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Last Updated: 6/27/08
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For quick reference, here's a list of our upcoming extra-curricular activities.
If you're considering attending or teaching at one of our shows, or planning on
entering one of our competitions, we'll be posting a regular list of important
dates each month to keep you on track.
Prospective Instructors: Submit
class proposals for all our 2009 events here.
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• Bead Fest Philadelphia
2008: August 21-24, 2008
At the Valley Forge Convention Center, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. For booth
information, e-mail JIannucci@interweave.com.
| Upcoming
Classes & Workshops |
Summer Workshops at Brookfield
Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, Connecticut, is offering nine different
metalsmithing intensives beginning this month, including Raising, Riveted Pendants,
Etching on Metal, Wire Jewelry, Rings, Chainmaking, and Metal Forming. Call (203)
775-4526 or visit www.brookfieldcraftcenter.org
for more information
Summer Workshops at Arrowmont (Tennessee)
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gaitlinburg, Tennessee, is offering 12
different metal, enameling, and polymer clay workshops this summer. Included are:
Jewelry Basics, Pressure & the Hydraulic Press, Photographic Transfer on Enamel,
Polymer Clay & the Micromosaic, and An Outrageously Thorough Soldering Workshop.
Call (865) 436-5860 or visit www.arrowmont.org
for more information.
Find Local Bead and Jewelry Classes!
Step by Step Beads now lists upcoming
Bead Classes online. Jewelry Artist lists Jewelry
Classes online.
For more jewelry and bead classes, check our our Jewelry
Classes & Bead
Classes sections online! For
more schools, visit our Schools/Education section.
| Juried
Exhibits, Exhibition Opportunities & Contests |
Call for Entries - METAL Inclinations
METAL Inclinations: An International Online Juried Exhibition of Metalwork, Jewelry
and Metal Sculpture is calling for entries. Sponsored by the Society for Midwest
Metalsmiths, METAL Inclinations is requesting a variety of work incorporating
metalsmithing, silversmithing, or goldsmithing. All applications must be made
through Juried Art Services; the digital submission application deadline is
June 30, 2008. The exhibition will remain online for one year and debuts online
October 31, 2008. For more information, rules, and guidelines, visit www.midwest-metalsmiths.org.
Call for Artists - Transformation Installation
The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists (SYBA) is looking for bead artists to submit
work for their upcoming installation, TRANSFORMATION, scheduled for January
- March 2009. Transformation will be an exhibition of sacred Yoruba and
secular beadwork. SYBA members are creating an installation to honor Egun (ancestors)
and work created will include recreations of tools, war instruments, beaded quilts,
and other ritual objects to pay homage to generations that met generations in
heaven; and an installation to honor Ogun and Oya, the Orisa of hard work and
change -- transformation. Work created will include: Ileke Masso (beads always
tied in coils); Iruke (beaded horsetail/flywhisk); Ogo (beaded wands); Ide (beaded
bracelets); and Abebe (beaded fans). Transformation will honor the past
and inspire the future. Works accepted can be in any medium including, but not
limited to: textiles, wood, sculpture, glass, photography, poetry/prose, clay,
and paintings. Artists must interpret Transformation, and beads must be
included in some prominent manner in the work. Deadline for slides is September
2008. For more information visit
the website prospectus or download
an entry form online.
To submit a listing for a juried event, contest or exhibition opportunity,
please contact our website editor.
| Conferences,
Events & Exhibits |
Alexander Calder Jewelry on Tour
While Alexander Calder’s work as
a sculptor has been widely celebrated,
his jewelry work is not so well known. Even when it is shown, it is typically
only a small part of a large exhibition. Calder’s jewelry, usually
created for family and friends, exhibits the same themes as his large scale work:
he uses forged wire to explore movement and space and its relation to
the body. Innovative cold connections, purity of form, and glorious hammer marks
combine in his elegant jewelry works.
An exhibition of approximately 100 jewelry objects, including necklaces, bracelets,
pins, earrings, and crowns, recently stopped at the Norton
Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. A new book to accompany the exhibition
has been published by Yale University Press. The show moves to the Philadelphia
Museum of Art from July 12 to October 19, and on to The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, from December 8, 2008 until March 1, 2009. From
there, it will travel to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin from March
31 to June 22, 2009. Visit www.norton.org for
more information.
