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SMG PTT Award Ceremonyby Dana Cassara

The 2013 Passing the Torch Award Cer-emony at the Washington State Conven-tion Center April 28, 2013, was a delightful event. As always, it was genuinely heart-warming to participate in this important day. The enthusiasm of the exhibiting students and their teachers is totally infec-tious. This year keynote speaker Kevin Crain took us a brief visual journey of American Handcraft. From ornamental rifle side plates to Native American dance regalia, historical and contemporary, he ex-plained that handcraft has long been, and continues to be, a significant part of life in America. He encouraged students to con-tinue actively making, no matter the path they choose for the future. We hope these

talented students will take his message to heart and carry on the traditions that we all hold dear. If you haven’t already, be sure to visit the exhibition on the 2nd Floor of the WSCC in the North Galleria, right around the corner from the SMG Biennial Exhibi-tion. Images of all the student work will be posted on the SMG PTT Facebook page. If you would like to help with this amazing program, we would love to have you join our committee. Email passingthetorch@seattlemetalsguild.org to find out how.

Dana Cassara, your prez

Symposium 2013: Paradigm Shift: Reinvention, Redefinition and Fundamental ChangeIs it October already? Nope, fall is still many months away, but even as the buds are bursting and the lawn mowers are coughing up blue smoke, the Seattle Metals Guild is gearing up for the 18th Annual Northwest Jewelry and Metals Symposium to be held on Saturday, October 19th from 9am to 4:30pm.

As always, the Symposium is a concentrated one-day affair: five speakers, a silent auction, an incredible book sale and over 200 of your fellow metals folk from makers to gallerists, collectors and teachers.

The SMG iS prouD To Share ThiS year’S SlaTe of preSenTerS:

• Is it okay to wear a pair of forged steel pumps with your forged and fabricated steel tutu? Blacksmith, artist and teacher Elizabeth Brim will speak about making innovative work in a field once male dominated and tradition-bound.

• Creative Entrepreneur and “Rebel Leader” at Creative Little Beasts, Danielle Maveal will throw open the door onto the mys-teries of successful online marketing. She is also the former Education Coordinator at Etsy.com, the ecommerce site that changed – and is changing – how handmade objects are sold.

• Metalsmith Greg Wilbur shares his experiences organizing and crowdfunding the exhibition “East Meets West: The Ham-mered Metal Object”. Crowdfunding – raising money online through small contributions on sites like “Kickstarter” – is how many creative projects are now being made.

• Co-curator of the exhibition “Light-Space-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta”, Ursula Ilse-Neuman will speak about the life and work of the iconic and seminal figure who helped to chart the course of American metals.

• Artist and jeweler Kiff Slemmons will talk about her work in the studio and in the world and about how she integrates material, action and idea throughout over 30 years work in metal and in paper.

So join us on October 19th at the Broadway Performance Hall on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Details coming soon to www.seattlemet-alsguild.org.

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SMG EventsDate / Event Page

June 23: Deadline for SMG Grant Applications

July 8: Biennial Work Pick-Up at WSCC

Oct 19: Seattle Metals Guild Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Contents

SMG PTT Award Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Symposium 2013: Paradigm Shift: Reinvention, Redefinition and Fundamental Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Board News:

President’s Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

June Deadline for Three SMG Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Members:

Joan Tenenbaum: Best In Show, 2013 RAGS Wearable Art Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Arriving This September: Contemporary Jewelry In Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Reviews:

Passing the Torch 2013 Winners! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Beth Wyatt Lecture Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Columns:

Passing the Torch – Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Thumbnail Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Membership Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Board News

President’s Letter, May 2013March and April were busy months for many SMG volunteers, including me. The Exhibition Committee, headed by Joan Hammond, received and organized nearly 180 pieces for the Biennial Exhibition. Amy Hamblin and Carolina Andersson masterfully planned the entire show, utilizing the display cases that SMG volunteers designed and built in 2011. Carolina and Amy make a remarkable team and are now old hands with these cases, having planned three SMG exhibitions together. Twenty of our cases were moved to and assembled at the Washington State Convention Center by yet another team of volunteers, headed by Geoffrey Barker. Finally, a sizable crew of volunteers spent two days at the Convention Center installing the show. It looks great!

