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The SNAG Conference Program Committee is seeking proposals for speaker presentations at the 2018 Portland, Oregon Conference, MADE: Makers Across Disciplines Engage.

MADE: Makers Across Disciplines Engage focuses on materials, art, design, and interdisciplinary…

We metalsmiths love our hand tools with a passion that can border on obsession. A quality hand tool is familiar to us like a good friend, reliable and there when we need it. However, occasionally our work may change direction and some of our tools outgrow their usefulness. They are left collecting dust and are taking up space. We would like to pass them on to someone…

Be still my beating heart - do some tools send your heart racing? Have you ever met a hammer you didn’t like? This year at the SNAG Conference in New Orleans one of the featured tools up for grabs at the TITH fundraiser is a NECHAMKIN chasing hammer. (Oh, yes!) This is a beautiful, well-balanced hammer that fits right into the palm of your…

Pass It On

One can never have too many tools, right? True, but sometimes tools and…

Is there a dirty metalsmith in the house? Help is on the way and just in the right shape: Anvil Soap on a Rope! Your metalsmith will delight in rubbing this anvil all over him/herself and you too will get what you want: A cleaner version of your charming artist. Win-win.…

Canadian SNAG Board member Ezra Satok-Wolman (HG Atelier) is currently in China attending TRIPLE PARADE, an annual international cultural project aimed to enhance cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world. As you can see, he took SNAG's magazine, METALSMITH, with him! Thank you,…

Ferrofluids are something we've been playing with for kinetic jewelry. Here is a photo of the material by Brandon Hilder

After a successful 2016 Halstead Design Kit Challenge (remember, all that wonderful kinetic work that was…

Call for Entries Opens: August 1, 2016

Deadline: September 15, 2016

As the third juried member online exhibition in the We Are SNAG series, (Up)Setting the Stone is an exhibition looking for your interpretation of…

Gabrielle Gould, "Spring Garden View"

Medium/Materials: Copper, brass, sterling, shells, feathers

Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 1 inches

Photographer: Gabrielle Gould

SOLD!

Artist Statement:

My Kinetic design…

Congrats to Gwynne Rukenbrod Smith, Executive Director of SNAG on her fantastic 2-page spread in the current issue of American Craft Magazine (April/May 2016.)

Gwynne was interviewed by Monica Moses, ACM's Chief Editor, about the upcoming SNAGneXt Conference in Asheville (oops: early deadline to…

A big CONGRATS to Aric Verrastro whose colorful work is currently featured with a 2-page spread in American Craft Magazine! (April/May 2016 issue)

If you are not subscribers to the magazine yet,…

SNAG's new conference format is 100% focused on addressing the issue of MAKING A LIVING IN THE FIELD. SNAGNeXt will be offered every two years in smaller but culturally rich cities, thereby reducing the cost of attending. The four main topics of the 2016 Asheville conference are:…

I donated to SNAG's annual appeal last year, and my choice of perk was a brooch by the fabulously talented and hilariously funny…