Dallas Museum of Art's First Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition Traces 75-Year Collection

Key facts

• The Dallas Museum of Art's first exhibition dedicated to its contemporary jewelry collection is titled 'Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art.'
• The exhibition is organized into four thematic constellations: Zones of the Body, Archetypes, Signals, and Play.
• A section called 'Connecting the Dots: 75 Years of Collecting' traces the collection's history from 1950.
• The collection began with three pendants by Ellamarie Woolley acquired in 1950.
• In the past 15 years, the collection has grown by over 5,000 percent.
• A key 2014 gift came from Deedie Rose, who donated gallerist Inge Asenbaum's complete collection of over 750 objects and archival materials.
• Inge Asenbaum founded Galerie am Graben in Vienna, a hub for avant-garde jewelry.
• The exhibition features works by artists including Brian Fleetwood, Levan Jishkariani, Peter Chang, Taisha Carrington, Joyce J. Scott, David Bielander, and Friedrich Becker.
• The Annual Texas Craft Exhibitions were started in 1949 by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and the Craft Guild under Jerry Bywaters.
• The exhibition is on view through May 3, 2026, at the Chilton I Gallery in the Dallas Museum of Art.