At the same time, another amazing group of volunteers put the final touches on a project that requires the better part of a year to plan - Passing the Torch. Passing the Torch was fortunate enough to have Maru Almeida at the helm again this year. Maru has served on this committee for three years and has chaired it for two. Her commitment to the quality of this project has been astounding. PTT received 70 pieces this year from high school students across the state. The Committee designed and installed their exhibition alongside the SMG Biennial. It also looks great. This project, however, goes above and beyond an exhibition. Each piece was laid out for judging, prizes were gathered to award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in three categories, as well as up to three honorable mentions in each category. Certificates for each winner and winning teacher were printed and signed, certificates of participation were made for all 70 participating students, medals were cast for all the winners and photographs were taken of EVERY piece and assembled on a loop for the awards ceremony. The ceremony itself involved audio visual set up, a keynote speaker, a program and other logistics.

Meanwhile, another group has been meeting, planning and plotting to bring you the 2013 Northwest Jewelry and Metal Arts Symposium next October…

All of these projects require countless hours of communication and planning. Sometimes you ask yourself, is it worth it? Walking down the halls at the WSCC admiring our work, the work of Seattle metalsmiths, something you just don’t see very often, does count for something. Hanging a medal around the neck of a deserving teenager certainly makes you lean in the direction of yes. Gathering for a day of totally inspiring national and international speakers presenting on their metalwork pretty much cinches it. Yeah, it’s worth it.

This month I head to Toronto to attend SNAG. I must admit, I am looking forward to sitting back and enjoying the show. :-)

Dana Cassara, President, Seattle Metals Guild

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Members

June Deadline for Three SMG GrantsSeattle Metals Guild grant deadlines on June 23! Please note that this year we have INCREASED THE AWARD AMOUNT for two of our grants.

SMG’s Grant Committee is reviewing our present program, with the intention of improving the usefulness and appeal of our selection. We urge you to share your ideas and opinions when you receive a survey we will be sending soon to Guild members. PLEASE COMPLETE THE SURVEY – the information gathered will help us ensure the grants program meets member needs.

Upcoming grants:

• Sharon Boardway Grant, for a matriculated student - up to $1000• George Maclean Grant, for a specific project - up to $1000• Ruth Pennington Grant, for a teaching project - up to $500

You can find information on each specific grant and download an application form on the Guild’s website at www.seattlemetal-sguild.org. You do not need to be an SMG member to apply, so please pass this information along.

Please email your application and accompanying materials to grants@seattlemetalsguild.org by midnight June 23.

Joan Tenenbaum: Best In Show at the 2013 RAGS Wearable Art Show I am pleased to announce that I was awarded Best In Show at the 2013 RAGS Wearable Art Show in March for my piece KELA NUCH’IŁTAN - WE FOUND LITTLE BROTHER: A DENA’INA STORY. The piece is based on one of the stories in my book of Traditional Dena’ina Stories: Dena’ina Sukdu’a: Traditional Stories of the Tanaina Athabaskans.

Here is the story:

KELa nUcH’iLtan - WE FoUnD LittLE BrotHEr: a DEna’ina storYby Joan Tenenbaum

This piece is based on one of the traditional stories in my book, Dena’ina Sukdu’a: Traditional Stories of the Tanaina Athabaskans.

Long ago the people were up in the mountains hunting caribou and trapping ground squirrels. Two women have a little baby and they put him in a cradle swing and go out to hunt ground squirrels. When they come back to their camp the baby is gone and they are surprised to find a wolf in their tent instead! But, they respect the wolf and he doesn’t hurt them or the baby, who they find out on the open hillside unharmed. As the summer goes on the wolf is always with the baby and rubbing himself all over the baby. The wolf helps the two husbands hunt, finding and killing caribou for them and howling when he has made a kill. One husband mistreats the wolf and is killed by it as a result. One of the women secretly puts breast milk on the wolf ’s paws. Later that winter they find the wolf near their cache with his paws all raw and bleeding. The other woman knows what happened and puts moccasin soles she had cut out on the wolf ’s pads and he is all right after that.

