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Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692 Phone: (410) 516-7160 Fax (410) 516-5251 |
February 5, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leslie Rice [email protected] |
To Know a Jewel, A Course at Hopkins
Beginning Monday, March 16, The Johns Hopkins University's Odyssey Program will offer a course for jewelry lovers titled "To Know a Jewel: Two Centuries of Jewelry Design and Craftsmanship," a series of six classes offering a historical look at jewelry from the late 18th century to the present. The course will focus on major collections, collectors and design traditions.Through colorful slide lectures, participants will peer inside Rococo and Empire-period jewelry boxes at earrings, necklaces and chatelaines which adorned Queen Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine and others. Other sessions will look at jewelry from the Victorian period and fine jewelry from the 20th century including works from Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels and Tiffany.
Participants will also learn how to recognize authentic antique pieces and develop collections of their own. They will have a chance to see works of jewelry first-hand from the collections of several prominent collectors and from a study tour of the Walters Art Gallery.
The course is led by Martha McCrory, Ph.D., who teaches in the Jewelry Design Department of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
The Odyssey Program is a non-credit liberal arts program in the Hopkins' School of Continuing Studies. This spring there are more than 60 courses, held in the evenings, which cover areas such as literature, art, the environment, languages, writing, photography, sciences and more. "To Know a Jewel" costs $96 for the six sessions. For more information about the course or the Odyssey Program, call (410) 516-4842.
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