SNAG 2010 Conference
Going to eXtremes
March 10 - 13, 2010
Houston, TX
Speakers include:Caroline Broadhead, Jewelry and Textile Designer and Course Director for Jewelry, Central St. Martins, London, England; Robert Baines, Artist and Associate Professor and Coordinator of Gold and Silversmithing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia; Kristin Beeler, Artist/Assistant Professor and Head of the Metals Program at Long Beach City College, California; Kathleen Browne, Artist and Professor of Crafts and Head of Jewelry-Metals-Enameling at Kent State University School of Art, Ohio; Gabriel Craig, Artist and Metalsmith, Houston, Texas; David Huycke, Artist Silversmith, Belgium; Lauren Kalman, Artist and Adjunct Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design and Northeastern University; Beverly Penn, Artist andProfessor of Art and Design at Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas; and Cindi Strauss, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Visit the SNAG website for complete conference details. www.snagmetalsmith.org
During the SNAG Conference in Houston the following galleries and museums will have exhibitions:
Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Extreme Beauty,” curated by Wisconsin artist and professor Kim Cridler.
The exhibition examines contemporary makers in metal whose work wrestles with beauty and involves a range of approach. Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 11.
www.mfah.org
Glassell Junior School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“No Boundaries,” the SNAG Annual Juried Student Exhibition
This exhibition will have a strong emphasis on student works that push the limits, play with extreme contrasts and provoke intense reactions. On display at Jurors: Brigitte Martin, Director of Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh and Founder-Editor of online social network Crafthaus; and Lena Vigna, Curator, Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI. Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 11.
www.mfah.org
Houston Community College
"Retro-Futurism: Exploring Objects Interpreting both the Past and Future”
March 8–April 9.2010
This juried exhibition of works will explore historical or traditional styles of metalworking objects and jewelry and reinterpret them into a contemporary context through materials, design, or function.
Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 12.
www.central.hccs.edu
The Jung Center of Houston
“eXtremities: Exploring the Margins of the Human Body” A juried exhibition of works for and about the arms, hands, legs and feet. Juried by Seattle artist Andy Cooperman.
March 1–13,2010
Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 11.
www. junghouston.org/art/
Lawndale Art Center in Houston
“Site: Interventions, Observations and Simulations” an exhibition showcasing the work of Michigan artist and educator, Caroline Gore
Exhibition Crawl on March 12.
www.lawndaleartcenter.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal
March 7–July 18
Houston, TX
Cindi Strauss, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, curates the exhibition, which features decorative arts and sculpture, including selections from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection of contemporary jewelry. Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 11
www.mfah.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“eXtreme exhibition in Motion”
March 11, 7:45pm.
Artists, models, music, extreme work for the body, and high drama will combine. The extravaganza features jewelry paired with bustiers designed for the pieces by Houston Community College fashion students. Curated by Angela Gleason and produced by Barbara Kile
as part of the SNAG 2010 conference.
www.snagmetalsmith.org
Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, Mexico City
April 12th to 16th, 2010
Mexico City
The Otro Diseno Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development, the agency Design Flux and Galeria La Refaccionaria, Mexico, are honored to present you our new joint project: Walking the Gray Area. Click here to open and download a complete description of this fascinating exhibition.
Walking the Gray Area is a collective exhibition curated by Valeria Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, that brings together 20 Latin American and 20 European jewellery makers and artists who ocationally work with jewellery as a medium, into a dialogue about jewellery, global mobility, contemporary identities and its personal and/or collective implications. The curators of Walking the Gray Area, have each selected 20 artists from their respective continents: Latin America and Europe. Each artist has a unique approach to jewellery: different perspectives of art and jewellery, differnt ideas, different interests, different materials and techniques, different countries. But all artists have one thing in common: like the curators themselves, they have experienced the phenomena of global mobility in one or another way: born in one place, lived, studied, worked in another one.
The artists have randomly paired: one Latin American artist has been coupled with one European artist. Each pair will start a dialogue, through a web blog that has been created for this purpose, in the ways they find interesting or relevant: they are able to exchange conversations, stories, pictures, images and even materials. The dialogue can be verbal, visual of both and will lead to the creation of one body ornament by artist.
We invite you to visit the blog, moderated by the Mexican art critic Jose Manuel Springer, which will walk you through the process of creating an exhibition from the scratch and allow you to interact with the artists and moderator.
The exhibition will be presented within the frame of the symposium Gray Area, Ist Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe, to take place from April 12th to 16th, 2010 in Mexico City. The opening date of the exhibition, at the fabulous Galeria La Refaccionaria, in Mexico City's historic Centre will be announced in the following months.
