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| Jewelry and Metals Lectures at SOFA NY | |  Again this year, there will be excellent jewelry and metals lectures at SOFA NY. Lecture attendance is free with admission to the exhibition.
"For People Who are Slightly Mad: American Modernist Jewelry"
Jeannine Falino, Curator
Thursday, April 14, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
A review of the iconoclastic artists who translated the excitement of surrealism and modernism into wearable jewelry. Their work will be seen in "Crafting Modernism: Mid-century American Art and Design" at the Museum of Arts and Design in October 2011.Co-sponsored by SNAG and Art Jewelry Forum. (Image: Jay De Feo)
"Sometimes"
Lisa Walker
Friday, April 15, 1:30 - 2:30 pm
New Zealand artist Lisa Walker makes jewelry out of a vast collection of materials - plastic, wood, paper, gold, fabric, clay, dirt, dust, aluminum, paint - the list goes on. Her talk will be a retrospective look at pieces and projects of the last 20 years, looking at what extremes are possible, questioning and researching what jewelry means, what it can be. Represented by Jewelers'werk Galerie. (Image: Lisa Walker)
"Two Visions"
Sergey Jivetin and Jennifer Trask
Saturday, April 16, 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Jewelry artists Jennifer Trask and Sergey Jivetin discuss their individual ideologies and shared studio practices. 
Trask will talk about the evolution of her most recent series, "Embodiment", which encompasses both sculptural and wearable works. Jivetin will elaborate on the role of experimental techniques and materials. Represented by Ornamentum. Sponsored by SNAG. (Images: Sergey Jivetin; Jennifer Trask)
"The Art of Not Making"
 Dr. Michael Petry
Saturday, April 16, 3 - 4 pm
With a recent return to a highly crafted aesthetic in art, "the artist" is increasingly remote from the physical act of production, with specialists doing the heavy lifting and fine detailing.
Dr. Michael Petry, Director of MOCA London will explore the relationship between artist and artisan, creativity and production, asking the important question: What is art work? Presented in conjunction with Berengo Studio 1989, Murano. |
| Donate to SNAG's Silent Auction |  The premiums at the Silent Auction will now focus on specialized hand tools, sheet metals or other materials, gemstones or raw material for cutting, jewelry software, gift certificates for any professional services such as photography, accounting, advertising, marketing and casting services, rare jewelry books, and jewelry technique DVDs. Donated pieces of jewelry will no longer be part of the silent auction at the conference.
Please donate or underwrite the donation of these types of items to SNAG's silent auction at the Seattle conference.Money raised through this silent auction helps to underwrite components of SNAG's educational programming that don't generate their own funding.
Please let us know if you will be making a premium donation by sending in the Silent Auction Donation form by May 19 to coordinator Marlene True at the address on the form. If you want to mail your premium donation to Seattle, send it to Micki Lippe at the address on the form.
Remember, you don't have to attend the conference to donate. Making a donation in this way is a great way to support SNAG if you aren't able to attend.
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| Last Call: Be a Part of SNAG TV | | |
 Send in your dynamic media! A unique opportunity to share video, slideshows and much more with fellow jewelry and metals artists, curators, collectors and all attendees.
SNAG TV will be a constant stream of video and images, displayed on a large HD monitor in the main conference area, projecting the inspiration, creativity, artwork and communities that inform, drive and support our field.
To find out more about how to send in your dynamic media, click here. Open to individuals and groups; put together something that represents your guild, your school, your online community--the possibilities are wide open. Deadline: April 16.
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Last Call: Phoenix 2012 Conference Call for Exhibition Proposals "The Heat is On"
| |  Humans harness the ability to contain or control heat and the capacity to apply it selectively. Heat can act as a catalyst; it is a necessary factor in the formation of minerals and critical elements. Heat can also be interpreted as a result of friction, or the anxiety and excitement of competition. Whether the techniques we use are ancient or contemporary, many of them share in common the factor of heat.
The 2012 SNAG Conference Exhibitions Committee is inviting artists or curators (individuals or groups) to submit proposals for exhibitions in response to the conference theme.
Deadline for these proposals is April 15. Click here to access more information about each one. The Phoenix conference is May 23-26, 2012, hosted by the Arizona Designer Craftsmen, co-chairs Becky McDonah, Tedd McDonah and Lynette Andreasen.
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| Last Year's Professional Development Seminar | |  The SlideShare presentation from the Houston Professional Development Seminar "Not Just Another Pricing Lecture," has now been viewed by 5,300 people. Harriete Estel Berman will again be creating a SlideShare presentation after the Professional Development Seminar in Seattle. |
| 2011 SNAG Election - Treasurer Candidate: Jennifer Mokren | | |
Each week we are profiling a different candidate for the 2011 SNAG Election.
 Jennifer Mokren is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, where she teaches Jewelry/Metals and Enameling. Additionally, she serves as chair of a large interdisciplinary unit which includes Art, Arts Management, Graphic Design, Music and Theatre. She received her BFA in Jewelry/Metals from Kent State University and her MFA in Jewelry/Metals from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She has shown her work nationally and internationally, as well as being featured in Metalsmith magazine, 500 Beaded Objects and 500 Bracelets. Currently her work is included in the online exhibition METAL Inclinations2.
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Brent Kington will receive SNAG's 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening of the Seattle