing a positive mindset, adopting behaviors to build connection and community in your personal and professional lives, and learning best practices to set goals for 2023. As always, the event will include breakout groups to connect with other WJA members.

IAC Webinar on Perceptions of Mining: Jan. 13, 9 a.m. ET (online)

IAC mining speakers — *Gabriel Kamundala, Lisa Koenigsberg, Peter Oakley*

Initiatives in Art and Culture has created a new platform, People and Mining, to hold online panel discussions about the impacts of mining on peoples’ lives and wider society. For the fourth online discussion, panelists—including IAC president Lisa Koenigsberg; Gabriel Kamundala, a PhD candidate at the University of Zurich; and Peter Oakley of the Royal College of Art—will tackle the topic of how the general population perceives mining communities and extractive projects, and the role that plays in understanding and pursuing social justice.

Cooper Hewitt Exhibition of Illustrations of 18th-Century Ornaments: Through Jan. 22 (in person)

Michel Angelo Pergolesi illustration — Ornament Design, Tripod and Roman Standards, 1776 by Michel Angelo Pergolesi (Italian, active London, c. 1760–1801). Pen and ink, brush and watercolor over graphite on laid paper. (Photo: Matt Flynn/© Smithsonian Institution)

Fanciful drawings and prints by Michel Angelo Pergolesi (died 1801), an Italian-born artist who specialized in illustrating “the ornaments of the ancients,” gets his proper due at the Cooper Hewitt in Mr. Pergolesi’s Curious Things: Ornament in 18th-Century Britain, which shows how Pergolesi transformed ancient relics—what he called “curious things”—into charming decorative motifs.

Hilary Knight’s Sequin Accessories Drawings at The Jewelry Library: Through January (in person)

Hilary Knight illustration — *An array of hatpins from Hilary Knight’s sketchbook of sequin accessories*

The illustrator and author Hilary Knight, famous for his work on the Eloise series, gifted The Jewelry Library a sketchbook of jewelry and accessory designs he illustrated as a teenager, along with some of the samples he’d made and given to his mother, the illustrator Katherine Sturges Dodge. They’re on view at TJL through the end of the month.

Top: Purple garnet ring with diamonds in hammer-finish 14k yellow gold, $695; Parlé