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Saturday, October 18, In Seattle

Thirteenth Annual Northwest Jewelry & Metals

September/October, 2008Along The Rim of Fire

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Here in our glorious Pacific Northwest we live by the grace of Mother Earth, surrounded by beauty while balanced ‘Along the Rim of Fire.’ Fire is at the core of creation of this wondrous land and so also at the core of our own creativity at the bench. We manipulate fire in magical ways, though we may feel fear, awe and wonder of it, even perhaps not fully knowing what it is. Yet we combine these strange powers to express ourselves, make beauty, satisfy inner necessity and will come together at Symposium to talk about it with our peers.

On behalf of the many volunteers working together to stage this event, we seek to celebrate the creative process and through our excitement support future educational efforts of The Seattle Metals Guild. We are keen to reach out to our sister cities in the Pacific Northwest because these times call for collaboration and unity more than ever before. The same goes for reaching out to our neighbors down the street, so that as larger educational institutions change, we can maintain our own smaller ‘schools’ to sustain the inspirations that come from making art.

We call upon members of the Metals Guild to reach out to others in disciplines related to our field. Offer to bring them to our Symposium’08. Encourage them to bring a friend and an open mind. There is little to lose and much to be gained. Seek out and talk to production jewelers, blacksmiths, metal fabricators, machinists, basement hobbyists, lapidary enthusiasts, commercial salespeople, guidance counselors, high school teachers, fashion designers, antiques collectors, and don’t forget that stylish woman you admire every time you see her on the bus wearing always different color coordinated jewelry and shoes!

The Seattle Metals Guild could not offer its programs without the tireless work of volunteers and numerous private and commercial sponsors. We shall acknowledge all our supporters at Symposium as well as in our next regular newsletter published just days after Symposium’08. In the mean time we are most honored to be joined by our distinguished group of speakers from diverse locations throughout America. Their biographies follow within this newsletter. Among them they represent decades upon decades of making and teaching experience. This is an extraordinary opportunity for all who choose to seize the day, October 18, and take in what our five presenters have to offer!

Along The Rim of Fire

Taco Teapot, Fred Fenster

Newsletter cover images: Bowl, Fred Fenster; Reach, Susie Ganch

Inset cover images, from left: (details of ) Astro Neckpiece, Kristin Mitsu Shiga Untitled, Susie Ganch When There is Nothing Left to Burn, Kristin Mitsu Shiga Covered Vessel 2, Fred Fenster black & white Necklace, Harriete Estel Berman

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The Thirteenth Annual Pacific Northwest Jewelry and Metals Symposium 2008Along The Rim of FireReserve the date and tell your friends about Symposium’08 happening all day Saturday, October 18, at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) at the scenic Montlake Cut on Lake Washington. Registration forms can be found on the inside back cover of this newsletter and also online at www.seattlemetalsguild.org where one clicks the ‘Symposium’ link. Whether one pays by credit card or check, a registration form either must be mailed to arrive at the Guild address by October 14 or brought to the door of the event October 18, 2008. Please see the details on the registration form.

Table of contents for details about our five speaker/presenters for Symposium 2008:

Gary Griffin, El Rito, NM – “A Metalsmith’s Life in Art and Teaching” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4

Harriete Estel Berman, San Mateo, CA – “Crafting Identity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5

Susie Ganch, Richmond, VA – “Bits and Pieces”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6

Kristin Mitsu Shiga, Portland, OR – “Inspired by Actual Events” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7

Fred Fenster, Sun Prairie, WI – “Contemporary Pewter” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8

Surrounding “Symposium Saturday” will be a variety of special events scheduled to delight and educate our event attendees. As this newsletter goes to press we’re finalizing details and will provide up-dates on the Guild website, www.seattlemetalsguild.org, where one links to the ‘events’ calendar.

Friday, October 17, 5-7pm: A RECEPTION at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in the City Center building in downtown Seattle. This event is a chance to meet speakers and your friends the evening before the event.

Saturday, October 18, all day at MOHAI: SMG’s annual SWAP MEET will happen during the Symposium. Sellers will have lots of exposure and buyers/event attendees will have ample time to look at great metals related materials for sale or trade! Contact SMG president John Caster for more info on participating, his email is on the back page of the newsletter.

