Myron Toback
Dana Singer
Dana Singer, Executive Director 
Week of April 9, 2012

Greetings!  

This is week two of our Q&A series with the two candidates running to be the next SNAG President.  All six questions we'll be posting on our website came directly from our membership.  I can't encourage you enough to read these questions and responses, and vote this year, whether online or at the conference.  Watch for later announcements about how and when voting will be open.

Question #2: The complaint persists that SNAG does not often enough address the needs of the working studio metalsmith; that SNAG's focus is skewed more towards the interests and concerns of academia. Do you believe SNAG should appeal to and serve the full spectrum of metalsmiths? What does it mean to you for SNAG to be a "Big Tent"? What types of measures would you put before the Board of Directors to remedy this situation? Please touch on all three questions in your response.


Click here to read the responses from John Rose and Renee Zettle-Sterling. 

 

Last week we profiled one of two candidates for the Nominations & Elections Committee, Michael Dale Bernard.  This week we profile the other candidate, Susan Skoczen.  
SOFA New York
SOFA NY is coming up April 20-22. As mentioned last week, SNAG is sponsoring a talk by Georg Dobler, and co-sponsoring with
Art Jewelry Forum a lecture about the work of Margaret de Patta.
Georg Dobler
Margaret de Patta

As usual, there are other good lectures in their Salon Lecture Series. Here are just a couple:
 

"COVET"

Molly Hatch

An illustrated discussion of COVET, a long term project exploring the direct relationship between contemporary artists and historic artworks found in museum collections, inspired by their conversations with curators about content, context, social history and patronage.   


Philip Aduatz
"Design 2012: Young Designers Discuss  
Concept, Process and Materials" Artists Vivian Beer and Philip Aduatz discuss their work; functional objects that exist between the worlds of design, craft, and sculpture.  Working with innovative new methods and materials and traditional techniques, they challenge traditional labels that categorize furniture, art, and design.  

Call for Mokume Gane Images 

Wayne Werner
Baltimore metalsmith Wayne Werner is looking for images of mokume gane work that he can include in a lecture he's giving on the topic at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design on May 5. 
 
Please send your images to Wayne Werner.  A compiled CD will then be donated to the Library at the Mint Museum.
pricing lecture
Professional Development
Seminar Slideshare Update

The five SlideShare presentations from SNAG 2011 have collectively registered 22,385 views.   

 

These five talks were: Digital Images; Photography in Flux: Editors' Perspective; Photography in Flux: Photographers' Perspective;  Niche Marketing; and How to Build a Better Drop Shadow.

                                                
The SlideShare from 2010, "Not Just Another Pricing Lecture," has, on its own, tallied almost 10,000 views. 

All of the SlideShare presentations are available through our website. 
Great Opportunity for Publicity
Blurb book by
Christine L. Sundt 
Sharon Thompson would like to interview any artists who have created self-produced books through websites such as Snapfish or Blurb and used those to promote their work to galleries or curators or as show catalogs.

Article will be in MJSA Journal and the deadline is looming. Email Sharon Thompson ASAP.  
Endowment Raffle Tickets are Selling Like Hotcakes 
Don't miss out. We are selling tickets for the annual raffle that benefits SNAG's Educational Endowment Scholarships.

WINNERS NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN.   







 
There's also a Boris Bally chair, two registrations for the SNAG conference in Toronto, eight strands of freshwater cultured pearls from King's Ransom, tools from Rio Grande, Glendo, Contenti, Allcraft, and an Art Photography session with Steven Brian Samuels. 
 
Raffle tickets are just $20, or six for $100. Buy them easily right here on our website. However there are only 600 tickets
available, so when they're gone, they're gone. With so many great prizes, your chances of winning are good. You can't win if you don't buy a ticket. Don't miss out.
Winners

2012 SNAG Election - Nominations & Elections Committee: Susan Skoczen  

Each week we are profiling a different candidate for the 2012 SNAG election.  

 

Susan Skoczen is a Lecturer in Fine Arts and the Gallery Director at Indiana University, Kokomo, IN, where she is starting up a jewelry and metals program for the school. She has an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Kent State University, both in Jewelry and Metalsmithing. She is active in the jewelry and metalsmithing world, and has been a curator for such shows as "Topography of Metal" at Tap Studios/Gallery M, October 2010, and "Shape" at IUK Gallery, February 2011.  

