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IMAG MONTHLY MEETING
AUGUST 16TH 5:15PM
GEM STATE METALS
(formally metal supermarket)
5220 N. SAWYER AVE. UNIT H
GARDEN CITY, IDAHO
OPPORTUNITIES
Visit IMAG member Jessica Turner at the Nampa Festival of the Arts Saturday, August 14th 10:00 am - 6:00 pm and Sunday, August 15th 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
This is an open forum for artists with work in progress and newly completed works (all mediums welcome). This forum is an informal meeting designed to offer constructive feedback on artistic works in progress. Located at Studio 518 Annex, August 31st. 8pmPlease bring up to three works and food/drink donation.
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This is the first official IMAG newsletter. In developing this newsletter it is our goal to offer you more than just IMAG news. We want to offer you a sense of community. We want to introduce the idea of one centralized information base for people working in an industry, a profession, a trade, a craft or even a hobby exploring the use of metals. From bench jewelers to iron workers, collectively we share an appreciation of working with our hands. IMAG is an open forum within Idaho, to exchange ideas and knowledge of the metals field. This newsletter will act as a guide to pursuing art opportunities, events and workshops. It will also highlight member news and recently completed works.
-Rachel I Reichert, IMAG President
FEATURED EXHIBIT
The National Ornamental Metal Museum is more than a museum. Dedicated to the preservation and promotion of metal work, if offers an on site restoration shop, an Artist-in-Resident program, workshops and classes, exhibition space, a library and a small retail shop. With a rotating exhibition space, the Ornamental Metal Museum showcases a range of works from jewelry and hollowware, to sculpture and architectural ironwork.
 John Rais, Tonare, steel and paint, 2009
The most recent exhibit Iron Twenty Ten- A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Blacksmithing showcases the expansive world of contemporary metalwork. This collection of abstract and representational sculpture, vessels, architectural ironwork, firescreens, furniture, and other functional items offers an extensive depiction of the American blacksmithing today. The exhibition will travel to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (June 25 - August 28, 2011), Southern Illinois University Museum January 17 - March 9, 2012), and the Fuller Craft Museum (June - October, 2012).
For more info on The National Ornamental Metal Museum or this exhibit please click here.
FEATURED BOOK
The Dutch jewellery label “Chi ha paura …?”, founded in 1996 by Gijs Bakker, celebrated its twelfth birthday in 2008. To commemorate that occasion, the present book represents a first retrospective of all 74 objects produced to date: from the first works dating from 1996 through the subsequent themed collections “Sense of Wonder” (2002), “What’s Luxury” (2004) and “Rituals” (2007).
Text in English. Click here to purchase on Amazon.
FEATURED ARTIST
Look for Anika's work in the upcoming Fall 2010 Metalsmith:Exhibition in Print. Garth Clark is the guest curator of Metalsmith's special annual Exhibition in Print this year. The theme of this issue, chosen by Clark, is Neo-Palatial: Objects of Virtue and Vice. The issue will showcase contemporary objects de virtue, extravagant works that challenge the limitations of technique, scale, and sometimes good taste. Designed to take center stage, this work is brash, exaggerated and virtuosic in their use of metals. Neo-Palatial will feature work by twenty-one contemporary artists. Featured artists include Tim Horn, Jeff Koons, Michele Oka Doner, Shana Astrachan, emiko oye, Tomek Ogrodowski, Marie Pendaries, Anika Smulovitz, and Amelia Toekle.Garth Clark is a renowned curator, critic, dealer and historian. One of craft's most influential intellectuals, Clark has edited and contributed to more than fifty books, and is author of numerous essays and articles. He has also curated many significant exhibitions at museums around the world.
Work featured in the Exhibition in Print will be exhibited at The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, in November and December 2010. Clark will speak about the work as one of SNAG's three lectures in the Salon Series at SOFA Chicago, and his essay from the Exhibition in Print will be reprinted in the SOFA catalogue. http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/
Please send all IMAG newsletter submissions to Rachel Reichert at fancyirene@hotmail.com before October 15th, 2010. Please subject your emails "IMAG newsletter"
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