Sunday, October 19, at least 9am-5pm: A WORKSHOP will be offered by Symposium speaker Harriete Estel Berman, an engaging teacher and specialist in professional development for artists. Her one day workshop for us will be tailored from selected portions of her highly acclaimed workshop series she’s been conducting nationally for years called “Recipe For Success.” The location for this rare opportunity as well as any scheduling changes will be posted on the Guild website.

Sunday-Tuesday, October 19-21: A three day WORKSHOP will be taught by Symposium presenter and Professor Emeritus, Fred Fenster, entitled “Working The Wonders of Pewter.” We are most honored to have the best known pewter artist and teacher of the last 40 years bring his passion and techniques to Seattle to share with us. This important educational intensive and hands-on workshop will take place at the best equipped art metals studios in Seattle. All registrations will be handled by The Seattle Metals Guild with details to be posted on the Guild website.

Saturday-Sunday, October 25-26: A two day WORKSHOP will be offered by another Symposium presenter and Master Metalsmith, Gary Griffin. Fresh from a show at the National Ornamental Museum in Memphis, Griffin will focus on a rare and special skill, translating design ideas from small to large scale, in a workshop entitled “The Dimensional Model: Imagining In Scale.” Especially important for blacksmiths and sculptors who want to improve their presentation techniques when seeking commissions, this program will be excellent for the small scale jeweler/metalsmith who wants to scale up their work. Location and hours will be determined and posted on the Guild website.

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Now a practicing professional metalsmith in New Mexico, Gary Griffin has retired from 32 years of post graduate teaching as Artist in Residence and Head of the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan (1984-2006) and at the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (1974-1984). Griffin was the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, was elected to the American Crafts Council College of Fellows, was given the Master Metalsmith award by the National Ornamental Museum in Tennessee and has exhibited extensively in the United States, Mexico, South America, Japan and Europe.

After a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University and a Masters from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Griffin has gone on for three decades to place works in countless touring craft shows and in significant museum exhibitions, author catalog essays, critical reviews and articles, act as juror of works submitted to numerous exhibitions and granting programs, and to lecture on his work extensively throughout the United States. One of his many unique experiences was in 2007 as a resident artist in the John Michael Kohler Co. Arts and Industry program which will be featured in a portion of his presentation for Symposium’08.

Since 1983 Griffin’s work has focused largely on utilitarian items for residences including lighting fixtures, doors and hardware, tables, sideboards, fireplace screens and tools, gates and fences, with some commissioned works varying in size from door handles to tall fences up to 90 feet long. Not only does his stellar career make him a prestigious speaker for Symposium’08 but also the diverse sizes of his art make his experiences applicable to metalsmiths working in either jewelry or skyscraper dimensions. Griffin has graciously agreed to conduct a workshop that brings this important skill to others, ‘The Dimensional Model: Imagining in Scale.’ More information about his workshop offered in Seattle a week after Symposium’08 will be posted on the Guild website. For more information about Griffin please enter ‘Gary S. Griffin Critical Mass’ in a computer’s search engine, like ‘Google.’

A Metalsmith’s Life in Art and TeachingGary Griffin – El Rito, NM

Acanthus Gate, Gary Griffin

Bronze Doors Scale Model, Gary Griffin

Acanthus Rojo Gate, Gary Griffin

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Crafting IdentityHarriete Estel Berman San Mateo, CA

Coming to us from San Mateo, California is Harriete Estel Berman, an artist whose interests range from jewelry and Judaica through hollowware, sculpture and installations. She is perhaps best recognized for her work in salvaged materials – primarily recycled tin and painted steel containers – that provide sharp and often humorous social commentary on the excesses and peculiarities of contemporary consumer society. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Jewish Museum, NY, Jüdisches Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California and in publications that include The Fine Art of The Tin Can, 500 Necklaces, 500 Bracelets, TEAPOTS--Makers and Collectors, Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, and Art Jewelry Magazine. An energetic and entertaining

speaker, Berman has also become known as an advocate for artists and craftspeople through her work as the originator of The Professional Guidelines series of informational documents, as an organizational committee member of The Professional Development Seminar (a day of concentrated presentations that runs in conjunction with the annual conference of the Society of North American Goldsmiths) as well as for the interactive “Ask Harriete” column featured on her website. Berman will speak about her work and career.

