Spotlight On: Native American Jewellery
Thurs 5 May 2016
14:00 – 15:00 (doors open 13:45), free but ticketed
Auditorium, Level 1, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1 JF
Book tickets in person at the museum, call 0300 123 6789 or book online at
http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/whats-on/spotlight-on-native-american-jewellery/
Join Santa Fe based Kiowa metalsmith, Keri Ataumbi, in conversation with National Museums Scotland’s Keeper of World Cultures, Henrietta Lidchi.
Keri Ataumbi creates custom-made contemporary Native American jewellery, designing pieces which are ‘wearable art’. The aesthetic of her work blends geometric, modern design with the natural and organic.
Henrietta Lidchi is the author of Surviving desires: making and selling native jewellery in the American Southwest which looks at the local history and international significance of Native American jewellery in the past and in the present.
Join Keri and Henrietta as they as they discuss how jewellery can be both adornment and sculpture and the broader tradition of Native American jewellery.
Celts, a major exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, 10 March-25 September 2016. Book now at www.nms.ac.uk/celts