Guild Artist in Invitational Exhibit at Cabrillo College-Now through Dec 9, 2022, visit the Cabrillo College Art Gallery to see guild member Ron Baldwin's latest creation. He's one of the artists selected for exhibition in the annual 12x12 (x12): An Open Invitational Exhibit.
Lynda Watson: National Metal Museum 2022 Master Metalsmith-Join us Sunday Nov 13, 3 - 5 pm for an artist talk and book signing by local honoree Lynda Watson, the 2022 Master Metalsmith as named by the National Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, USA
Ornament Magazine Features Jeanie Pratt-Jeanie said “I am thrilled with the article about my life and my work, along with the cover and an Artist Showcase!“ We in the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild are thrilled for member Jeanie Pratt! The cover article features her work, tells about her life and is a great read. The guild and Jeanie …
Summer Party Sunday August 21, 2022-Join us at the summer party! Bring your own lunch and picnic chair to Sierra Azul Nursery-Garden during their annual "Sculpture Is" outdoor sculpture show. Sunday August 21, 1 - 4pm. Join us at noon to participate in, or just watch, the guild's board meeting.
Art Salon with Lynda Watson May 13, 2021-Pajaro Valley Arts is holding an art salon live via zoom Visit the PVArts.org event page to learn more about it and obtain the codes to Participate HTTP://pvarts.org/EVENT/art-salonmay-13/ Long time Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild member Lynda Watson is one of the 3 artists who will be participating in the live via Zoom Art Salon.
Collecting Jewelry with Jeanie Pratt-Join jeweler and collector Jeanie Pratt as she shows pieces from her extensive collection and the stories behind the individual pieces. Silvera Jewelry School is hosting a free talk with MBMAG member Jeanie Pratt as part of their Online Event Tuesday series March 30, 2021 at 2 PM PDT – 3 PM PDTPrice: Free to …
MPC Mothers Day Sale 2010-Handmade Artisan Jewelry! Several MBMAG Members are Participating Annual Mother’s Day Jewelry Saleat Monterey Peninsula College Tuesday, Wednesday & ThursdayMay 4th, 5th and 6th 20109 AM to 7 PM Cash or Check only! in the Almaden Room of the Student Center Monterey Peninsula College980 Fremont Street, Monterey, CA 93940 Student Center is located off Fishnet …
Please join us for our Summer BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch) Party!
See below for more information
Pajaro Valley Art Center’s yearly show, Sculpture Is, will be in full swing, as well as the beautiful demonstration gardens over Sierra Azul’s acreage. Always very impressive!
With the pandemic, we are suggesting wearing a mask if you’d like to keep yourself or others safe.
Bring your own lunch, plates, utensils and picnic chair
We’ll be having the monthly board meeting immediately before the party (12 – 1 pm) and we welcome all to attend and participate
We will be sharing what we all have been doing the last year and a half, there’s a Summer Swap, and there’s a Summer-to-Winter Re-Create. We look forward to seeing each other (in person!), catching up and announcing new events, having lunch, ….
Do you have a piece of jewelry or sculpture on hand that you’d like to swap out for a piece by another guild member? Then check out our SUMMER SWAP
Is there a sad half-finished piece that has been staring at you from your bench waiting and longing to be finished? You pick it up, turn it over and put it down again. You know it has life and wants to be whole. The SUMMER TO WINTER RE-CREATE is for you.
SUMMER SWAP
Bring a piece of jewelry or sculpture to the Summer Party that you are willing to swap out. If you bring one, you will go home with one. We will number the items and have people pick a number ‘out of a hat.’ You will go home with the metal art piece that corresponds to the number picked!
SUMMER TO WINTER RE-CREATE
Bring an unfinished piece to the MBMAG Summer party. If you bring an unfinished metal art piece you take home a different piece to finish.How it works: Each piece will be given a number. A fellow metal artist member will pull a number ‘out of the hat’ then take the corresponding piece home and finish it. The finished pieces will be brought to the Winter Party and returned to the original artists. At the Winter Party the pieces will be displayed for all to see, and the original owners can don their new piece of jewelry!
