Call for Entry: MSG Booth at the Ann Arbor South University Art Fair

All MSG members are eligible to apply. All work submitted must be made by the applicant. Although mixed media pieces are accepted, some metal is required. Members who are interested in learning about art fairs or may be considering this as a career path are especially encouraged to apply. NO PREVIOUS ART FAIR EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. If you are not currently a member or are not current with your dues, please fill out the MSG membership form available on our web site and include it with membership fee along with this application. Post Marked Due March 15, 2010.

Call for Entry: Northern California Enamel Guild 10th International Juried Enamel Exhibition

The Northern California Enamel Guild, NCEG, will sponsor its 10th International Juried Enamel Exhibition at Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Artin Oakland, California September 6 through October 16, 2010. $25 entry fee for up to two entries. All entries must have been made in the last 2 years. All submissions must be for sale. Applicants do not have to be a member of NCEG to apply, but must be a member of the NCEG to participate in the show. The exhibition prospectus and entry forms are now available on the NCEG website at http://www.enamelguild.org/NCEG/activitiesExhibition-2010.php. For more information, contact Anna Tai at email anna@annataienamels.com. Deadline: April 19, 2010.

Call for Images: "Protective Ornament: From Amulet to Armor"

Submissions sought for book Protective Ornament: From Amulet to Armor, written by Suzanne Ramljak, editor of Metalsmith, to be published by Schiffer Books in 2011. Seeking jewelry and metalwork for forthcoming book addressing the theme of bodily protection and the safeguarding function of ornament. Artists are encouraged to submit innovative examples of amulets, helmets, hatpins, brass knuckles, breastplates, aggressive or defensive jewelry, and protective gear. For initial consideration, please send low-resolution image files or Web links, along with descriptive information to editor@snagmetalsmith.org. Those selected for publication will require high-resolution images. Deadline for submission: April 30th, 2010.

Metal Arts Guild Annual Student Grant - "MAGrant"

MAG will award a $500 grant to a full-time, matriculated student showing excellence, potential, and talent in the metal arts. The winner will be given a feature article in an upcoming issue of the Guildletter. DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by APRIL 30, 2010

Call for Related Work - 2010 Exhibition in Print: "Neo-Palatial: Objects of Virtue and Vice," curated by Garth Clark.

Throughout history, metalsmiths have sought commissions from the palace to create objet de virtue, extravagant works that challenge the limitation of technique, scale, and sometimes even good taste. Such objects are designed to take center stage, serving as the focal point of parlors, entrance halls, courtyards, or, later in the 19th-century, as exposition vases at World Fairs. They were a little brash, deliberately exaggerated, and virtuosic or at least rapturous in their use of metals, lest they disappoint their patrons and noble guests. Over time, these patrons have changed from princes and warlords, to collectors and museums. For the 2010 Exhibition in Print, published by Metalsmith magazine, guest curator Garth Clark is seeking examples of giant exposition vases, canonical candlesticks, and jewelry on steroids, in an exploration of the brilliance and decadence of this metalsmithing genre. For consideration, please send Web links or no more than three image files to garthclark@me.com. Deadline for submission, March 15, 2010.

Inside Look: Ericia Bartels

Anyone who has seen them would agree that Ericia Bartels creations are nothing short of exquisite. A metalsmith by trade, Ericia will be showcasing her hat designs at the Detroit Artists Market 2010 Design Show. And though she humbly credits luck combined with the help of her friends with getting her start in the industry, we think her unmistakable talent may have something to do with it. We sat down with Ericia to talk about her creative design process and her upcoming hat showcase as one of the featured designers at the Detroit Artists Market event on January 15.

Call for Entry: International competition 16.

Silver Triennial 2010. Gold and silversmiths, metal artists and designers, as well as students and apprentices from Germany and abroad are invited to participate in the main contest or the youth promotion contest. Accepting new design ideas for hollow and flatware. Jewelry will not be accepted. Works should be executed in silver. Students and apprentices may submit silver plated pieces. Jurors: Dr. Stephan Demmrich, chief editor of the magazine Wohn!Design, Stuttgart; Dr. Rdiger Joppien, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Beate Leonards, silversmith, Lbeck. Prize money in the amount of 11,000.00 . Entries must reach the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (Germany) between June 21 and July 1.

Call for Entry: SIRRIAD New Traditional Jewellery "True Colours"

For the design contest and exhibition 2010, the technical jury of New Traditional Jewellery has chosen the theme True Colours, because literally as well as figuratively this theme offers considerable scope for inspiration.True Colours may be approached from a social perspective, society if full of topical colour coding. Other examples may be found in heraldry, folklore and science. True Colours refers to colours and pigments. Over the centuries the palette of art history has been determined by precious mineralogical and biological pigments that were obtained from ground semiprecious stones, processed metals, and earth, seeds and plants materials that did not always bear the test of time; in the course of time white lead, e.g. turned black. The link between the theme True Colours and contemporary jewellery design is obvious. From time immemorial the significance and appreciation of jewellery have been determined by colour, among other things. From the use of gold or silver to enamels and mineralogical and biological stones: colour is a language. In the seventies and eighties it became manifest how rich this language is. The application of textiles and Perspex in jewellery led to a new form language and use of colour an important stage in the emancipation of contemporary jewellery design. True Colours is about the history, meaning, value, magic and power of the language of colour Colour says something about status and social strata. Colour can scream, curse, emancipate, help, condemn and segregate. Colour is a statement. Due June 1, 2010.