We hope that you will enjoy the experience and that you will walk along with us towards this amazing exhibition. Visit the Walking the Gray Area Blog at:
www.grayareasymposium.org/blog
During the “Gray Area” conference in Mexico City the following galleries and museums will have exhibitions:
Casa Vecina
“Martyrs Everywhere”
Exhibit shows jewelry by Jorge Manilla (Mexico-Beligum) and Matha Hrycman (Poland-Mexico)
April 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
www.grayareasymposium.org
Casa Vecina
“encuentrosdesencuentros”
A jewelry and video installation by Francisca Keitel and Estela Saez Vilanova.
April 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
www.grayareasymposium.org
Dulcería de Celaya
“A nadie le amarga un dulce...”
A jewelry exhibition by Felieke van der Leest and Laura de Alba.
April 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
www.grayareasymposium.org
Ex Teresa Arte Actual
“Ultrabarroco”
Features six visual artists and jewellery makers exploring the complex, dramatic and often extravagant relations between ex-colonies and ex-colonizers. From the legacy of colonization to the current impact of immigration, these artists work in pairs to critically and bravely reflect on the reciprocal cultural influence between countries intricately related for 500 years.
April 12–May 12
Mexico City, Mexico
www.grayareasymposium.org
Galeria La Refaccionaria
“Walking the Gray Area”
Curated by Valeria Siemelink and Andrea Wagner, brings together 20 Latin American and 20 European jewelry makers and artists into a dialogue about jewelry, global mobility, contemporary iden tities and its personal and/or collective implications. The artists are randomly paired and will start a dialogue through a blog at www.grayareasymposium.org The dialogue will lead to the creation of body ornaments.
April 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria Mexicana de Diseno
“Momentopia: Jiro Kamata,”
A project promoted in Mexico in collaboration with Jiro Kamata
April 2010
Mexico City
www.grayareasymposium.org
Gallery 100m3
“first we quake now we shake”
A collective traveling exhibition with the works of Ela Bauer, Karin Seufert, Karl Fritsch, Volker Atrops and Teruo Akatsu
April 2010
Mexico City
www.grayareasymposium.org
SOFA NYC
April 16 - 19, 2010
The Park Avenue Armory
NYC
www.sofaexpo.com
SOFA Santa Fe
July 8 -11, 2010
The Sante Fe Convention Center
www.sofaexpo.com
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
Tweleve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura
January 15 - May 16, 2010
www.sfmcd.org
Chi ha paura...? Translation: Who's afraid of...contemporary jewelry? Twelve years ago, Dutch jewelry and product designer Gijs Bakker began a dialogue with designers about jewelry and its place in the modern world. The thought-provoking exhibition surveying these years features more than 80 pieces designed and created by 51 internationally renowned designers under the auspices of the Netherlands-based Chi ha paura...? Foundation.
Exhibition Opening Reception
Thursday, January 14 - 5pm to 8pm
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
550 Sutter Street
Exhibition Walk-through Tour with SFMC+D curator Mariah Nielson
Friday January 15 - 11am
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
550 Sutter Street
Speaker Series - Contemporary Jewelry Design: Chi ha paura...? with Gijs Bakker
Saturday, January 16 - 4pm to 6pm
Marriott Hotel Union Square
480 Sutter Street
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Tiffany: Color and Light
February 11-May 2,2010
www.mbam.qc.ca
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond
May 28-August 15, 2010
This exhibition had its debut in Paris, France, travels to North America.
The exhibition, celebrating the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, will be on view at the
www.vmfa.museum
AJF is traveling to London for COLLECT in May, visit the TRAVEL of our website for details, click here.
Arizona State Museum
Set In Stone: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest
Through February 2010
Tucson, Arizona
www.statemuseum.arizona.edu
Bellevue Arts Museum
Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett
Now-February 28, 2010
Bellevue, Washington
Bennett explores the use of paint, pencil and enamel to create uncommonly poetic and
highly sensuous works of art.
www.bellevuearts.org
Bellevue Arts Museum
Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard
March 18-August 1, 2010
Bellevue, Washington
The exhibitionexplores the relationship between gold’s history and lore and its function as a commodity in today’s
world. Thought-provoking, powerful and extremely well crafted, Gralnick’s jewelry and sculptural works
question our relationship to the material world.
