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Seattle Conference Program Book Available Now
| | Check out the beautiful new format for the Seattle conference program book. Look at everything that will be going on at the conference, May 26 through 29, and use the live links to all the advertisers' websites. Be sure to click through and visit their sites to let them know their advertising is working for them.
Many thanks to Todd Hughes, an extraordinary graphic designer and member of the Seattle Metals Guild for giving 1000%, and to John Rose and Media Enterprises for making it look so good on our site.
 
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| SNAG 2014 Conference in Minneapolis | |  We are pleased to announce that the 2014 SNAG conference will be in downtown Minneapolis, co-chaired by jewelry designers Emily C. Johnson and Britta Kauppila. Emily and Britta share a studio in the Northrup King Building, a creative center to almost 200 artists, in the Arts District of northeast Minneapolis.
SNAG is actively looking for future conference sites in 2015, 2016 and 2017. If you might be interested in co-chairing a conference, contact Sandie Zilker, our coordinator of future conference sites, for a preliminary conversation about what this entails. We look for 2-3 co-chairs in each city and preferably a local host guild or school program.
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| Ulysses Dietz joins Editorial Advisory Committee | |  We welcome Ulysses Dietz to Metalsmith's Editorial Advisory Committee. He has been the Curator of the Decorative Arts collection at the Newark Museum for thirty years. His encyclopedic knowledge has helped put the Newark Museum on the map as a vanguard of modern decorative arts. Ulysses replaces outgoing committee member Ellen Lupton. |
Donate to SNAG's Silent Auction
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 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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| 2011 SNAG Election - Board Candidate: Callie Shevlin | | |
Each week we are profiling a different candidate for the 2011 SNAG Election.
 Callie Shevlin will receive her MFA in Metals and Jewelry in May from the University of North Texas. While she has been active in the metals field for a number of years, her most recent and notable volunteer contributions have been with SNAG, where she has been the Portfolio Review Coordinator and the Education Resource Room Coordinator. This type of work has given her both a broad and magnified perspective of the inner workings of this close-knit community.
Currently she is applying for teaching positions, creating brooches and artworks in her series "Genii Loci" which involves traveling extensively to gather site-specific materials to feed her series, as well as working part-time as the grant writer for the Santo Foundation, based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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