Marjorie Ransom

Silver Speaks Exhibit

Marjorie Ransom co-curated two exhibits of jewelry and costumes from her collection.  The first, Silver Speaks: Traditional Jewelry of the Middle East, was co-curated by Ellen Benson of the Bead Society of Greater Washington.  The exhibit ran at the Bead Museum in Washington, DC from October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2003; the Jefferson County Historical Society in Watertown, NY in 2005; the Gibson Gallery of the State University of New York in Potsdam, NY, in 2006; and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI from 2007 to 2008. The exhibit catalogue is out-of-print, but some used copies can be found on Amazon.com. 

The second exhibit, Female Adornment from Bilad al-Sham (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria), co-curated by Ms. Ransom with Ellen Benson and Lynn Springer, was shown at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, D.C., in 2008.

Seventy-eight pieces from 18 countries drawn from the David and Marjorie Ransom collection were shown in, Symbols of Identity — Jewelry of Five Continents, 2006–2007, at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, CA.

a small sampling of Silver Speaks exhibit