Promoting metal arts
Sunday AUGUST 24th is MBMAG’s SUMMER PARTY and Members Meeting
at
Sierra Azul Nursery
2660 East Lake Avenue (Highway 152)
Watsonville, CA 95076
The schedule:
12:30 – POTLUCK
Bring a tasty dish to share. Utensils, plates & drinks will be provided.
Bring your metal creations to share
Bring a chair or two
The Challenge:
Think of something or view something large, a mountain, a building, an animal, etc. Now visualize it, manipulate it, abstract it and re-think it small enough to hold in your hand or to wear, i.e., pendant, ring, broach, etc.
Entries are now open for the Fall MBMAG Exhibit at Pacific Grove Art Center. The show will run from Oct. 24 through Dec. 18, 2014 in the Annand Gallery of the Pacific Grove Art Center.
The deadline for entries is August 14. We will accept up to three pieces from each artist for the entry fee of $40. Entrants must be current members of MBMAG. Entry forms may be downloaded from the Member Resources section of the MBMAG website and payment may be made through the PayPal link there.
Participants are expected to volunteer in some aspect of the show and may be required to serve as a docent for one three-hour shift during the run of the show. Work submitted should not have been shown in a previous MBMAG exhibit.
Key Dates:
Regards,
Pat Evans
Small Wonders Chairperson
*Photos received by October 1 will be considered for inclusion in Pacific Grove Art Center’s publicity releases and/or for use on the Show Postcard.
This is a preliminary announcement for our next exhibit. Further details will be posted as available. Please check back, sign up to receive email notifications of new posts or subscribe to the feed.
Our next MBMAG show will be held Oct. 24 through Dec. 18, 2014 at the Pacific Grove Art Center. The entry deadline will be late August and pieces will be due in early October. Although we are still finalizing arrangements with the Center, we want to give you time to create some new and special work for this exhibit. We will accept up to three pieces from each artist. Entry fee and other details will be forthcoming as soon as possible.
The Title of the exhibit: “Small Wonders: The Magic of Macro to Micro”
We are hoping our members will challenge themselves with this exhibit. The concept stems from a field trip some of our members were taking. Mary Luke happened to see a building in downtown San Jose about which she exclaimed, “That’s an ugly building but it would make a really lovely brooch.” We liked that idea and think it can be expanded to include anything that the artist wants to use as a model to scale down to sculpture size or jewelry size or wearable art size. The sky’s the limit, literally. It could be a naturally occurring object (i.e., rock, tree, wave, etc.) or an architectural structure or a detail of something that is large. The challenge would be to re-imagine it, re-construct it, re-think it into an art piece. Along with your piece, we’d like to have a photo, graphic representation, or even the object itself, if small enough, to present next to the finished work.
Volunteers will be needed to help with all aspects of the show, from bringing snacks for the opening reception, to checking in artwork, to creating the artist’s bio book. We’ll also need furniture movers and someone who can supply and drive a truck. Please email me if you can take on a job of any size to make this show a success.
Regards,
Pat Evans
Small Wonders Chairperson
Wednesday, June 11th
Lecture 6pm
Cabrillo College VAPA 1001
Sponsored by Cabrillo College Seahawk Metal Arts Club – SMAC
Deborah Lozier is a well-known local instructor, teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts and other local and international art schools and is one of the finest torch-firing enamelists working in the U.S. today. She is best known for her organic approach to vitreous enamel – fused glass on metal. She exhibits nationally, and internationally and stretches beyond her personal work to include public and private commissions. Her work is collected widely and is part of the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum of California.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
Critical vote on state arts funding in legislature – Your letter needed by Tomorrow, Monday, June 2nd!
MBMAG is sending a letter, you can too. By filling out this form, and faxing it to the assembly members listed below. Thank you for your support!
The State Legislative Budget Conference Committee will meet on Monday, June 2, and among the issues it will act upon is the increase in state arts funding that was recommended by the Assembly earlier this month.
This is a critical moment for what we believe is our best chance in over a decade to restore funding for the arts in our state!