As the boy grows up the wolf spends every summer with them and trains him to be strong, a good hunter and great warrior. He grows up, his parents die, he marries and has a child. Then the wolf comes to him, pushes back his cap and becomes a person. The young man grabs him and embraces him. The wolf warns him that his people, the wolves, know he has a little brother who is human and they will be out to get him.

One night the young man hears something suspicious, and tells his wife to take the baby down to the beach and pretend to clean him up. The wolves have surrounded his house. He escapes through the smoke hole, jumps in his bidarka and flees to an island, where he leaves his wife and baby. He goes back to the land, sneaks up to his house and discovers the wolves eating all his food and staying in his house. He shoots the chief in the chest, killing him, and runs back to his boat on the beach. The next day he and his wife come back to the land to find the wolf people having a tea party (Potlatch) for their chief. He disguises

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Arriving This September: Contemporary Jewelry In PerspectiveContemporary Jewelry in Perspective Edited by Damian skinner for art Jewelry Forum

in association with Lark Jewelry & Beading: an imprint of sterling publishing company, inc.

A synopsis based on excerpts from the introduction by Damian Skinner:

What is contemporary jewelry? Why does it look so different from the jewelry found in the local shopping center or in the pages of glossy magazines? Can it be defined or explained?

What are the kinds of objects and practices that are named by the term contemporary jewelry? How have these objects and prac-tices developed in different countries around the world? What are some of the challenges and opportunities that contemporary jewelry has to face up to in the present moment?

Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective is a resource for the curious and the passionate. It not so much answers the questions above as it reveals and describes a field with a rich history and dem-onstrates that contemporary jewelry can be thought about in a dynamic way.

The contemporary jewelry field has been deeply shaped by the values and history of the studio craft movement in which individuality and artistic expression are the priority for both the maker and the wearer/owner. Contemporary jewelers follow the model of the art world—distributing their work through galler-ies with artist statements and catalogs—rather than the track of mainstream commercial jewelry production. These conditions limit widespread public knowledge, understanding, and accep-tance of the field.

Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective is divided into three sections. The first “The Spaces of Contemporary Jewelry” offers ways to think about what makes contemporary jewelry a distinctive kind of visual art practice. It does so by exploring seven spaces in which contemporary jewelry circulates—page, bench, plinth, drawer, street, body, and world—and how the meanings and pos-sibilities of contemporary jewelry change as objects and practices move from one situation to another.

The second section “The History of Contemporary Jewelry” provides an introduction to contemporary jewelry as an interna-tional practice that has now existed for the better part of 70 years. There are many challenges in properly accounting for contempo-rary jewelry in different parts of the world, and these essays are a contribution to developing a truly global history.

“Contemporary Thinking for Contemporary Jewelry,” the third and final section, offers a series of perspectives about the issues currently impacting the way contemporary jewelry is made, circulated, and discussed. Much has changed in the way we think about the contemporary jewelry field, and new developments in related fields can inspire different ways to think about contempo-rary jewelry and its possibilities.

sigurd Bronger Turbine Neckpiece, 2007

Fine gold plated brass, enamel paint on silver, steel and rubber cord; from romancing the stone, a 2007 exhibition at manchester town Hall, curated by Jo Bloxham

photo by Jonathan Keenan

private collection, UK

KELa nUcH’iLtan - WE FoUnD LittLE BrotHEr: a DEna’ina storY (continued)

himself as an old woman, and enters the house. His wolf brother recognizes him and meets him outside in the steambath and warns him again that they are bad people and to be careful.

Kela Nuch’iłtan goes back in the house and proceeds to kill every last one of them with his war club. When he goes back out to his wolf brother, he tells him to go inside and see what he has done. He says, “If you had been in there, I would have done that to you, too.”

