Last workshop for 2021 This is a great opportunity to prepare for my Eastern Repousse Ring & Bracelet Online Workshop coming in 2022. Watch this 1 min video and discover just how cool getting relief can be. Eastern Chasing and Repoussé with Victoria Lansford (online), hosted by Metalwerx Tues/Fri, October 12 -29, 2021 from 1pm – 4pm Eastern Time In…
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A Closer Look
Join Me Live on Instagram @snagmetalsmith this Wednesday @6pm EDT
I’ll be the Society of North American Goldsmith’s “Monday Member” featured artist – yes, on Wednesday! On @snagmetalsmith (not my IG account, theirs). September 15, 2021 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time Ok, so here’s the big secret, the one only you, my dear readers get to find out about. Ready? Sitting down? Ok, here goes. I’ve never done an IG…
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Avoiding Arrogance – Human or Canine
The Arrogance of Perfection Supposedly this week I’m on staycaytion, but that didn’t keep me from digging into the newest installment in my severe case of Shiny Online Workshop Syndrome. I’m two-thirds of the way through an 8-week course on Persian Illuminate Carpet Pages from the Timurid period. This week I’m working my way through learning to repeat tiny motifs…
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Passion Process
In contemporary critical art-speak circles, it’s quite fashionable to talk about whether an artist’s work is concept driven or process driven. Concept driven work refers to artists who start with an idea concerning meaning and everything else follows: design, medium, process, technique, etc are secondary. Process driven refers to artists whose work is led by a creative process such as…
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Soul Shadows Ever on My Mind
Like books about books, music about music and musicians holds a special place in my list of most favorite things. Perhaps my overly meta-cognitive mind likes that hugely big picture perspective. Perhaps my need for exquisite and mesmerizing detail in service of that big picture relishes in the many rabbit holes of ponderance such creations offer. Perhaps that’s why half…
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