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Society Of North American Goldsmiths
Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) is an organization of jewelers and metal artists in North America. It is located in Eugene, Oregon. Foundation The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) was founded in Chicago in 1969. It was formed after an initial meeting in 1968 of Robert Ebendorf, Phillip Fike, Hero Kielman, L. Brent Kington, Stanley Lechtzin., Kurt Matzdorf, Ronald Hayes Pearson, and Olaf Skoogfors. The group was formed to create a structure for conferences and exhibitions. In 1970 held its first conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The same year it held its first exhibition at the Minnesota Museum of Art. Activities The organization provides workshops, competitions, and lectures to its membership. It also provides an environment for contemporary jewelers and metalsmiths to share information. Publications SNAG published various newsletters starting in 1975. In 1980 SNAG began producing a quarterly magazine entitled ''Metalsmith''. It became a triannua ...
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Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast. As of the 2020 United States Census, Eugene had a population of 176,654 and covers city area of 44.21 sq mi (114.50 sq km). Eugene is the seat of Lane County and the state's second largest city after Portland. The Eugene-Springfield metropolitan statistical area is the 146th largest in the United States and the third largest in the state, behind those of Portland and Salem. In 2022, Eugene's population was estimated to have reached 179,887. Eugene is home to the University of Oregon, Bushnell University, and Lane Community College. The city is noted for its natural environment, recreational opportunities (especially bicycling, running/jogging, rafting, and kayaking), and focus on the arts, along with its history of civil unrest, protests, and green activism. Eugene's offi ...
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Chicago
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Robert Ebendorf
Robert Ebendorf (born September 30, 1938) is an American metalsmith and jeweler, known for craft, art and studio jewelry, often using found objects. In 2003–2004, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized an exhibition of 95 pieces, titled ''The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years''. Biography Born on September 30, 1938, in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Dr. Harry Ebendorf and Nomah Large, a homemaker. Starting at a young age, his father would take him to his paternal grandparent's tailor shop. There he would watch them work together, creating articles of clothing. He credits the time spent there, and his mother, with helping create his sensitivity to the world around him and leading him to choose a career in art. Academics challenged Ebendorf due to a learning disability, dyslexia. However he excelled at sports, and was offered full scholarships for wrestling and football. With the encouragement of his high school art teacher, he instead decided to purs ...
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Phillip Fike
Phillip George Fike (1927–1997) was an American metalsmith and jeweler. He is known for his work in the decorative metal technique of niello as well as reintroducing the fibula brooch to contemporary metalsmiths. Fike was born in 1927 in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He attended University of Wisconsin under the G.I. Bill. Fike taught art at Wayne University in 1953 and continued teaching there for 45 years. Fike was a founding member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. In 1983 he was named a Master Metalsmith by the Metal Museum in Memphis. In 1988 he was named a fellow of the American Craft Council. Fike died in Grosse Pointe on December 8, 1997. His work is in the Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the list of largest art museums, largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation a ..., the Metal Museum, the National ...
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Hero Kielman
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly gender-specific terms (like ''actor''), ''hero'' is often used to refer to any gender, though ''heroine'' only refers to women. The original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor. Post-classical and modern heroes, on the other hand, perform great deeds or selfless acts for the common good instead of the classical goal of wealth, pride, and fame. The antonym of ''hero'' is '' villain''. Other terms associated with the concept of ''hero'' may include ''good guy'' or '' white hat''. In classical literature, the hero is the main or revered character in heroic epic poetry celebrated through ancient legends of a people, often striving for military conquest and living by a continually flawed personal honor code. The definition of a hero has changed ...
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Stanley Lechtzin
Stanley Lechtzin (born 1936) is an American artist, jeweler, metalsmith and educator. He is noted for his work in electroforming and computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacture (CAM). He has taught at Temple University in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, from 1962. Early life and education Stanley was born in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, to an observant Jewish family. He first encountered jewelry and metalsmithing at Cass Technical High School. After high school Lechtzin worked as a draftsman and cartographer. While working for the City of Detroit Public Lighting Commission he realized that he did not want to continue that career path, so he began taking night courses at Wayne State University in Detroit. He set up a studio and began taking commissions upon graduation. He soon entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where much of his graduate work dealt with ferrous metals and stainless steel flatware. Career Upon graduation from Cranbrook Academy of Art, L ...
