Events

The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler is an invitation into the glamorous, witty, and wonderful universe of celebrated potter and designer Jonathan Adler. In his first curatorial role, Adler presents more than 60 works from the Museum’s permanent collection alongside his own iconic designs. A playful and irreverent perspective on craft history, the exhibition illuminates the […]

The first major museum exhibition spotlighting the artist’s singular vision, Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures features monumental hand-formed fiber works alongside a fully immersive recreation of Barnes’s Lower East Side studio in New York City. Barnes’s sculptural landscapes composed of fibers such as merino, yak, alpaca, and silk create a compelling tactile environment in which motion […]

Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births will explore the arc of human reproduction through a design lens, inviting audiences to consider how designs developed over the last 150 years have shaped reproductive health. The exhibition broadly explores the intersections of design, access, and experiences of (in)fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood, and includes […]

Crafted from brass, gold, and semi-precious stones, Douriean Fletcher’s boldly sculptural designs articulate Black identity, embody spiritual meaning, and have helped define cinematic characters and imagined worlds. The exhibition documents and explores how ideas of Afrofuturism materialize in Fletcher’s work, highlighting her research into African and African American jewelry design and efforts to build aesthetic […]

Expanding the voices represented in MAD’s permanent collection, OUT of the Jewelry Box considers the importance of queer perspectives in the world of studio and contemporary art jewelry. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary gift from Ron Porter and Joe Price, who have collected and worn art jewelry throughout their forty-one-year relationship, nine of those legally married. On […]