 

She is a member of SNAG (Chair, "On the Verge" Student Show 2005 Cleveland Conference) and Art Jewelry Forum. Her work has been shown at Gallery M, Cleveland, OH; Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA; Velvet DaVinci, San Francisco, CA; and William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Skoczen was a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grant, 2011.
Welcome New Members
Welcome to all the new SNAG members who joined in March:
Melis Agabigum, Ann Arbor MI    
Melinda Alexander, Long Beach CA    
Jowita Allen Washington DC    
Karen Bailey, Scottsdale AZ    
Roger Baird, Crescent City CA    
Jennifer Balangue, Ann Arbor MI    
Michael Barnard, Santa Barbara CA    
Raquel Bessudo, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico
Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Princeton NJ    
Katherine Boruch, Fox River Grove IL    
Audrey Boudreault, Coteau-du-lac QC, Canada
Susan Bryan, Los Angeles CA    
Robert Burke, Guilded Lynx Studio, Ridgefield CT    
Lyndy Bush, Las Cruces NM    
Lillian Butler, by Lillian, Austin TX    
Laura Caballero, El Paso TX    
Melissa Camerano, Brookfield IL    
Beth Carey, Myersville MD    
Rodney Casebier, Bountiful Beauty, Tucson AZ    
Natalia Cellini, Berkeley CA    
I-Ting Chen, Taipei City, Taiwan
Eunmee Chung, Rockville MD    
Jewel Clark, Tempe AZ    
Kimberly Cothern, Chandler AZ    
Lani Dearmin, Mountlake Terrace WA    
Erica Diener, Toronto    ON, Canada
Christina Donato, Philadelphia PA    
Amanda Ellis, Jenison MI    
Melissa Ellis, Jenison MI    
Kimberly Enerson, Rochester NY    
Cynthia Evans, El Paso TX    
Marin Fey, Longmont CO    
Jayne Furman Valley Center CA    
Skylar Gabel-Eissens, Whitewater WI    
Traci Gruttadauria, Cranston RI    
Marisa Hall, Hercules CA    
Laura Hayes, El Paso TX    
Alyssa Hight, Cranston RI    
Judy Hoch Marstal, Salida CO    
Holland Houdek, Syracuse NY    
Manuela Jimenez, Providence RI    
Kasey Jorgensen, Arcata CA    
Sam Kaffine, Woodland Park CO    
Jeanne Katz, Jeanne Dale Designs, San Luis Obispo CA    
Collin Kennon, Las Cruces NM    
Gennie W Kim, Rockville MD    
Alex Kinsley, Toronto ON, Canada
Judith Kiriazis, Cottonwood AZ    
Andrew Koester, Effingham IL    
Jessica Hope Kramer, Philadelphia PA    
Emilie Leblanc Kromberg, elk joaillerie, Saint-Calixte QC, Canada
Linda Kula, Burlington    CO    
Kay Lafranconi, Yount Street Glass, Yountville CA    
RongJian Liu, Ellensburg WA    
Alison Lucy, acl Designs, Kitchener ON, Canada
Elisa Lux, Edina MN    
Heather Magill, Scottsdale AZ    
Madalyn F Maloney, Antiquitiez, Fountain Hills AZ    
Kaitlind Marek, Grand Rapids MI    
Mindy Mass, St Louis MO    
Megan Matlock, Twin Falls ID    
Jillian Matthews, Providence RI    
Connie May, Manteo NC    
Kevin McGinnis, Encinitas CA    
Carol McKay, White Rabbit Designs, Athens GA    
Natasha Miller, East Lansing MI    
Diane Mirabile, Initial Reaction, Fairfield CT    
Janet Murray, Tucson AZ    
Bonnie Nelson, Buffalo NY    
Jackson Ocheltree, Tucson AZ    
Pierre-Yves Paquette, Saint-Sauveur QC, Canada
Kendra Pariseault, Providence RI    
Jessica Parker, Aracata CA    
Tammy Pearce, Phoenix AZ    
Eric Petersen, Toronto ON, Canada
Ann Pifer, St Paul MN    
Erin Potter, Winchester IL    
David Rice, David Rice Jewelry + Objects, Winnipeg MB, Canada
Steve Riley, Brooklyn NY    
Jason Roberts, Pittsburgh PA    
Jackie Roffe, Mexico
Richard Salley, Rsalley Art, Santa Fe NM    
Beth Schaefer, Houston TX    
Naomi Schulze, Arcata CA    
Pam Schuster, El Paso TX    
Shelly Shen, Gaithersburg MD    
April Smith, Los Alamos NM    
Ashley Tamber, Highland Springs VA    
Cheryl Tobler, Chandler AZ    
Chi Yan Tse, Philadelphia PA    
Brittany Walker, New Gretna NJ    
Ammie Ward, Mesilla NM    
Andrea Wenckebach, Barrie ON, Canada
Cindi Whiting, Chandler AZ    
Renee Willis, New York NY    
Elizabeth Wilson, Mountain View CA    
Martha Wilson, Marietta GA    
Victoria Yez, Toronto ON, Canada
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2012 SNAG Election
Candidate Profile 

Welcome New Members
 
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