SCAD Style events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Viewing events for July 3, 2009
June 22-July 3
Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. This exhibition showcases approximately 80 previously unexhibited pieces of North African jewelry and 27 late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. Collected by Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, this work illuminates the diversity and beauty of traditional North African design. Crafted from silver, coral, amber and other semi-precious stones, the jewelry includes wedding necklaces, hair ornaments and fibula. Moroccan, Algerian and Egyptian jewelry shows common threads of Berber culture, as well as local variations in materials and motifs. The exhibition is organized by the Museum for African Art, New York. SCAD Style events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. |
