Jewelry of Ideas

Ursula-Ilse Neuman is an independent curator, author and lecturer specialising in contemporary art jewellery. She is former curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (1992-2014). Author of Linda MacNeil. Jewels of Glass (ISBN 9783897904712). With over 20 years as a journalist, Susan Grant Lewin cut her design teeth as Design Editor of Home Furnishings Daily and then as Senior Editor of Design and Architecture at House Beautiful Magazine. She then segued seamlessly into her position as Global Creative Director of Formica Corporation. Her strategy to reposition the 75-year- old company was to commission new works utilising the talents of the leading designers of the time. Lewin curated several exhibitions. Two of the winners of the "Surface and Ornament" competition initiated by Lewin were jewellers Bob Ebendorf and Ivy Ross. They charted the course of Lewin's interest in American jewellery. Today Lewin is director of her own public relations firm.