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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES JEWELRY DISTRICT TOUR It Is Time for the Second Edition of Our Popular Downtown Los Angeles Jewelry District Tour 2016 March/April METALSOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ARTS CALIFORNIA April 13 2016 10:00 am - 3:00 pm DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES JEWELRY DISTRICT TOUR It is time for the second edition of our popular Downtown Los Angeles Jewelry district tour. We will be sharing information you can’t find online or any where else. You’ll learn who to visit for your Tools, Casting, Mold making, Plating, Findings, Laser welding, Laser engraving, Diamond/stone vendors and more! AND because it’s a Wednesday we will enjoy many different lunch options at the weekly farmers Market in Pershing Square. We will be meeting in the heart of the Jewelry district. THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR MEMBERS AND OPEN TO EVERYBODY FOR THE LOW PRICE OF $10 We will be meeting in the heart of the district at a place to be disclosed after you RSVP to Angelina Smith: [email protected] MASSC will send out very helpful directions on the meeting time/place and parking to those that RSVP by March 30th. NEWSLETTER Energetic, ambitious, and an elegant PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE South Carolina accent was Laura Wood with her subject being “Crafting A Com- munity, a Personal Path”. Having been Feeding the creativity spirit a dance student where movement was so important, she told us of incorporat- ing this energy into her jewelry along with powder coating the surface. Her Diane Weimer enthusiasm for the work was infectious. The homemade powder coating cabinet Raw Inspiration, innovation, and materials a few. I had made 35 copper coyotes en- was a Rubbermaid rectangular box that used in a new way or a new direction pique hanced with either a heat patina or a patina she altered. As she moved from various the very corners of my brain and plant a of liver of sulfur and coffee and then using a jobs, she created, she made sure to train seed that I mull over…. and over before it scrubby in the gentlest way. What a spread and pass on her knowledge to the next makes its appearance. The events such as of techniques and materials in those pins! metalsmith. Passing on tasks to other the annual Yuma Symposium, Idyllwild Met- metalsmiths was a common theme in her als Week, MASSC Jewelry Challenge, Monica On Saturday, it was our extreme pleasure talk, supporting the metalsmithing com- Branstrom’s Metalsmiths in Florence, or to spend the next hour and a half with munity. Touting safety measures she gave 2nd Saturday with Deb Jemmott feed my our own MASSC member, speaker Rachel us this website, www.wellnessformakers. creative spirit. The energy and sheer exhila- Shimpock on the subject of electroform- com to view. She currently works at Mora in ration I receive from these experiences I ing. Uniquely titled “Electroformeriffic”. On Asheville, South Carolina for Martha Le Van, believe pushes my designs and forces me to her table were all her materials and low- formerly of Lark Books. expand my directions, end equipment she had researched for the Always looking for innovative titles for tasks. She started with images of her fam- workshops that will intrigue the listener, our …And so on Feb. 25, 2016 Raminta Jautokas ily and gave us a sense of her life growing next meeting was with Meggan Gould and and I were headed to the Yuma Symposium. up. She introduced us to her early life with her event called “How Taking the Salton Sea route meant we had to such humor that the Not To Hold A Camera, brave the slow moving 91 Freeway with all audience was often How Not To See With A its construction. After five hours of driving laughing at her self- Camera and How Not we wheeled our belongings into the Hilton deprecating style. As To Look at Photographs” Garden Inn, Yuma, AZ, 2 blocks from Old she got further into was mesmerizing. She Yuma and then made our way to Lute’s Ca- An added plus was the pop up store, sup- her subject, each of had taken a classical sino for registration and the Pin Swap. This ported by Kat Cole and Laura Wood of www. us received a small curriculum in photog- was going to be a fun weekend! jewelryedition.com, which had been set up book with all the raphy and completed Entering the Casino on that Thursday night, on one of the tables in Lute’s. Stunning piec- electroforming direc- it, although soon she we experienced a cacophony of sound es!!! Of course, Raminta and I found a few tions, complete with realized the traditional where the excitement level was off the we couldn’t live without fabricated by Caitie child-like drawings. wasn’t for her. She