“If you do something in metal, someone will, in the future, see it as important. As far as the common people, history only remembers that which survives time,” notes senior Greer Howard, a #metalsmith & #jewelrymaker. Her fascination with the people – craftsmen, sailors, everyday folks – whose belongings don’t wind up in museums inspired her to create #metal #sculptures of modern, mundane objects: a #pezdispenser, a box of Breathe Right strips, a tube of toothpaste. “Museums have their own form of classism,” she says. “You rarely see the jewelry of common people in museums because things owned by common people weren’t considered important.” In fact, you won’t find much of anything by common people in #museums, she says, except mundane things that happened to have survived time. Her next exploration of of the museum-worthiness of common people’s belongings is through stuffed animals. (⬅️ for a sneak peek) She is interviewing people about their #stuffedanimals, then designing #jewelry an...