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Dana Singer
Executive Director
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Week of March 18, 2013
Greetings!
The news blog today is the first of several guest "columnists" who will be writing for SNAG. Our inaugural guest column is from John Rose, of 2Roses Studios. John and his wife Corliss are art jewelers in Southern California, specializing in exotic and recycled materials paired with silver, gold, alloy and precious stones. We'll be uploading John's posts once a month.
A team of arts management graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University would like SNAG members to take a survey that's part of a research project looking for best practices used by craft schools in the areas of marketing, programming, and fundraising, and tangentially, looking at areas of weakness. The survey will give them information and insights that cannot be gained from an organization's brochure, website, and staff.
This project began in January and will be completed in May. Individual responses will not be reported to a third party (the organization from which you received this survey), all responses will be shown only in aggregate. Please be as honest as possible.
As incentive, survey participants will be entered into a drawing of 5 small gifts (TBD). To be entered into the drawing just provide your email at the conclusion of the survey. Your responses to the survey will not be connected in any way to your email.
Please take five minutes and help them out. Here is the survey link.
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ABANA Conference Logo, Poster and T-shirt ContestCreate the wining design for ABANA's 2014 conference, "Joinery: Come Make Connections," and win 2 free passes to the conference. The 2014 conference is in Harrington, Delaware, August 13-16, 2014. Go to ABANA's website for more details.
Deadline: May 15, 2013
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The Metal Museum Library Catalog Online 
The Metal Museum Library collection contains over 6,000 books and portfolios on metalwork, including rare books on decorative and fine arts, audio-visual materials including archival films, instructional DVDs, and 10,000 images. Library holdings are available to the public as a technical and design resource for local and national projects.
In 1993, the Artist-Blacksmiths' Association of North America transferred its collection of books, video tapes and slides to the Blum Library. Additionally, the Society of North American Goldsmiths' collection of slides from our former Audio Visual Library are housed at the Metal Museum Library.
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Eye of the Beholder: Fine Art of the Found Object
Call for Entries
From the Maryland Federation of Art, for an exhibition at the Federation's Circle Gallery in Annapolis, May 31-June 22. Open to 2D and 3D original work created with one or more found objects. Juror: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, Adah Rose Gallery Kensington, MD. Awards $1,000. Visit the Federations' website for more information and to submit.
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Windgate Museum Internship Opportunities
Center for Craft Creativity & Design 
This program provides $5,000 stipends to four undergraduate or graduate students
who work under the direction of curators or directors in decorative arts or contemporary crafts collections, exhibitions, and programs in
museums or organizations nationally.
The 2013 Windgate Museum Internship Host Institutions are the Art Institute of Chicago, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, and the Tennessee State Museum.
Applications are now open at these four institutions for the 2013 Windgate Museum Internships. Please see the descriptions and full application instructions on the CCCD website.
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Artist in Residence Rowan University College of Communication and Creative Arts, Department of Art
The Department of Art seeks a qualified professional visual artist for its one-semester Artist in Residence Program.
Eligibility:
- professional artist with an MFA
- successfully work on your own without assistance
- Not a current or recent employee of Rowan University (within two years)
- Not a current student or alumnus of Rowan University
Resident Receives:
- $3000 stipend for the semester
- 24 hour access to a 280 square foot studio space
- 24 hour access to the Department of Art studios when classes are not being held. Studios include metals/jewelry (torches, casting equipment, rolling mill, enameling kilns), sculpture facilities (including woodshop, welding and metal fabrication)
Visit the Department of Art's website for more information.
Deadline: April 20
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Springboard Recent Highlights
These are only a few of the opportunities you'll find at Springboard. Sign up today for the RSS feed. And help SNAG spread the word. Forward this to everyone on your email list.
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Learn more about the Professional Development Seminar at this year's SNAG conference in Toronto, "Sacred Cow, Purple Cow, Cash Cow," with Harriete Estel Berman, Andy Cooperman, and Brigitte Martin, the three coordinators of the Seminar.
Challenging the sacred cows of craft marketing and design, this year's Seminar addresses our need to re-energize our existing markets and access new ones. Find a more innovative approach to display and an interactive marketing model that offers the experience of craft. Use smarter advertising and build visibility in new and unexpected places. Become the purple cow, the one that is unexpected and stands out from the herd - the cow that people notice.
Be sure to tune in Thursday 3:00 pm Pacific time.
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Have Your Work Photographed at the SNAG Conference
Digital by Design has been exclusively photographing jewelry for over 10 years. They will be providing on-site jewelry photography to the conference attendees.
Each session is 30 minutes. The rate is just $35 (CDN) per photo, payable by Visa/Mastercard at their booth. All completed photos will be delivered to you via email within 2 weeks after the conference ends.
Make your reservation today for your 30-minute slot using the booking calendar on the Digital by Design website. You must be attending the conference to take advantage of this opportunity.
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This Week
ABANA Contest Metal Museum Library Call for Entries
Eye of the Beholder:
Fine Art of the Found Object
Windgate Museum
Internship Opportunities
GOGLOBAL is Back
Artist in Residence
Rowan University
Springboard Highlights
Jay Whaley's
MetalSmith Benchtalk
Onsite Photographer at
SNAG Conference
Maker Profile
Laura Wood
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Quick Links
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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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MAKER PROFILE: Laura Wood
Gallery manager at Equinox Gallery, adjunct faculty at Southwest School of Art, studio artist
  
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