Current Exhibitions

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“Scrumptious” SNAG’s in-person exhibition at New York City Jewelry Week!

Juried by Biba Schutz and Edward Cabral

Location: Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Dates: November 18-24
Opening: November 18 6:30-8:30 p.m. (meet Harriete Estel Berman)
Juror's Talk with Biba Schutz and Edward Cabral: November 23: 3:30-5:00pm: Juror's Talk @ Gallery (meet me there!)
Online exhibition & sale goes live here: November 18: Online exhibition & sale goes live here

 

Earrings Galore 2024-2025 Exhibition

Organized and Curated by Heidi Lowe, Heidi Lowe Gallery

Location: 251 Elizabeth, NYC. during New York Jewelry Week.
Dates: November 18-24, 2024, dates and times TBA

Future locations 2024- 2025:
Heidi Lowe Gallery, 119 Front Street, Lewes, DE 19958 dates and times TBA

Mexico City, during ZONAMACO, February 5-9, 2025, dates and times TBA

 

They Whisper Names to Me, I am a Channel by Harriete Estel Berman fabricated from brass, recycled tin cans

This menorah is placed in a kitchen window, a specific reference to my own kitchen window looking toward San Francisco, and the “Kitchen” community organized by Rabbi Noa Kushner.

Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate

Traveling USA. Past exhibition locations:
The Center for Interfaith Cooperation (CIC). Indianapolis, IN 46208: Skirball Museum Cincinnati, Ohio; Hebrew Union College Bernard Heller Museum, New York ; Goodman Family Museum, Temple Israel, West Bloomfield, MI; Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston TX.

Statement about “Holy Sparks” “Tthe Holy Sparks art exhibition illuminates the creativity, commitment, and vision of 24 women who were “firsts” in their time. Their challenges and contributions, struggles and successes, represent the achievements of all the 839 women rabbinical graduates of HUC-JIR in North America and Israel to date – and the nearly 1,500 women rabbis of all movements who have transformed Jewish tradition, worship, spirituality, scholarship, education, and pastoral care. 

Evoking their stories are the works of 24 leading contemporary Jewish women artists, who immersed themselves in their respective rabbi’s recorded interviews, produced by The Braid's Story Archive of Women Rabbis and preserved at the Jewish Women’s Archive. The artists’ insights, empathy, and broad array of aesthetic approaches capture the essence of these trailblazers’ identities and consecrated paths.”

Final Exhibition Location:
UCLA Hillel
574 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 7 at 7-9 pm, with a brief program at 8 pm.

Dates: November 7 - December 13, 2025

UCLA will be the last stop of the exhibition tour that has traveled to six museums throughout the U.S. over the past two-and-a-half years. This show has educated many thousands of viewers about the impact and legacy of women in the rabbinate through your powerful works.

 

Place Before Us These Symbols of Pesach 

On view 2020 until 2035 in a display of the Permanent Collection of the Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany .
Click on the image for more information about this Seder Plate and Judaica from recycled materials.

 

Recent Exhibitions


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Octagonal Bracelet by Harriete Estel Berman fabricated from Recycled Tin Cans

Reverse side: salmon and gold color with blue birds
Outside edge: olive green checker ¾” tall
Inside wrist: Oreos against purple with orange “OREO”
Brass rivets on outside edge both sides, wrist one side

45 Stories45 Stories in Jewelry: 1947 to Now

Museum of Art and Design
February 13, 2020 – April 10, 2022 (This bracelet is still on view in the drawers below the current display.)

Described by the museum as “A bold re-imagining of the Museum of Art and Design’s exceptional collection of studio and contemporary art jewelry, 45 Stories in Jewelry will display the collection’s most important works within a multimedia storytelling environment.”

Below is the book published after the exhibition, Jewelry Stories, Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019. Truly a must for your books if you enjoy art jewelry of the 20th and 21st century. My bracelet was included on the page Ware/Wear (shown right.)

