Made by Her. Women designers of metalwork in the first half of the 20th century.

On the 30th of March 2023, different speakers from the Netherlands and Poland will present their research on female designers of works of metal from the first half of the 20th century during a symposium organised by the Dutch Zilvermuseum in Schoonhoven, The Netherlands. Whilst female creators of fine arts are slowly getting the acknowledgement they deserve, women working in the field of decorative arts have mostly fallen into oblivion or are only known by a select group of experts within this field.

Programme

10:30 Start

11:00 Guided tour through Silver City Schoonhoven

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Start of the shortened programme

13:15 Introduction by Marcel Teheux, director of the Dutch Silver Museum

13:30 Jet Sloterdijk (project assistant in the department Art between 1885-1935 at the Drents Museum, Assen), The obstinate designs by metalwork artist Johanna van Eijbergen

14:00 Annemieke Houben (independent researcher, curator Christa Ehrlich. Pionier in Design), Women’s networks in de 1920s

14:30 Break with coffee and tea

15:15 Agnieszka Dabrowska (curator for costume and costume accessories at the Museum of Warsaw) and Monika Siwinska (curator for silver and clocks at the Museum of Warsaw), Julia Keilowa. Designer and metalwork artist from Warsaw (in English)

15:45 Naomi Bisping (junior curator at the Dutch Silver Museum, project assistant Geldersch Landschap & Kasteelen), A collaboration between artist and industrial”: female designers working for the silver factory in Voorschoten and Gerritsen & Van Kempen

16:15 Questions and closing remarks

16:30 Drinks and possibility to visit the Dutch Silver Museum

For further information please see: https://zilvermuseum.com/product/symposium-made-by-her/

Ticket:
- Full programme: €85,00
- Full programme for students: €35,00*

Shortened programme (from 1PM): €65,00
Shortened programme (from 1PM for students): €25,00**

* If you book your ticket for the full programme before 8 March 2023, you receive a discount of €10,00. Your ticket costs €75,00 instead of €85,00.

** Limited tickets for students available.