All Blog Posts Tagged 'Pittsburgh' (14)

Call for Artists: 2018 Lydon Emerging Artist Program

Call for artists begins July 1, 2017.

The 2018 deadline is September 30, 2017. 

Review and download the application guideline  …

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Added by Brigitte Martin on July 5, 2017 at 3:40pm — No Comments

Ceramicist CJ Niehaus Recipient of 2017 LEAP AWARD



Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, and juror Brigitte Martin, founder & editor of crafthaus, are excited to announce

 that ceramic artist …

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Added by Brigitte Martin on January 8, 2017 at 9:00am — No Comments

Call: LEAP Award 2017

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Added by Brigitte Martin on September 4, 2016 at 3:40pm — No Comments

Job Opportunity: Emerging Black Arts Leader's Apprenticeship



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Added by Brigitte Martin on July 22, 2016 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Workshop: Moscow Mule Copper Cups at Society for Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh PA

Moscow Mule Copper Cups with Sharon Massey

Make your own Moscow Mule cocktail cup out of copper! Using sheet metal and a variety of hammers and forming tools, students will shape the body of the cup and then solder on a bottom. Surface decoration will also be…
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Added by Brigitte Martin on February 24, 2016 at 1:41pm — No Comments

Techshop just added the A to STEM

We asked for this for years. Looks like it's here now. Will the rest of the STEM programs rally behind this? Let's hope so. - Crafthaus…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on February 10, 2016 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Crafthaus Member Laura Jaklitsch receives SCC's 2016 LEAP Award

Congratulations to jewelry artist Laura Jaklitsch of Somerville, MA for being selected as Contemporary Craft's 2016 Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP) winner! Established in honor of our Director of Exhibitions, Kate Lydon,…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on January 8, 2016 at 10:00am — No Comments

Planning ahead: April 2016 Hammerworkshop with Glen Gardner in Pittsburgh

Archaeological evidence reveals that hammer like tools have been in use for well over 2 million years! With a reverence for the past and eyes towards the future, come and experience what it really means to be a metalsmith as we explore the techniques of forging, forming and raising.…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on January 7, 2016 at 8:00am — No Comments

Call for Artists: LEAP Award 2016

Amanda Packer. Recollect (collection of pendants). Copper, silver, enamel, paint, thread. $200 each. 2" x 5" x 1.5" average. LEAP Winner 2014.

The LEAP Award was established in 2007 in honor of SCC Director of Exhibitions Kate Lydon’s 20-years of service.  The program…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on September 8, 2015 at 7:00am — No Comments

Don't miss this: The Smith Shop is coming to Pittsburgh Labor Day Weekend

Gabriel Craig and Amy Weiks are coming to the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh during the first weekend of September. They'll give an artist lecture and are teaching a workshop. This will be an opportunity to see some of the…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on August 21, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments

Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art @ SCC Pittsburgh

Next month, we at the SCC in Pittsburgh, will launch a major new initiative at SCC linking arts, mental health, and wellness. This project, …

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Added by Brigitte Martin on August 19, 2015 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Exciting New Workshops at SCC in Pittsburgh

Lynn Batchelder: Steel Jewelry Fabrication

This course will cover the basics of working and soldering with mild steel wire and sheet metal on a jewelry scale. We will manipulate and transform this inexpensive and…
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Added by Brigitte Martin on July 20, 2015 at 10:00am — No Comments

Autumn Again

I have no idea where the weeks go. It is now two weeks since I last posted a blog entry and the end of September is upon us; the wind and rains, the chilling air, herald autumn without even the good grace of the last few warm days that September usually brings, Keats' "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness".

 

Spent last weekend in Brighton, recovering from the 'flu which always accompanies the start of term... all those viri travelling distances with students from far away,…

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Added by The Justified Sinner on September 30, 2012 at 2:17pm — No Comments

SNAG Forging Entrepreneurs

Last weekend I went to Pittsburgh and got to attend SNAG's Forging Entrepreneurs Symposium.  I met some awesome metalsmiths and got a lot of good information.  For my summary, check out my personal blog. Here's a preview:

This past weekend was the first SNAG Forging Entrepreneurs Symposium…

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Added by Sarah Loch-Test on August 31, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

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