Wonderful World of Agates
The Weis Earth Science Museum, at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, in Menasha,
Wisconsin, presents the special event, The Wonderful World of Agates, July
10-13.
See agate displays, vendors, books, and auctions, and meet experts, authors, and
agate photographers. Call (920) 832-2925 or visit www.weismuseum.org
for more information.
Colorado Metalsmiths Association Conference
The Colorado Metalsmiths Association
(COMA) Conference
will be held in Salida, Colorado, July 11, 12, & 13, 2008.
Presenters include Carol Webb, Michael Boyd, Tom Herman,
Steve Lindsey, and Bill Fretz. There will be pre- and post-workshops in both
Denver and Salida. Activities include an all-members meeting, yearly elections,
tool and pin swap, and a silent auction.
In conjunction, The Colorado School of Jewelry and Metal
Arts is pleased to announce two workshops: Jerry Scaveeze,
who studied with both Heikki Seppa and Michael Good, will be
teaching a beginning anticlastic raising workshop May 18-20
in his Salida, Colorado, studio. The workshop will include some
slides, some talk on process and technique, but mostly banging on metal with
hammers. Students will learn how to make spiculums, the concept of trading one
curve for another, and various beginning concepts.
Tom Herman, goldsmith extraordinaire, will teach a five
day workshop in Monday-Friday, July 7-11, 2008, also in the Salida
studio of Jerry Scavezze. Students will learn chasing, engraving, and
saw piercing using bas relief techniques to sculpt metal into ornamental patterns.
Students will make chasing tools, tune up hammers,
and sharpen gravers. There is a class fee and a small materials
fee for each workshop, and a tool list will be mailed upon
registration. For more information, contact Jerry
Scavezze, 115 North G Street, Salida, CO 81201.
Phone (719) 539-2971, e-mail jerry@scavezzegoldsmith.com, or visit
www.scavezzegoldsmith.com.
American Lapidary
The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, in Elmhurst, Illinios, will be exhibiting
hardstone carvings and cut stones from modern American artists until August
31.
The show features both professional and hobbyist cutters and carvers. Call 630-833-1616
or visit www.lizzadromuseum.org for more information.
2008 MJSA
Vision Awards
The 2008 Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America (MJSA) Vision Award
Design Competition winners were honored during the MJSA Expo New York in April.
In addition to professional and student categories, several professional entries
were honored in special distinction categories. Sponsors included Roland, Rio
Grande, Crafford-LaserStar Technologies, Reactive Metals Studio, Shining Wave
Metals, Natural Color Diamond Association, Hoover & Strong, Platinum Guild
International, Reactive Metals Studio, and Cabot Supermetals. Judges were Barbara
Berk, Michael Coan, Jacquie De Almeida, Cindy Edelstein, Paul Holewa, Steve Midgett,
Marlene Richey, Hedda Schupak, and Mary Wisniewski. For more information, call MJSA at 1-800-444-6572 or visit www.mjsa.org.
Bench TV
The Bench Jewelers Television Network is a newly launched online source for ways
anyone can become a better bench jeweler. The network has different channels
of interest including Shop Management, Stone Setting, Jewelry Repair, Custom
Manufacturing, Laser Welding, Bench Techniques, New Products, and more. Each
channel has several different shows of related topics, and shows are added regularly.
Members can join, log in, view, and contribute. There is also a preview channel
for non-members. Visit www.BenchTelevision.com to see more.
Spiral Inspired
The American Jewelry Design Council (AJDC), a 19-year old not-for-profit
organization, pursues a number of activities in order to educate the public that
jewelry is a category of fine art. Among these is the annual challenge to members
to create a piece of work based on a specific theme, guided by the dictum that
their creations are to be made solely as artistic expressions, with no commercial
intent. The pieces are then exhibited at major jewelry trade shows and museums
around the country. This year’s challenge was Spiral, and generated
spectacular and intriguing art jewelry. “We are artists who have found our medium in
metal,” states Alan Revere, the group’s president. Visit www.ajdc.org
for more information.
