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CALLING ALL FEMALE JEWELRY STUDENTS!!!

The Women's Jewelry Association is committed to empowering women in the international jewelry,
watch and related businesses. To this end, WJA is offering Scholarships to female students enrolled
in fine jewelry and watch design courses in the United States of America. To celebrate WJA's 25th
year, we plan on giving a minimum of $25,000 in student scholarships this year. For the first time,
we have created two different categories: the designer category, and the non-designer category.

The Designer category is designed for those students in a studio jewelry program who can apply with
images of finished pieces that they designed and created themselves. 

You are required to provide the following to support your Scholarship Application.

1. Essay: A short essay explaining why you wish to pursue a career in jewelry or watches and your
goals/aspirations for the future.

2. Images: (a) Three (3) digital images (no more) showing examples of your most recent work. Rank
them in order of the most significant. (b) Provide a brief description of each of the numbered
images indicating materials used, size of piece(s) and what is represented and/or significant about
each piece.

3. Completed entry form.

For the first time ever, we have moved this application process on-line. To access the application
please go to: https://www.callforentry.org/

Also for the first time, we have introduced a new category- the Non-designer category. The
Non-designer category is designed for those students training to be a gemologist, jeweler,
watchmaker or other job related to the jewelry and watch making industry. Instead of applying with
images of finished pieces, this category is judged by an essay competition. Please go to the WJA
website for more information and an application:
http://www.womensjewelry.org/awards/scholarships.htm

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the WJA office at 708-361-6000 or e-mail
Lisa Slovis Mandel at lisa@lisaslovis.com

Lisa Slovis Mandel Lisa Slovis Metalsmithing 1730 Pacific Beach Dr. #3 San Diego, CA 92109 ph
(858)490-1336 fax (858)490-1337 www.lisaslovis.com

Kendall College of Art and Design is currently accepting applications for an Instructor or Assistant
Professor of Metals/Jewelry Design.

The position is for a second full time faculty member in the Metals/Jewelry Design program during
the Fall of 2008 - and will continue as the only full time faculty position during the Spring of
2009, as a sabbatical replacement. The position is renewable for up to one year; continuing
sabbatical replacement during the Fall of 2009, and as a second faculty member during the Spring of
2010.

Further information about the official position and/or description can be found on the website URL
shown below.

Position Number: K64617

Craft Alliance Accepting Applications For New Artist-In-Residency Program

At Satellite Location in Grand Center Opening Summer 2008

Craft Alliance, a non-profit arts education center in St. Louis, MO that offers programs and
exhibits showcasing contemporary craft art is offering an Artist-in-Residency Program for emerging
or mid-career artists with a body of work in clay, metals or fiber at its new satellite location in
Grand Center in August 2008.

Artists will be provided with free studio space, equipped with Internet. They will have access to
new state-of-the art metals, clay, fiber, and graphics studios and water/sink facilities. All
associated utilities will be absorbed by Craft Alliance.

Residencies are available for 3, 9, or 12 months. Artists have the opportunity to exhibit and sell
work from their studio space. Selected artists will be compensated for classes they teach and/or may
work in the exhibition gallery as an assistant.

To Download an Application and Get More Info Go To www.craftalliance.org. And Click on
Artists-in-Residence Program (pdf) Robert Longyear Community Outreach Manager Chair
Jewelry/Metalsmithing Craft Alliance 314.725.1177 X 334.

AMONG "CALL LISTINGS", you will find additional, useful information at this website, such as:

Benefits to Artists

*CaFÉ(TM) gives artists the opportunity to gain visibility by applying to multiple juried
exhibitions and projects.
*Using CaFÉ is free to artists.
*CaFÉ resides on the Internet, so artists can manage applications from many locations or while
traveling.
*Artists can manage multiple calls for entry through CaFÉ.
*Contact information only needs to be entered once into CaFÉ.
*CaFÉ is paperless--no more packet submissions.
*CaFÉ's e-mail ability allows immediacy in communication.
*Artists save money on reproductions of slides, mailing and return postage.
*Artists will be able to upload up to 100 digital images to be stored in an online image portfolio.
*Artists will select which images to submit for each call for entry.
*CaFÉ provides consistent projection quality and desirable presentation for jurors.
*Artists' images and information are kept secure and confidential.

Hollowware & Patina  with David Huang

Learn traditional angle raising techniques to create a seamless hollowware vessel.  We shall
explore both single and multi-node raising, as well as symmetrical and asymmetrical forms.  Also to
be covered will be chasing techniques, utilizing microcrystaline wax, as they can relate to
hollowware.  Both simple and more complex patinas as a means of surface finish will round out this
workshop.

Guest Artist: David Huang works full-time as a metalsmith producing decorative hollowware vessels. 
A native of Western Michigan where he still resides, he graduated in 2001 from Grand Valley State
University with a BFA degree, emphasis in metalsmithing.  His work is currently represented by
galleries across the nation and has appeared in such publications as American Craft and Metalsmith
Magazine.

Tuition is $400 plus lab fees.

CRAFT IN AMERICA: EXPANDING TRADITIONS is a multi-city, multi-year tour showcasing scores of the
most important and exciting examples of American creativity, in all craft media.

What is craft? While most makers would agree that craft is important to the production of artistic
work, few are be able to agree on what it means. Is craft a classificatory noun describing certain
types of artistic work based in specific material traditions? Is it a verb that relates to the
process of manufacture? Is it an adjective speaking to the finished aesthetic of an object?