His wolf brother laughs at him, and says, “I am a wolf, and I am a great hunter. On earth here you were human, but I didn’t make you to be that way. On earth here I am a wolf. I am tough. But I made you better than me. I can’t do anything else with you. Now you will go out to the sea and you will become a sea wolf.” And so it happened, he became a salt water wolf, a killer whale.

And that’s the way it happened, the story of Kela Nuch’iłtan, We Found Little Brother.

The Dena’ina consider wolves to be their brothers. In times of starvation, or if a person was lost in the woods and hungry, all they needed to do was to ask their wolf brothers for help and help would be given.

This piece shows the baby, the wolf, the two women and the killer whale. It also shows both a traditional Athabaskan man’s knife and a traditional Athabaskan war club. The Dena’ina tradition-ally would put knives in their babies’ cradles to instill in them strength and toughness.

Reviews

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Category: KinetiCs/MoveMent

1st Place (top left)

Ben Fitzhugh, Hamata Cupre material: copper and Brass teacher: mike campbell Lewis & clark High school

2nd Place (top right)

Katheryn Wood, A Woman’s Dragon material: Bronze and Enamel teacher: candice rutherford interlake High school

3rd Place (center)

Max Morierty, Panzerfauste material: Brass teacher: caro Wilding Bainbridge High school

Honorary Mention (bottom)

Andrew Backlund, Steam Engine material: Brass, aluminum, stainless steel and copper teacher: mike campbell Lewis & clark High school

special thanks to the following sponsors, donors and jurors.sponsorsseattle metals guildWashington state convention center

Donorsalchemist castingFusion Beadsseattle Findingspacific Welding suppliesDanaca Designartist & craftsman suppliesrio grandeonline metalsBrynmorgen pressnancy Wordenann Zbryk

JurorsKevin cranenancy Worden

Committeecommittee chair: maru almeidananz aalundDana cassaraBrenda cregeenDavid HamiltonKristen HummelDorin meinhartBill meinhartsuzy WhiteheadWendy Woldenberg

volunteers:tory Herfordnancy Homtodd HughesBernadette Vianney

The 2013 Passing the Torch Medals made by Alchemist Casting

Passing the Torch 2013 Winners!

Congratulations, and thank you to all who participated!

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Category: Holloware/sCulPture

1st Place (top)

Hailey Doolin, The Eternal Heart material: copper, nickel silver, silver plated Brass chain, tubing, Wire, & oak Woodteacher: Wendy Woldenberg, auburn riverside High school

2nd Place (2nd row)

Lindi Mattinson, Lennonmaterial: Brass, stainless steel, sterling silverteacher: mike campbell, Lewis & clark High school

3rd Place (3rd row)

Aneka Hausmann, Renoir’s Desire material: nickel silver, copper, Brass mokume gane, magnets teacher: Wendy Woldenberg, auburn riverside High school

Honorary Mention (bottom center)

Stephany Sanchez, The Silver Dress material: paper clips, soda can (aluminum)teacher: Dorin meinhart, auburn mountainview High

Honorary Mention (bottom left)

Kevin Roach, Rooster material: copper and nickel silver teacher: chris telford, auburn High school

Honorary Mention (bottom right)

Gerry Wong, Abandoned Birdhouse material: copper teacher: cyndy Jensen, mercer island High school

Passing the Torch 2013 Winners! (cont.)

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Category: Jewelry

1st Place (top)

Anna Starr, Destiny in the Stars material: nickel silver, Brass and copper teacher: chris telford, auburn High school

2nd Place (center)

Hailey Ellis, To Everything There Is a Season material: copper, Brass, nickel silver and Bronzeteacher: chris telford, auburn High school

3rd Place (bottom left)

Mira Klein, Memories of Jerusalem material: Brass and nickel teacher: Bonnie Hungate-Hawk, garfield High school

Honorary Mention (bottom center)

Danielle Harris, Quadrilateral Haven material: nickel silver & sterling silver teacher: Wendy Woldenberg, auburn riverside High school

Honorary Mention (bottom right)

Matthew Cross, Derby Lovematerial: nickel silver, brass, glass bottle cork, sand, sea shells, meshteacher: Jennifer Yates, oak Harbor High school

Passing the Torch 2013 Winners! (cont.)

