Eight good reasons to attend:

• Witness the field at its source, a rare once-a-year opportunity.
• Educate your eye by viewing a multitude of metal exhibits.
• Expand your mind by attending lectures and panels.
• Hear what inspires the makers and content providers of your passion.
• Share your passion with other collectors and curators.
• Put a “face” on the work you collect.
• Make informed purchases.
• Revel in creative energy.

– Jan Yager, artist

Another Point of View:

SNAG Conferences provide a formal setting– the lectures are invaluable to ALL non makers as well as the field–to deepen our understanding as a more-educated audience, no matter what our level of experience. We can learn about things we never considered, correct misinformation we may have and get fired up even hotter in our enthusiasms about human imagination, artistry, craftsmanship and individuality!

Most of the lectures are non-technical– they are aesthetic, contextual and historic. They add to our personal grasp of the bigger ‘picture.’ SNAG is a unique opportunity to begin and continue (casual) personal dialogues with artists/makers/jewelers of all levels of experience. Artists need these contacts with the outside world; we EACH benefit in matters of enhanced sensitivity with each of these possible conversations.

Collectors who come to SNAG should consider “unsewing themselves from each other and reaching out to the artists.” There really IS more to supporting contemporary jewelry and metals than purchasing it. Collectors grow and blossom into an even more inspired, sensitized audience.

– Gail Brown, collector, independent curator