Draft:Susan Grant Lewin

Susan Grant Lewin is an American author, journalist, and collector of jewelry.

Career
Lewin started her career as the design editor of Home Furnishings Daily and as senior editor of House Beautiful. She then became the global creative director of the Formica Corporation, commissioning artists and designers to use the material in works of art. Lewin also promoted scholarship, lectures, and the Surface and Ornament design competition, which featured architect Frank Gehry. Lewin is currently CEO of Susan Grant Lewin Associates, a New York based PR firm specializing in art and design.

Jewelry collection
Lewin started her collection in the early 1990s, and has continued to amass her collection over a 30 year period. Pieces from the collection include Otto Künzli, Art Smith, Claire Falkenstein, and Thomas Gentile. Lewin had the first public exhibition of her jewelry was Jewelry of Ideas at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, where she gifted 150 pieces to the permanent collection. The exhibition featured pieces from Joyce Scott, Ted Noten, Kiff Slemmons, Ramona Solberg, and many more renowned jewelry artists. In October 2018, the show traveled to the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, where it was exhibited until January 2019. In August 2021, the Lewin collection had a second exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art called Rings Redux, which focused on the rings featured in the collection. The exhibition traveled to the New Orleans Museum of Art, where it is currently on view.