To learn more please visit: www.harriete-estel-berman.info.

Hariete Estel Berman will be teaching a one day workshop entitled “Professional Development” on the Sunday right after our Symposium’08 event. Read about it in this newsletter and online at The Seattle Metals Guild website.

Conversation 2, Harriete Estel Bermanphoto: Phil Cohen

Black and White Identity Bead Necklace, Harriete Estel Berman

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Bits and PiecesSusie Ganch – Richmond, VA

It is a real pleasure to introduce Susie Ganch to the Seattle art-metals community. As an artist working primarily in sterling, copper, steel, enamel and found objects, her presentation will explore how jewelry extends beyond the plane of the physical body, and its connection with our personal space. The artist statement she has provided says it so nicely:

My work explores permeability and interconnectedness. In particular, the question of objects and their energy, within and surrounding them: does an object end at its visual endpoint, or does it project infinitely into space?

I extend the physical boundary of objects to show that what we see is not fixed. In fact the eye offers us a perspective that is both incomplete and subjective. From a distance some of my work looks solid while some disappears. Up close, however, the grid structure and “molecules” are see-through, multi-layered, and interdependent.

We fondly recall the first time we saw Ganch working in her studio at Penland. From her methodical yet always careful execution, in a neat and organized space, came pieces that seemed amazing. Perhaps it is her background in geology that also subtly lends itself to her designs. Her attention to pattern and repetition with the organic nature of her pieces has made her an online favorite, as well as earning her dozens of awards for her work.

Susie is a recent recipient of a VCU Faculty Research Grant and received the 2007 Educator of the Year award sponsored by Niche Magazine and the Rosen Group. Selected publications include: Metalsmith Magazine (2008, volume 28, no. 3), and Bijoux. Illustration et Design by Maomao Publications. Susie Ganch is represented by Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA, the Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, Snyderman Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, and Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA. Her work can be found on the web at Klimt02.net and susieganch.com.

Susie is currently Assistant Professor and Head of the Metals Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia. Exhibitions include: The Japan Jewelry Art Competition 2008, The 5th Cheongju Biennale (Korea)(Honorable Mention Award), 11th Biennial International Juried Enamel Exhibition (Columbus, OH)(Juror’s Award), Chazen Museum (Madison, WI), SOFA Chicago and NYC, Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA), John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI) and The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC).

Rest, Susie Ganch

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One key phrase in describing this stimulating speaker from Portland, Oregon, is that she “lives and works in the arts.” Her various professional roles have included Conference Director for the Society of North American Goldsmiths, Lead Armaturist for Bent Image Labs animation studios and sole proprietor of her own jewelry business. All this sounds pretty serious so we’re not surprised when on the phone one hears the expected smooth, clear tonal voice, befitting a professional. Then we were disarmed as she rapidly merged widely diverse ideas that were quite hilarious, so from the first chat we were very intrigued.

Though her occupation has been creating jewelry for many years, Kristin Mitsu Shiga has also evolved the art of making a living in craft from several angles. She says she has chosen the path of the ‘tinker’- a traveling craftsperson whose role is to “put things together.” While using her own circuitous professional path as a framework, Shiga’s presentation for us at Symposium’08 will share the perspective gained from her various roles in the crafts world and will pass on insights that can be applied to the career of any metalsmith. We’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at her part in the re-imagining of The Gallery at Portland’s Museum of

Contemporary Craft. From the unorthodox way she went [and continues to go] about her education, to the things she has learned about producing and selling jewelry and metalwork at traditional and alternative venues, her path is rich with inspirations to be revealed in her presentation.

Kristin Mitsu Shiga is currently Extension Program Director at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, has been teaching jewelry making and metalsmithing since 1992 throughout North America, has established successful jewelry programs in Portland and New York and is known by her business name “Shag Shaggy Chug.” For the story about where this unique name came from and to look at her work over the last fifteen years, visit www.kristinmitsushiga.com

Syncopation, Kristin Mitsu Shiga

Inspired by Actual EventsKristin Mitsu Shiga – Portland, OR

When There is Nothing Left to Burn, Kristin Mitsu Shiga

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For most of us in the metalsmithing community Fred Fenster needs no introduction. He has been an icon in our field for over four decades and has inspired us with his art and through his teaching.

