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Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco
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The Guild is made up of metal arts enthusiasts from a wide range of backgrounds, who are creating a community through sharing news and events, ideas, resources, galleries, techniques and questions about the metal arts.
Website: http://www.metalartsguildsf.org/membership/membership.htm
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Members: 42
Latest Activity: Feb 18
The Guild is made up of metal arts enthusiasts from a wide range of backgrounds, who are creating a community through sharing news and events, ideas, resources, galleries, techniques and questions about the metal arts. Everyone is welcome to join: from the beginner to the master craftsperson, teachers, and students, metal arts collectors and more. Each member is a vital part in making the Guild work for our community.
Membership Chairman: emiko oye - MetalArtsGuildsf@gmail.com
MISSION STATEMENT
The Metal Arts Guild of The Bay Area is an independent, non-profit, educational organization founded in 1951 promoting the recognition of metalwork as an art form. The Guild offers Bay Area jewelers and metal artists a network of information, education, and support.
The Guild was founded by a small group of artists working in the relatively new field of art jewelry and metal Founding members include such pioneers in the field as Margaret de Patta, merry renk, Bob Winston, Peter and Virginia Macchiarini and Florence Resnikoff. Today MAG has over 200 members and is comprised of professional and emerging artists, educators, students, collectors, and writers.
MAG distributes a bimonthly newsletter along with frequent email announcements; provides a vehicle for sharing resources (including a library of over 400 books and references), workshops and classes; and has sponsored juried and non-juried exhibitions from 1951 to the present. Exhibitions have been hosted by the San Francisco Art Commission, Bay Area museums, Fort Mason, and more recently by the Oakland Museum's Collectors Gallery, the Richmond Art Center, Blue Room Gallery and Velvet daVinci.
We support the work of outstanding metal artists by awarding prizes at MAG exhibitions, an annual MAG Grant for students and emerging artists, and offering resources and opportunities for our members through our website
THE GUILDLETTER
A bimonthly newsletter to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the metals community. It contains a calendar of MAG events, gallery exhibitions, workshops and classes, reviews, classifieds and member news. Members are encouraged to submit news, reviews, letters and articles.
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WWW.METALARTSGUILDSF.ORG
Our Web site helps members network with one another. Members may post news events and inquiries, as well as a photo of their work, and links to their own personal web sites. All MAG scheduled events are listed as well as links to other metals guilds around the United States. The web site is constantly being updated.
EXHIBITIONS AND MAG GRANT
The Guild sponsors juried exhibitions that provide members with an opportunity to show work in national and local galleries, museums, art centers, and trade shows. Some of our exhibition venues included the Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Crafts, SNAG Conference 2003, Velvet da Vinci, and the Richmond Art Center. MAG will give a $300 grant to an outstanding student in 2008. More MAG Grants to come!
MEETINGS AND SOCIAL EVENTS
The Guild also sponsors events and workshops with artists and speakers discussing a wide range of topics relevant to the metal arts, special techniques, business issues and creative development. Annual social events include a summer picnic, tool swap, a library tea party, and a December holiday party with gift exchange. Monthly board meetings are open to any members who would like to get involved and see how the Guild works.
RESOURCE CENTER
The Metal Arts Guild has over 400 books, magazines, videos, catalogs and slides for members to get inspiration, technical advice, history and more. All are available for members to view and borrow.
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Comment by kelsey Simmen on February 13, 2012 at 2:50pm -
MAG is organizing a group tour for the Margaret De Patta exhibit that's going on at the Oakland Museum. The tour is for Sunday, 2/26 at 11:00am. For more information on Margaret De Patta and the tour, go to the link. http://metalartsguildsf.org/category/events/
Admission is $16 per person, including a docent led tour. Margaret De Patta was one of the founding members of the Metal Arts Guild in San Francisco. Signup deadline has been extended till 2/22. Don't miss out, Margaret's designs are timeless and was considered one of the pioneers of craft art jewelry.
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Comment by emiko oye on January 24, 2012 at 4:17pm -
Thanks for joining us from CO, Jennifer! Yes, Forging Communities conference was definitely my dream team lineup come true!
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Comment by Jennifer Dewey on January 24, 2012 at 2:33pm -
What a fantastic anniversary conference... and line-up of Rock Star Metal Artists! So glad I made it a part of my trip to the West Coast this Fall!
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Comment by Carolyn Tillie on February 24, 2010 at 1:23pm
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Metal Arts Guild Annual Student Grant - "MAGrant"
April 30, 2010 Application Deadline
MAG will award a $500 grant to a full-time, matriculated student
showing excellence, potential, and talent in the metal arts. The winner
will be given a feature article in an upcoming issue of the Guildletter.
ELIGIBILITY
-Applicant must be a full-time, matriculated student in metalsmithing program
-Must be a member of MAG or sign up for a student membership ($20)
-Can reside anywhere in the United States
JURORS
Christine Dhein, Assistant Director/Instructor at Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts
Curtis Arima, Metals instructor at California College of the Arts
Deborah Boskin, MAG Grant Coordinator
Winner will be notified in June.
Download the application at: http://www.metalartsguildsf.org/events/grant/htm
Contact: Deborah Boskin at dboskin@copper.net
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Please join MAG for Turquoise: Natural or Otherwise, a lecture at River of Words Gallery in Berkeley on May 23, Sunday from 1p.m. to 3 p.m. Dayton’s lecture will give an overview of turquoise through history and focus on the fact that 95 percent of all currently available turquoise is not natural. Natural turquoise will be for sale so bring your checkbooks in order to take advantage of this opportunity.
Dayton Simmons has been involved with turquoise since he set his first piece at age 12 in 1975. Twenty years later he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and established Silver Day Trading Co. where he is a purveyor of gem grade natural turquoise stones and fine jewelry, a miner, an expert at repair of antique American Indian jewelry and an educator of turquoise.
May 23rd from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
River Of Words Gallery in the Sawtooth Building
2599 Eighth St. # 38 (between Dwight and Parker, closest to Parker)
Berkeley, CA 94710
Questions? Contact Suzanne Pugh: spugh@ccsf.edu
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Comment by Ethical Metalsmiths on February 24, 2010 at 11:44am -
Ethical Metalsmiths would like to join your group. Thanks, Christina
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