Exhibition: Calder Jewelry

Alexander Calder (18981976) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, designer, and performance artist. Calder designed and produced more than 1800 works of jewelry, including hundreds of gifts for his wife Louisa and friends, such as Peggy Guggenheim and Georgia OKeeffe. Calder Jewelry commences the Centennial Year of the Grand Rapids Art Museum 19102010, recalling Calders historic association with the Museum during the 1969 installation of La Grande Vitesse. A combination of sculpture, craft, and design, the 100 necklaces, rings, bracelets, and brooches created from the 1930s through the 1960s introduce a new dimension of Alexander Calders artistic achievement. These works embody the same humor and invention as his mobiles that came to life as they moved.

2010 Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, going to eXtremes

Just as famous for its honky-tonks as it is for its museums, Houston has a long-held tradition of extremes. Known as Space City and the Bayou City, it is the fourth largest city in the nation and home to NASA. Houston was the first word spoken from the surface of the moon what could be more extreme than that! Today this vibrant metropolis built on a swamp by pioneers, now filled with skyscrapers and world-class art makes an appropriate setting for the 2010 SNAG Conference, going to eXtremes. From urban cowboys and oil tycoons to astronauts and artists, Houstonians are forever extending the boundaries of art, science and culture. Very simply put, extremes can refer to things at opposite ends of a spectrum, or it can refer to things that deviate drastically from convention. Join us March 10 13, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the heart of downtown Houston when we explore forms of extremes within the contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing discipline. Thought-provoking presentations and inspiring exhibitions will provide the context for contemplation of divergent approaches to issues such as concept, scale, materials, process, utility and value, not to mention the extraordinary ideas that result when conventional limits are challenged. From our downtown headquarters, throughout Midtown, to the Museum District and beyond, there will be much to enjoy and explore. In addition to an outstanding slate of speakers, events will include two evening exhibition crawls, Exhibition in Motion and Art Cars on display. All venues are easily accessible via the METRORail.

Workshop: Freeform Bezels with Lesley DiPiazza

Expand your stone setting proficiency by learning to fabricate your own bezel cups. Students will learn to set irregular or free form cabochons as well as customize their bezels with a multitude of variations in the fabrication process.

Friday Nights at GRAM: March Conversation Jewelry Design Jewelry Mixer

Wear your favorite family heirloom jewels or those you created yourself, doesnt matter what, just adorn yourself as you wish and stop into Friday Nights at GRAM to share stories and see and be seen. Piano Music in the lobby from 5:30 7:00pm

Upcoming Events

• Workshop: Freeform Wire Wrap with Sig Lawson
• When: March 17, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Friday Nights at GRAM: March Conversation Jewelry Design, Calder Jewelry Gallery Talk & Bistro
• When: March 19 - November 30, -0001
• Where: Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center Grand Rapids, MI 49503

• Workshop: Silver Granulation with Lesley DiPiazza
• When: March 20, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: How To Make Your Very Own Endcaps! with Lesley DiPiazza
• When: March 24, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Precision Fabrication with Christopher Hentz
• When: March 26-28, 2010
• Where: Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Friday Nights at GRAM: March Conversation Jewelry Design, Panel Discussion: Jewelry
• When: March 26, 2010
• Where: Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center Grand Rapids, MI 49503

• Workshop: Forged Wire Earrings with Sig Lawson
• When: March 31, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Cold Connections with Dan Neville
• When: April 1, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Freeform Bezels with Lesley DiPiazza
• When: April 3, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Silver Reticulation with Lesley DiPiazza
• When: April 7, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Flex Shaft Boot Camp with Mary Kernahan
• When: April 10, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: LASERcutting with Phil Renato
• When: April 11, 2010
• Where: Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Workshop: Forged Wire Pendant with Sig Lawson
• When: April 14, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Keum-Boo with Lesley DiPiazza
• When: April 17, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Basic Soldering with Lesley Di Piazza
• When: April 21, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Intro to Etching with Lesley Di Piazza
• When: April 28, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Workshop: Set Soldered Earrings with Mary Kernahan
• When: May 1, 2010
• Where: Armstrong Tool and Supply, 31541 W. Eight Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

• Exhibition: Ohio Designer Craftsmen Best of 2010
• When: May 2 - June 20, 2010
• Where: Ohio Craft Museum, 1665 West fifth Ave. Columbus, OH

• Exhibition: Karen Gallup Collage and Sculpture
• When: May 5-29, 2010
• Where: Lawrence Street Gallery , 22620 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, Mi 48220

• ABANA 2010 Conference
• When: June 2-5, 2010
• Where: Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Rd. Memphis, TN 38120

• Exhibition: Toledo Emerges
• When: June 14 - July 23, 2010
• Where: Owens Community College, Walter E. Terhune Gallery

• COMA Conference 2010: METAL ART: MINIATURE TO MONUMENTAL
• When: July 16-18, 2010
• Where: Steamplant (Sackett and G Streets) in Salida, CO.

• MSG Booth at the Ann Arbor South University Art Fair
• When: July 21-24, 2010
• Where: Ann Arbor, MI

• Exhibition: Ohio Designer Craftsmen Best of 2010
• When: August 9 - September 25, 2010
• Where: Ohio Craft Museum, 1665 West fifth Ave. Columbus, OH

• Exhibition: Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch
• When: September 12 - October 31, 2010
• Where: Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, OH