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/
DAVIDE BIGAZZI Chasing & Repousse’ Workshops
@Davide Bigazzi Studio & Gallery in the South Bay Area (CA)
April 19th and 20th - Saturday & Sunday - 9am to 12pm & 1pm to 5pm
Two Day Workshop: $435
14 hours of individualized instruction and limited enrollment, so sign up soon!
Materials Included: Tools are supplied.
Workshop Description: This workshop is a hands-on introduction to the ancient techniques of chasing & repousse’. Its focus is on understanding the plasticity of metal and how molding metal can further enhance your work. Technique, the process of making tools, and an Italian cultural/historical perspective is provided through demonstrations and discussion. Hands-on learning and practice is the focal point of this workshop.
Both beginners and experienced students are welcome.
Davide Bigazzi is a metalsmith and designer from Florence, Italy currently living and working in the U.S. He has worked as an instructor, designer, model maker and production supervisor for prestigious fine silver companies in Italy. His work is featured in galleries worldwide. Capturing the intrinsic beauty and sculptural qualities of metal has been a life long passion. In his early years, Davide apprenticed with master Italian goldsmith Bino Bini. Bino, one of the most notable Italian metal artists of our day, left a legacy of the Italian chasing and repousse’ tradition, which Davide is committed to preserving via the hands-on workshops he teaches throughout the U.S. and in Italy.
Enamel Experience - International Badges Exhibition
Velvet da Vinci Gallery
through March 30, 2008
Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco presents “Enamel Experience - International Badges
Exhibition,” a show featuring 24 established artists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the
United States. This exhibition is made up of contemporary badges inspired by the collection of
historic enamel badges at Hamburg’s Museum der Arbeit.
“Enamel Experience - International Badges Exhibition” originated at the Museum der Arbeit in
Hamburg, Germany. The museum is located in The Company Carl Wild Badge Factory, which was
in production from 1901 to 1989 and was forced to close due to cheaper competition overseas.
The historical badge collection includes badges made for the military, various societies,
commercial organizations and charities. The contemporary artists have re-interpreted these
badges to create a series of new ones.
Badges have a rich history through their messages and techniques. Elizabeth Turrell, the
organizer of the exhibition, says, “The making of badges, medals and regalia gives artists a
means of portable communication, including subversive messages, pleas for peace, and satirical
images. The badge can be produced as a one off, a limited-edition or commercially produced by
the hundreds or thousands.”
Three prestigious international artists in the exhibition have taken very different approaches to
re-creating the badge. Prominent British artist Wendy Ramshaw makes both public art and
jewelry. Her work is found in museums and private collections throughout the world, such as the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., the Cooper Hewitt Museum and the Art and Design
Museum in New York and the Victorian and Albert Museum in London. Her badge was inspired
by the intrepid polar explorer Ann Daniels who told the BBC how she saw a “rainbow around the
sun”. The image caught Wendy’s attention and she created this sight in the form of a badge.
Tamar de Vries Winter, originally from Israel, lives in the UK where she creates jewelry and
hollowware. She is highly influenced by ancient cultures. Her work can be found in many
prestigious collections such as the Jewish Museum in New York and the Victoria and Albert in
London. She wants to communicate the message of peace through her badge. She says, “The
vision expressed by this badge follows that of the prophet Isaiah - ‘We shall transform their iron
crosses into olive branches’. I wish to dedicate the badge to the memory of my grandfather Josef
Lachmann who for all his life as a father, physician, soldier and citizen fought for his ideals.”
The photo on the badge is from a collection of photographs taken in Germany and Palestine in
the first part of the twentieth century that she inherited. It is a reminder to her of the world they
have lost.
Mark Hartung is a U.S. artist. He originally studied glass at Kent State in Ohio. He has been
working in enamel since 1989 and is a recipient of many Ohio Art Council Grants. Mark was
inspired by badges with numbers he found in the collection of the Museum der Arbeit. He took
this element and used it as a decorative motif to create his striking images.
Velvet da Vinci is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm - 6 pm, Sunday from 12 pm - 4 pm. The Gallery is closed on Monday.
The Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre (JIIC), part of The Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery, assists the jewellery and silversmithing industries with new technology applications.
The School of Jewellery and Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre has announced it’s new Short Course program for 2008.
Courses are open to everyone on a first-come first served basis. Reservations for the 5 week program beginning on June 23rd will be accepted now.