Let the creative juices flow. Your Challenge Team, Annette Nemes and Toni Danzig
Date: Sunday August 21, 2022 from 1 to 4 pm Location: 2660 E. Lake Ave (Hwy 152 across from the Fairgrounds), Watsonville, CA 95076
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021 Time: 2:00 pm PST Free to members Check your email for the Zoom link
ABOUT GEORGE POST:
George Post is a freelance photographer, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a client base of individual artists and craftspeople who work in a variety of 2D and 3D media. Many of them sell their creations on the craft-fair circuit, using George’s photographs of their work to jury into the more prestigious shows throughout America. George does some purely commercial photography as well.
A Life Member of ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers, George also enjoys photography for his own artistic expression. He has a special fondness for colorful, unusual subject matter, and his archives include an eclectic mix of landscapes, cityscapes, astronomical, meteorological, geological, and biological images.
TENTATIVE WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Types of subject & Orientation
Hanging – Pendants, Necklaces, Earrings (Post vs. Wire, Fishing Line Frame)
Tabletop – 3d Objects, Jewelry with camera on tripod
MEMBERS: Join us for a free live online workshop (via Zoom)
We could all use a little inspiration, especially after the year we have all had.
In this lead up to the Pajaro Valley Art Council exhibit “Reflections” we have assembled a wonderful panel of artists to talk about what inspires them and the stories behind their work.
Please join us for a lively Zoom discussion of back-stories, miscues, ideas, process and stimulus.
Helping us on our journey of reflection will be Lynda Watson, Angela Gleason, Helene Daniels, Susan Shallenberger, Ron Baldwin, among others.
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2021 Time: 2:00 pm PST Free to members Check your email for the Zoom link
Pajaro Valley Arts new Take Aways exhibition opens this week, and it will be amazing!
Visit the exhibition page to learn more about it and book your appointment via pvarts.org/appointment
The Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild is happy to see that five of our Guild members are in this show! They are: Lynn Guenther, Angela Gleason, Lynne Todaro, Lynda Watson and Mary Weeks! Congratulations!
You can make an appointment and up to 10 people can be scheduled to view the show at a time. All pieces of art are priced under $300, and you are able to take your purchase with you.
New work is constantly being added.
The show runs from April 9th through May 23rd, 2021 so sign up to go check it out!
Support your local artists!
Artwork by member Lynne Todaro at “Take Aways 2021” show in PVArts Gallery
Join Our Current and Historical Record of Member Artists
Section of the original Links Project
In ~ 2003, MBMAG asked each of the members to create and donate a small piece of artwork that would reflect their skills and aesthetic. The piece would have a means to connect it on both ends and once linked together would become one chain of unique works.
In 2015, the guild began a new “Links Project” which demonstrated each of our member’s style and personality.
The new chain of links is exhibited, along with the original chain, at our exhibits and events where appropriate.
Contribute a Link
We invite all members to make a link that meets the following parameters – The individual piece should range be a minimum size of 1 x 1 x 1″ HLD* – The individual piece must not exceed to 1.5 x 2 x 1″ HLD* – The piece must be link-able on both ends – The piece must reflect your unique style
*HLD = Height x Length x Depth where Length is the measurement between the link-able end rings
Send an email if you have more questions, or are ready to donate your link.
Enter Now “Reflections” . . . an unhurried consideration of something recalled to the mind.
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The Call for Artists is now closed for our next all member exhibition which opens on August 25, 2021 at the Pajaro Valley Arts center gallery in Watsonville California. Please sign up now via this link to secure a place in the exhibit.
The title and theme of the upcoming exhibition is “Reflections” and we are encouraging artists to create up to 3 new narrative or story-telling works based on the theme of “Reflections”. Your submitted art must showcase metalwork in techniques of your choosing.
As part of the exhibition, the Pajaro Valley Arts center gallery will also sell member’s art in their gift shop area. In our previous gallery exhibit and sale, many members had successful gallery gift shop sales.
IMPORTANT DATES
February 28, 2021
Registration opens
June 18, 2021
Registration closes
July 2, 2021
Photos of your artwork and “Labels and Records” forms for your artwork are due if you would like your photos considered for inclusion on the exhibition postcard
July 12, 2021
“Labels and Records” forms are due (if not already submitted)
August 7, 2021
Deliver your artwork in at the Farm Bakery Cafe, Aptos, California
August 8, 2021
Deliver your artwork at Paris Bakery, Monterey, California
August 25, 2021
Exhibition opens
October 3, 2021
Exhibition closes. Artwork pickup date at PVArts Gallery from 5 – 7 pm
“Reflections” Exhibition and Sale at Pajaro Valley Arts in Watsoniville California
Allmembers are encouraged to participate. If this is your first time exhibiting and you have questions, send us an email and we will answer your questions. If you need to coordinate delivery and pickup of your artwork from outside Santa Cruz and Monterey, contact us to discuss. Note that MBMAG does not pay for shipping of artwork to or from the artist.
