ONLINE LECTURE Mutable Adornments: Recasting Histories of Early Coin-Silver Jewelry with Dr. Christine Garnier
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January 30th, 3-4:30pm Mountain time.
Mutable Adornments: Recasting Histories of Early Coin-Silver Jewelry with Dr. Christine Garnier
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Bio: Dr. Christine Garnier is an assistant professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches histories of North American art. She received her PhD from Harvard University and is currently an ACLS fellow and a long-term fellow at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
Abstract: In the nineteenth-century United States, government-issued silver coins operated as symbols of wealth, trans-national trade, imperial expansion, and extractive industry. Yet, their malleability, reflectivity, and standardization allowed these same coins to be subsumed into Indigenous regimes of adornment throughout North America. The talk will explore the relationship between art and value through close analysis of coin-based silver artworks by two Diné silversmiths, Slender Maker of Silver and Jake the Silversmith, in the Wheelwright’s collections. This research is part of Christine’s current book project titled The American Silverscape, which examines the relationship between silver objects, extractive industry, and Indigenous sovereignty in the Intermountain West.
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Dr. Christine Garnier
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Date:
January 30, 2025
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3:00 pm –
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Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 982-4636
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