Ornament Magazine

VOL38.1 2015

Ornament is the leading magazine celebrating wearable art. Explore jewelry, fashion, beads; contemporary, ancient and ethnographic.

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JOYCE J. SCOTT: VESSEL CLOSEUP of woven glass beads, mixed media, wire, 35.6 x 30.5 x 30.5 centimeters, 2006. Photograph by Carolyn L. E. Benesh. Cover: REBECCA MYERS: BROWN DIAMOND CORSET RING of oxidized silver, eighteen karat gold, diamonds, cast, fabricated, 2012. Photograph by Julieta Rivarola. CONTRIBUTORS 6 ORNAMENT NEWS 12 Find the latest and greatest exhibits and events involving wearable art locally and worldwide. QUESTIONS/ANSWERS 18 Dennita Sewell, Curator of Fashion Design at the Phoenix Art Museum, gives her perspective on domestic American fashion through the lens of a new exhibition. COSTUME ARTS 20 The cessation of life dwells heavily on the mind in "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire," recently appearing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ANCIENT JEWELRY 48 Craftspeople from the ancient past showed remarkable ingenuity and skill, as seen in these intact precolumbian necklaces and bracelets. GLASS ARTS 50 Where do stories come from? In rendering them into physical form, African-American beadworker Joyce J. Scott illucidates this process in a recent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design. JEWELRY ARTS 54 Cara Romano's felted jewelry stems from a path of interconnection and community, within which she now holistically participates. JEWELRY PHOTOGRAPHY 56 The effect of different lighting equipment and camera modes on photographing jewelry are presented in this comparative experiment. ADVERTISING INDEX 62 POSTSCRIPT FROM THE EDITORS 64

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