Explore Afro-diasporic jewelry as memory, identity, and testimony, with artists’ discussion and book signing.
What can jewelry carry of a life, a culture, a memory, a future? Artists Diana Baird N’Diaye and Elaine Robnett Moore draw upon African diasporic heritage while pushing possibilities of art jewelry from materials gathered, reclaimed, and transformed. Moderated by Dr. Joanne Hyppolite (Smithsonian NMAAHC), the discussion will explore jewelry as a vessel for personal and cultural memory, commentary, vision and imagination.
Artists Diana Baird N’Diaye and Elaine Robnett Moore affirm how materials can become carriers of personal and collective memory, social commentary, futurism and identity via their different approaches to jewelry design. N’Diaye pieces, patches, and reassembles textiles and found jewelry, while Robnett Moore gathers and strings beads and objects collected through decades of travel.