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SMG Biennial Exhibition Opens With A Bang!by Dana Cassara

Our hats go off to Carolina Anders-son and Amy Hamblin for laying out another wonderful SMG Biennial Exhibition! With Joan Hammond at the helm, and a solid turnout of volunteer assistants, the show installation went smoothly. The opening reception was held April 14, with around 50 people in attendance, many moving on to drinking and socializing at Dragon Fish

after viewing the work. All around I’d say a great success! Make an effort to see the Biennial, if you haven’t already. The show exemplifies the diversity and talent of the Seattle Metals Guild. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time and effort to make the show possible. And a big thank you to the participating artists. Without you, of course, we wouldn’t have a show at all! The 2013 SMG Biennial Exhibition runs through July 7th.

Beth Wyatt Lecture Reviewby Tegan Wallace

“Enameling is a dance you do with the kiln,” Beth Wyatt told those who attended her April lecture, the final installment in the 2013 SMG Lecture Series. Listening to her speak about her work, one definitely has the impression that she works by intu-ition much more than formula, trying one thing, then trying another if that doesn’t work, a process that can more easily be felt

than explained. Wyatt’s presentation was brief, but she then went on to field a wide variety of questions from the audience.

While soft spoken herself, Wyatt’s work is bold – bright enamels held by large metal structures. She told us that she designs a piece of jewelry as she goes, making the enamels then figuring out what she will do around them. Wyatt’s metalsmithing is also amazing (carefully bezel-set enamel, tiny tube rivets, forged chains), though this was not the focus of her talk.

Also a ceramicist, Wyatt first got interested in enameling at San Diego State after becoming frustrated with the lack of color di-versity in glazes. Today, she is still using the pounds and pounds of leaded Thompson enamels she purchased 35 years ago. Wyatt kiln fires her enamels, adding a thin layer with each firing. She begins each piece by sifting clear flux to copper, then slowly layers different colors. Depending on the fusing temperature of the enamels, the colors will separate and create the incredible surface patterns that define Wyatt’s work. This layering process may take up to 2 days, after which the enamel surface is etched to achieve a matte finish. The result is vibrant color without the extreme shine.

While Wyatt is now beginning to explore three-dimensional enameled forms, covered in “the ubiquitous liquid white enamel,” she admits it’s hard to get away from wearable art because “It’s just so addictive.”

A big thank you to Beth Wyatt for traveling all the way from Whidbey Island to present to the Guild, and a great big thank you to Aaron Barr for yet another fantastic Lecture Series. I, for one, am already looking forward to 2014!

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Passing the Torch – Sustainabilityby nanz aalund

We hear a lot of talk these days about sustainable practices, but what does that word really mean? For those in manufacturing, sustainability can mean the use of recycled materials to make new product, or the use of new technology to reduce waste. Jewelers are lucky to have some of the most recycled materials in any manufacturing known to man. Gold and silver are at the top of the “top 10” list for most recycled materials on the planet and have been recycled for millennium.

Sustainability can also address issues of being able to sustain a livelihood and lifestyle over the course of a lifetime. Sustainability in a career is about being able to do one’s own work in addition to commanding a sufficient salary. It’s about having a choice in your career as well as having choices in materials and practices that are environmentally and ethically sustainable.

When I served as a board member for the Society of North American Goldsmiths, I realized that the Society does not support high school educators of jewelry metals programs. The majority of SNAG board members felt that SNAG’s mission should be solely focused on supporting university and college instructors and left it up to regional guilds to support local high school programs. With the Passing The Torch exhibit and awards, the Seattle Metals Guild has established itself as the only regional guild that has taken up the support of its local high school jewelry programs. SMG members can take pride in this fine program.

