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| Education Resource Room at SNAG Conference | | |
 Grab the opportunity to represent your program at the SNAG conference in Seattle, May 26 through 29 for only $100. The Education Resource Room connects representatives from universities, colleges, schools, art centers and other programs across the United States with prospective students interested in your programs. The room is open to everyone attending the conference.
Pre-registration is now open until May 12. You must pre-register for a table. The Room is open Friday, May 27 from 2:45 to 4:45. It is not scheduled against the Professional Development Seminar, the Education Dialogue or any other program that will impact attendance in the room.
Contact Calina Shevlin, 940-765-3667, to register or with questions.
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| Metalsmith is a Media Sponsor of "Gold: Substance, Symbol, and Significance" | |  Initiatives in Art and Culture is producing this conference April 7-9 in New York City. It takes an all-embracing look at this precious metal, considering it in all its physical manifestations from mineral, to ingot, to coinage, to jewelry and at all stages of its production and use.
It will explore contemporary approaches to mining, with close attention paid to sustainable extraction, corporate social responsibility, and the increasing use of reclaimed metal. It looks at gold throughout history, and collectors and collections of gold, as well as its symbolism. And it will consider contemporary work in gold, be it by large firms or individual artisans.
 Speakers include Mary Lee Hu, Atelier Zobel, jeweler designers Marilyn Cooperman and Temple St. Clair, Mary McFadden, iconic fashion designer and collector of gold, Tiffany & Co., for their gold manufacturing, Géza von Habsburg, art historian and author, definitive volumes on Fabergé, Benjamin Zucker, scholar, author, gem merchant, and collector, Paul Song, director, rare coins, bullion, and bank notes, Bonhams, Robert D. Headley, COO, Jewelers of America, James D. Webster, Division of Physical Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, and key representatives from RESOLVE, Earthworks, Barrick Gold Corporation and Kinross Gold Corporation, among many other speakers. 
Early Registration is $275 (down from $350), in effect through February 22. Student and One-day Rates available (for the latter contact organizer). For more information or to register click here.
(images, top to bottom: Mary Lee Hu; Peter Schmid for Atelier Zobel; gold nugget)
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| SNAG's New Guild Resource Packet Seeks Documentation and Information | | |
 SNAG is inviting all guilds to participate in our new Guild Resource Packet, available on our website later this year. Our goal is to collaborate with guilds nationwide and internationally and provide a central location to share knowledge and documents on such areas as: how to start a guild, how to produce an exhibition, how to develop a workshop, and how to attract new members, in order to support and advance the work of jewelry and metalsmithing guilds anywhere in the world.
This valuable resource will give a helping hand to those who are interested in starting a new guild in their area or those that want to improve what they current provide.Let us help make it less overwhelming by creating this central depository. All guild members and organizations that submit documents will receive full credit.
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| Interactive Ads-SNAG Member Advantage | |  Advertise in the SNAG Member Showcase of our June issue of Metalsmith -- both in print and in our digital edition. The digital version can have your website live. This section is exclusive to SNAG Members exhibiting their latest works. Viewers will be driven directly to these works on your website.
This issue offers extended print visibility at these important collector shows: SOFA WEST: Santa Fe, ACC San Francisco, and the Colorado Metalsmithing Association's conference.
Sign up now by contacting Jean Savarese. |
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