Lynette is so one of my favorites.
yo eastling:
rrose-cestlavie: did you see Gabey runnin around SCAD earlier this month?
“Gabriel Craig was also a visiting artist at the Savannah College of Art and Design November 5th and 6th”
bbygrldreamz: Oh Gabriel… hint of advice if you ever do run into him. Never ask him a question while he is on his computer. Because its not like looking something up and showing your friend is more important than helping out an undergrad. Because that’s not your job or anything.
I did in fact see him! He was on a discussion panel with a few other artists about “Making Meaning in the Marketplace” and it was sort of interesting. The moderator was Fabio Ongarato, which was way cool in theory, but he didn’t do a very good job asking questions so the whole thing was sort of dull. Gabriel was kind of awkward, but in a cute way, not in an obnoxious way, haha. I wish I’d gotten a chance to talk to him though!
Superglue + cotton = NOT A FUN MIX.
This is what I have been working on for the last month, but most especially for the last three days… all day yesterday, all day the day before, and all day today in the studio. This is the most intense project I’ve had in this major yet. So much heartache, so much excitement, so much alcohol… so many injuries… so much N*SYNC… Alex, Terran, Becks and I had the back room mostly to ourselves last night, so we checked out the CD player and found Now That’s What I Call Music 6 in Alex’s CD case. You can imagine how the night progressed.
Now I just have one project left for this class and THEN I’M DOOOOOOOOONE.
![Marielle Debethune[apparat]](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksmkv9NCqx1qz7dlvo1_500.jpg)
Marielle Debethune
[apparat]
DisceMori
![Michelle Lane[oh joy!]](http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kscqohKiNT1qz7dlvo1_500.jpg)
Michelle Lane
[oh joy!]
![Sarah Rhodes[mar de color rosa]](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksbbryVxjz1qz7dlvo1_400.jpg)
Sarah Rhodes
[mar de color rosa]
However, the earliest undisputed evidence of art during the Paleolithic period comes from Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age sites such as Blombos Cave in the form of bracelets, beads, rock art, and ochre used as body paint and perhaps in ritual. Undisputed evidence of art only becomes common in the following Upper Paleolithic period. According to Robert G. Bednarik, Lower Paleolithic Acheulean tool users began to engage in symbolic behavior such as art around 850,000 BP and decorated themselves with beads and collected exotic stones for aesthetic rather than utilitarian qualities.
This is just too fascinating. Call me a nerd, but I love prehistory.
ganoskin: Recently a fascinating thread has been circulating that someone started by asking a simple question. What do people who make and/or sell jewelry call themselves?
You might think we’d know this seemingly simple answer but it sparked a debate that is going on several days now.
The consensus seems to be that we are JEWELERS…and that a person is a JEWELER is they sell jewelry, even if they don’t know much about making it. However that doesn’t make a person necessarily a BENCH JEWELER who must apparently know how to do repairs as well as make jewelry.
And, a person can be a GOLDSMITH even if they never work with gold. A goldsmith, we learned, is any person who makes small objects of precious metals, usually for personal adornment. It was also said that a GOLDSMITH must see the big picture; creating from initial conception through completion.
A SILVERSMITH on the other hand, is a person who works on larger hollowware; things like candleholders, knifes, forks, spoons, plates etc…
Some call themselves METALSMITHS, however, one person mentioned that she has been contacted to make wrought iron and shoe horses…not exactly the same thing!
Given that I rarely work with gold, I hardly feel that “goldsmith” works for me, though it sure sounds nice! I previously thought a better term for me was either “metalsmith” or “silversmith” but I learned that neither of those are right at all!
So, I have decided I am a JEWELER. I like the ring to that as well, although as a “jeweler” I have so much still to learn from far more accomplished jewelers. At one of my classes, I noticed a man wearing an apron that said “Jeweler In Training”. Maybe that’s me!
I’ve been wondering this same thing for the past few days. I feel like a jeweler is someone who works at De Beers or Zales… which is not at all the direction I’m headed. I don’t think goldsmith or silversmith are terms the general population understands (one doesn’t work purely in gold or silver; the name refers to the wares and process as the article described). I think I have accepted the title metalsmith for myself. It seems to be very all-encompassing, since not only do I work with nonferrous and precious metals, but at some point I’d like to pick up iron and steel and work larger. Plus, you know, Metalsmith magazine, produced by the Society of North American Goldsmiths? It works for me.
ninakix: Laura Lombardi dips quartz in 24kt gold to create these beautiful necklaces.
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Tim McCreight is guest lecturing next Tuesday.
I mean, wtf Scad, why you so good to me?
Isabell Schaupp
Funnels and Moths
Cacoxenite in Quartz
Biggs Jasper
We’re learning lapidary in Studio 2. I am -beyond- excited about this. I’m buying slabs online right now. I really hope that I am awesome at this because the whole thing fascinates me. Bonus: there are not a lot of MJ majors very interested in lapidary work, but everyone likes to set stones, right? Cha-ching.
Frieda Kahlo
I realized tonight that her self-portraits always involve something interesting on her neck, so I’m going to start work on a Frieda-inspired line. We’ll see where it goes.
