Welcome!

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year!

We have a great team of faculty, graduate students, and students this year!

Faculty This Year
Heidi Lowe, Innovative Jewelry Studio, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, has a great exhibition up right now: Swedish Jewelry and new show going up next week. Visit!

Megan Auman, Megan Auman Designs, Megan will be exhibiting at the NY Gift Fair this week. Check out her website and blog for great new designs- housewares, objects, jewelry.

Janet Huddie, independent studio artist, was sporting a beautiful new rapid prototyped bracelet this week. You might be able to find a portfolio at the Metals Guild of Maryland site.

Kim Voigt, teaching ART 217 Intro to Computer Media [M,9-12:50] and ART 361 Rhino I, gave a great presentation last week with Courtney Starrett, CADlaborating in Virtual Realms, at the SIGGRAPH conference on a collaborative project that her students at Towson did with a group of peers at Winthrop University in South Carolina highlighting the Towson University Innovation Lab in Second Life.

We have a lot of exciting new ideas and plans in place for you!
Collaboration with each other is a big point of emphasis. We are going to use this blog as our home base for the Interdisciplinary Object Design/Metals + Jewelry program on the web with lots of authors. If you are not an author and would like to be let me know.

Some Dates
Thursday September 10th is our kickoff party: Middle School Dance. CA 2006, 7pm. Featured speakers: Taylor Gilbert just back from a semester in Scotland at the Glasgow School of Art will talk about that experience and studying abroad, Megan Pase just got a job in the field which she is loving, Johanna Haydon [2009] is working at an internship at the Innovative Jewelry Studio. Anyone wanting to share their summer experiences at Peter's Valley or other job/related experience, let me know. All are welcome. {Actually, the party is required :)}

Saturday, September 26, is our annual trip to NYC! The Cooper Hewitt is on first destination to see Design For A Living World. Prepare to be blown away :). Then, hopefully on to SOHO- Droog opened a store there earlier this year. Wahoo! [Get Googlin']

Thursday, October 8th, Jaime Salm from Mio Culture in Philadelphia is our featured guest speaker. CA2032, 6:30pm. Google now! This is a huge coup. P.S. Bring Birthday cup cakes!

And we have a great powder coating system in place!
And we have a new laser cutter!

Classes
Lots of intro classes, non-art major classes
ART 370.050, Design and Social Entrepreneurship, a.k.a Design Like You Give A Damn
ART 319, Casting: metal, concrete, biopolymers.....What can be cast?
ART 418 Metals + Jewelry II- surfaces, hollow fab
ART 414- Advanced Studio- we'll be doing all kinds of fun and custom designed, leading edge things.
Honor's Project

We've got it all! And we are happy to be here. And we are happy you are here!
Welcome.

conversations

So here's a question/topic for all of you out there...

Do you consider yourself a Jeweler? a Maker? a Designer? an Artist? a Craftsperson?
What do you think the differences are between those? Do you feel like you fit into multiple categories or not fit in to any of those? How would you introduce yourself?

Comment away! Or find me and talk in person too.....

Live Blogging-PR 4

1/2 hour to choose one image to base your design on.
$100 for materials. First time they can choose their own fabric.
40's and 50's style in her work is her aesthetic- her look as well as what she makes. Same with Stella and the leather and rock and roll.
Terri and choosing fabric- good karma! Her hand touches fabric [the first?] and it is perfect- not trouncing around, flailing.
They have until 1am to make their designs, one long day.
If one more designer says, "I'm gonna show the judges who I am as a designer I am going to hurl. [Duh!]
The guy from Detroit says that one of the designers' dress looks like Ft. Lauderdale lawn furniture-y [Kennely?]- that sounds kinda cool.
I don't mean to be petty but, Miss Portland, comb your hair! She is so undesigner looking. Successful designers exude their style.
Stella seeing the horse's blinder.
Blayne is getting a little edgy.

"Suede is here to rock it. Sued has decided on a shirt dress."

Live Blogging-PR 3

Who's surprised Stella a doesn't know how to open the camera?
The designer standing in Greenwich Village holding the camera and just shooting- interesting approach.
Terri's eye with the graffiti. Very much her eye. Good.
Most understated statement: "Being gay in Salt Lake City was difficult."
It is human nature to think only about ourselves. [complaints about someone walking in front of them while shooting NYC]