The Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference

Lorena Angulo

The SNAG conference is coming up next week. The conference is titled "FLUX,"  and is in Seattle, WA, May 26 through 29, 2011.  I wish I could go, but I have something very important to do. My daughter is graduating from Pre-K that same day that the conference opens. I hope everyone that goes can tell me a little bit about the experience and take lots of pictures please. I will hopefully post some of your pictures here next week from all of you! Let me know where you have posted the pictures from SNAG and the Ring a Day show at Punch so that I can post them here!


Here are more of my favorite rings in the Ring a Day show at Punch Gallery at the SNAG conference. The RAD show is a "must see".

Malodora

Sarah Hood

Kest Schwartzman (Vagabond Jewelry)

Ligia Rocha

Metalriot

Chris Irick

Some of my favorite rings in the Ring a Day Show

Danielle Miller

Maria Apostolou

Su Trindle

ModernBird (Laura Flavin)

Kathi Roussel

Alisa Miller

Laurie Brown

Catherine Chandler

Victoria Takahashi

A big Thank you to Nina Dinoff

Nina Dinoff proposed the Ring a Day project to her metalsmithing friends late in 2009 and started it January 2010. She started the Ring a Day group on Flickr as the place to post our rings. She described the Ring a Day project as "an exercise in creative exploration. The rules are simple: create ring every day for the entire year of 2010 out of anything, no matter where you are." 

Thank you Nina for starting the Ring a Day project.

Here are some of my favorite rings of hers at Ring a Day show at Punch Gallery in Seattle. The show is part of the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference in Seattle May 26-29th.

More photos of the Ring a Day exhibition

Lovely photos of the Ring A Day exhibition at the Punch Gallery. Courtesy Andrea Ring, one of the artist featured in the show. Andrea is an art jeweler with a focus on found objects. She has fourteen rings included in the exhibition, playful rings made from paper, plastic animals, street signs, a toothbrush and more.

Ring a Day Opening

Ring a Day opened last night!

No words can explain how excited I am to see these pictures! It looks amazing and only wish I could have been there to experience it! Congratulations to everyone!

Curators:

Colleen Baran

Kathryn Cole

Shannon Conrad

Nina Gibson

Sara Westermarck

Artists:

Ashley Akers 

Sabine Amtsberg 

Loren Angulo 

Maria Apostolou 

Erin Austin 

Meg Auth 

Angela Baduel-Crispin

Colleen Baran 

Inbar Barbaket 

Laurie Brown 

Kathleen Brughelli 

Maureen Brusa-Zappellini 

Catherine Chandler 

Kathryn Cole 

Kerry Alice Collins

Shannon Conrad 

Jennifer Culp 

Beth Cyr 

Casey Daurio 

Trudie Davies 

Lisa Dienst-Thomas 

Nina Dinoff 

Thomasin Durgin

Laura Flavin 

Renee Ford  

Nina Gibson 

Lynne Glazzard

Natalia Gomensoro 

Heather Goodwin

Lora Hart 

Sarah Hood 

Chris Irick 

Alice Istanbul 

Norsola Johnson

Sarah Loertscher  

Marthe Le Van 

Kate Jones

Maggie Joynt 

Evelyn Markasky 

Bill Martin 

Marta Miguel Martínez-Soria

Denise McCoy 

Alisa Miller 

Danielle Miller

Carrie Nunes 

Margaret O'Brien 

Marta Sanchez Oms

Paul Phillips 

Calan Ree

Kathryn Rierchert 

Andrea Ring

Lígia Rocha

Kathi Roussel 

Kest Schwartzman 

Ponsawan Silas 

Mike Stromberg 

Rachelle Stromberg

Victoria Takahashi 

Leslie Tinnaro 

Su Trindle 

Mary Lu Wason 

Emily Watson 

Sara Westermark

Dee Wilder

Jaqki Withycombe

Opening Reception Tonight

Ring a Day at Punch Gallery Opens Today!

Ring a Day

65 artists. 

1 year. 

365 rings.

We are excited to announce the opening of the Ring a Day exhibit on May 5th at Punch Gallery in Seattle.
Opening Reception: 5 - 8pm

Ring a Day Retrospective

The Ring a Day (RAD) project started January 2010 as an open creative challenge for metalsmiths and other artists to create a Ring a Day for an entire year. The rings could be made of anything and creativity was encouraged. Admission was open to anyone who wanted to take the creative challenge. Each artist was to create a ring each day, photograph it, and post it to the Flickr group. Over the course of the year 16,000 pictures were posted in the Ring a Day Group on Flickr.

The Ring a Day
project, initially proposed
by artist Nina Dinoff, was intended as a challenge to set a daily routine of
exploration.  

Throughout the year the artists created a supportive and encouraging environment where processes and new materials could be explored. All types of rings were created from ones that took 5 minutes to many hours.  It became a part of our daily routine as artists to think outside of the box and create a new ring each day.

Ring a Day was an amazing experience for the artists that participated and lifelong friendships were created. My journey through Ring a Day was inspiring and will always be cherished.