Fred was born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1934. He received a BA in Education from City College New York in 1956 and taught in the New York City public school system for a year and a half. He later returned to graduate school and in 1960 received an MFA in metalsmithing from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1962 he was hired by the University of Wisconsin at Madison to teach design, jewelry and craft classes, which included metals, textiles and woodworking. Eventually Fred shared the responsibilities of the metals studio with Eleanor Moty who focused on jewelry while Fred concentrated on hollowware. He retired from the UW at Madison in 2005 where he is now Professor Emeritus.

Fred has also been very active over the years teaching workshops in jewelry and metalsmithing at Penland, Haystack, Peter’s Valley and Arrowmont.

Susie Ganch, one of Fred’s students at UW, Madison, reflects on his teaching style in Metalsmiths and Mentors; “In a sense, Fenster made himself into the kind of teacher he wished for as a young man: a master of technique who demonstrates every step, an artist fully engaged with his work, and a role model dedicated to his students’ advancement.”

Fred’s work is in numerous private and public collections including the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, Detroit Art Institute, Yale University Art Museum, the Skirball Museum of Judaica in Cincinnati, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, to name just a few.

Fred was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1995 and received the Hans Christiansen Memorial Silversmithing Award in 2002. In 2004 he was awarded the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the James Renwick Alliance and in 2006 he received a gold medal from the American Crafts Council for craftsmanship and service to the field.

We are very fortunate to have Fred as our guest this year.

Tea Pot, Fred Fenster Covered Vessel, Fred Fenster

Contemporary PewterFred Fenster – Sun Prairie, WI

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Letter From the PresidentSeptember is here already, the Symposium is just around the corner, and looking like a great adventure for all. This year we are adding the Swap Meet to the Symposium. Check out our web site for up-dates on both.

We are looking at some changes on the Metals Guild Board; Camille will be our interim treasurer and Jessie our interim secretary until we permanently elect board mem-bers to fill these positions. This election will take place at the October board meeting. Elections for general board members will be held at the general meeting in January. Dana will be chairing our Workshop Committee. ET and I will be Co-chairing the Passing the Torch Committee. We also have a new web mistress, Dina Baloyan. The Board and I will miss both Roland and Jennifer, for their wit, ideas, and commitment to the metals community.

The Board would like to invite any interested person to apply for any of the many committees or board openings by January. If you are one of these people; out going, smart, interested in the Guild, and have an interest in a given area, please apply by a “letter of interest” to [email protected] or come to a board meeting, the first Monday of each month. Our general meeting will be in January because we have changed the end of our calendar year from August to December. There will be more on this in the next newsletter, stay tuned.

John Caster

Fall Board MeetingsBoard meetings are held on the first Monday of every month at 6:30pm and are open to the general member-ship. Please come and join us to share your ideas or to see a behind the scenes look at the Guild. September’s board meeting will be held the week after Labor Day (Sept. 8th). The next two meetings will have these locations:

Sept 8th Ancient Grounds Café, 1220 1st Ave, Seattle, 98101

Oct 6th Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, 115 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, 98104

If you have any questions about these meetings, please call Jena Hounshell at (206)992.2335.

SMG ScholarshipsApplications are now being accepted for the next round of scholarships. If you are interested, please visit our web-site www.seattlemetalsguild.org for more information on application requirements.

The following awards have deadlines of January 1st and the recipients for this deadline will be announced on March 15th.

The Kris Williams SMG Continued Education Scholarship

The SMG Ruth Pennington Teaching Grant

The Sharon Boardway SMG Matriculated Student Scholarship

The George Mclean Specific Project Grant

Board News

EventsDate /Event Page

Sept. 8 and Oct 6: Board Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Sept. 18-21: Bill Dawson Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Sept. 22-Dec. 11: Influence - Metal as Material . . . . . . . . . .13Oct. 1: Girls Play Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Oct. 4: Jan Harrell Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Oct. 18: Symposium 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Dec. 7: SMG Ornament Party

ContentsSymposium:Symposium Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Symposium Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Board News:Letter from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9September Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9SMG Scholarships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Member News:Women’s Shelter Jewelry Project Sorting Session. . . . . . .10New Scholarship Recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Scholarship Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Studio Tour Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Thumbnail Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Silent Auction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Symposium Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Membership Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

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Micki Lippe hosted another sorting session for the Women’s Shelter Jewelry Project August 3rd. As usual there were many decades of jewelry represented and awards for the most bizarre piece of jewelry found. These sorting events are a lot of fun and a great chance to meet and

get to know other members of the SMG. Don’t worry if you missed it. A lot of work was accomplished, but there is still more to do. Stay tuned for the next sorting and repair event.

