TOLEDO, OHIOStudents of art are encouraged to apply now for the Palmer Scholarship awarded by the Toledo Museum of Art. The application deadline for this art travel award is January 29, 2010. The Palmer Scholarship provides funding for travel for an individuals to pursue a course of study in an art related field. The award recipients will receive up to $8,000 toward the costs of travel including airfare, hotel and meal expenses either domestic or abroad, to enhance studies in an art related field. Project examples include advancing creative skills, conducting research, and studying educational techniques. Applicants must reside in Northwest Ohio. The award recipients must complete the travel within one year of notification. Awards will be announced in March 2010. Full details and the application form can be downloaded at www.toledomuseum.org/learn/classes. Questions can be directed to class registrar Rebecca Byers at rbyers at toledomuseum.org or 419 255-8000, ext. 7363. The Palmer Scholarship is just one of many awarded by the Toledo Museum of Art. Scholarships for TMA art classesfor children and adultsare intended to provide art education to those who might not otherwise be able to participate, and to encourage artistically gifted individuals. See the Museum website for additional information.

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This festival features 125 clay, glass and metal artists, demonstrations and related activities. As a result we get a large focused audience. This is the sixteenth year. Our artists tell us that it is a pleasure having customers that really understand their work and techniques. Applications to sell work at this years festival are due February 28, 2010. Follow the link for more details.

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Every year, the MJSA Vision Awards celebrate outstanding talent in the field of jewelry design. The winning designers represent the future of the jewelry manufacturing industry, and the Vision Awards competition showcases their creativity and boosts their careers. Some of the industrys finest designersTodd Reed, Mark Schneider, Steve Midgett, Lisa Krikawa, and many otherscan point to a Vision Award among their exemplary credits.Design Excellence Honors designs that exhibit exceptional creativity, craftsmanship, and marketability.

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Art Birmingham, originally known as the Birmingham Fine Art Festival, celebrates its 29th anniversary with a new and extraordinary location. The event moves from Shain Park to South Old Woodward, the celebrated gateway to downtown Birmingham. Unique shopping and fabulous restaurants line the street, drawing upscale shoppers and residents from throughout Oakland County and beyond. More than 160 juried artists will be featured in this elegant setting.

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The Way of the Flesh showcases Onoderas highly evocative appendage sculptures made of materials including fiber, latex, and lacquered animal skin. The works are grotesque and suggestive of decay, but also oddly transfixing, echoing the human ambivalencerepulsion in an uneasy balance with aesthetic fascinationtoward the body as an organic object. Three main colors harmonize in this exhibition: pink, which is associated with flesh, femininity, youth, sex, and fantasy; translucent white, which conveys purity and beautification; and earthy brown, which calls to mind rot and decay. The artist says, My work is an apparatus to awaken viewers to their own bodies and evanescent life. Onodera received her MFA in metalworking from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently teaches at Bowling Green University in Ohio. In 2008, her work was featured in the Pulse of a Perfect Heart Show at I Space Gallery in Chicago. Further details about Onodera and her work can be found at: http://web.mac.com/masakoonodera.

Chair of the Metals Jewelry Design program, Renato will exhibit work from his recent sabbatical, including finished pieces and process studies.

Learn how to create beautiful, ornate, and organic textures on metal with your torch. Reticulation utilizes irregular expansion & contractions rates between different metal silver alloys. In this class you will learn how to control this technique to create beautiful and unique compositions of texture.

This course is designed for bench jewelers who wish to use powerrngravers and other power-related tools* for engraving. Power-assistedrntechniques will be demonstrated and students will practice theirrnskills at the bench. The fundamentals of metal engraving will berncovered, including: set-up and adjustment of equipment, properrnposture for working, tool geometry, cutting of ferrous and non-rnferrous metals, sharpening of gravers, cutting exercises, and design layout and execution. Special emphasis will be on proper geometry and sharpening of gravers. This course will be packed full of information as well as demonstrations that will give the beginner a jump-start into the world of engraving using power-assisted tools. It can also be of great benefit to bench jewelers and artisan jewelers, since these engraving techniques can be used for clean-up work, channel cutting, removal of surface blemishes, and the creation of new and different finishes and textures. Students will develop an appreciation for the accuracy and confidence these skills bring to the bench. Basic metalsmithing skills recommended; prior engraving experience not required.