Sasha Nixon​ is a curator, jewelry historian, and practicing metalsmith. She holds a Masters Degree in the decorative arts, material culture, and design history from Bard Graduate Center. She specializes in the study of contemporary art jewelry, analyzing how individual artists are influenced by ancient and historical jewelry styles and techniques. Sasha received the 2018 Windgate curatorial internship at the Museum of Arts and Design and is co-curator of MAD’s exhibition Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines.

The Society of North American Goldsmith’s awarded Sasha their 2018 emerging curators grant for her exhibition A View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements. She is currently co-curating the exhibition ANTIQUEMANIA, on view at Pratt Manhattan during the inaugural New York City Jewelry Week. Last May, Sasha presented her paper “Pixels Bejeweled: Modern Media, Contemporary Jewelry, and the Replication of Desire” at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s international symposium Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st Century. That paper and “In the Studio: Lin Cheung,” written for Metalsmith magazine will be published later this year.

Pratt Institute proudly presents Sasha Nixon’s exhibition Antiquemania at their Manhattan location during NYCJW.

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