Artwork for Sale PVA staff will assist customers to the gallery using the information we supply during the artwork submission process. The gallery requires the following ratio of pieces that are For Sale and Not For Sale (NFS): If you enter 1 piece, it must be for sale. If you enter 2 pieces, at least one of those pieces must be for sale. If you enter 3 pieces, at least 2 pieces must be for sale and the third can be NFS.
Membership in PVA is optional, but encouraged. See:pvarts.org to join For items that sell in the “gift shop” area of the gallery, PVA will take 30% if you are a member of PVA or 45% if you are a PVA non-member. Work should be priced accordingly.
Exhibition Plus Sale: The gift area was very successful the last time MBMAG had an exhibition and sale at Pajaro Valley Arts. Show participants may put up to 5 pieces total in the gallery gift shop area. Work must be priced at $200.00 or less. As items are sold you may replace them.
Volunteers Needed and Very Much Appreciated
Please let Toni Danzig, tonidan@comcast.net, know if you are interested in helping. Your participation is appreciated. Below are the current project team leaders for the exhibition:
Entry Form, Photo and IT Support – Pat Evans & Toni Danzig Education Displays – Pat Evans Exhibit Installation – Toni Danzig Recruitment of Sponsors – Project leader needed Gift Shop Area Organization – Marylou Forrest & Jim Turner Marketing & Music – Margie Moran and Ron Baldwin Moving of Cases and Vitrines – Courtney Scruggs
A Letter from the Exhibition Organizers
The title and theme of our all member exibit is “Reflections” to be interpreted as you wish.
Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild (MBMAG) has been invited to exhibit at the Pajaro Valley Arts (PVArts) in Watsonville, CA.
Although it is not required, we encourage you to submit narrative or story-telling work.
Reflections 1. (of a surface or body) throw back (heat, light, or sound) without absorbing it. 2. Think deeply or carefully about.
Common synonyms of reflect are: cogitate, deliberate, reason, speculate, and think. While all these words mean “to use one’s powers of conception, judgment, or inference,” reflect suggests unhurried consideration of something recalled to the mind.
Some ideas for your conception could be a collection that you have gathered such as feathers, shells, photos, et cetera. It could also be a scene or a place you have visited.
This has been a time of reflection for us all and we would like you to tell the viewer your story. An educational component is required by PVArts and to meet this requirement a short story of your concept will accompany the work.
We will accept up to three metal art pieces. Sculpture is encouraged. Sculpture submissions will require dimensions be provided upon submission so we can accommodate your artwork with pedestals or cases.
Your artwork which is on exhibit must stay until the end of the exhibit, even if it sells during the exhibition. Pajaro Valley Arts will coordinate with the purchaser to receive any sold artwork that is in the exhibition.
As well as exhibiting three pieces you will be able to submit up to 5 metal art pieces for the Pajaro Valley Arts gallery gift shop. These pieces can be replaced if they sell.
This promises to be an exciting exhibit and at long last, an opportunity to show your work. Our last all member exhibition and sale at PVArts in 2017 was successful and well received.
Toni Danzig and Annette Nemes Exhibit Co-Chairs
I’ve signed up, what’s next?
When you know what pieces of art you are entering into the exhibition, fill out both online forms to submit your pieces. Yes, online forms are new this year! The online forms save you work of having to fill out, print, scan, and email because the forms automatically email the exhibition team your submissions. Note that both forms are required.
Links to the form pages are below. The two pages include instructions, examples of the Labels and Records Form as a downloadable / viewable PDF, and a PDF version of the PVA Loan Agreement for you to view before you fill out that form online.
The forms are due by 7/2/21 if you wish your images to be considered for inclusion on the postcard. The final due date for all forms from all participating artists is 7/12/21
Click to access the tutorial videos for the Reflections exhibit forms
Artist Bio and Artist Statement
Create an artist biography and an artist statement and print them (2 pages maximum). Deliver the printed page(s) with your artwork when you deliver it to the exhibit team.
