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SNAG Welcomes Four New Board Members
Posted May 2008
SNAG welcomes Harlan Butt, Nanz Aalund, Anne Mondro,
and Marlene Richey to its Board of Directors.
Read press
release.
SNAG Awards 2008 Educational Endowment Scholarships
Posted May 2008
SNAG is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008
Educational Endowment Scholarship, chosen by jurors Curtis
Arima, Susan Hamlet and Anika Smulovitz. This year, from a pool
of 29 applications from high school, undergraduate and graduate
students, the committee selected three winners and one
honorable mention.
This year’s scholarship recipients are:
• Eun Yeong Jeong, Graduate student at University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Soyeon Kim, Graduate student at University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
• Robert Longyear, Graduate student at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville
This year's honorable mention was awarded to Gemma Draper,
Graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
For more about the Educational Endowment Scholarships click here.
Exhibition in Print 2008, curators Kate Bonansinga and
Rachelle Thiewes
Posted April 2008
This curated Metalsmith Exhibition in Print on
“Equilibrium” will present art that engages the
body as site and alters sensorial experience by impacting one
or more of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and
smell) and, by extension, the perceptions and actions of the
viewer, the wearer, or both. Works selected by the
curators will appear in Metalsmith’s 2008 Exhibition in
Print (published in August). In addition, chosen objects
will be shown in an exhibition at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin
Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El
Paso in Spring 2009.
SNAG Flickr Group
Posted April 2008
SNAG has a Flickr Group for SNAG Members. Go to www.flickr.com/groups/snag
Metalsmith magazine to be redesigned
Posted April 2008
New design to be unveiled in January 2009. SNAG
has retained Luke Hayman of Pentagram to be the new
designer of Metalsmith.
SNAG News goes all-electronic
Posted April 2008
SNAG News is now better than ever, no longer
restricted by paper, printing and postage costs.
Available to SNAG members online here.
SNAG Discussion Forum
Posted January 2008
SNAG's Discussion Forum for members is up and running.
Featuring four topics areas: Studio Jewelers, Students,
Educators, Buy/Sell/Trade. Members can access the forum
here.
Gold Ink Award
for Metalsmith
Posted August 2007
SNAG's Metalsmith magazine and St. Croix
Press have won another Gold Ink Award. Metalsmith Volume 26 No 5 (from
October 2006) received a bronze award for trade magazines, web
press.
SNAG/Metalsmith at Recent Shows
Palmbeach3, January
2008
SNAG Now Has a Wikipedia Entry
Posted
June 2007
Found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_North_American_Goldsmiths
Visit and add to it.
Responsible Mining
Posted January 2007
SNAG's
Resolution in Support of Responsible
Mining