Leslie Shapiro of the Compass Cascade Women’s Pro-gram describes the residents’ reaction to the donations:

“The beautiful jewelry that [was] donated to the Cascade Women’s Program, is a gift that is received with much joy by all of the women. The women were overwhelmed with happiness by the jewelry they received. They gathered around each other as each person opened their jewelry gifts and cheered with delight as each woman tried on her new jewels.”

The goal of the Women’s Shelter Jewlery Project (WSJP), conceived and developed by Micki Lippe, is to collect jewelry that is sitting in the dark, in women’s jewelry boxes all over the city, sort it, clean or repair it if needed, and pass it on to women’s shelters and other agencies that serve disadvantaged women in the Seattle/Bellevue, Snohomish area.

New SMG Scholarship RecipientsThe scholarship program continues to receive applica-tions and the committee is pleased to announce the next round of recipients.

Sarah Gascoigne applied for the George McLean Specific Project grant and was awarded $500 to make a corona which will be hung in the Orthodox Church of the Pro-tection of the Mother of God on Ravenna Boulevard in Seattle.

Barbara Matteson of Langley, WA received a Continued Education scholarship to attend Rio Grande’s Catalog in Motion four-day course on engraving. Congratulations to both recipients. We strongly encourage others who applied to consider applying again in the future.

Member News

Women’s Shelter Jewelry Project Sorting Session

Learn more about how the Seattle Metals Guild links with our community by volunteering for upcoming projects and events:

Involve. Inspire. Imagine!

SMG Committees

• Annual Symposium• Workshops • Exhibitions • Passing the Torch

• Scholarships/Grants • Women’s Shelter Project • Educational Outreach

For more info, contact Jessie Wylie at [email protected] or come to a board meeting.

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Sondra Sherman recently taught a four day Master Class at Pratt Fine Art Center in the Jewelry Studio; Jewelry as Souvenir - Abstracting Commemoration. I was able to participate in this workshop as a recipient of the Kris Williams Continuing Education Scholarship. Over the four days of the class we had a lot of fun brainstorming with Ms. Sherman, working out our materials, connections, mechanisms and concepts. It was a treat to be immersed in the weekend of jewelry making with such a talented and respected instructor.

The course started with a presentation of commemoration jewelry. The talk touched on Mourning Jewelry, Memento Mori, Memorial Jewelry, Traveler’s Jewelry, Event Commemoration, Medals, and Reliquaries. Ms. Sherman ended the presentation with an overview of contemporary jewelers and their interpretations of these classic and traditional themes.

Then we were given our assignment: make a piece of jewelry to commemorate a person, place or event. Ms. Sherman spoke with each of us about our ideas and we showed each other the memorabilia we had brought to class and were planning to incorporate into our pieces. We were given helpful ideas for writing exercises and associative brainstorming to translate people, places or events into imagery or materials. Some stuck with the idea they had come to class with and other’s ideas evolved over the weekend. Some of us worked toward a finished piece while others concentrated on producing samples and sketches. The materials people incorporated were varied from dryer lint to sewing needles to human hair, also used were photographs and heirlooms; in short many different things. I decided almost immediately to make a piece with personal significance: a pair of lockets to commemorate my grandparents using materials that represented my memories of them.

Throughout the workshop we shared our progress with each other receiving feedback from Ms. Sherman and the others in the class. The most valuable thing I got out of the workshop was a new direction in my work, using new materials and found objects I had wanted to try for some time but never gave myself time to do it. Thank you to the SMG Continuing Education Scholarship for funding me to take this class. I really appreciate the time it allowed me to immerse myself in the community setting of this master class.

