CMAG Board
Bruce McKay Barbara Covey Lyn Simon Earl Lovejoy Susan Lovejoy Wayne Acton Ken Patton Hobbs Wells Maybe YOU?
CMAG Board Meetings
Board meeting are generally
held the last Tuesday of
each month at 7:00pm.
Members are encouraged to
attend and contribute.
Contact Bruce for location.
How to Reach Us
Website:
www.cmaguild.org
Write:
Creative Metal Arts Guild
P. O. Box 8946
Portland OR 97207
Newsletter
Contributions, comments,
classified ads, display ads
guild@actonjewelry.comWayne Acton email
Membership
Please visit CMAG's website:
www.cmaguild.org
Annual membership dues are
$60; students $30
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Newsletter
The Creative Metal Arts Guild, a non-profit organization, exists to create a community for metalsmiths, jewelers and metal artists, by facilitating communication, providing information and benefits, promoting a positive image of the creative metal artist and increasing public awareness of the artist's contribution to the community. |
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 Editor's Comments
The November meeting will wrap up 2009 for CMAG as far as the monthly gatherings go. Everybody gets a break, to feverishly contend with the holidays, especially those of us retailing. I'm contemplating a small newsletter message in December, if anyone has anything to say. I'd like to take a moment to thank Barbara Covey who besides taking over at Treasurer for CMAG (a fairly demanding job, technically, easily puzzling to the newcomer,) has acted as photographer for the newsletter at general meetings. Several of her pictures are in every newsletter and the meeting picture pages on the web, accessed through the archive index at www.cmaguild.org/picts.html are mostly shots she's taken. Member pictures are always welcome here and easy to publish. Happy Holidays. Wayne
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Nov 10, 2009 - GENERAL MEETING PROGRAM
"Implement Innovations"
By Our Members
 
We all develop innovative changes to our tools to better suit our needs. We reshape our pliers, invent new texturing tools, invent new implements to polish things, and we use items never meant to be used in a metals shop.
Tuesday's meeting will be presented by the group, sharing the tools you have invented. What is in fact being presented however is the essence of creativity which brings us together in the first place. More than anything else we do, I feel that these show and tell sessions spread the sort of inspiration and innovation which is at the heart of all our work.
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After writing this up last month, I started looking at my tool drawers differently and found that the box of bezel closing implements, garnered over the (tell me it's not really) decades, doesn't contain a single item made commercially. I do use one of those black-handled burnishers; as an ice pick in the kitchen. So I'm going to bring some setting tools.
We want to see your clever tool discoveries (or the borrowed discoveries) that make your work easier. Plus, everyone would love to see repeat sharings of your favorite tool tricks.
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Dec. & Jan. Please remember that no general meeting is held in December.
For our January 12 program Debra Carus will give a presentation on the use of the bronze and copper metal clays that came out last summer. Debra regularly teaches classes on metal clays and thinks that these new ones might be perfect for small sculptures. Visit her website at:
www.elentari-handverk.com
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Faceter's Guild Auction
By Linda Apodaca
Joe and Linda Apodaca send word of the 36th annual Gem and Jewelry Auction by the Columbia Willamette Faceter's Guild to be held the evening of Saturday, November 14, at the Monarch Hotel, 12566 SE 93rd Ave, Clackamas, OR, 5:30 preview. I have on occasion gone to these impressive offerings, which have generally considerably stretched my wherewithal, but with gratifying result. Visit the website:
www.facetersguild.com/gemstone-auctions/auction-2009/
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 Port. Jewelry Symposium
From Mary Wong
Mary Wong has sends word of the Second Annual Portland Jewelry Symposium which is happening on the ninth at the Hotel Vintage Plaza in Portland. Pre-registration was to be by the second, don't know if there's openings yet or not. $75 at the door. This is an impressive event, Symposium-wise, even if they don't get word to the newsletter in time for the October issue. Apparently no website. The invite, with schedule, in pdf, is here:
http://www.techformcasting.com/pjs09.pdf
Phone: 503.652.5224
Email: info@techformcasting.com
Mail: 5558-D SE International Way, Portland, OR 97222
Cost with pre-registration is $65; registration at the door is $75.
Breakfast and lunch are provided. We accept checks, cash, and
all major credit cards.
Hotel Vintage Plaza
Portland, Oregon
November 9, 2009
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Spring Show Applications
By Debra Carus
This from Debra Carus of the Spring Show Steering Committee
Hi Wayne, here's a little update for our newsletter - Hope this works for you - feel free to edit my ramblings. thanks!
It's time to get serious about sending in your registration for the spring show. It always amazes me how fast the fall and winter months fly by, so don't forget to unearth the show application from under your workpile on your bench! Our goal is November 15th, and when you send your application, you are asked to send a booth deposit - what that means is this: if sending the total booth fee is not financially feasible at this time of year, please don't despair! Give Judy Acton a call (503 886 9037) to work out details of a deposit. Then sit back and enjoy the upcoming holiday season - we'll be scheduling show committee meetings starting in January when we really get hopping on the new year.
Debra Carus
Elentari Håndverk
12042 SE Sunnyside Rd. PMB 444
Clackamas, OR 97015
www.elentari-handverk.com
971-221-8151
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Sale Items
From Allyson Cooper
Got a message from former member Allyson Cooper who still turns up from time to time especially visiting the Spring Show. Looks like she's selling out. Didn't say if she's headed out of the area.
