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Last Updated: 5/16/08
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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 |
June Workshops in California
Maker 2008, Jack da Silva’s annual workshop series in Fremont, California,
is offering seven different presenters and a symposium from June 8-12.
Instructors include Darlys Ewoldt, Fred Fenster, Joe and Betty Harris, Deborah
Lozier, Tom Madden, Richard Mawdsley, and McNeill and Markarian. Call (510) 792-1616
or visit www.makerworkshops.com
for more information.
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
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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.
A new exhibition of approximately 100 jewelry objects, including neck-
laces, bracelets, pins, earrings, and crowns, has opened at the Norton
Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, and will continue until June
15. 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.
Santa Fe Jewelry Symposium
The 22nd annual Santa Fe Symposium will be held May 18-21 at the Hotel
Albuquerque in historic Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Symposium has served
the jewelry manufacturing industry for more than two decades, and serves as a
place to gather, network, and learn. Sponsored by Rio Grande, the goal of the
symposium is to “bring jewelry professionals together to share and benefit
from each other’s experiences, ideas, challenges and breakthroughs to the
ultimate benefit of the industry.” For more information, call (800) 952-6222
or visit www.santafesymposium.org.
SOFA NEW YORK 2008
The 11th annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) fair runs May
29-June 1, 2008 at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. More than 60 international
galleries will offer masterworks in ceramics, glass, metal, wood and fiber. E-mail
info@sofaexpo.com or visit www.sofaexpo.com.
JCK VEGAS SHOW
A hundred designer companies, eight rising stars, and 60 jewelry companies will
be featured along Fifth Avenue at the Jewelers Circular Keystone (JCK) show in
Las Vegas from May 30-June 3 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center
and Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. Jewelry retailers from around the world will
have the opportunity to source established and new companies. In addition, eight
talented designers have been selected as The Rising Stars, a group of companies
who will make their trade show debut: Amali, Gemra AG, Ginger Peachy, Jessica
DiRubio, Jewelry, Jetalia, Misha of New York, Nina Basharova, and Rebecca Overmann.
For more information, call (800) 257-3626 or visit www.jckshows.com.
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.
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.
Jean Stark Honored by the National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame
The recipient of
the 2007 National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame award is Jean Stark, who was honored
in the Artist/Arts Educator category. As cofounder of the Kulicke-Stark Academy
of Jewelry Arts, Stark is one of the leading practitioners and
teachers of granulation and cloisonné enamel, two techniques
widely used by Neoclassical jewelers. Born in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, and raised and educated in State College at Penn
State University, she majored in art and science with the inten
tion of becoming a medical illustrator. A move to New York
allowed her to study painting, and while working in a graphic
arts studio, she was introduced to ancient jewelry techniques
by Robert Kulicke. In 1973, they co-founded the Kulicke-Stark
Academy of Jewelry Arts
in New York City where they researched, redeveloped, and
taught goldsmithing techniques and aesthetics from ancient
civilizations. In 1977, Stark set up the studio and was the first
teacher for the jewelry degree program at Parsons School of Design.
Her popular book Classical Loop-in-Loop Chains and Their Derivatives,
co-written with her sister, Dr.
Josephine Reist Smith, is now in its
third printing.
The National Metalsmiths Hall of
Fame was established in 1999, and is
located at The Arts Center in St.
Petersburg, Florida. Awards are presented in four categories: Artist, Arts
Educator, Arts Patron, and Business
Patron. For more information or
nomination forms for 2008, please contact: National Metalsmiths Hall
of Fame, 719 Central Ave. St.
Petersburg, FL 33701, call Jean
Marie DeSpiegler, Executive
Director; (727) 822-7872, or
visit fsgjm@earthlink.net.
Seen and Noted
Canadian jewelry designer Donna Hiebert has created a collection
of bronze jewelry called Seachange. Drawing on ancient
geometric symbols, Hiebert created the collection to “communicate the elemental
relationship of humanity to timeless wisdom and understanding.” The substantial
pieces feature
remarkable patinas, and fiber, leather, and metal combined into
tactile, wearable sculpture. Her clasp mechanisms interlock
with an ingenious magnet system, and despite the weight of
the bronze, lie perfectly balanced on the body. To see more
of Hiebert’s work, visit www.discoverseachange.com.
Attention Forgers!
A2Z Corp., in Englewood, Colorado, has introduced a new line of Delrin polymer
forming hammers and blocks. We tested the cross pein on some copper sheet and
on textured aluminum sheet and found it to be fabulous when used in combination
with a metal anvil. The Delrin forming blocks are a great help for sinking —
plus, they’re two-sided, with one shallow and one deeper depression —
and they come in two sizes. When used in combination with the Delrin round head
planishing hammer, you’ll get a gentle curve without deep hammer marks.
The smooth hickory handles and very good balance will make for a fun forging
session. Visit www.a2zcnc.com for more
information.
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.
Art Nouveau Buckles Acquired
Two early 20th-century Art Nouveau buckles — one French and another English
— are among items added recently to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
collection. The French buckle by Lucien Gaillard was made in 1900 from carved
horn and silver, and is the first work by the renowned jeweler to enter the VMFA
collection. Made of silver and opals and measuring 2-3⁄4" x 1-1⁄8",
the second buckle was created in 1903 by an unknown designer for the Guild of
Handicraft, founded in 1900 in Birmingham, England. Typical of guilds founded
during the Industrial Revolution, the Guild of Handicraft felt mechanization was
devaluing arts and crafts and turned to individual workers and the skills of their
hands. VMFA owns the world’s largest and most significant collection of
Art Nouveau buckles and related jewelry. For additional information about exhibitions
and programs, call (804) 340-1400 or visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts website,
www.vmfa.museum.
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.
A Triumph for Gem Sculpture
Helen Serras-Herman's gem sculpture, The Omphalus of the Earth (The Navel of
the Earth), with carved Koroit Matrix opal, lapis and sterling silver, was
chosen as the "Best of Show" piece in the Fall Fine Art exhibit titled Pathways and Portals at the Tubac Center of the Arts, in Tubac, Arizona.
More than 100 works were shown, the majority of them paintings; only four sculptural
pieces were shown. Seven awards were given by the three judge panel. The natural
opal is carved to feature the spider web patterns at the front of the stone. Serras-Herman's
engraved lines traverse the opal front to back and converge in the front, creating
the Omphalus. The opal can be removed from its silver cradle and can be held in
the palm much like a worry stone. For more information, visit www.tubacarts.org/default.asp.
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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