As a high school jewelry teacher, I know there is an opportunity to begin teaching our students employable skills through career and technical education programs. High school programs may be lacking in resources, tools, and equipment, but it is in these programs, in the Seattle metropolitan area and across the United States, where the next generation of American jewelry makers and designers are going to get their start. And it is SMG’s Passing the Torch exhibit and awards which encourages these fledgling jewelry makers and designers.

The greater challenge for our PTT award winners is how and where they will be able to continue their educations in jewelry making. College and university jewelry programs, where students once learned viable employable skills so they could have construc-tive and sustainable careers in the jewelry field, have given way to fine art conceptualism. As a result, many of these programs, which have not responded to parental demands on universities to teach their students employable skills, are now losing funding and being closed nationwide.

Even jewelry metals programs that were not solely focused on fine art found themselves unsustainable. We all felt the sting very keenly after departmental politics and State budget cuts closed the University of Washington’s program 6 years ago. When companies

like Blue Nile, a major Internet jewelry provider located here in Seattle, have to seek goldsmiths, CAD/CAM specialists and bench jewelers from other parts of the country due to the lack of skilled applicants locally, it gives us an indication of how much technically-driven metals programs are missed.

If an individual has the talent and personality to become the next Dale Chihuly, Pablo Picasso, or in our field, Todd Reed, they will achieve that status regardless (or in spite) of the “ART” education they might receive. But, I feel it is a cruel hoax for us, as educators, to open up the world of jewelry making to high school students and then dash their hopes of ever having a sustainable career in the field by advising them to attend metals programs that will not provide them with the skills they need to be successful. To that end, here is a brief list of reputable schools that provide the spe-cialized education necessary for any of our talented and dedicated PTT participants to create a sustainable career in the jewelry field.

Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts San Francisco, CA (revereacademy.com)

Accredited to administer the nationally recognized profes-sional Jewelers of America Certification testing.

Gemological Institute of America Carlsbad, CA (GIA.edu).

Accredited to confer Bachelor degrees in Business with an emphasis on jewelry. Online/distance learning available for some course work.

Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology Paris, Texas (parisjc.edu)

Accredited to confer Associate degrees and administer the nationally recognized professional Jewelers of America Certification testing.

North Seattle Community College Seattle, WA (northseattle.edu)

Accredited to confer Associate degrees. Students may complete a Certificate of Jewelry Design (CJD). NSCC also offers one of the nation’s best watchmaking certification courses endorsed by Swiss American Watchmaker’s Training Alliance (SAWTA).

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Call for Artistsart Jewelry Forum emerging artist award

Entry Deadline: June 30, 2013

the purpose of the art Jewelry Forum’s (aJF) artist award for an emerging jewelry artist is to acknowledge promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of an emerging jewelry artist and to advance the career of a promising artist. the award consists of an unrestricted cash award of $7,500. For more information, please visit: www.artjewelryforum.org.

Call for ArtistsContemporary goldsmithing: tradition and excellence

Entry Deadline: may 31, 2013

the society of north american goldsmiths and the jury invite you to submit jewelry and objects that celebrate attributes unique to the art of the goldsmith for the online exhibition contemporary goldsmithing: tradition & Excellence. the jurors are george sawyer, Judith Kinghorn, and tom Herman.

For more informat ion, p lease v is i t : snagmetalsmith.org/call-for-entries

Call for Artistsart Dive @ west seattle suMMerFest 2013

Deadline: may 20, 2013

West seattle summer Fest is a FrEE 3-day street fair, hosted by the West seattle Junction association. now in it’s 31st year, West seattle summer Fest is host to dozens of bands, hundreds of merchants and artists, and over 30,000 attendees.

For information, please visit: http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/opportunity/twilight_gallery_boutique_presents_art_dive_west_seattle_summerfest_2013

Call for Artistsschack art Center 2013 artists garage sale

Deadline: may 30, 2013

this is a wonderful opportunity for all artists! Visit with other artists and art lovers, while at the same time, cleaning out your studio and make some money to buy more art!