charts. People scurrying from table to table Sellars and Erica Bello. Our first purchase of In explaining one of shared some photos of with a brief phrase on their lips of “wanna the weekend. Next, we walked over to the the concepts, she chalkboards that had trade”? The myriad of pins stretched from a Yuma Theater for the overview event, where used visual aids. One just been erased where small floral arrangement in metal, an angry each presenting artist gave a 5 min. talk ac- was in the form of 2 some light images re- enameled cat pin, and a rectangular 24K companied by 5-6 slides, helping us decide alligator heads (des- mained. Not one to take GOLD pin (from a student from California which presenter we wanted to see on Friday ignated as anode and standard photos she pushed home the idea College of the Arts) were some, to name and Saturday. cathode representing the alligator clips and of looking at things with new eyes and new their connections) and a round, fluffy Q-tip rules. 2 continued on p3 fashioned out of construction paper to demonstrate the used. There were various Yuma pins, brooches, T-shirts and French Kiss, and Untitled, and Harlequins, and many more. correct hookups. Her presentation was absolutely flawless. other donated jewelry. They had 3 team members since there were 3 tasks that Well done, Rachel!! Her good friend and colleague, Rizzhel Others participants are: Susan Else (fiber), Tom O’Day (sculp- had to be completed. The first person runs up and saws out Mae Javier who was her assistant at the meeting, completed ture and performance) Erika Adams (printmaking) Adrian a ring blank, Second person, runs up and files the rough the construction of the book. Arleo (clay), David Graham (photo) edges and the ends and forms it into a ring using the man- Kim Cridler was our next presenter speaking about fashion- Saturday afternoon we gathered in the parking lot near drel. Next, the third person runs down and solders the ring ing jewelry and sculpture out of steel including mild steel the banquet area. I know you’ve heard the term. “In record closed using the propane tank. Many problems abound binding wire. She spoke of her family saving everything time”. It was the when trying to create a ring in record time that will fit one and them repurposing it. She stressed that, “the job of an famed Yuma Solder of the team members. There artist is to do what you love” Sprints. Twenty-four are the breaking blades, teams had signed and the wind blowing out up representing the flame when lighting the various schools like small propane tank to name two. However, it is all done in good fun. The Yuma Symposium, this February event, winds up with the catered Mexican banquet and dancing nearby. In the company of a commu- nity of metalsmiths and other artists … doesn’t get any better than that? ECU, Humboldt State, CSULB, CCA and many more Martha Banyas’s, an afternoon speaker, designs are along with indi- steeped in the Java and Bali cultures and spoke vidual teams. Your about expressing her breast cancer narrative team could get a through puppets and enamel wall hangings. The handmade trophy vibrant colors beckoned the viewer to look further. for sawing, filing, soldering a ring that would fit one of its members at the Solder Sprints, IF in record time. At the Friday night found us at the Yuma Community Art Center on front, a table, was set up for 2 contestants with a bench pin, Main Street, diagonal from the Lute’s Casino, for the artist solder brick, ring mandrel, file, flux, striker, solder, saw and speaker exhibit, student exhibit and the silent auction com- extra blades, pliers, and the propane tank composing all plete with wine and hors de’ oeuvres. Oh my, was the silent the equipment to accomplish the job. Many of the teams auction bustling with electricity!! The exhibition committee dressed up in costume. They were team characters from had mounted all the donations on palettes and hung them Alice In Wonderland, a team dressed as a woopie cushion, 3on the walls including name of the artist and their materials hot dog and hamburger, one called A-Plus, and THEY, and How to use small pieces of BOARD OF DIRECTORS PnP paper President Diane Weimer 562-596-5841 [email protected] VP/Program Chair Angelina Smith [email protected] Recording Secy Jennifer Polson 714-222-5629 [email protected] Corresp. Secy Angela Roskelley 562-818-8468 [email protected] Treasurer Janette Parker 562-433-8004 [email protected] You don’t have to run a full piece of PnP paper through your copier. Membership Jan Reimer 714-206-7785 [email protected] First print the design on regular paper. Then cut out just enough PnP paper San Diego Rep Carol Sivets 619-281-6447 [email protected] to fit the design.
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