www.bellevuearts.org
The Design Museum
Finnish Jewelry
through October 1,2010
Finland
www.designmuseum.fi
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Calder Jewelry
Jan. 29 - Apr.18, 2010
Grand Rapids, Michigan
http://www.artmuseumgr.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched
January 16-May 16, 2010
Houston, Texas
Celebrating the rich history of American blacksmithing by bridging historical and
contemporary works and illustrating the wide variety of blacksmith- ing techniques and processes currently practiced in the U.S. One of
the most significant exhibitions of blacksmithed objects in decades.
www.crafthouston.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
TRANSMUTATIONS: Material Reborn,curated by Susan Sloan
January 16-March 21, 2010
Houston, Texas
This exhibition celebrates 28 international jewelry art-
ists who use materials that include resin, latex, rubber, vinyl, and thermoplastics – all
miraculously turned into wearable art, and sometimes in combination with more con-
ventional materials, such as gold, silver, pearls, and gemstones.
www.crafthouston.org
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Glass Jewelry: An International Passion for Design
Apr. 24 -Jul. 17, 2010
Louisville, Kentucky
www.kentuckyarts.org
The Legion of Honor Museum
Cartier and America
until April 18,2010
San Francisco, CA
www.legionofhonor.org
The Metal Museum
Iron: Twenty Ten
May 28–August 29,2010
www.metalmuseum.org
The Metal Museum
Jessica Calderwood
until March 28,2010
www.metalmuseum.org
The Metal Museum
Susan Myers
April 2–May 23,2010
www.metalmuseum.org
Miami University Art Museum, OH
Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century
January 21– July 10, 2010
This exhibition presents work by nineteen contemporary jewelers and draws
attention to how we consume materials and objects
historically, visually, and metaphorically.
www.arts.muohio.edu
Museum of Arts and Design
Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from The Nadler Collection
through August 8,2010
New York, NY
www.madmuseum.org
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Call + Response
June 18 - October 31, 2010
Portland, Oregon
A multi-layered exhibition featuring diverse works by eight art and eight art history faculty members from colleges and universities in Oregon.To provide context to the works, each artist was paired with an art historian with compatible interests; diverse art historical focuses include medieval architecture, Asian art and contemporary theory. In one case, Reed College’s Rob Slifkin, a historian specializing in modernism, was matched with Studio Gorm (John and Wonhee Arndt), University of Oregon’s product design team that creates deceptively simple objects for modern living environments. In collaboration with the Museum’s curator, Namita Gupta Wiggers, all of the pairs were asked to meet individually to discuss the works to be exhibited. Historians were then tasked to create original scholarship about their respective artist.
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org
National Ornamental Metal Museum
Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area
Apr. 1 - May. 23, 2010
Memphis, Tennessee
www.metalmuseum.org
National Ornamental Metal Museum
Different Tempers
Feb. 5 - Mar. 28, 2010
Memphis, Tennessee
Showcasing the work of 14 prominent and mid-career metalsmiths, this exhibition will reveal the engaging range of metal work emerging from both the jeweler's bench and blacksmith's forge.
www.metalmuseum.org
National Ornamental Metal Museum
Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South African Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area
Apr. 1 — May. 23,2010
Memphis, Tennessee
www.metalmuseum.org
Ogden Museum of Southern Art Center for Southern Craft & Design
Brooching the Subject
Mar. 18 - May. 10, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana
www.ogdenmuseum.org
The Salvador Dali Museum
“Dalí: Gems”
Now- April 18, 2010
St. Petersburg, Florida
The jewelry designed by Dalí in the 1940s and 50s is a high-
light of the exhibition. Jean Marie DeSpiegler is organizing a Florida Society
of Goldsmiths tour of the exhibition on January 21at 5:00pm.
Call 727.822.7872 x28.
www.salvadordalimuseum.org
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…
January 15, 2010 - May 16, 2011
San Francisco, California
www.sfmcd.org
Seattle Art Museum
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
October 15 — April 11, 2010
Seattle, Washington
www.seattleartmuseum.org
Shelburne Museum
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design
June 20 — October 25, 2010
Shelburne, Vermont
www.shelburnemuseum.org
Society of Arts and Crafts
Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
Mar. 26 - May. 22,2010
Boston, Massachusetts
www.societyofcrafts.org
Society for Contemporary Craft
Charmed
Jan. 19 - Mar. 1, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Artist-made charms in a variety of materials by 40 nationally known jewelers. Personalized DIY charms can be made for $10 each, bracelets can be assembled.
www.contemporarycraft.org
Tacoma Art Museum
The Secret Language of Animals
Jan. 23 - Jun. 27, 2010
Tacoma, Washington
www.tacomaartmuseum.org