Sip, Shop + Share Event at Principle Gallery – December 2016
Renaissance Women of Charleston is hosting a Sip, Shop + Share Event at Principle Gallery in downtown Charleston on Saturday, December 3 from 11am-1:30pm. This special event will benefit the local Lowcountry Youth Ballet Company.
Throughout the event and benefit luncheon, Kaminer Haislip will have on display for sale her contemporary silver objects and jewelry.
Principle Gallery is located at 125 Meeting Street. For additional information about the event or to purchase tickets, contact Principle Gallery directly at http://www.principlegallery.com/charleston
Silver Showing with The Charleston Silver Lady – November 2016
Dawn Corley, also known as The Charleston Silver Lady, is an antiques historian and expert on silver. She will have a special showing of Kaminer Haislip’s contemporary silver objects and jewelry at her Lexington, SC location on Thursday, November 17, 2016. The event will take place from 4pm-7pm that day.
In addition to Kaminer’s work, she will have on display antique objects and silver pieces from her own private collection.
The event will be hosted at 212 East Main Street, Lexington, SC 29072. Please use the side door as a private entrance. Parking is available for guests in a parking garage across the street as well as at a BB&T bank next door.
Studio Visit from the Duke of Devonshire, England – October 2016
Friday, October 7, 2016 the Duke of Devonshire, England visited Kaminer Haislip in her silversmithing studio in downtown Charleston, SC. He was visiting Charleston for the Charleston Heritage Symposium presented by The Preservation Society of Charleston, which was postponed due to hurricane Matthew.
Visit http://www.charlestonheritagesymposium.org for information on the symposium and the future date.
Kaminer would like to thank Courtenay Daniels, Chair of the Charleston Heritage Symposium, for organizing the lovely visit. Kaminer also thanks the Duke of Devonshire immensely for taking the time to visit her studio and view her silversmithing designs. It was a pleasure to host him and she thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet such a wonderful person. It was an incredible career highlight!
Luxury Simplified Feature – September 2016
Kaminer Haislip, Silversmith : The Marriage Of Function And Form
By Holly Roberson, Realtor, Broker Associate, Luxury Simplified Real Estate
Kaminer Haislip, one of the great silversmiths of our era, had just popped around from her studio at Redux when we met up last week. We took our tea and mineral water to the courtyard at Kudu Coffee, a favorite local watering spot. Immediately after her first sip, I started with the questions. I had a lot that I wanted to ask her, but I had honed the list to a mere six dozen. But first, I had to know why she became a silversmith. Relentless curiosity demands satisfaction.
Her handiwork should have give the biggest clue to what I now see so clearly. Kaminer Haslip must daily marry function to form. It’s how she seamlessly streamlines the world around us. She happens to do this with precious metals.
A true master silversmith, she studied her craft under internationally acclaimed English silversmith Alfred Ward. She knows historic and modern silver techniques. From her time with me, I could write an entire blog on how colonial America forged its own silver style and call it “the melding pot” of American smithing. That’s for another day.
Beginning her path to mastery sculpture inspired her first step. This hammer and anvil wielding porcelain doll began by tinkering in her family’s hardware store. Then, she took a shop class in Aiken, SC. When it was time to pick up a blowtorch, her classmates, well-mannered southern men, all offered to do that dirty work for her. She donned a mask, wielded her torch, and persisted in her labors until a sculpture was born. After all, she had to figure out how to marry function to form. And she most definitely has. Check out her instagram for even more details on the “how.”
It’s no surprise that her drive for seamless function and beauty has attracted attention. She designed and personally makes the most perfectly southern silver magnolia bowl for Reese Witherspoon’s lifestyle company, Draper James. Her coffeepot woke up judges during Garden and Gun’s 3rd annual prestigious Made in the South Award. She is internationally known. Her designs grace many a wish list (I want the magnolia bowl). The list goes on … and on.
A rising southern star with feet firmly planted on Charleston SC streets, Kaminer does what Charleston herself does, she adds her contemporary touch while preserving the historic framework.
NOTE: Want to learn more about the history of silversmithing, why a Charleston rice spoon is 14” long, what silver polish is best, how to tell the age or your silver, or the process of the design? Let us know because we will be compiling a guest list to spend an evening with Kaminer and cohorts as they answer all our silver questions.
Open Studio Event at Redux Contemporary Art Center – September 2016
Join Kaminer Haislip and the other artists of Redux Contemporary Art Center, located at 136 St. Philip Street in downtown Charleston, SC, Thursday, September 8, 2016 from 5pm-8pm for an insight and exploration of the talented artists occupying the private studios! Refreshments will be served and artwork will be for sale. Kaminer will have a selection of her handcrafted silver jewelry and objects on display for sale in her studio!