In spite of these questions, it remains indisputable that the story of Cranbrook is the story of
craft. As both a guiding concept and in practice, the idea of craft was essential to the foundation
of Cranbrook, which modeled its utopian, creative vision on previously-existing Arts and Crafts
communities in the United States and Europe. Craft continues to exist as a governing force in the
production of contemporary work on the campus. The exhibition Noun, Verb, Adjective: Cranbrook
Defines Craft does not aim to present a conclusive definition for the word. Instead, by looking at
works from the collection of Cranbrook Art Museum, it explores the myriad ways in which artists and
patrons at Cranbrook have grappled with the meanings that have been ascribed to the word craft. From
the work produced in Cranbrook's first craft studios to the prolific output of Eliel and Loja
Saarinen to the practice of the current Artists-in-Residence at the Academy of Art, Cranbrook
artists have focused on specific meanings of craft in their work. By looking at figures as diverse
as Arthur Nevill Kirk, Maija Grotell, Marianne Strengell, Gary Griffin, and Mark Newport, this
exhibition will highlight the various meanings craft has held for the makers and thinkers that have
helped to define the Cranbrook vision and present a thought-provoking entrée into what craft can
mean in the increasingly interdisciplinary creative landscape of the twenty-first century.

Noun, Verb, Adjective: Cranbrook Defines Craft is curated by Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections
Fellow Emily Zilber.rn

Mokume Gane' Patterning

Experience the beauty of working with Mokume Gane' a Japanese metalsmithing technique that
literally translates into "eye of the wood". Often referred to as Damascus style metalworking, this
process manipulates multi- layered billets of different colored metals. The billets are forged,
twisted and gauged to produce amazing patterns and textures that resemble wood, smoke, and
sedimentary layers. The material can be used in all sorts of metalsmithing applications. Students
receive a billet to pattern and to use in there own projects. Forging, soldering and riveting
techniques will be explored as well as etching and coloring to expose patterns. After this class
students will have the knowledge to produce rings, pendants, cuffs, and other beautiful jewelry
items in both precious and non-precious metals.

Guest Artist: Wayne Werner is a third generation metal smith from Baltimore. He has made his living
as a maker for over 15 years.  He has traveled around the world to learn with metal workers from
Italy and Egypt to Java and Bali. Specializing in cold forging precious metals, Werner has
incorporated the traditional techniques of gold and platinum smithing with his artistic vision of
paying homage to the fertility cults of the ancient world. Werner's work explores the relationship
to metals liquid opus and the opus of mankind, both being a product of the earth cooling down.
Through his work Werner attempts to remind people of the miracle of life and the cosmic happening
that we all are. Primarily making a living retailing his work, Werner has participated in over 200
high-end craft shows nationally. He has received many awards for his work including the World Gold
Council's Gold Distinction award and the MJSA Vision award for Mokume Gane.  Werner is a former
instructor at the Fuji Studio in Florence, Italy, and is adjunct faculty at the Maryland Institute
College of Art in Baltimore Md. In 2006 he was asked to demonstrate his craft at The Mint Museum of
Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC, an event marking his 40th birthday.

Tuition is $350 plus lab fees. rn

Interlochen Center for the Arts, one of America's oldest and most prestigious institutions for arts
education, performance and fine arts presentations, seeks Visual Arts faculty to teach in the Metals
studio area for the 6-week summer program (June 22-August 3, 2008). A recent recipient of the
prestigious National Medal of Arts, Interlochen offers summer instruction to students ages 8-18 at
both the exploratory and advanced levels.

Visual Arts Faculty (base wage $2800, plus housing and some meals) teach 5 hours a day, 5 days a
week, Tuesday through Saturday. In addition to teaching, faculty assist with the department's public
and community programs including Visual Arts Hour and Collage. Faculty should have or be working
toward an MFA.

More information is available at www.interlochen.org. 

Applications and reference forms are available at www.interlochen.org. Also send up to 20 images of
own work, and student work, if available. Send application and materials along with a SASE to Human
Resources, Interlochen Center for the Arts, IAC Visual Arts Search, PO Box 199, Interlochen, MI
49643.

Questions may be addressed to employment@interlochen.org.

Tom Muir is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Art at Bowling Green State
University, where he is head of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing department. He received his MFA from
Indiana University, Bloomington, and his BFA degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Mr.
Muir has lectured and taught widely, holding positions at universities and craft schools around the
country. His award-winning work has been published and exhibited extensively, including The Art of
Gold traveling exhibit , The White House Collection of American Crafts, National Museum of American
Art, Smithsonian Institution. He is the recipient of an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts
Regional Artist Fellowship, Michigan Council for the Arts Fellowship, and numerous Ohio Arts Council
Individual Artist Fellowship Awards.

Titanic..Pride and Prejudice..Evita..Out of Africa..Gosford Park..Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom..Dangerous Liaisons..Jefferson in Paris..Sense and Sensibility..Portrait of a Lady..they all
come to life in the museum!!!

Along with numerous film stills, many the 36 magnificent costumes in this exhibition were singled
out for Academy Awards and other nominations for costume design. Worn by the likes of Madonna,
Anjelica Huston, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler, Elizabeth Taylor, Uma Thurman, Meryl
Streep, Jacqueline Bisset, Melanie Griffith, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman, these
authentic costumes come from a stock of nearly 1,000,000 costumes and accessories made by the
renowned British costumer, Cosprop. The lavish costumes were worn by these well-known actors in some
of the most popular and successful period television and film productions of the last few decades.

This exhibition is organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, DC.