Suzanne Baizerman, USA, Ph.D., the Imogene Gieling Curator of Craft and Decorative Arts, Oakland Museum, on Margaret de Patta and the Modern Movement (with an accompanying exhibition at the museum)

Boris Bally, USA, studio artist, will talk about building and maintaining a career in metalsmithing, using information gathered from metalsmiths at different points in their careers. He will focus primarily on planning methods and choices and the philosophies and goals set by individual artists within our field.

Steve Cabella, USA, design historian, writer and extensive collector, will discuss his 25 years of collecting art jewelry (including fakes, copies and authentic limited reproductions!), and what both collectors and artists need to know about the art of collecting.

Susan Cohn, a studio artist from Melbourne, Australia, will present "Techno Craft", ways to create bridges between solo studio work and design for industry and mass production. Some of the things she will speak about include techno culture, rolex watches, virtual reality, street culture, doughnuts, sampling, French silk underwear, jewellery, Brian Eno,Moholy Nagy, ownership, love songs, and uncool craft.

David Cole, USA, practicing metalsmith, will present Marie Zimmermann: From Tiaras to Tombstones an overview of the life of the depth and breadth of the work by this prolific metal artist (in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of Marie Zimmermann (1879-1972) organized by Velvet da Vinci.

Kim Cridler, USA, the Arts/Industry Coordinator for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center artist-in-residency program, will talk about Kohler's innovative program and about her own work and its development.

Marilyn da Silva, USA, Program Chair of the Jewelry and Metal Arts Department, California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland, CA), will discuss her life and work

Donald Friedlich, USA, studio artist and past president of SNAG, metal artist and past President of SNAG, will take a look at the problems he sees in our field and his own struggle to find a balance between one-of-a-kind and production work.

Dr. Elizabeth Goring, from the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, is the Curator of Modern Jewellery and Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology. Dr. Goring will speak on The Museum as Collector: The National Museum of Scotland and its Contemporary Jewellery Collection, including trends of contemporary work and their connection to the Museum's ancient collections

Ana Pellicer, founder of the School of Arts and Crafts (Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan, Mexico), will speak about The Creation of a New Tradition: Ana Pellicer in Santa Clara del Cobre, describing the experience of an artist working with the collective creativity of a town of artisans and the changing roll of women in Mexican arts.

Don Stuart, Canada, educator, metalsmith, professor, past-president of SNAG, will give a presentation entitled: Volunteer to Tour the World, how to enrich your own life by helping others.

The National Student Slide Show, will be curated by Julia Turner and Whitney Couch and will showcase work from metals programs around the country. The slide show will be presented by Linda Darty.

EXHIBITIONS

The Work of Margaret de Patta at the Oakland Museum from the Museum's permanent collection (in conjunction with the Susanne Baizerman talk on de Patta).

Valuables: Jewelry for a New Millennium an exhibition of contemporary jewelry curated by Jennifer Gardner, at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Metal Sculpture by Bella Feldman (long-time CCAC professor), also at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art

CHESS, an international exhibition of chess pieces curated by Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt, at Velvet da Vinci Gallery

The Work of Marie Zimmermann (1879-1972) organized by David Cole and Velvet da Vinci in conjunction with the David Cole presentation, at the St. Francis Hotel

FLUX-FIRE-FUSION at the Academy of Art College, sculpture and jewelry by alumni and students of the Academy of Art College

\'snag\n a juried exhibition from members of the Bay Area Metal Arts Guild at the Collectors' Gallery, at the Oakland Museum

The American Designer Jewelry Council, work of members, curator and participating artist: Alan Revere, at Shreve & Company

Work from the School of Arts and Crafts in Santa Clara del Cobre, featuring vessels and jewelry from the school as well as work from Ana Pellicer and James Metcalf (in conjunction with the Ana Pellicer talk) Polanco Gallery

Expressions in Metal - Jewelry and Decorative Objects. Work by Abraham Anghik, Helgi Joensen, Lillian Pitt, Joan Tenenbaum, Simon Tookoomee, at Images of the North Gallery.

"b i g LITTLE", a juried jewelry and sculpture exhibition, juried by DiAnne Love, Rachel Osajima, and Donna Briskin, at the Oakland Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery.

Donald Friedlich: Recent Jewelry at Tercera Gallery

Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal, National Japanese American Historical Society (curator and participating artist: Dawn Nakanishi)

Be Enlightened new work by Nick Dong at Atelier Gallery

National student exhibition highlighting the best student work from metals programs, juried by Susanne Baizerman, Petra Class and David Best, at the San Francisco campus of CCAC

Jewelry... A Modern Journey, presenting new work from the artists of Gallery FLUX and showcasing the Platinum Guild International award winning design, at Gallery FLUX

Generations of Brilliance in Gemstones and Jewelry, work of German jewelers Wilhelm Buchert, Ute Buchert, Bernd Munsteiner, Jorg Munsteiner, Tom Munsteiner, and Jutta Mensteiner at De Novo Gallery

Objects of Devotion: Colonial and Popular Religious Art in Latin America, retablo and ex-voto paintings on tin at The Mexican Museum

Jack and Marilyn da Silva, Harriete Estel Berman, Michael Gard, Ken Kalman, Bill Roan, Tony Esola, Maurice Hamburger and others, jewelry and metal sculpture at V. Breier

Exhibition in Motion, fashion show with jewelry and wearable metal sculpture by SNAG members, and clothes by Academy of Art students

On Sunday, May 25, a tour for interested SNAG attendees will leave the Westin St. Francis Hotel at 9:00 a.m. for a day of Art on the Peninsula. After a beautiful drive to Palo Alto (less than an hour south of San Francisco), you will view art ranging from Rodins to contemporary German goldsmiths.

On the Stanford Campus, the Cantor Arts Center will provide you with a private docent-led tour, focusing on its Rodin Sculpture Garden (twenty bronzes including the Gates of Hell) and its vast collection of outdoor art (you will find Miro, de Kooning, Goldsworthy, Calder, Moore and many, many others). You will also get some time in the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden -- forty carved wood and stone pieces by artists from New Guinea's Sepik River region who came to Stanford to create this garden. In addition to outdoor art, the Cantor Arts Center houses beautiful collections ranging from ancient to contemporary, from African to European to Native American.

Ute Buchert-Buge Ring

The other major venue for your "Art on the Peninsula" tour is Palo Alto's fashionable University Avenue. There, de novo, one of the country's premier jewelry galleries, will have an exhibition entitled "Generations of Brilliance in Gemstones and Jewelry," featuring the work of German goldsmiths Wilhelm Buchert, Ute Buchert, Bernd Munsteiner, Jorg Munsteiner, Tom Munsteiner, and Jutta Munsteiner, who will be on hand to talk with you and answer any questions you may have. Across the street from de novo is Tercera, which will show the work of Don Friedlich, past president of SNAG and a speaker at the San Francisco Conference.

The busses will return to the hotel at 3:00 p.m. Tickets for the Peninsula Day are $35, including lunch, and the seats are limited, so get your reservations in soon!

You may sign up and pay for this event directly with CCC If you have already signed up for the conference and wish to add on the tour, please call CCC at (630) 416-3030 or info@cccmeetings.com.

Cancellations before April 9 will receive a full refund. After April 9 there will be no refunds, but you may transfer your ticket to another SNAG San Francisco conference attendee.

This tour is sponsored by Velvet da Vinci Gallery.