Embodied Ornament: Identity Through Adornment

Embodied Ornament: Identity Through Adornment is a workshop exploring jewelry and accessories as memory, identity, and cultural inheritance. Led by multidisciplinary artist and jewelry designer Connie Liu, this workshop bridges contemporary everyday craft with ancestral memory.

Participants will design and fabricate a personal adornment, such as a pendant, keychain, or charm, while thinking about jewelry and heirlooms as storytelling, legacy, lineage, and collective memory. Each piece becomes a wearable archive of identity, lived experiences, and heritage.

Guiding questions / prompts: 

Make an ode to the image of an ancestor, or someone you miss and wish to immortalize. Or perhaps even of yourself– how do you wish to be remembered, and what would you wish to pass onto someone else?