Best New Nonfiction: Finalist\
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American Book Fest 2017 Best Book Awards

The Outstanding First Non-Fiction: Finalist
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Independent Author Network 2017 Book of the Year Awards

Story Circle Network, Sarton Women’s Book Award

Silver Medal: Nonfiction
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2017 Arizona Literary Awards/Arizona Authors Association

2017 Readers” Favorite Five Star Award

Finalist: Nonfiction – Memoir
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2017 Readers’ Favorite Award Winner

Love, Bill: Finding My Father through Letters from World War II, by Jan Krulick-Belin (Dog Ear Publishing)

2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award Best Cover Design: Nonfiction

Second Place - Biography /Memoir

Finalist 2018

Top Female Author (Nonfiction) for 2017 by the AuthorsShow.com

Top Female Author (Nonfiction) for 2017

Phoenix Art Museum , Director of Education 1989 - 2007

Assistant Director of Education, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado 1983-1989

Assistant Professor- Art History in Italy Program, University of Colorado, Boulder 1988

Curator of Education, Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas 1978-1983

Special Projects Coordinator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1978

Staff Intern, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 1976

Chronicles the true story of Krulick-Belin's life-changing pilgrimage of the heart to find the father she thought she'd lost forever. The letters lead her on an extraordinary journey following her father's  actual footsteps during the war years, leading to unexpected discoveries from Morocco to Paris to upstate New York. She learns about her parents' great love story, about the war in North Africa, and about the fate of the Jews in Morocco, Germany, and France.  


Love, Bill; Finding My Father through Letters from World War II (NEW EDITION)

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Jan Krulick-Belin, a museum and art consultant and art and jewelry historian, has more than forty years of experience at such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Beaumont (Texas) Art Museum, and Smithsonian Institution. Retired as director of education at the Phoenix Art Museum, she still works with museums, art organizations, and private collectors and served as guest curator at the Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix. Visit her online at www.lovebillbook.com.

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Finding My Father Through Letters From World War II

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Crafting a Memoir

Flowers, plants, and leaves have been a source of inspiration for jewelry makers for more than two millennia. Their beauty and delicacy have long been captured in precious metals, enamels, and colored gemstones. During the Victorian era, however, the latest developments in the fields of science, botany, literature, and art converged with the effects of globalization, industrialization, colonization, Romanticism, and the Suffragette movement to bring new meanings to floral decoration. From sentimentality to sexuality, 19th-century floral jewelry became encoded with its own special language.

Say it With Flowers: Victorian Jewelry’s Secret Language

In this lecture, art history meets jewelry and fashion history to explore 17th-century Dutch portraits. These paintings and the jewels worn by their sitters tell us much about that country’s “Golden Age,” its citizens, and the messages that they wanted the paintings to convey about their lives. At first glance, we see only severe figures clothed in black and white. But upon closer examination, their diamonds and pearls tell a fuller story of a country’s extreme wealth from trade with distant cultures.

Double Dutch and Diamonds: Portraits from the Age of Rembrandt

This lecture is a continuation of the series in which art history meets jewelry history, and will explore portraits from the Renaissance in Northern Europe and Elizabethan England. Learn how Tudor and Jacobean monarchs and their subjects used fashion and jewelry as symbols of power and prestige. From the jewels owned by the Henry VIII’s six wives to Elizabeth’s pearl obsession, what can they tell us about these bejeweled characters?

Pelicans, Posies and Pearls: Portraits from the Age of Elizabeth I

In this lecture, art history meets jewelry history as we explore portrait paintings from the Italian Renaissance depicting their sitters wearing jewelry. During this time period, both the paintings and the jewels are tied to customs surrounding love and marriage. Learn how these portraits can add to your knowledge about the jewelry, and conversely, how the jewelry can inform your understanding of the people depicted, their world, and the messages they wanted the paintings to convey about their lives.

Betrothals, Brides and Brooches: Portraits from the Italian Renaissance

As the saying goes, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” and the desire to adorn one’s self with beautiful things is as old as humankind. A magnificent jewel provides the perfect complement to the fashion of the day, but more importantly, reflects its owner’s taste, lifestyle, wealth and status. This lecture will examine some of the great jewelry collections belonging to royals, aristocrats, divas, socialites and Hollywood starlets—from the famous to the infamous. Learn how some jewels have been passed down through the centuries from one collection to the next, while others wound up on the auction block  We will also discuss things you need to know about your own jewelry collections from fine to faux, costume and vintage—their care, documentation, auctions  and other collecting sources.

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