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Dana Singer, Executive Director
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Week of September 10, 2012
Greetings!
Our inaugural one-day business symposium "Forging Entrepreneurs: Tools and Skills for Business Success" was a huge success. Seventy artists hungry for insights filled the Society for Contemporary Craft. Here are just two of the responses on the post-event survey:
"I want to say that the symposium truly exceeded my expectations. The presenters were very generous with their knowledge and I was inspired at the insight and thoughtfulness of their presentations. Thanks so much, I recommend it to anyone!"
"I've been out of college and doing craft fairs/consigning/Etsy-selling for several years. I've been feeling a bit stuck and uninspired and this symposium came at a perfect time for me."
Thank you again to all our great presenters: Glen Gardner, Adam Kenney, Brigitte Martin, Ron McNeish, Michelle Pajak-Reynolds, Todd Pownell, Beverly Tadeu, and Wayne Werner. Paying homage to the site of Forging Entrepreneuers I'm featuring Pittsburgh designer Paul Michael Bierker in this week's Maker Profile.
We are working on securing the site for the 2013 Forging Entrepreneurs, somewhere on the west coast, and I'll announce it here just as soon as we know.
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Art Jewelry Forum Call for Entries
Emerging Artist Award
AJF's Emerging Artist Award (EAA) recognizes promise, innovation and individuality in the work of emerging jewelers and to advance the career of a promising artist. The award has increased to $7,500 this year. Jurors for this year: Farrah Al-Dujaili, 2011 EAA winner, Kelly L'Ecuyer, Ellyn McColgan Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Marjan Unger, Dutch collector, curator and writer on jewelry.
The recipient is expected to travel to either SOFA New York or COLLECT in London to attend the award presentation. For the guidelines click here. Deadline: September 30.
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Lifetime Achievement Award Nominations
 | J. Fred Woell
2012 Recipient
SNAG Lifetime
Achievement Award
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SNAG is seeking nominations for its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. The recipient will be honored in a number of ways: the Toronto conference next May will be dedicated to the recipient followed by an award ceremony, and essays about the recipient will appear both in Metalsmith and on our website. This award is SNAG's highest honor and is presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of metalsmithing. Selection of the award recipient is made by a committee of 3 members, and the makeup of the committee changes each year.
Any member of SNAG may nominate someone for the Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominees do not have to be SNAG members.
Nomination packages must include a resume or biography of the nominee along with a letter outlining the reasons for the nomination from the person making it, and at least two letters of support of the nomination from other SNAG members. Deadline to receive nomination packages is October 13. Email all materials to Mary Lee Hu, Chair, Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, with "Lifetime Achievement Nomination" in the Subject line. Once nominated, an individual's name remains under consideration for 5 years, after which time, if not selected, he or she must be re-nominated to stay eligible for consideration. |
SEC Releases Conflict Minerals Rule 
On Aug. 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt a rule implementing the conflict minerals provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The new rule requires publicly held companies to disclose whether their products contain conflict gold (or other named minerals, such as tungsten) from the Democratic Republic of Congo or surrounding countries.
For a lot more information click here for a fact sheet.The first reports by companies covered by the new rule are due May 31, 2014, and cover calendar year 2013.
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 Exhibitions Planning Committee's
Call for Partnership Proposals
SNAG is seeking partners in co-producing and/or supporting exhibitions that advance our mission to educate audiences about the historical, artistic and cultural importance of jewelry, metalwork and design.
The Exhibition Partners program will award up to $2,500 to support one proposed exhibition in 2013. Application deadline for proposals: October 15. Click here for more information.
Early in 2012, this program helped support the exhibition Transformation 8: Contemporary Works in Small Metals (Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder's Prize series), at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh.
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iMakeJewelry Call for Images and Feature Ideas 
Victoria Lansford is seeking images and input for future updates of her iPhone™ app, iMakeJewelry. iMakeJewelry is an ongoing project to help jewelers and metalsmiths and input from the metalsmithing community is vital.
Submit images of stones and jewelry: Future updates of the app will include more images in the Stones reference section of the app. If your image is used, credit to you will appear within the app.
