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Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Mary Hallam Pearse Friday, July 17th at 5 PM EST. Mary will be a participating artist in the exhibition Anthropometry which will run in our 2022 exhibition season. Mike, Josiah, and Mary will be continuing their conversation about how their work reinforces and/or breaks down the themes explored in the exhibition.

About Mary:

Mary Hallam Pearse received her M.F.A. in Metal from SUNY New Paltz and a B.F.A. in Crafts with an emphasis in Jewelry and Metals from Kent State University. In her ongoing work Mary is interested in how jewelry has functioned historically as a marker of status, class, wealth, and a record of human experience. Her work has been selected for competitive exhibitions in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally and included in publications such as Metalsmith, Ornament and American Craft. Curatorial projects include; Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia, Parallels: Jonathan Wahl and Sondra Sherman, The Ring Shows: Then & Now and Putting the Band Back Together and Coming into View. She has been invited to present lectures and provide workshops at Penland School of Craft, Anderson Ranch, Kent State University, East Carolina University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Humboldt State to name a few. Currently she is Associate Professor and area chair of the jewelry and metalwork area at The Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Georgia.