Holiday Party
Thursday, December 11
5:00-8:00 pm
Lireille - Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry
3980 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611

Please join us on Thursday December 11, 5-8pm for MAG’s annual holiday party at Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry in Oakland.  This year we will be having a cocktail party - so we ask that people bring finger foods (MAG will provide the cups, wine, beverages, and napkins), but there will not be any plates or utensils.  We invite everyone to delight our palettes with mini individual portions of your favorite finger foods to share - how about grilled chicken skewers, sushi, stuffed mushrooms, or Dim Sum.  Be creative and share your ethnic heritage through food!

Ronda Coryell will be sharing her experiences of traveling to amazing countries teaching jewelry/metal arts, and we will enjoy the beautiful pieces being showcased at Lireille Gallery.  This will be a great opportunity for everyone to RENEW their membership with MAG.

There will be a raffle drawing for prizes from the membership forms turned in.  The raffle winners will be announced at 7:30 sharp - so come and enjoy a tasty treat for your eyes, ears and mouth.

Where: Lireille- Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art
3980 Piedmont Ave. 
Oakland, CA 94611
510.547.3455

CAD/CAM Hands-on Seminar
with Vasken Tanielian

Take Advantage of this seminar - FREE for MAG Members
When: November 22, 2008, 3 Sessions to chose from: 10am-12pm or 1pm-3pm or 3pm-5pm
Where: 760 Market St. Suite 940 , San Francisco, CA

Course Description:
CAD/CAM brings valuable technology to the jewelry industry, Both CAD (computer-aided design) and CAM (computer-aided machining) are now readily available to jewelry designers. This system enables you to design and work out manufacturing details prior to creating a nearly flawless pattern in wax and in some cases making the impossible possible. All within a reasonable amount of time and at an acceptable cost. At the best CAD/CAM offers a harmonious union with the traditional art of making jewelry by hand. Added to the strong foundation in traditional bench skills, CAD/CAM provides an advanced way to design and create models and opens the door to the competitive jewelry market.

If you are curious and have interest in this technology, you are welcome to attend a 2 hour hands on seminar by Vasken Tanielian 3 DESIGN software certified instructor. See how CAD works, get answers to your questions and have hands on experience with the program.

Contact: Vasken Tanielian, vasktanielian@aol.com
Cost: MAG MEMBERS - FREE
NON MEMBERS - A donation of $5.00 is requested

Class size is limited so register early by calling or emailing Maureen Harvey, mehlarkin@yahoo.com , 415-928-3461. Please be sure to include the session time you are registering for, your address, phone number and email address.

Send Registration Checks (Non Mag Members) made out to the Metal Arts Guild to:
Maureen Harvey
CAD/CAMWorkshop
2301 Larkin St. #303
San Francisco, CA, 94109

MAG reserves the right to cancel any workshop with insufficient enrollment at any time.If MAG cancels a workshop, you will receive a full refund.

About Vasken Tanielian:
Vasken Tanielian studied art and architecture in Paris , France ultimately completing an apprenticeship in jewelry. He has been designing and making jewelry for thirty years, specializing in custom design and fabrication for the trade and privet customers, also has been teaching at the Revere Academy Of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco for the past ten years

Radical Jewelry Makeover
PDF Donation Form

Don’t know what to do with your old, unwanted jewelry? How about Radical Jewelry Makeover! Those tangled chains, unmatched earrings and gold bands from past relationships sitting at the bottom of jewelry boxes around the Bay Area are exactly what jewelry artists participating in Radical Jewelry Makeover – San Francisco want to get their creative hands on. For the next month the non-profit, Ethical Metalsmiths is accepting donations of old, unwanted jewelry at several Bay Area locations.

“American households are a clean and transparent source of precious metals and of jewelry that is waiting to be recycled. Ethical Metalsmiths is bringing together a skilled workforce of volunteer artists who will act as miners, smelters, refiners, designers, silversmiths, goldsmiths, chainmakers and stonesetters to transform your hoard of old jewelry into unique and innovative hand-made items,” says Christina Miller, Project Director.

Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) offers its host communities a fun, informed and creative alternative to traditional mining practices and jewelry production. It is a traveling community mining and recycling project and a creative art and education project, teaching makers how to produce contemporary, innovative jewelry from recycled sources and proudly placing responsible jewelry in the hands of the consumers. The overall project is meant to raise awareness of the complicated connection between mining and metalsmithing as well as showcase innovative making.

This is how it works. The public is asked to "mine" their homes, "uncovering" gold, silver, and other jewelry, that is no longer used and deposit their "lode" at designated places in the Bay Area. Teams of volunteer jewelers and metalsmiths working at schools and studios in several different locations will reconstruct and transform the donations into exciting new jewelry designs. The resulting fresh, unique, handmade, 100% recycled jewelry will be exhibited and sold at San Francisco's renowned Velvet da Vinci gallery. Donors will receive discount coupons, which will be available and redeemable at the gallery during the exhibition. Sale of “makeover” jewelry will benefit Ethical Metalsmiths' efforts to educate and connect people with responsibly sourced materials.

