Make-a-Bracelet Workshop – MBMAG and SF MAG at Maker Faire 2013

MBMAG and SF MAG at Maker Faire 2013

MBMAG and Metal Arts Guild San Francisco are teaming up for Maker Faire, May 18 & 19, 2013 at the San Mateo County Events Center!  MBMAG will be doing our Make-a-Bracelet workshop and will need volunteers to help teach the public how to make a simple copper stamped bracelet.

MBMAG will be working with our fellow artists SFMAG at the Maker Faire doing a Make-a-Bracelet Workshop. Here’s the link to their page: MAG and MBMAG at Maker Faire – May 18-19. This will be our first joint project with our sister guild! This will also give us more connections with them so when we do a collaborative exhibition with them we will have people who have met each other and worked side by side.

If you think you would like to volunteer for a 4 hour time slot please contact me, Mary Luke.  I will have more specific information as the time draws nearer to the date. We will be setting up on Friday May 17, 2013.

This is a wonderful opportunity to work with our fellow metalsmiths from the north and east bay, expanding our community. Maker Faire has literally thousands of people come through on those two days.   So please let me know if you would like to participate.

Do come out to Maker Faire, whether you are available to volunteer or not.  As they say, “We are all MAKERS”.  The diversity of both Makers and what they make is astounding, there really is something for everyone.

Made With Love 2013

Postcard image for the Made with Love metal art exhibition at Many Hands Gallery in Capitola California

MBMAG presents Made With Love

The third annual exhibition of art in celebration of Valentine’s Day at

Many Hands Gallery in Capitola.

A fabulous collection of jewelry and small sculpture from the artist of the Monterey Bay Area.

Exhibition dates:   February 1 – 28, 2013
Artists Reception February 17, 2013 from 2 to 4 PM

Many Hands Gallery
510 Bay Avenue
Capitola CA 95010

831.475.2500

Hours: 10 AM to 6 PM daily

Many Hands Gallery, Capitola
Many Hands Gallery, Capitola

Winter Party & Artist Talk by Lynda Watson – Feb 10, 2013

Lynda Watson

The MBMAG Winter Party, featuring a special presentation by Lynda Watson on her trip to China is on Sunday, February 10, 2013 in the meeting room of The Haute Enchilada restaurant in Moss Landing.
The Haute Enchilada
7902 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
831-633-5843

THE DAY’S SCHEDULE OF EVENTS INCLUDES:
A POTLUCK

A MEMBERSHIP MEETING
LYNDA WATSON’S PRESENTATION

A POTLUCK
Bring a tasty dish to share.  Also, everyone is encouraged to bring one of your latest metal creations to share

A MEMBERSHIP MEETING

AGENDA (proposed)

  • Welcome & introductions (Board & Kim Solana)
  • Treasurer’s report
  • Approve Minutes
  • Guest Artist
  • Exhibitions
  • Website
  • Committees review (volunteers)
  • Newsletter
  • Membership
  • Future ideas for MBMAG
  • Adjourn

3:30 LYNDA WATSON’S PRESENTATION on her TRIP to CHINA

Featured Artist Lynda Watson will give a talk and slide presentation on her recent trip to China.   It was an amazing experience and you will enjoy seeing metal art.

“After a trip to Southeastern China in 2008, Mary Hu was invited by the Chinese government to bring 10 professional metalsmiths/jewelers to China for the purpose of observing, advising, and showing work to students and faculty at Chinese University metals programs. 

We were also there to study Maio jewelry and costume in its original, indigenous form and as it was being produced for export as tourist goods. I will show images of the artisans making both fine silver and nickel silver traditional jewelry as well as photos of museum pieces and where the Miao live and work.”  -Lynda

DON’T MISS A SINGLE MOMENT!

Thank you to Kim Solana for graciously making the room available for MBMAG on this auspicious day – Chinese New Year.

Alison Antelman Workshop – March 16-17, 2013

Alison Antelman, bracelet

Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild in partnership with
Seahawks Metal Arts Club is pleased to announce
our Spring 2013 workshop


Alison Antelman: Custom Clasps

March 16 and 17, 2013 – 10 AM to 4 PM  –  Saturday and Sunday  – $275
Cabrillo College Small Metals Studio – 6500 Drive, Aptos, CA 95003

 

Alison Antelman, bracelet
Alison Antelman, bracelet

Alison Antelman is a master jeweler located at the Historic Sawtooth Building in Berkeley. She fabricates her gorgeous jewelry locally and exhibits and teaches nationally. Her clever and beautiful designs incorporate the mechanical and functional into stunning focal point handmade clasps, customizing each piece.