Click the video clip below to see the winners of the guild’s 2021 “Looking Into the Future” Winter Design Challenge
We asked our members to take the challenge of showing us in a new metal art piece how they view the future after the strange and stressful year of 2020. Thank you to four very creative people who submitted their art. We announced the winners during the live online Winter Party on Sunday, January 24, 2021.
“Reflections” Exhibition & Sale at Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery
Our next all member exhibition will begin this summer at the Pajaro Valley Arts center gallery in Watsonville California.
All artists are welcome, if you aren’t yet a member of the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild, you are welcome to join from wherever you are in the world.
The theme of the upcoming exhibition is “Reflections” and we are encouraging artists to create 3 new narrative works based on the theme of “Reflections”. More details about the theme, dates for show registration, and more are to come in March 2021.
As part of the exhibition, the Pajaro Valley Arts center gallery will also sell member’s art in their gift shop area. In our previous gallery exhibit and sale, many members had successful gift shop sales.
All members are encouraged to participate. Continue reading for more details.
The Guild had a successful exhibit at the PVA in 2017, and PVA has invited us back. We will accept up to three pieces per artist, and sculpture is encouraged. The theme of the exhibit, “Reflections”, can be used as a stepping off place for your work and can be interpreted as you see fit.
Exhibit entry fee to MBMAG is $35. You must be a current member of MBMAG to enter, but you may join at any time from anywhere.
Membership in PVA is optional, but encouraged. See:pvarts.org/ For items that sell in the “gift shop” area of the gallery, PVA will take 30% if you are a member of PVA or 45% if you are a PVA non-member.
Plus: The gift area was very successful last time. Show participants may put up to 5 pieces. Work should have a value of $100.00 or less. As items are sold you may replace them.
We are looking for volunteers to work on this exhibit. Please let Toni Danzig, tonidan@comcast.net, know if you are interested in helping. Your participation is appreciated. These are the current project team leaders for the exhibition:
Entry form, photo and IT Support – Pat Evans & Toni Danzig Education Displays – Pat Evans Exhibit Installation – Toni Danzig Recruitment of sponsors – project leader needed. Gift area organization – Marylou Forrest & Jim Turner Marketing & Music – Margie Moran and Ron Baldwin Moving of cases and vitrines – Courtney Scruggs
Guild Artist in Invitational Exhibit at Cabrillo College - Now through Dec 9, 2022, visit the Cabrillo College Art Gallery to see guild member Ron Baldwin's latest creation. He's one of the artists selected for exhibition in the annual 12x12 (x12): An Open Invitational Exhibit.
Lynda Watson: National Metal Museum 2022 Master Metalsmith - Join us Sunday Nov 13, 3 - 5 pm for an artist talk and book signing by local honoree Lynda Watson, the 2022 Master Metalsmith as named by the National Metal Museum in Memphis, TN, USA
Ornament Magazine Features Jeanie Pratt - Jeanie said “I am thrilled with the article about my life and my work, along with the cover and an Artist Showcase!“ We in the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild are thrilled for member Jeanie Pratt! The cover article features her work, tells about her life and is a great read. The guild and Jeanie … 
Open Studios: Monterey County - Visit the Monterey County Arts Habitat Studio Tour website to find participating member artists
Open Studios: Santa Cruz County - Visit the Santa Cruz County Open Studios website to find participating member artists
Summer Party Sunday August 21, 2022 - Join us at the summer party! Bring your own lunch and picnic chair to Sierra Azul Nursery-Garden during their annual "Sculpture Is" outdoor sculpture show. Sunday August 21, 1 - 4pm. Join us at noon to participate in, or just watch, the guild's board meeting.
Art Salon with Lynda Watson May 13, 2021 - Pajaro Valley Arts is holding an art salon live via zoom Visit the PVArts.org event page to learn more about it and obtain the codes to Participate HTTP://pvarts.org/EVENT/art-salonmay-13/ Long time Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild member Lynda Watson is one of the 3 artists who will be participating in the live via Zoom Art Salon.
Collecting Jewelry with Jeanie Pratt - Join jeweler and collector Jeanie Pratt as she shows pieces from her extensive collection and the stories behind the individual pieces. Silvera Jewelry School is hosting a free talk with MBMAG member Jeanie Pratt as part of their Online Event Tuesday series March 30, 2021 at 2 PM PDT – 3 PM PDTPrice: Free to … 