For more information visit: http://www.schack.org/events/artists-garage-sale/2013-artist-application-1/

Call for ArtistsBainbridge arts & Humanities Council garden tour

Deadline: June 3, 2013

the arts & Humanities council seeks crafts vendors and artists to sell their work during our two-day garden tour. participating in Bainbridge in Bloom offers a wonderful opportunity for artists to showcase their talents and support the arts on Bainbridge island. artists’ names will appear in the Bainbridge in Bloom program, on our website and on our social media.

For more in format ion p lease v is i t : http://bainbridgeartshumanities.org/bainbridgeinbloom/call-for-craft-vendors-artists/

Residency OpportunityHeadlands Center for the arts, sausalito, Ca

Deadline: June 7, 2013

the artist in residence (air) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 45 local, national, and international artists each year. residencies of four to ten weeks include private studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living stipends when available.

For more information please visit: http://www.headlands.org/program/air

Artist Trust Webinarinterested in applying for artist’s grants? then this is the opportunity for you.

all you need to know about applying for arts grants, using artist trust’s arts innovator award application as an example and guide. applying for the 2013 arts innovator award / Webinar

Date: may 10, 2013, 2-3pm

site: http://artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/event/applying_for_the_2013_arts_innovator_award_webinar

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Why should you volunteer for the seattle metals guild?

BeCause it’s Hot!Just think – you are at a party and some good-looking human being starts talking to you.

They want to know what you’re into...

You say: ‘well, I just helped bring an internationally renowned artist to Seattle for a workshop,’ or ‘I just arranged a fabulous exhibition of the work of contemporary metalsmiths...’

See? It’s great to be a giver . The strength of the Seattle Metals Guild and the community of artists in our area flourishes through your participation. Friendships and networks are forged around

committee tables and whilst helping with the heavy lifting.

We invite you to inquire about upcoming volunteering opportunities by emailing volunteer@seattlemetalsguild.org

Thanks to all of our current volunteers, and thanks to our future gorgeous gofers!

And remember, volunteers don’t sweat, they glow.

CoulD you Be sMg’s next volunteMPtress or volunHunK?

P O Box 70407Seattle, WA 98127

May/June 2013

www .seattlemetalsguild .org

The Seattle Metals Guild is a non-profit organization made up of people with vary-ing interests and involvement in traditional and contemporary jewelry and metal arts.The Guild was founded in 1989 to provide for the exchange of ideas and information, as well as to offer affordable educational oppor-tunities to its members and the public.Our activities include: a web site, bimonthly newsletter, exhibitions and a series of aes-thetic, technical and business workshops and lectures.The skills, energy and enthusiasm of the Se-attle Metals Guild members promote and sustain its successful programs.We welcome new members and encourage participation by everyone.

The Seattle Metals Guild Newsletter is published bimonthly . Comments, announcements and ads are welcome from all SMG members .

Please contribute to your NewsletterWe encourage participation and welcome information about upcoming shows and events, articles about safety and bench tips you would like to share. If you have comments or something to contribute, please submit your information, generated in a word processing program, via e-mail.

Include photos or logo artwork in JPEG format, if available. Remember to provide who, what, when, where, why and how.Tegan Wallace: newsletter@seattlemetalsguild .org

Deadline for July/Aug issue is June 20 . Articles received after that date may be published in the following newsletter .

2012-2013 SMG Board of DirectorsAll addresses are suffixed with “@seattlemetalsguild.org”

president . . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Cassara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . president@Vice president . . . . . . . . Tegan Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vicepresident@Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . aran Galligan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . secretary@Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . Brenda Cregeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . treasurer@General Board . . . . . . . . Sarah Meranda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board2@General Board . . . . . . . . Terri rienmiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board4@General Board . . . . . . . . Maru almeida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board5@General Board . . . . . . . . reed Schilbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board6@General Board . . . . . . . . peggy foy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board7@

SMG Servicesnewsletter editor . . . . . . . . . Tegan Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . newsletter@Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . workshop@Symposium Coordinator . . . . Micki lippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . symposium@library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tory herford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . librarian@Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . amelia upton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . membership@Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . reed Schilbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . scholarships@

The Seattle Metals Guild is an associated program of Shunpike .