Presented By: Gifts of Art
Gifts of Art presents Sterling Characters: Silver Jewelry
Betsy Lehndorff
In 2008, Betsy Lehndorff began studying silversmithing at a local recreation center in Colorado. She had a sock full of silver dimes and quarters and a set of sterling forks and spoons. In her apartment kitchen, she soldered together tiny, durable compositions that conveyed stories or visual puns, and her narrative style emerged. Her work, often representational, challenges the idea of jewelry as a status symbol. An Ann Arbor native, she has strong family connections to the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). She is the daughter of Edgar Kahn, M.D., who headed the U-M Michigan Department of Neurosurgery from 1949-1969 and developed an early art cart program for patients, and granddaughter of renowned architect Albert Kahn, whose firm designed both the 1925 beloved “Old Main” Hospital as well as the current University Hospital and Hill Auditorium, among others. Her mother, Dr. Rose Parker, was in internal medicine and her sister, Carol Rose Kahn, R.N., currently works at UMHS. Lehndorff lives and has her studio in northeastern Michigan.
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