Public Talk and Opening Reception of “Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection”

You are invited to the opening reception of the exhibit “Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection,” with speakers including Jill Wine-Banks, curators, and guest artists, on Thursday, October 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Fourth Floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.

Jill Wine-Banks is a distinguished attorney, former Watergate prosecutor, General Counsel for the Army during the Carter Administration, MSNBC Legal Analyst, and podcast host. She’s also a specific kind of jewelry collector known for using the pin as a messaging device throughout her career in politics and media.

The exhibition features pins from Jill’s personal collection, work by emerging and established artists and jewelers, and artwork by UWM Jewelry & Metalsmithing students that acts as messaging devices and was inspired by items from the Special Collections. Curated by Erica A. Meier with Max Yela and Special Collections Graduate Intern Ana Hansa-Ogren.

The exhibit, installed in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the Golda Meir Library, opens a week earlier on UWM Gallery Night, Friday, October 18, 2024, from 4 to 7 p.m.