Objects of Affection

Rebecca E. Elliot is assistant curator of craft, design, and fashion at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, where she oversees the collection of studio jewelry in addition to working with craft and design in all media. She is the co-author of Craft Across Continents: Contemporary Japanese and Western Objects (2023) and Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things (2022), is a member of, and contributing author to, the Art Jewelry Forum, and a member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery.
Toni Greenbaum is an art historian specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century jewelry and metalwork. She is the author of the seminal book Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960 (1996) and a contributing author to numerous books, exhibition catalogs, and arts publications. Greenbaum lectures nationally and internationally, including at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and is a on the board of directors, Art Jewelry Forum; a member of AJF Editorial Advisory Committee and former professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She lives in New York.