Partnership between Shinola and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2021
In my role as Curator of Fine Art at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, I also managed licensing and design partnerships. So when Shinola came to us wanting to create a limited-edition Georgia O’Keeffe watch in their Great American series, I got inspired. I don’t know when my love of watches began, but by the time this project fell into my lap, I had some pretty clear ideas about what an O’Keeffe watch should look like. We had a woman’s watch, the Birdy, as a template, and I introduced the hand-hammering and monochromatic face, with hour markers like the stepping stones in O’Keeffe’s patio, and a date window inspired by her painting My Last Door (1952-1954).