Hi Wayne & Judy … I am relocating and I have some items I need to sell. I would be most appreciative if y'all would please forward this info to the CMAG newsletter person. … Thank you, Allyson Cooper
For Sale:
Rio Grande Vibratory tumbler - $150. Includes extra tub with cover and three bags of ceramic tumbling media. Still in excellent working condition. NOT a flow-through style. Larger tub is 11" wide by 4" deep, smaller tub is 10" wide by 4" deep.
Old style credit card processor (aka, "knuckle-buster") and a dial up terminal with operation manuals. Machinery ONLY for sale, this offer is NOT for a credit card merchant account! A bag of carbon paper receipts is also included. Both for $25.
Kit for a three-bulb track lighting set up for indoors. It was purchased new from IKEA several years ago and has never been installed. The box is open but all original parts are intact, including the directions. $15.
Jeweler's bench for sale - excellent condition. Includes two retractable arm rests, retractable drawing/writing panel, locking drawer, two side drawers, two catch trays. Purchased new three years ago. $300
Please email Allyson at altariel@comcast.net
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Ciao Gallery, Jackson WY
Got this in the email. It's a quick deadline for a gallery in Jackson Wyoming. Website looks nice. Jackson is the single most cosmopolitan place I've ever visited, everybody there is visiting from somewhere else; everywhere on the globe. And I went there in summer, can't even imagine ski season. They want a 35 buck application fee which might be a little bum, even for a cute place.
Would you please forward to your members?
Thank you!
Call to all fine craft artists and jewelers for entry:
CIAO Gallery announces "Winter Solstice, Fine Craft & Jewelry" exhibition which will be held December 4th (1st Friday art walk). We are currently accepting applications for entry into the exhibition. We are seeking crafters including pottery, glass making, textiles, wood working, jewelery, and any other craft! Deadline for entry is November 14th. You can apply by going to www.ciaogallery.com (under the "Call to Artists" tab) and downloading an application. Or you can stop by CIAO Gallery at 66 S. Glenwood St, downtown Jackson. This exhibtion will be great for holiday gifts! Call 733-7833 for more information.
Hope to see your application!
Michele E. Walters
Gallery Director
Ciao Gallery
(307)733-7833
66 S. Glenwood St.
Jackson, WY 83001
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Gallery Without Walls, Lake Oswego
Another November deadline, from Lake Oswego, for sculptors. This is from Carol Murphy who does the newsletter for the PNWSculpters. So maybe our sculptor members have it already.Great sculpture pics on the website.
Call for Sculptors
Gallery Without Walls
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Deadline: November 21, 2009
Gallery Without Walls, the award winning outdoor sculpture exhibit sponsored by the Arts Council of Lake Oswego, is entering its tenth year. The exhibit is presently comprised of over sixty sculptures by regionally and internationally acclaimed artists. Thirty of the works of art, on loan from the sculptors, are displayed for two years on a rotating basis and are available for purchase to the public.
Gallery Without Walls was awarded a U.S. Conference of Mayors Livability Award in 2007.
Sculptors who are interested in being considered for the next Gallery Without Walls exhibit, can obtain information about submitting proposals at the Arts Council website www.lofa.org or send a resume and 300 dpi .jpg files representative of their work to the Arts Council of Lake Oswego, Attn: Susan Bitzer, Program Manager sbitzer@ci.oswego.or.us or at PO Box 369, Lake Oswego, OR 97034. The next exhibit is scheduled for the fall of 2010. Materials must be received by November 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM. For more information, call 503/675-2531.
The Arts Council of Lake Oswego is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The mission of the Arts Council is to ensure the arts are an integral part of the lives of the citizens of Lake Oswego. The Council was formed to ensure a continuation of support for arts education, present exhibits, tours, and lectures, and to maintain the City of Lake Oswego's permanent and rotating art collection.
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Sculpture Without Walls, Cannon Beach
Nancy Hoyt sends this, also for sculpture. The deadline is December 31. For the complete info and prospectus go to the website: www.ci.cannon-beach.or.us/community/publicart.html
CALL FOR ENTRIES/ Prospectus
The City of Cannon Beach Oregon is pleased to invite artists from Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia to make sculpture submissions for Sculpture Without Walls (SWW). SWW, a public art program, is a yearlong outdoor sculpture exhibit. Cannon Beach, which has long been considered an arts community and is perched at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, provides a magnificent backdrop for outdoor sculpture. SWW 2010-11 will be on display from April 2010 to April 2011. Three sculptures will be chosen by a panel of jurors and installed in prominent outdoor locations in Cannon Beach. One sculpture, the winner of “the Peoples Choice Award”, a popular vote, will be purchased for up to $15,000 and become a permanent part of the City’s public art collection.
Submission deadline: December 31st, 2009
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The October general meeting was called to order by Bruce McKay, who calls himself "The President by Default" and claims that without CMAG, he'd have no social life. Well there'd hardly be time, given the vivacious whirl we keep up around here. Seriously, Bruce is a tested veteran in the position and I'm sure I speak for everybody, in thanking Bruce for taking up this position and in offering help to make his reign successful.