ScholarshipBy Amy Reeves

Jewelry as Souvenir Abstracting Commemoration

Master Class with Sondra Sherman

June 27 –30, 2008

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RED-HOT HEAVY-METAL2008 STUDIO TOUR REVIEW!by Dorin Meinhart and Gary Grossman

First stop: 10:00 – 12:00 The studio of David Lisch

Many lucky SMG members attended this year’s stupen-dous RED-HOT HEAVY METAL studio tour on Satur-day, July 26. What an informative and entertaining heavy metal road trip!

It all started under the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 3600 E. Marginal Way where the blacksmiths annual swap meet was in full swing with lots of delicious tools, ma-terials, equipment and hamburgers for sale.

A special feature was a really funky one-of-a-kind tricycle that was available for anyone to ride.

David Lisch welcomed us all to his studio and we were treated to some great metal mag-ic tricks (the transfor-mation of railroad ties into a graceful dragon flies, knife making, and watching the trip hammer in action). Fascinating works of blacksmithing art were displayed throughout the studio.

Last stop and pot luck: 12:30 – 2:00 Top Hat Studio, The studio of Judith & Daniel Caldwell

The afternoon part of the tour took place at the TOP HAT studio of artists Judith and Daniel Caldwell.

We began our adventure in their beautiful living space and forged our way through the portal into the studio and foundry where we were cast under this artistic teams’ artful spell. You have to see this place to believe it. From the street, you would never know this small, unassuming building houses a full blown industrial casting complex composed of a number of different buildings all under “a big top” sort of sky-lit roof. The 25 year partnership of these two artists has created an amazing array of intricate castings often appearing as public art installations which have included the 300 bronze fish installed at Sea-Tac airport, nature tiles, thrones, and a wide range of free standing sculpture. The tour included a detailed explana-tion of their revolutionary pattern making process using recyclable sand molds which capture exceptional detail. The Caldwells answered questions and provided detailed information about the tools, processes and artistic in-spirations they use to create their unique Northwestern works of cast and fabricated metal art.

A convivial potluck wrapped up the studio tour. Many thanks to the Caldwells and to David Lisch for their generosity and their hospitality.

Reviews

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Etching, Enameling, and Energized Connections with Jan Harrell…Pratt welcomes Master Artist Jan Harrell to the Jewelry/Metals studio. Well-known for her champleve enamel work, Jan will show you how to use Image-On Ultra Rapid as a resist for etching small panels. You will then cut down your etched panel into smaller pieces to enamel on directly or use first in the hydraulic press. Jan will also demonstrate her unique method of using gold leaf, as well as several kinds of cold connections for turning your completed enamel pieces into finished works. If you are interested in bringing line and image into your enamel work, this is your opportunity to study with a remarkable artist. Pre-requisite: Jewelry/Metals 1 or equivalent; some familiarity with enameling helpful, but not required.

Bio: Jan received a Masters of Sculpture from the University of Houston in 2007. For the last fifteen years, she has been the enameling instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. Jan shows her jewelry work and her larger panel and sculptural work in several galleries. Her work is included in many books on enameling and metalsmithing. She has received numerous awards and exhibits her work in international and national competitions.

Presentation, open to the public: Saturday, October 4th, 6:30 pm .

SNAG is seeking nominations…

…for the Lifetime Achievement Award, to be announced at the Philadelphia Conference in May 2009. The Award is SNAG’s highest honor and is presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of metalsmithing. Any member may nominate someone for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nomination packages must include a resume or biography of the nominee and an argument in support of their selection. The package should also include letters of support from at least two other SNAG members. Nomination packages should be sent to the Lifetime Achievement Award Committee.

Chairperson: Michael Croft 1441 Day Rd., Tucson, AZ 85715 [email protected] Postmark Date: January 15, 2009

For additional procedural information contact: Sandie Zilker, Board Liaison [email protected]

Girls Play Games: Curated by Gail M. BrownOctober 1, 2008 - October 25, 2008 Lecture: Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 4:00 AM Reception: Wednesday, Oct 1 at 5:00 PM The reception will be held at Facèré jewelry art gallery.

“In a diverse range of signature media- metals, rubber, wood, fibers and mixed media palettes - a charming panoply of unexpected, wearable forms await us. Each artist has created a body of work which reflects her specific interest in the referenced forms and intended content. The works evoke personal connections for the game-makers as well as potentially to all of us who have memories of games and times played out imaginatively. These new pieces resonate with memory, imagi-nation, celebration and invention!”

