About the Guild

Mission Statement
About the Guild
Board Members
Bylaws

Mission Statement

The mission of The Metal Arts Guild is to foster community, provide education, and promote Bay Area metal artists and jewelers. We accomplish this by hosting events, providing technical and social media resources, encouraging collaboration between organizations, and outreach to local and global communities.

About the Guild

The Metal Arts Guild (MAG) is an independent, 501(c 3) non-profit, all-volunteer-led arts organization of people who are skilled, interested, or share in the production and exhibition of metals. It was founded in 1951 by a small group of artists working in the studio jewelry and metal arts movement during that time. Today, our membership is comprised of professional and emerging artists, educators, students, collectors, hobbyists and writers.

Board Members

Francesca MacKie
President
president@metalartsguildsf.org

Website: francescamackie.com
Instagram: fmackiejewelry

Francesca MacKie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild since 2020, also serving in Public Relations and Membership roles. As president of the board since 2023, Francesca advocates for educational and professional opportunities among local artists.

Francesca received a Bachelor of Science from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Academy of Art University. She owns an independent jewelry business and has taught jewelry and metal arts courses for more than a decade. Francesca’s work has been featured at the SOMArts Cultural Center, ACCI Gallery and The Crucible as well as Biello Martin Studio in Philadelphia and The Fashion Institute of Ningbo, China

Cynthia Clearwater
Treasurer

Instagram: ckclearwater

Cynthia Clearwater started her second career as a metal artist in 2005 after retiring from her professional career as an administrator at UC Berkeley. She works with gold, sterling silver, and gemstones, and loves the challenges of fabricating pieces from scratch. Her goal is eye-catching and soul stirring minimalist design.

M. Carmella Luna
Public Relations
metalartsguildpr@gmail.com

Instagram: catchthemoondesign

Born in Chicago and was moved to California when I was five, raised in Mt. View/Los Altos. I raised my daughter in Los Gatos who is 52 and have a 17 year old granddaughter. Most of my working career was in the semi conductor industry, with chips in Marketing. I wanted a creative environment and went back to school, worked as a Graphic Design Production Artist, Project Manager, then worked with a Print Broker press checking. Retired in 2000, I worked once as a fine artist, working in oils, water colors and sculpture so I took a class again. I had not drawn in so many years it just frustrated me. I decided to look at classes at the local junior college and I loved the jewelry class! I helped start a jewelry guild so jewelers would have a place to sell their work in Marin. I have been a member and on the board of co-ops in San Francisco and Marin. Two galleries have found my work on the MAG website.

I am latin but did not grow up in the latin culture. My designs have been inspired by the Mesoamerica temples and Mayan hieroglyphic writing to connect with my Indigenes self. I prefer and enjoy wax carving, my little sculptures, but fabrication is faster so I do both. The majority of my work is in silver and semi precious stones.

Harriete Estel Berman
Membership

Website: www.harrieteestelberman.com

Harriete Estel Berman uses post consumer, recycled materials to construct jewelry, Judaica to sculpture with social commentary. Berman’s art work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa. Her work has been acquired for the permanent collections of 16 museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Detroit Institute of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Jenn Parnell Kirkpatrick
Webmaster
magsfweb@gmail.com

Instagram: jennparnelldesigns

Jenn Parnell Kirkpatrick landed in the Bay Area in the summer of 2019 after spending the rest of her life and career on the East Coast (DC/Baltimore area mostly). She received her BFA in Jewelry and Metals from RISD, her MFA from Towson. She’s run her own jewelry business since 2000, has been teaching jewelry making since 2004. Jenn is a co-owner and instructor at Silvera Jewelry School in Berkeley.

There are very few aspects of making and the history of jewelry that don’t intrigue Jenn, and she’s always looking to try something new, explore a new technique, and continue making art. She loves doing commission work- making someone’s vision come to reality and seeing the happiness that something she made brings to their life is one of the best feelings. Teaching provides her with a constant stream of ideas, as every time she teaches something she remembers how great that skill or technique is! Now to find more hours in the day!

Andrea (Aundi) Taylor
Programs co-chair
magprograms@gmail.com

Website: aunditaylor.com

Aundi is an interdisciplinary artist living in San Francisco expressing herself through a variety of media: sculptural jewelry, analog and digital photography, mixed media and metals sculpture work, video, and performance. She currently focuses on using art as a means to engage communities to respond to social and environmental issues. Recent and upcoming works include metal sculptures integrating burned wood from wildfires, experimental documentaries, and speculative fiction in graphic novel form. Aundi holds a BA in Art and Theatre from San Francisco State University, an MA in teaching English, and an MFA from California Institute of Integral Studies.

Jeanette Blix
Programs co-chair
magprograms@gmail.com

Ron Elson
Exhibitions

Laurence deLeon
Newsletter
metalartsguildnews [at] gmail.com

Instagram: lghtly_hmmrd

Laurence deLeon is a Bay Area artist with a long and varied career. Fell in love with working in metal when attending classes at Cabrillo College 1997 and started a studio practice in 2008. Laurence creates pieces combining traditional metalwork and fiber techniques with found and reclaimed materials.

Please feel free to get in touch with exciting news and events!

Trevor Twist
Secretary

Instagram: trevor.twist

Trevor is a bench jeweler, designer and metals educator in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2015. Trevor apprenticed with Daniel and Emma Macchiarini, and developed his own studio practice thereafter. To him there are few things more rewarding than creating something beautiful and helping others do the same.

Resource Center/Library

This position is open. Contact the Secretary if you would like to join the MAG Board.