The Ring Shows: Then & Now and Putting the Band Back Together: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, August 23-November 2, 200

The catalogue of an exhibition for which Ashley Callahan, former curator of decorative arts, Georgia Museum of Art; Rob Jackson, associate professor and area chair, Jewelry and Metalwork, Lamar Dodd School of Art; and Mary Hallam Pearse, associate professor, Jewelry and Metalwork, Lamar Dodd School of Art, served as co-curators, this marvelous little full-color book captures the spirit of the original juried National Ring Shows from the late 1970s and their revisiting in this new exhibition. Every ring in the show is illustrated, and the book also contains essays by Callahan, Jackson and Pearse, as well as an artist's statement by Steuart Bremner, a reflection by juror Lane Coulter, and an interview with Gary Noffke by Pearse and Callahan.