Athens and Delphi Jewelry and History Tour - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Athens and Delphi Jewelry and History Tour

Athens and Delphi Jewelry and History Tour

Travel with Jonathan Wahl, Senior Director of the 92nd Street Y’s Jewelry Center on a trip curated in collaboration with the Lalaounis Foundation especially for the lover of Jewelry and the History of Classical Greece.

Our tour begins in the birthplace of Democracy, Athens. Enjoy private tours of the most important historical collections and lectures about the ancient art and jewelry of Greece with some of the preeminent experts in the field. The tours and talks will be augmented with afternoon excursions around Athens. A weekend trip to Museums in Delphi (Delphi Museum, Archaeological Museum of Delphi and the Hosios Loukas, Chrisso Ethnological and Folklore Museum) will complete our immersion into the history of Greece.

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Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl has served as the Director of the Jewelry Center at The 92nd Street Y, New York since 1999 and has guided the Center’s growth to become that largest program of its kind in the nation and the oldest open studio in NYC. He is responsible for developing and overseeing a curriculum that has more than 55 classes weekly and 15 visiting artists yearly, 25 faculty members, maintaining four state-of-the-art jewelry and metalsmithing studios, and promoting the department locally and nationally as a jewelry resource center …

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl

Jonathan Wahl has served as the Director of the Jewelry Center at The 92nd Street Y, New York since 1999 and has guided the Center’s growth to become that largest program of its kind in the nation and the oldest open studio in NYC. He is responsible for developing and overseeing a curriculum that has more than 55 classes weekly and 15 visiting artists yearly, 25 faculty members, maintaining four state-of-the-art jewelry and metalsmithing studios, and promoting the department locally and nationally as a jewelry resource center. Wahl founded the only Jewelry residency in New York city for a Jeweler and a scholarship based High School Jewelry Program-Teen Gems. Additionally, Wahl oversees and hosts an active lecture program with notables from the Jewelry and Design worlds at 92NY. Biennially he organizes international trips to visit contemporary jewelers and historical collections across the globe.

Jonathan Wahl’s artwork ranges from drawing and sculpture to the decorative arts. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA Boston, the Houston Museum of Fine art, The New York Historical Society and the Museum of Arts of Arts and Design in NYC. It has been featured or reviewed in publications as diverse as The New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Oprah Magazine, W Jewelry, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Metalsmith Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, the Aventurine and the Advocate, among others. Wahl has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships one for Craft and one for Drawing and the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths Award for “Outstanding Achievement.” He was named one of the top-10 jewelers to watch by W Jewelry in 2006. Wahl’s work is exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Please note that all 92Y regularly scheduled in-person programs are suspended.