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.

Awarded an Etsy Team Grant!

RAD 48, Prosperity Ring by Carrie Nunes

We are very happy to announce that EtsyMetal has been awarded an Etsy Team Grant for 'RAD, a Ring a Day for 365 days' at next year’s Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference in Seattle!

The Etsy Team Grant will be used towards purchasing materials (wood, paint, etc) and beginning to build the cases for the exhibition! We are grateful to Etsy for their funding and support! It is an exciting start to our fundraising!

Ring a Day SNAG Exhibition Announcement

Danielle Miller's New Year's Ring, RAD #1


EtsyMetal Ring a Day SNAG Exhibition Announcement

EtsyMetal is pleased to announce that the Ring a Day Project has been accepted as an exhibition for the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) upcoming Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington. The EtsyMetal team has partnered with the Punch Gallery for this exhibition.

“RAD, a Ring a Day for 365 days” curated by Colleen Baran, Shannon Conrad and Sara Westermark will run from Thursday, May 5 to Sunday, May 29, 2011.

Victoria Takahashi's Ring a Day 100

The exhibit will feature 365 rings, representing a ring a day and encompassing the full span of the year 2010. Represented work will range from ephemeral and conceptual art rings to functional jewelry. The layout will also include photographic documentation of select temporary and conceptual art rings.

Rings will be chosen by the EtsyMetal curators and will illustrate the highlights and accomplishments of many hundreds of international members, selected from over 10,000 rings.


Metalriot's Ring a Day 24/365


About RAD

The Ring a Day project (or RAD) is an open challenge to metalsmiths and other artists across the globe to make one ring a day, out of any material, for the entire year of 2010.

The rules?
- make a ring a day
- photograph it
- upload it to Flickr

The genesis of the Ring a Day project is based on an exercise taught by Ellen Wieske at Haystack. The Flickr project, which was initially proposed by Nina Dinoff, was intended as an EtsyMetal team challenge to set a daily routine of exploration and an experiment to see what could develop over the course of a year.

On a daily basis, the rings are created, photographed, and posted to the Ring a Day Flickr photo group by each participant. The majority of the artists represented here have discovered this project through social media networks such as Flickr, EtsyMetal, Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and of course word of mouth. This project reflects a population of metalsmiths and jewelry makers who are facile with current online technology.

Visit the public RAD group and join the project here.
For more info check back here on the Ring a Day Blog.

Kathryn Riechert's RAD #124 'Take a Dip'