San Francisco knows the results of mining. As a result of gold mining that took place more than a century ago, the San Francisco Bay is lined by several feet of sediment from hydraulic mining and its waters are contaminated with dangerous levels of mercury. Today, mining is this nation's most toxic industry according to the EPA. And Earthworks reports that an estimated 80% of the gold mined each year is used for jewelry, and a single gold ring leaves 20 tons of mine waste. Ethical Metalsmiths, an artist run non-profit organization seeks to galvanize mining reform efforts by staging this "alternative supply chain."

Participants from several organizations, studios and schools are lined up to transform donations into inspiring new work. Coming together for the largest Radical Jewelry Makeover to date are the Metal Arts Guild - San Francisco, Academy of Art University, California College of Art, City College, the Crucible, Revere Academy, Richmond Art Center and Scintillant Studio. The “makeover” jewelry will be exhibited and sold at Velvet da Vinci gallery.

“I have been working with Ethical Metalsmiths on the Radical Jewelry Makeover since it premiered in February, 2007 at Virginia Commonwealth University, where I teach jewelry and metalsmithing. The project offers students a unique perspective of their material. "Making" takes on new meaning and responsibility as they discover how their art and the environment are linked,” says Susie Ganch, Assistant Project Director.

Jewelry donations will be accepted from now through September 11 at all of the participating schools (The Richmond Art Center, however is a MAIL IN site only – donations cannot be “dropped off” at this location). Donors will receive a dollar discount for their donation (based on material and quantity), which can be used toward the purchase of a “Makeover” piece. Donation forms are available online at: http://www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org/RJM.html

One completed donation form must accompany each donation (not each object, but what a particular individual is giving as a whole). Place your donation in a bag along with the completed for at any of the collection boxes at the various locations OR mail your donation and form to the Richmond Art Center (address listed below).

EVENT DETAILS:
General Timeline:

• Drop off donations will be accepted from August 11 to September 11, 2008 at each school (except the Richmond Art Center, which is the MAIL IN site only).
• Donations can be mailed to the Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804.
• Schools will transform the donations between September 22 and October 15, 2008
• Several schools are hosting Open House events for the public while work is in progress. A list of these events will be available at a later date.
• The exhibition at the Velvet da Vinci gallery, (on Polk between Broadway and Pacific) will take place October 22 through November 9. There will be a reception on Friday October 24.

CONTACT LIST:

Academy of Art University
410 Bush St. San Francisco, CA 94108
Contact: Charlene Modena - 415-618-3631

California College of Art
Oakland campus
5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618-1426
Contact: Curtis Arima - 510-205-5694

City College Drop off:
Art Office in the Visual Arts Building at City College of San Francisco, in between Batmale Hall and the Creative Arts Building on the loop. Contact: Art Department, Box V-28
50 Phelan Avenue
San Francisco CA 94112
Contact: Suzanne Pugh - 415-452-5782

The Crucible
1260 7th St.
Oakland, CA 94607
Contacts: Aimee Golant and Rob Nehring - 510-444-0919

Revere Academy
760 Market St. Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact: Christine Dhein - 415-391-4179

Richmond Art Center
THIS IS THE MAIL IN SITE – no drop off donations can be accepted here.
Address: 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA 94804
Ph: 510.620.6772 email: admin@therac.org - www.therac.org
Contacts: Alison Antleman - 510-704-1905
Kato Jaworski - 510-620-6773
Ed Lay – 510-367-3406

Scintillant Studio
1258 Valencia St. 2nd Fl.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact: Adam Clark - 415-505-1623
Scintillant Studio Phone: 415-206-1359

Metal Arts Guild
Contact: Alison Antleman - 510-704-1905
http://www.metalartsguildsf.org/

Velvet da Vinci Gallery
2015 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Contact: Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt - 415-441-0109

Ethical Metalsmiths:
Ethical Metalsmiths is a non-profit organization formed for the purpose of stimulating demand for responsibly sourced materials as an investment in the future. We stand for social responsibility, a healthy environment and materials that are consistent with these values. Our website www.EthicalMetalsmiths.org describes our goals, activities and accomplishments as we raise awareness, provide information and promote ethical sourcing among jewelers, metalsmiths and the public.

MAG Annual Summer Party

Sunday, August 17, 2008
1:00 -  4:00 p.m
Demo at 2:00 p.m.

Curtis Arima's studio
in Berkeley
2547 8th St, #30B, Berkeley, CA 94710

You don't want to miss this year's Summer Party -our own Curtis Arima will be hosting and doing a spectacular demo for us. This is a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. Bring friends and those you think would be interested in becoming a member.

Monsen Plating & Silversmiths

Saturday, June 21st
2-5pm
3370 Adeline Street, Berkeley CA 94703
(near Sweet Adeline Bakery and 1 block from Alcatraz Ave.)

Join MAG on a fascinating tour of Monsen Plating & Silversmiths in Berkeley. The president of the company, Gary Reopelle, will be our host. Monsen Plating & Silversmiths repairs, polishes and plates precious metals and fine antiques. Established in 1904, Monsen is one of the oldest plating and metal restoration companies located on the West Coast. www.monsenplating.com

Please RSVP with Jim Slaughter: jslaughter100@yahoo.com