Each image will be evaluated on the quality of the photography, how well it depicts the stone it features, and the craftsmanship of the object. Images that show more than one type of stone in a single piece won't be considered unless they can be cropped appropriately.
Submit ideas, such as new calculation features, tables, or additions to existing features in the app. Contributors of ideas used will be given credit within the app in future updates. Deadline: Ongoing. The purchase of iMakeJewelry is not required. For details on image requirements and where to submit images or ideas, email victoria@victorialansford.com.
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 College Art Association
Publishing Grants
Two grants that support new books in art history and related subjects. The publisher must submit the application. Can apply to either grant or both funds, but only one award will be given per title. Both programs have a deadline of October 1, 2012.
CAA will announce the recipients of the Meiss and Wyeth grants in
early December.
Millard Meiss Publication Fund
Supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. For complete guidelines, application forms, and a grant description, visit www.collegeart.org/meiss. Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
Support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art and related subjects. For purposes of this program, "American art" is defined as art created in the United States, Canada, and Mexico prior to 1970. Books eligible for the Wyeth Grant have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. For complete guidelines, application forms, and a grant description, visit www.collegeart.org/wyeth. |
Minutes from May Board Meeting On Website 
The minutes from the SNAG board of directors' May 2012 meeting just before the Phoenix/Scottsdale conference are now available on our website.
Stay informed about what your elected representatives are working on, on your behalf. |
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SOFA Chicago
For those of you who have taken advantage of the SNAG room block at the Comfort Inn & Suites in past year, we're sorry to report that that room block does NOT exist this year. The Comfort Inn was bought out by another company and turned into a boutique hotel at $179/night. We've not found room blocks in the area at better rates, and hope to have this worked out
by next year.
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Superstition Exhibition Opens at 
Toronto International Airport
"Superstition," a juried exhibition of
fine jewelry and metalsmithing originally produced by Zilberschmuck earlier this year, will be exhibited in the departure area of the Toronto International Airport from September 10 to January 11. An estimated 600,000 people will go through this area during that time.
For the past eight years, Zilberschmuck has invited Canadian artists to explore the formal and conceptual ideas behind the meaning of a specific word, with the work exhibited at their gallery space in Toronto. In 2012 the word was "superstition."
SNAG has been a co-sponsor of this annual Canadian exhibition for the past six years. |
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This Week
Art Jewelry Forum
Call for Entries
Lifetime Achievement
Award Nominations
New Conflict Minerals Rule
Call for Exhibition
Partnership Proposals
iMake Jewelry Call for
Images and Ideas
College Art Association
Publishing Grants
Minutes from May
Board Meeting
SOFA Chicago
Exhibition at
Toronto International Airport
Maker Profile
Paul Michael Bierker |
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About SNAG
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. |
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Welcome New Members
Welcome to all new SNAG members who joined in August.
Shelby Akers, Fort Wayne IN Brendalee Astells, Vancouver BC, Canada Marianne Barlos, Vienna, Austria Zoe Juanita Beatty, Boston MA Richard Burrows, Knoxville TN Leah Carter, San Diego CA Lynda Constantine, Upper Tantallon NS, Canada Rick Crawford, Ormond Beach FL Erin Davis, Beaverton Ontario, Canada Evin Dubois, Columbus OH Christine Dwane, Brossard Quebec, Canada Bridget Fauser, Lafleche Saskatchewan, Canada M. A. Halbin, Long Beach CA Karin Jacobson, Minneapolis MN Ruth Kiefer, Washington DC Madison Kingery, Charleston SC Ann Lumsden, Ottawa Ontario, Canada Yleana Martinez, Watertown MA Mary Lynn Podiluk, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada William Raineri, Liverpool NY Stephanie Ritchie, Gulf Breeze FL Lisa Seid, Orange CA Linda Sorkin, Hoboken NJ Frank Thoeringer, Port Carling Ontario, Canada Plonneke Thoolen, San Mateo CA ChiaChien Tsai, Toronto Ontario, Canada Sarah Turner, Bloomfield Hills MI Wolfgang Vaatz, Rio Rico AZ Emily Wojna, Amherstview Ontario, Canada Jerry Wood, Bloomfield CT Christine Woollacott, Toronto Ontario, Canada |
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