Cover of book Jewelry Stories Highlights from the Collection of MAD 1947-2019
Jewelry Stories - Highlight from the MAD Museum Collection 1947-2019


Past Exhibitions

Location: Craft In America exhibition with jewelry and artwork by the people featured in the PBS episode JEWELRY.
841 W. Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Date: December 11 - March 19, 2002

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Reality Studded with Thorns Hides the Front Door From the Street 

DOMESTIC MATTERS: The Uncommon Apron
Peters Valley School of Crafts           
Curated by Gail Brown
August 31- November 2, 2019

Article: “The Uncommon Apron' takes on a socially and politically charged subject”
Quote: “Metalsmith Harriete Estel Berman’s work "Reality Studded with Thorns Hides the Front Door from the Street," a wall piece made from recycled tin cans and vintage steel dollhouses, addresses the hypocrisy of the provocative images of women in consumer packaging and advertising and the devaluing of domestic roles -- from cleaning and cooking to early childhood care and the domestic arts, techniques the artist used to create the piece.”


Harriete Estel Berman at exhibition opening Mastery in Jewelry and Metals

Over Growth, Over Abundance, Over Consumption, Over Whelmed

Mastery in Jewelry and Metals: Irresistible Offerings! ( artist with artwork shown above on opening night)

Gallery 2052
2052 W. Chicago, Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2019 - July 5, 2019

Over Growth, Over Abundance, Over Consumption, Over Whelmed”



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A Yard of Grass

TERRA in FERMA Exhibition on climate change and pollution.
Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, (formerly Hebrew Union College Museum)
One West Fourth Street
New York, N.Y.
September 6, 2018- July 2019


Black Plastic Gyre Necklace (Shown on the catalog cover)

Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment
Curated by Suzanne Ramljak
Fuller Craft Museum       
Upcoming exhibition dates: October 6, 2018 - April 21, 2019
Opening Reception: October 13, 2019 R.S.V.P.





Fabricating TRUTH

Crafting a Legacy 
National Ornamental Metal Museum
February 3 - May 12, 2019       
374 Metal Museum Drive
Memphis, Tennessee 38106


Identity Complex Mirror (shown above)

"The Deceiver and The Deceived " 
(Solo exhibition in the Arabella Decker Gallery - Artwork from 1996-2004)
Peninsula Museum of Art
1777 California Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010

August - November 2018


 

Checking the Cost of Gun Violence

I.M.A.G.I.N.E. Peace Now
(Invitational exhibition organized by Boris Bally)
               

Recent EXHIBITION at the Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Previous venues include:

  • Wellington B Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

  • Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, St. Louis, MO

  • Kentucky Cetner for African American Heritage, Louisville, Kentucky

  • Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

  • Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA



     


How Is This Night Different From All Other Nights from the series: An Orange Belongs on the Seder Plate

Home(less)
Hebrew Union College Museum
One West Fourth Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
New York, NY
September 7, 2017 - July 10, 2018




In Your Light, I See Light Shabbat Candlesticks

"The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat" 
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
September 13 - December 31, 2017
1360 N Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202


Blood - Water Pollution from the 10 Modern Plagues                

CURRENT REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURAL AND MAN MADE EXHIBITION

Curated by Gail M. Brown
Landmark Arts Gallery
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
October -December 2017

Texas Metals Symposium Saturday, October 7, 2017 9:00-5:00 p.m.



Golden Identity Bracelet by Harriete Estel Berman from recycled tin cans.
Golden Value Identity Bracelet with UPC code by Harriete Estel Berman

Leaders of American Studio Jewelry: 1940-2000

October 14-16, 2016
Blue Onion Bus
Charlotte Contemporary
Park Expo Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
Curated by Autumn Brown
More information about Charlotte Contemporary


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AN EXUBERANCE OF COLOR In Studio Jewelry

Curator: Gail Brown
Tansey Contemporary Gallery
Sante Fe, Ca
August 4- September 17, 2017
Download the beautiful exhibition catalog for free. 


Black and White IIdentity Necklace

Head to Toe

108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
June 3 – July 24, 2016


Water Pollution and the Need to Provide Clean Affordable Water
From the 10 Modern Plagues

EVIL: A Matter of Intent

Evil is the violation of our common humanity. Human morality requires direct action against evil. Can we develop a society able to embrace selfless acts and behavior to benefit others irrespective of harm to one s person or interests?  The Peace Corps, Medecins sans Frontieres, Southern Poverty Law Center, Habitat for the Humanity, Meals on Wheels, amongst many others, strive to defeat evil.

The artists in this exhibition as do many of us, have a vision of how to proceed. Less rhetoric. More action. It is up to each and every one of us to wage war on evil.

Hebrew Union College
One West Fourth Street
New York, N.Y. 10012
September 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016