– Gail M. Brown

Artist List: Jill Baker Gower, Sarah Doremus, Ukiko Maxwell, Mary Hallam Pearse, Na-talya Pinchuk, Sylvie Rosenthal, Rebecca Strzelec, Jennifer Wehlacz, and Renee Zettle-Sterling.

Metal Forming of All Sorts……This fall pick up some metal forming skills with Bill Dawson at Danaca Design’s metal crafting center. Join us September 18th-21st for an intensive, hands-on work-shop, Techniques in Hollowware. This four day class will focus on basic techniques including sinking, various forms of raising, hammer forging, bouging, plannishing as well as a variety of edge treatments. At the end of October, Saturday the 25th, we will offer Fold Forming, an exciting technique excellent for creating organic and fantastic forms. Information about these classes and many more can be found at www.danacadesign.com or for a paper copy of our schedule please call, 206/524-0916.

Influence - Metal as Material……An exhibition of work that includes sculpture, hollowware, jewelry, and mixed media. Curated by Kristi Zevenbergen

Please join me at the artist reception on Oct 3rd from 5:00 to 7:30pm at Edmonds Community College Gallery,Lynnwood Hall, Third Floor (gallery access via the library)

Exhibiting artists: Larry Calkins, Virginia Causey, Megan Corwin, Sarah Gascoigne, Kristi Gibbs, Vicki Grayland, Laurie Hall, William Herberholtz, Ron Ho, Roger Horner, Dorthea King, Micki Lippe, Jane Martin, Amy Reeves, Ramona Solberg, Jennifer Stenhouse, Rebbecca Tomas and Kristi Zevenbergen

Show dates - Mon, Sept 22 - Fri, Dec. 11 7:30 am – 9 pm – Mon – Thurs 7:30 am – 3 pm – Frid noon-5 pm, weekends

Please contact ……newsletter@ seattlemetalsguild.org to network more information and future entries for this column!

metals events & information

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THREE WAYS TO DONATE!

1. Old school? Snail mail this form to this here address: 1425 BROADWAY #154 SEATTLE, WA 98122-3813

2. High tech? Email or text me with the details. Yes, texties work too. [email protected]

3. Feeling social? Talk to me! My cell: 206-713-2204

Symposium 2008 - Silent Auction

Yes! I’d like to donate the following:

Item:

Materials:

Service:

Retail Value:

Donor Contact Info

Name:

Phone:

Fax:

E-mail:

Website:

Preferred method of contact:

Best time to be reached:

Other:

Museum of History and Industry, Oct 18th

Silent AuctionHello Everyone!

It’s that time again already. Get ready for a stellar lineup at this year’s Symposium! As you already know, the SMG is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote opportunities, education and growth within the fields of jewelry and metal arts through events, workshops, and grants.

One of the ways we raise money to continue supporting the growing and changing needs of our membership is through the Silent Auction.

Last year we had so many creative donation ideas such as baked goods, books, aromatherapy, private instruction, studio tours, photographic services, handmade jewelry - even snowshoeing! Anything goes. No donation is too small or too weird. In fact, the weirder the better!

OUTDO ME HERE: what is so strange and unusual that you’d actually bid on it?

cookie jar of oddities... handful of molted antlers... plastic doll limbs... metal scrap flat-tened by a semi... 50 lbs of bottle caps... taxi-dermy eyeballs... bag of tiny watch parts... dental tools... antique oil cans...

The money raised from your donation will help provide quality opportunities for our thriving, cre-ative group of people. Please submit donations by Saturday, October 11th. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely, Jessie Wylie

Symposium Committee Cell: (206) 713-2204 [email protected]

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Registration for the Northwest Jewelry & Metals Symposium 2008 A fine Bagged lunch will be provided on site-

Name______________________________________________________________

Address____________________________________________________________

City______________________________State_________Zip__________________

Day Phone _____________________Evening Phone________________________

Email______________________________________________________________

School, if full-time student in degree program______________________________

Please check one box with your choice below:

Turkey Sandwich, smoked Mozzarella, avocado, tomato on wheat bread

Ham Sandwich, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato on wheat bread

Vegetable Sandwich, grilled veggies, Hummus, lettuce, tomato on Foccacia

Ranch Wrap: turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, Ranch drsng. in spinach tortilla

Registration & Fee Information: “I’ll bring my own lunch, thanks.”