Hollow forms allow her jewelry to be light and comfortable to wear, while being substantial. Please join us as she unlocks the secrets of her keyhole and box form clasps.

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Call for Artists – Made with Love 2013

Shell pendant made by Jerry Blanchard

                                                           The Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild

Shell pendant made by Jerry Blanchard

announces a call for artists to exhibit in

Made with Love

Metal Arts of the Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild is pleased to present its third annual “Made with Love” exhibition at the Many Hands Gallery in Capitola February 1 – February 28, 2013

You are invited to participate in this very successful event. We will accept up to two pieces from each artist. The theme and the title of the show are “Made with Love”. Continue reading “Call for Artists – Made with Love 2013”

Moments in Metal – Gallery

Betty Helen Longhi Workshop – September 14-16, 2012

Betty Helen Longhi, Floating Free
‘Floating Free’ by Betty Helen Longhi

Don’t Miss this Rare Monterey Bay Visit

Forming Techniques for Jewelry
September 14, 15 and 16, 2012
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
Cost $375, materials included
Limited to 12 students

Join us in a once in a lifetime workshop opportunity while Betty Helen is here on a very rare West Coast visit to the Monterey Bay area. Learn from the master herself in a small intimate atmosphere.

Betty Helen will be able to give each student individual attention and guidance as she teaches how to use the shell forming techniques of synclasting and anticlasting as well as ways to make transitions from one form to the other. You will gain new insight into ways to manipulate sheet metal into a unique group of jewelry items.

Betty Helen Longhi is a nationally recognized metalsmith who creates finely crafted jewelry and sculpture. She attended the University of Wisconsin and Cranbrook Academy of Art and has studied with Heikki Seppa and Michael Good. Ms. Longhi has given numerous workshops both in the United States and Canada including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Parsons School of Design, Arrowmont, Peters Valley Craft Center and Penland School. A master craftsperson, Ms. Longhi incorporates various texturing techniques with forging, shell forming and die forming in her pieces. Her work is recognized for it’s sculptural quality and flowing lines.

For more information about this talented artist please visit: http://fluidformsinmetal.com/artist.html

To reserve a space, send checks made out to: MBMAG, Attn: Mary Luke

Experience Metal – August 18-19, 2012

SC Museum of Art and History

EXPERIENCE METAL
at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, August 18th and 19th, 2012

The Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild (MBMAG), in collaboration with the Cabrillo College Seahawk Metal Arts Club (SMAC) is participating in a two-day celebration of all things metal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History on Saturday, August 18th and Sunday, August 19th from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.

For two days the patios and the classroom of the museum will be a flurry of activity as we present three workshops: Make-A-Bracelet, Crazy Metal Quilt and tufa casting, and two demonstrations: fold forming by Dawn Nakanishi and metal forging by Paul Chaney. Continue reading “Experience Metal – August 18-19, 2012”

Natural Progressions: Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild at Lireille – Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art

Curve pin by Carol Webb

Metal Arts Guild Member Christmas show

Amplification Horn by Lydia Tjioe Hall
Wenge Pendant by Nancy Finley

Artist Reception
When:    Friday, December 2, 2011  5:30 – 8:30 pm 
Exhibit:  November 15, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Where:   Lireille – Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art3980 Piedmont
Ave. Oakland, CA 94611
510-547-3455      
www.lireille.com       

About the Exhibit:

Natural Progressions is a fabulous show of jewelry and small sculpture from the artists of Monterey Bay Area during holiday season of 2011.

Participating Artists:

Anna Belom, Barbara Banducci, Bob Bishop, Joyce Chadderdon, Helene Daniels, Elsa Etcheverry, Toni Danzig, Nancy Finley, Fran Grinels, Beth Gripenstraw, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Ina Hohensee, Carol Holaday, Lynn Kask, N. Kay Morrison, Dawn Nakanishi, Annette Nemes, Bernadette Ngai, Melissa Offutt, Jeanie Pratt, Larry John Probst, Ron Rice, Daria Salus, Penny Waller, Lynda Watson, Carol Webb, Tod Williams. Nancy Yee

Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild Mission Statement:
MBMAG is dedicated to encouraging an environment of community interaction,networking and education as well as one of support and general camaraderie for Monterey Bay artists working in metal. 

About Lireille – Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art Mission:
Lireille – Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art is dedicated to promote art jewelry awareness and availability to the general public and push the creativity boundaries in art jewelry.

About the gallery:
Lireille – Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art is a museum style gallery that carries contemporary art  jewelry and fine arts from over 40 emerging and nationally acclaimed artists.  The gallery also custom design unique and artful non-traditional engagement rings and wedding bands.