Please FAX* letter to each of these individuals:
Assembly members:
Richard H. Bloom – (916) 319-2150
Nancy Skinner – (916) 319-2115
Shirley N. Weber – (916) 319-2179
Jeff Gorell – (916) 319-2144
Senators:
Mark Leno – (916) 651-4911
Loni Hancock – (916) 651-4909
Ricardo Lara – (916) 651-4933
Jim W. Nielsen – (916) 651-4904
MASSC Metal Extinction:
Using Metal to Honor and Make Permanent our Vanishing World
Entry Deadline: 7/1/14
Days remaining to deadline: 40
REQUIREMENTS:
Media
Images – Minimum: 2, Maximum: 6
Total Media – Minimum: 2, Maximum: 6
Entry Fee (Metal Extinction Entry Fee): $35.00
MASSC Metal Arts Society of Southern California
METAL EXTINCTION
Using Metal to Honor and Make Permanent our Vanishing World
First Prize: $1000, Second Prize: $500, Third Prize: $250.00, Honorable Mention, and Public Choice
Jurors: David Freda, Barbara Hendricks, Marne Ryan
We have entered a period of “mass extinction” as species are dying out at a rate ten
thousand times higher than the natural process of extinction. As the polar bear has
become classified as threatened, bees are being decimated by colony collapse, our
natural world is changing before our eyes. Mammals, tortoises, birds as well as many
plant species all find themselves disappearing.
For centuries, artists have found their inspiration in the natural world and as we enter
into an unprecedented period of extinction rates, MASSC challenges you to honor and
commemorate extinct and endangered species in works of metal that show a mastery in
technique equivalent to the beauty and grace of the vanishing natural world.
As we watch the growing expression of wearable art in vivid tempestuous flux, Metal
Extinction: Using Metal to Honor and Make Permanent our Vanishing World is an exhibit
intended to calibrate the compass to showcase fine craftsmanship in metal. This
exhibition places emphasis on metal artisanship, unexpected creation, and masterful
use of metal that becomes something ageless, bringing to life a quality of that which is
gone or may be gone forever.
Mark your calendars for this
Saturday, May 17
5:00- 9:00 pm
Free Events
Cabrillo Vapa Complex
Happenings open to the public:
• Small scale metals and jewelry,
VAPA 3001
• 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Hands-on “Make a Bracelet Workshop”
• 5:00 – 8:45 pm
On-going informal metal arts demonstrations, student art work displays, popcorn machine and
refreshments
• 7:30 pm
Sculpture casting pour with Sean Monaghan
• Art Quad: Art Pianos with Susan Bruckner and her students
• 5 – 8:30 pm
Zameen’s food truck
• More coming soon!
YEHUDA TASSA began to work in Yemenite Filigree at the age of six. Taught by his father, a well-known jeweler in Yemen, he worked in the family jewelry business for sixteen years. Yehuda revitalized his ‘lost art’ recently and began prolifically producing both ancient and modern filigree designs. Continue reading “Yemenite Filigree and Granulation Workshop Spaces Available”
This just in; Tomorrow evening at CCA in Oakland, Nahl Hall, Dutch jeweler and sculptor Ruudt Peters will be giving a free lecture!!!! Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
Check it out if you can!
Join us this coming Friday! Yehuda Tassa will be giving a lecture on Yemenite history and their arts. The reception begins at 6:30, artist’s talk begins at 7 p.m. in Cabrillo College’s VAPA room 1001.
Yehuda Tassa began to work in Yemenite Filigree at the age of six. Taught by his father, a well-known jeweler in Yemen, he worked in the family jewelry business for sixteen years. Yehuda revitalized his ‘lost art’ recently and began prolifically producing both ancient and modern filigree designs. He creates jewelry and teaches at several locations in Northern California, incorporating both ancient and modern tools and techniques into his filigree and granulation workshops.
This lecture is generously sponsored by Cabrillo College Seahawk Metal Arts Club – SMAC and Cabrillo College Inter Club Council – ICC.