Ring a Day Book!

"Ring a Day" is a beautiful book, with its bold red cover--full of images from cover to cover. With its field guide type of feel, this book is brilliantly edited by Marthe Le Van and demonstrates the project's breadth and endless variety of rings. Some are novel, some are funny, some beautiful, some challenge practical notions of what is a ring. But I have learned that by challenging myself, my art and craft grow exponentially. For the reader--it is a book of inspiration, imagination, and a visual snap shot of the creative process. For me, it is eye candy. Enjoy and be inspired!

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.

Count down to day 365! Part 1

Day 358 Sterling Silver, Brass & Pearl 8...

What can I say, after a year working on RAD seeing the year end leaves me with mixed emotions. In some ways it's felt like ten years, in others only a few months. But regardless of how it feels there are only a few days left!

Rachelle Stromberg (of Mike&Mary) has been doing a count down and I can't wait to see day 1! Something about a countdown- always great. Here are her rings so far.

Day 359 Brass & Sterling Silver 7... Merry Christmas RADers!!

Day 360 Brass 6... sechs is what the ring says, 6 in german

Day 361 Copper & Sterling Silver 5...



Day 362 Sterling Silver, CZ and Pearl Today's 4 rings on yesterday's ring.

Happy Hanukkah

A few days ago I was struck by the beauty of Kest's (Vagabond Jewelry) Ring a Day. The photo was striking. The candlelight against the window was moving. I almost felt as if I were there in the room. They were in celebration of Hanukkah.




When I asked her about her rings, she said "There's something about gathering around a fire- no matter how tiny- that feels very homey. I've meant to make myself a menorah for years, now -last year i stuck my candles in a baguette- and RAD seemed like as good an opportunity as any. After eight nights, I'll solder them all together and have something to remember this year by."

Happy Hanukkah!

Sara's November RING A DAY Finds

Rings, rings and more rings. All I've been looking at for weeks are rings. Thousands of rings flash past my laptop screen a day. But I'm not tired of looking at rings yet. I have always loved rings and figure that I always will. The hands that create become the hands that are adorned.

Victoria Takahashi, Experimetal

Ring #315

For the past two weeks I have been curating rings for the May Exhibition with my fellow jurors, but tonight I wanted to take a moment to look at the rings that have created since we began our search.

Maria Apostolou

RAD #312 "Button Flower"

Seeing all these rings makes me wonder why I have always loved rings. Rings are personal--imbued with sentiment, emotion and memory. I am not as attached to my earrings or bracelets. Necklaces come close, but rings are my weakness. I don't wear many rings, but the three I wear are very special. Two I have made and are the only pieces that I keep for myself and the other is my wedding band commissioned from a local jeweler. Rings adorn my hands and my hands are my tools to create, make, and fabricate.

Shannon Conrad, rubygirl jewelry

"Ring #315"

Shapes draw me in and tell me a story of emotion, beauty and order. Sometimes I have a difficult time speaking about my work. Visual language is not always easily translated into verbal language. Shapes reference memories that are deep and submerged.

Mike Stromberg, Mike and Mary Jewelry

Ring a Day #308

Deadline to Submit in 3 days!

Here's a quick reminder to all who have participated in the Ring a Day project. The deadline to submit your rings for the SNAG exhibition at PUNCH gallery is Monday, October 25th at midnight PST. To be eligible to submit to the exhibition, you had to have posted a ring to the Flickr Ring a Day group pool prior to October 1, 2010.

It doesn't matter if you only posted one ring or 280 rings. We would like to show the scope of the project to include both the hardcore ring makers who have tirelessly kept on making rings and those who tried it for a few days; professional metalsmiths and novices; traditional and conceptual artists; teachers and students. This project belongs to all of us and in some small way, we have all journeyed along together.

Request an official Ring a Day submission form from ringaday@gmail.com.