SNAG conference registration opens January 19. Register by February 29 and you will automatically be entered in a drawing to win a FREE ¼ page color advertisement in Metalsmith magazine!
Save money and be entered for a chance to win this fantastic advertising opportunity (valued at $1,425).
    
Lowest conference registration rates are only $350 for SNAG members, and $285 for student members. Take advantage of this lowest-rate, early registration period from January 19-February 29. Registration rates increase on March 1.

The chameleon called social media has transformed once again, and continuing in the field requires adjusting to this change. Here are some links that may help you reinvent your social media strategy for the coming year.  

Work six hours at the conference and receive a refund of 40% off the conference rates. A fantastic opportunity to volunteer for SNAG, receive a large discount off already discounted member rates, and meet people at the conference.

There will be 25 Student Work Exchange positions, and 20 New Professional Work Exchange positions at the 2012 SNAG conference, all filled on first-come, first-served basis. The sign up email will go out Monday January 23, 2012, at 9:00 a.m Pacific Time. We will maintain a wait list. Read more>>>

The AIA New York Chapter announces a competition for the redesign of the Medal of Honor. Conferred by the Chapter since 1914, the award recognizes an architect or firm of architects for distinguished work and high professional standing.

The design competition is open to any architect, artist, or student. The specifications of the proposed medal will be the same as the existing design: bronze, bas relief, and reverse side text (centered). The bronze medal can be struck or cast.

$5,000 prize. Juried by panel: a sculptor, an architect, and an historian. The finalists' designs will be exhibited at the Honors and Awards Luncheon, and at the Center for Architecture.

Entries due March 15, 5:00p.m. For all details visit www.aiany.org/medaldesign

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, "Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture" will examine craft's increasingly urgent role within contemporary American culture. Paper submissions from senior and emerging scholars are invited for this symposium.

Scholarship is invited that complicates our understanding of modern craft as a response to mass culture, and that probes the evolution of the field beyond the studio movement. They welcome investigations of post-studio practice, craft education, "craftivism," DIY, and Slow movements, converging practices in craft, design, and contemporary art, and shifting attitudes towards technology, skill, and materiality.

Email a two-page, double-spaced abstract (300-500 words) and short C.V. to Nicholas R. Bell, curator, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum at CraftSymposium@si.edu.  Proposals must be received by April 2, 2012.

The next issue of Metalsmith features three jewelers who work in different ways with stones: Eleanor Moty, Georg Dobler, and Margaret de Patta. 

Other highlights are "In the Studio" with Christine Dhein, "In Production" featuring Manya & Roumen, "Look," from Biba Schutz, and "View: Going for the Gold, Gilt or Guilt."

The SlideShare tallies for the Professional Development Seminars continue to increase. To date there are 19,134 viewings of the Seminar in Seattle last May featuring Niche Marketing, Digital Images, Photography in Flux (one from the editor's perspective, the other from the photographers' perspective), and How to Build a Better Drop Shadow. Looking back to Not Just Another Pricing Lecture from the 2009 Houston conference, almost 9,000 people have watched it. If you haven't seen them, check them out now.

Trunk Show Sale Sign Up - January 26
"Hot Under the Collar" - February 1

 

The Society of North American Goldsmiths supports and advances the professional practice of artists, designers, jewelers and metalsmiths. SNAG provides access to a vibrant and passionate community, through education, innovation, and leadership.