Make check or money order payable to/and send to the Seattle Metals Guild.Registrations must be postmarked by October 11, 2008, or faxed to 206-652-0670 between 10/1 & 10/14 to qualify for pre-registration rate, reserve your lunch choice, and to receive confirmation by mail/email. Day-of registrations accepted @ door.Check the SMG website for more info: www.seattlemetalsguild.org link: Symposium

Curry Wrap: chicken, saffron rice, tomato, bell pepp., sour crm./spin. tort.Salmon Caesar: romaine, Parmesan, croutons, grilled salmon, lemon wedgeNorthwest Salad: Fall mix, walnuts, pears, carrots, tomato, gorgonzola

$75 Pre-registration by 10/14/08 $35 Fulltime student pre-registration

Students: Bring I.D. day of event

$85 Registration day of/ at the door Contribution to the day of lectures:

$__________________________

All lunches provided with choices of Tim’s chips, whole fruit, homemade cookie, condiments and soft drinks or Hansen’s.

Payment: Check Visa MC

Charge Card # _____________________________________________________ Exp Date__________

Signature ________________________________________________________ “See you at MOHAI October 18, 2008!!”

Please write clearly and send registration forms to Seattle Metals Guild, 1425 Broadway #154, Seattle, WA 98122-3854 >Thanks!!

Today’s Date ❑ New Member ❑ Renewing Member ❑ Check if contact info has changed

Name Organization (If applicable)

Address

City State Zip Country

Daytime Phone Evening Phone

Email Fax

Check if you do NOT want your ❑ address or ❑ phone published in the SMG directory

Check if you do NOT want your SMG newsletter in electronic form only ❑(Help the guild save money and resources by viewing your newsletter online. You will receive email notification when each newsletter is available. Check the box only if you want to receive a paper copy of the newsletter in addition to the electronic version.)

Enclosed is: ❑ $45 Individual membership (1/1/2008 – 12/31/2008) ❑ $20 Student w/copy of student ID

❑ $60 Membership for any number of adults at same address (1/1/2008 – 12/31/2008)Membership runs for the calendar year, January 1 – December 31, 2008. Memberships paid on or before October 31, 2008 will end December 31, 2008.

Memberships paid November 1, 2008 – December 31, 2008 will extend through December 31, 2009.

I can help with: ❑ Newsletter ❑ Mailings ❑ Bead Necklace ❑ Exhibits ❑ Workshops and Events

❑ Symposium ❑ Educational Outreach ❑ Misc. – Call me for specific tasks as needed

Other skills I can offer to SMG

*Send checks payable to Seattle Metals Guild, 1425 Broadway #154, Seattle, WA 98122-3854* Please allow up to four weeks for processing of your membership. If you have not received confirmation within four weeks,

please contact membership @seattlemetalsguild.org.

MEMBERSHIP FORM

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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 op-portunities 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 Seattle Metals Guild members promote and sustain its successful programs.

We welcome new members and encourage participation by everyone.

1425 Broadway #154Seattle, WA 98122-3813

Sept/Oct 2008Printing provided by Jon Tindall, of Jewelry Resource and Supply.

www.seattlemetalsguild.org

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.

Jena Hounshell: [email protected]

Deadline for Nov/Dec is Oct 10. Articles received after that date may be published in the following newsletter.

2007-2008 SMG Board of DirectorsAll addresses are suffixed with “@seattlemetalsguild.org”

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Caster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . president@Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . Jena Hounshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vicepresident@Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessie Wylie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . secretary@Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Camille Keyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-856-5918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . treasurer@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron Barr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board2@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Cassara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board3@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . ET Kessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board4@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Jessie Wylie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board5@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Kiraya Kestin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board6@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Lotta Gustafsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board8@General Board . . . . . . . . . . . Camille Keyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . board9@

SMG Services

Newsletter Editor . . . . . . . . Jena Hounshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . newsletter@Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Tindall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . librarian@Symposium Coordinator . . . Roland Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-749-0747 . . . . . . . . . . . . . symposium@Workshop Coordinator . . . . Dana Cassara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . workshop@Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Kuskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . membership@