New courses for 2008 include:
Decorative Techniques for Jewellers : Jinks McGrath
Exploring Concepts for Contemporary Earrings : Yvonne Kulagowski
Gemstone or Glass – What are you buying : Kate Hopley
Hand Engraving : Mark Phelps
How to Use Coloured Resins in your Jewellery : Clare John
Jewellery – Clasps, Catches and Clips : Richard Witek
Marketing & Promoting your Jewellery Business : Yvonne Kulagowski
Models from Milliput – An Alternative to Wax : Mark Brayley
Narrative Jewellery – An Introduction : Xavier Ines Monclús
JIIC will be holding open days 3:30-6pm on April 8 & 9, 2008
New Works: Jewellery by Alexandra Stülb & paintings by Andrea Gabbriellini
at ORFEO Galerie d’Art - Luxembourg
Exhibition runs until April 31, 2008
Åsa Lockner - Views of Order
at PLATINA, Odengatan 68, Stockholm
Exhibition runs until April 30, 2008
In 7 chapters Åsa Lockner depicts the concepts of order. The idea and inspiration for the exhibition comes partly from journeys in countries with limited freedom of speech and repression. Order is also Åsa Lockners own tool for balancing her everyday life.
The exhibition “Views of Order” at Gallery Platina in Stockholm is a research on different aspects of order political, social and cultural. But the artist and designer Åsa Lockner also relates to her private life:
- When I face symptoms of stress my desire for order increases. I try to compenesate my loss of control with actions as organizing work papers in files.
Recently Åsa Lockner visited Laos and White Russia, two countries where the inhabitants are under strong repression from the authoritiy. She reacted with surprise on the few visible signs from the governmental control in the streets:
- The lack of individual expression and subcultures was the things that struck me hardest. Downtown Minsk was unnaturally tidy and clean, simply too clean. The whole society was cleansed from diverting expression.
“Views of Order” is organized in seven chapters of jewellery and sculptures in different environments, all describing the artist ideas. The first chapter, “Table Manners”, handles governmental repression towards dissidents. The third chapter is the sculpture, “Being Nice”, where a woman fights against visible and invisible chains.
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
Wishes everyone a very Happy New Year in 2008!
I’ve spent the last year sorting and organizing my studio and am now looking forward to creating new designs and jewelry renderings that have been accumulating in my sketchbooks. I still have a long way to go but at least my walls of archived files and books are starting to make more sense. ONLY one hundred and thirty five boxes (YIKES!) of saved information yet to file away now and currently 400 binders to sort them into. Soon to be 500 since most of those are already bursting at the seams. I’m amazed that I’ve actually read all this compiled data that I’ve been sorting through. The books, catalogs and magazines I am not even going to attempt to count. I have almost complete sets of Ornament & Metalsmith (starting with Goldsmiths Journal) Magazines. Some day I hope to scan the covers and type the contents of those to index them.
What you may ask is all the stuff that I’m saving? Well mostly anything and everything to do with jewelry, art and design. Metalcyberspace is only the tip of the iceberg. For each and every designer I save information as I come across it into their own file. Some designers have entire binders of their own to store all the articles. For instance there are five binders each on Cartier and Artwear Gallery (Robert Lee Morris & artists featured). Then I have theme based files so if I ever need to research anything it’s all at my fingertips. Color, texture, shapes and patterns. Animal, garden, gems and styles. People, places, history and ideas. ETCETERA….
I wish there was some sort of computer chip that could download my brain then I would have more space and time.
Through Feb. 17, 2008 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Jewelry with the original renderings will be displayed.
Born in 1898, Duke Fulco di Verdura is probably best known for his Maltese Cross bracelets that he designed for Coco Chanel. He worked with Chanel in Paris in the 20’s & 30’s then moved to America in 1934 and worked with Paul Flato for a while before opening his own company in 1939.
Nature was inspiration for many of his designs. He loved color and mixed materials regardless of the value encrusting with gems sea shells, pearls, animals, fruit and leaves. His jewelry adorned many stars and they wore it in the movies they filmed. Keep a close eye on Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Rita Hayworth and you will see it. Cole Porter commissioned him to create cigarette boxes to commemorate each show.
Verdura died in London in 1978.
In 1985, Ward Landrigan purchased the firm and has been reviving his unique designs.
I’ve always been drawn to Verdura’s renderings because I enjoy rendering in watercolor and gouache so much myself and love his sense of whimsy and style. I visited the 5th Avenue salon in New York while studying at FIT (1988-89) to get a first hand look at his designs.
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