Main Participants

ARTIST & CHEF — NAAMA LEVIT

Naama Levit is a jewelry artist, a material maker and an educator. She makes jewelry, objects, installations and performance. Born In Jerusalem, Israel, She received her BFA with honors from the department of jewelry and fashion at Bezalel Academy Of Art in Jerusalem, Israel (2013), and her M.F.A in Metals from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI (2020). Naama currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Through her multidisciplinary and experimental approach Naama explores the intimate relation she has with objects, materials, landscape and memory.

She has presented her work in exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the USA, including Philistine culture Museum, The Israeli Craft Biennale, Galerie Marzee, Munich Jewelry week, NYC Jewelry week, and Jerusalem design week.

She received several awards including Designer in residence at Emma Kreativezentrum (Pforzheim, Germany), Mercedes Benz emerging artist award, Cranbrook Merit award and Haystack Mountain School of Craft AIDA award.

ARTIST & CO-HOST — BRICE GARRETT

Brice Garrett is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Traditionally trained as a metalsmith, his work ranges across disciplines and media, culminating in wearables, sculpture, installations, and participatory projects. Brice received his MFA from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden and a BA from San Diego State University.

He has been the recipient of multiple awards and residencies, including from the Museum of Arts and Design, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Queens Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Center for Craft, and Jakob Bengel Foundation. He currently teaches jewelry and metals at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design.

CURATOR & CO-HOST — KAREN DAVIDOV

Karen Davidov is an independent art and design producer with experience working in libraries as a researcher, on libraries as a designer, and with libraries as a public art consultant. Karen pursued her passion for jewelry and jewelry research as a dealer of 20th Century Decorative Arts for many years. In 2018, Karen founded The Jewelry Library in Manhattan which is an extension of her work with librarians and curators creating spaces and programs that invite and engage the community.

TJL hosts a wide range of exhibitions, talks, and events all across the jewelry-spectrum, collaborating with both contemporary and vintage gallerists, artists, and collectors, as well as storytellers, historians, makers, and wearers. Along with an archive, library, and gallery space, there is space for larger community gatherings, and a retail experience offering a monthly curation with a changing roster of artists and vintage dealers.

CO-HOST — SHANE PRADA

Shane Prada began her career working in education in 2004, first as a Teach For America corps member and then as a cofounder of one of the first charter schools in Baltimore city. In 2010, Shane began taking evening classes at the MICA Jewelry Center and fell in love with art jewelry and metalsmithing. In the fall of 2012, MICA announced that it would discontinue the 22-year old Jewelry Center program in 2014. In the spring of 2013, a leadership team composed of the core faculty and three students from the program was formed. Shane took the lead as the team created a new organization, the Baltimore Jewelry Center. In her role as director of the BJC, Shane oversees the administration and strategic plan of the organization, steers the educational programming, raises funds, manages the organization’s finances, and spearheads community outreach.

Supper Club: NYCJW

A Cocktail Hour Tasting Experience

A NYCJW event to benefit the Baltimore Jewelry Center

Date: Friday, November 21st, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Hosted at The Jewelry Library

Join us for an intimate tasting experience benefitting the Baltimore Jewelry Center. This special evening, guided by artist and chef Naama Levit, invites guests into a tasting experience centered around figs.

Reimagining the tradition of the supper club as a moment of nourishment and gathering, the event is grounded in time and space through the experience of food, tabletop objects, and community.

The evening will be accompanied by a collaboration of tabletop objects by Naama Levit and Brice Garrett, alongside a curation of artist-made tabletop objects available for purchase in support of the BJC.

Limited number of Tickets, Sliding scale: $50–$150. All donations directly support the Baltimore Jewelry Center.

Gold Ticket — $150

Includes $100 donation

Silver Ticket — $100

Includes $50 donation

Bronze Ticket — $75

Includes $25 donation

Copper Ticket — $50

Base price