CMAG General Meeting

7:15 pm, Tuesday, JUNE 10 / Multnomah Arts Center, Rm 34

Program

“ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS”
ART PIN CHALLENGE AND PIN SWAP
Carey Smith will be leading this amusing program to help us loosen up and look in new directions for design ideas and materials.

The challenge is to follow the steps below and create 4-5 fun pins to swap for pins other members will have made. (We already have commitments from members to make pins.)

Step 1 - Eliminate your “jewelers (or sculptors) exactness”. Discard concerns about the preciousness of the materials. Abandon your anxiety about “who will buy it?”.

Step 2 – Dig into your junk drawers, your scrap box and wherever you collect your potpourri of stuff. You are looking for “treasures” you can incorporate into the pins you will make. A few possibilities are paper clips, nuts, bolts, glitter, tiny toys, electronic parts, paper, rubber bands, ice cream sticks, aluminum cans, hardware, sewing items, plastics, and/or bones.
Step 3 – The pin mechanism can be a cheap (glue-on) pin back, a safety pin, a clothes pin, a tie tack back, an empty name tag sleeve, or whatever you can figure out.
Step 4 – It would be great to incorporate “CMAG 2008” somewhere on the pin.
Step 5 – Make 4-5 duplicates so you come armed to swap.
Carey says that above all this should be fast, cheap, crazy, and probably inspired. P.S.- If you don’t have time to make any, come and enjoy a demo and the fun.

 Descriptions of the photos are:
1. Piece of tin can and furniture tack.
2. Mini clothes “pin”
3. Cut steel with safety pin.
4. A pebble, bead and screen (glued).
5. Copper and wing-nut.
6. Copper and plastic arm.
7. Cardboard, handmade paper, beads and brass (sewn and glued).

July 8 Program:

SWAP MEET AT JULY MEETING!! Start gathering the goods you want to sell.

August 12 Program:

New Member Showcase!!

Next Board Meeting

Mandy's House

MONTHLY MEETINGS & PROGRAMS


WHEN: General CMAG member meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month. Door opens at 6:45pm, meetings begin at 7:15pm, and adjourn by 9:15pm.

WHERE: Room 34 at the Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway Portland 97219.

WHAT: meetings consist of a general business and a short break with refreshments, followed by a program which may be a demonstration of a technique or tool, a slide presentation, a panel discussion, or other presentation of interest to CMAG members. The CMAG Library is open before the meeting and during the break for checking out books and magazines.

WHO: Meetings are open to CMAG members and their guests.

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