New Catalog Reference
The Findings Collection for Jewelry Makers, Stuller’s new spiralbound findings
catalog, is a great resource for prefabricated shanks, pendants, chain, and settings.
Also included are many technical tips, charts, and diagrams to aid the bench jeweler
in fabricating with precious metal, determining approximate carat weights to stone
size, conversion charts, and specific product guide sheets. Call (800) 877-7777
or visit www.stuller.com for
more information.
NICHE Winners
The 2008 NICHE Awards were presented to artists in 35 professional and 15 student
categories at the Buyers Market of American Craft. More than 2,100 entries by
professional and student craft artists from across the United States and Canada
were submitted for the competition. In November 2007, NICHE magazine had announced
the 151 professional finalists and 76 student finalists, who displayed their works
during the NICHE Awards exhibit at the wholesale trade show, Buyers Market of
American Craft, in Philadelphia, February 15-18, 2008. A complete list of the
2008 winners can be viewed at www.AmericanCraft.com.
Public Art
Portland metalsmith and teacher Kristin Mitsu Shiga has been chosen by the Housing
Authority of Portland to design and create the public art for its newest major
project in North Portland, Oregon. Humboldt Gardens is the new, mixed-use redevelopment
of what used to be called Iris Court on the Northwest corner of Vancouver and
Alberta — a well-traveled bike and bus route, as well as the main thoroughfare
between I-5 and the Alberta Arts District. Visit www.hapdx.org/humboldtgardens/index.htmlto
learn more about the project, and www.kristinmitsushiga.com to
see more of Kristin’s work.
Permanence in Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History recently unveiled the dazzling Wertz
Gallery: Gems and Jewelry. A new 2,000-square-foot addition to the Hillman Hall
of Minerals and Gems, the gallery is dedicated to gems, the crystals they come
from, and jewelry made using these precious stones. Named in honor of Ronald
W. Wertz, long-time president of the Hillman Foundation, Wertz Gallery is part
of the year-long expansion and renovation of the hall, which first opened in
1980. The collection presents and exhibits minerals in the manner of sculpture — showing
them for their beauty, as well as their physical properties and industrial uses.
Approximately 500 gems, crystals, pieces of jewelry, and other pieces of gem
art can be seen in this permanent display. In addition, Wertz Gallery will also
host special temporary and traveling exhibits from collectors around the world.
For more information, call (412) 622-3131 or visit www.carnegiemnh.org.
Following Up
RE: Carved and Cast in Stone, June 2008
We’ve had several inquiries about Visions of Sonwai,
the limited edition book featuring the innovative jewelry designs of Verma Nequatewa.
Visit www.annieosburn.com
for more information.
RE: The Intarsia Indexer, May 2008
Al Sesona, owner of AJS Distributors and creator of the machine, has asked
us to update his contact information:
Al Sesona, AJS Distributors, 394 North Blvd., St. Augustine, FL, 32095. Phone
888-354-7448 or 904-824-6490,
e-mail IntarsiaGrinder@aol.com.
Corrections
Clarification, February 2008: Facets in the February issue included
“Recent DVD Releases.” We stated that Victoria Lansford’s DVD
includes her entire range of techniques, including eastern
repoussé, chasing, Russian filigree, granulation, chain making, acid
etching, and forging. Victoria e-mailed to request we state the following:
“While Victoria works in a multitude of techniques, her
first DVD is dedicated only to the technique of Russian filigree.”
Credit Due, February 2008: In our
February 2008 issue, page 56 shows
a ceremonial mace made by Joe R.
Apodaca. We neglected to credit the photographer for his image. The photo was
shot by Randy L. Rasmussen.
More events online:
Bead Classes - Step by Step
Bead's bi-monthly listing of bead classes.
Jewelry Classes - Jewelry Artist
& Step by Step Wire Jewelry's listing of jewelry-making classes.
Show Calendar - Our extensive calendar of gem,
mineral, bead and jewelry shows by date and location.
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