Metalcyberspace blog - Contemporary Jewelry Design

500 Plastic Jewelry
Juror: Susan Kasson Sloan
Entry Deadline: July 1, 2008
 
Lark Books seeks images to publish in a juried collection of international
studio jewelry. Each piece must prominently feature plastic. We wish to
showcase a wide range of techniques from low tech, inventive repurposing to
computer assisted rapid prototyping and diverse materials, including
acrylic, latex, epoxy resin, rubber, nylon, thermoplastics, and
photopolymers. All jewelry forms, such as rings, earrings, bracelets,
brooches, necklaces, and pendants, will be considered, and all designs
styles, from camp to couture, are welcome.

Sorry for the long time lapse on updates and responses to everyone. My sister has been in the hospital and I’ve fallen way behind in everything.  Hoping to catch up on things over the next few days.

SES

http://www.sarantos.com
http://www.metalcyberspace.com

Two People, Three Platinum Rings

The theme for 2008 is The Platinum Wedding.

Entries to be submitted online as digital images and can be either of renderings or actual jewelry.
Deadline is April 18, 2008
For more details go to:
http://www.womensjewelry.org/awards/documents/DIVA08app.pdf

Photoshop Express BETA

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

Best part is it’s free and online. This is a BETA version so they are still working on it and will tweak the program with input from users.  I have to say that this will be exactly what probably 95% of computer users will need to edit their photos. What took them so long?

Susan Sarantos
http://www.sarantos.com/
http://www.metalcyberspace.com/

Pending bill “Artist-Museum Partnership Act” introduced on March 14, 2007 to provide a deduction equal to fair market value should be allowed for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor. 

For more information and to add your support please visit:

http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/bills/?bill=9680576

Thanks!
Susan Sarantos
http://www.sarantos.com/
http://www.metalcyberspace.com/

It’s teetering back and forth as the investors panic between buying and selling. In my dreams it would drop to $50 an ounce and stay there. Then I could make as many designs as I wanted.

Please let this be a sign to those hoarders to stop driving the price up!
Give us artists a break.

SES

Susan Sarantos
http://www.sarantos.com
http://www.metalcyberspace.com

METAL Inclinations
International Online Metalsmithing and Jewelry Exhibition

Call for Entries:
Deadline to enter: June 30, 2008

Exhibition debuts online October 31, 2008 and runs one year until October 31, 2009
Jurors for the show are: Michael Monroe, Marilyn da Silva and Susie Ganch
Sponsored by the Society for Midwest Metalsmiths

This is craziness. It’s hard enough to buy supplies for work without the prices shooting to the moon. I’ve been concentrating on the handpainted renderings of all my designs and hoping for metal prices to crash like they did back in the 1980’s. Might just wait till some uber rich person will front the gold to me so I can create my actual designs.

Sorry for the lack of updates and responses my email has backed up into the thousands and I’m wading through it trying to get caught up. Hopefully will finish posting more updates later today.

I’m the only person managing things here. It gets overwhelming at times.

SES
Susan Sarantos
http://www.sarantos.com/
http://www.metalcyberspace.com/

My library is quite extensive. I own almost every jewelry & metalsmithing book ever published along with my own collection of files. Last count that was over 400 binders. YIKES! And I have a long way to go to finish sorting boxes of torn out articles into those too. I save about every invitation, article and image of and about jewelry, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, magazines. It’s an obsession of mine.  I think I was a librarian in a previous life. When I told that to Jan Yager she said “You are one in this life”. Hah so true.

I’m missing Metalsmith Vol 25 #s 1 & 2 if anyone has a copies of them that they don’t need, I will give them a good home.
If you have anything else too contact me and I’ll let you know where to mail it.

Susan Sarantos

Ted Noten wins Françoise van den Bosch Award 2008 on the recommendation of the jury: Karl Fritsch (winner Award 2006), James Beighton (mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Lous Martin (maker, gallery Lous Martin Delft), Chequita Nahar (maker, head jewellery and product department Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht) and Miecke Oosterman (on behalf of the board of the foundation).

The Award will be presented in 2008.

Ted Noten (Tegelen NL, 1956) has been working as a designer of jewellery, objects and installations since 1990. With his jewellery projects, Ted Noten succeeds to reach a broad and international audience, and besides that he has acquired recognition in the world of design and fine arts. Last year, as the result of his own initiative, he realized a solo exhibition in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and a publication CH2=C(CH3)C(=O0OCH3 enclosures and other TN’s (published by 010, Rotterdam).

Since 1980 the Françoise van den Bosch Award is awarded every two years to an (international) jewellery artist whose work is of outstanding quality and appeals to younger generations and the audience. The Award is granted by the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation and involves an amount of money and the acquisition of a piece of jewellery by the award winner.

The private Foundation, initiated by friends and family of jewellery designer Françoise van den Bosch (1944-1977), started in 1980 after her sudden death. It is the aim of the Foundation to stimulate international jewellery.