Ann Orr Morris Memorial Lecture with Sondra Sherman
February 17th, 2026 at 5:30 pm
Date & Time
February 17th, 2026 at 5:30 pm
Location
Lamar Dodd School of Art | S151
Type of Event
Ann Orr Morris Memorial Lecture
Lectures
Academic Area
Jewelry & Metalwork
Host/Contact
Demi Thomloudis
The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund presents a public lecture by visiting artist in jewelry and metalwork Sondra Sherman on February 17.
About the artist
Head of the Jewelry and Metalwork Program at San Diego State University since 2010, previous teaching positions include Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, SUNY-New Paltz, and Rhode Island College. Sondra Sherman received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Art in Munich Germany, where she resided for ten years.
Her work explores the distinctive voice of jewelry and the psychological and social contexts of the body/wearer. Subjects inherent to personal and social identity have inspired works that use the social codes and private/public locations of jewelry as a platform that invites a broad audience to a conversation grounded in empathy. Sherman is the recipient of many awards including Individual Artist Fellowships from the Rhode Island Council on the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Fulbright Scholarship for Study Abroad.
Exhibited and published internationally, her work can be found in significant public and private collections including The Museum of Art and Design, NY, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