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Kurt Matzdorf
Kurt J. Matzdorf, also known as Kurtheinz J. Matzdorf (1922 – 2008), was a German-born American jewelry designer, metalsmith (which included silversmith, goldsmith) and an educator. He was Professor Emeritus at State University of New York at New Paltz and he founded the metals department. Matzdorf was known for his religious objects in metal. Early life and education Kurt J. Matzdorf was born May 26, 1922 in Stadtoldendorf, Germany, to parents Alice Frank and Wilhelm Matzdorf. His family was Jewish. In 1939, he was brought to England on a kindertransport. His mother was either murdered in Chełmno extermination camp near Ljublin on 20 April 1941 or Hadamar Euthanasia Centre on 11 February 1941. His father was murdered in Sachsenhausen labour camp on 28 January 1942. During World War II, he attended Slade School of Fine Art in London and studied with the sculptor Benno Elkan in Oxford. In 1949, he moved to the United States, where he studied goldsmithing and metalsmithing a ...
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Ronald Hayes Pearson
Ronald Hayes Pearson (1924 – 1996) was an American designer, jeweler, and metalsmith. He lived for many years in Rochester, New York and later, Deer Island, Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north .... Biography Ronald Hayes Pearson was born on September 22, 1924 in New York City, New York to parents Louise Hayes Pearson and Ralph M. Pearson (1883-1958), an accomplished American etcher-art teacher/critic. In his early childhood, the family took visits to a Danish American metalsmith art colony at Milton-on-the-Hudson, called Elverhoj. (Hill of the faeries). He attended University of Wisconsin from 1942-1943, for political science, followed by service in the United States Merchant Marine from 1943 to 1947. Following the service, he attended the School for American C ...
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Olaf Skoogfors
Olaf Skoogfors was an artist, metalsmith and educator until his death in 1975, at the age of 45. Early life and education Olaf Skoogfors was born in a backwoods iron center in Bredsjo, Sweden, on June 27, 1930. When he was four years old, he and his family came to the United States and settled in Wilmington, Delaware. After three years the family moved back to Sweden and returned to the United States, Philadelphia, at the beginning of World War II. He studied drawing at the Graphic Sketch Club and graduated from Olney High School in 1949. He continued his education with Virginia Wireman and Richard Reinhardt at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. Having served in the U.S. Army from 1953 till 1955, Skoogfords began his studies at The School for American Craftsmen in Rochester, New York. Career In 1957 Skoogfors moved back to Philadelphia and established his first shop in the West of the town. In 1961 he joined the faculty at Philadelphia College of Art and began to teach ...
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County, Minnesota, Ramsey County. Situated on high bluffs overlooking a bend in the Mississippi River, Saint Paul is a regional business hub and the center of Minnesota's government. The Minnesota State Capitol and the state government offices all sit on a hill close to the city's downtown district. One of the oldest cities in Minnesota, Saint Paul has several historic neighborhoods and landmarks, such as the Summit Avenue (St. Paul), Summit Avenue Neighborhood, the James J. Hill House, and the Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota), Cathedral of Saint Paul. Like the adjacent and larger city of Minneapolis, Saint Paul is known for its cold, snowy winters and humid summers. As of the 2021 census estimates, the city's population was 307,193, making it the List of United States cities by population, 67th-largest city in the United State ...
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Minnesota Museum Of Art
The Minnesota Museum of American Art ("The M") is an American art museum located in the Historic Pioneer Endicott building in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The museum holds more than 5,000 artworks that showcase the unique voice of American artists from the 19th century to the present. Guided by the belief that art should reflect the constantly shifting landscape that defines the American experience, the museum desires to celebrate the work of artists from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as new voices that have emerged from communities of color, immigrants, their children and grandchildren. History The Minnesota Museum of American Art was founded in 1894 as the St. Paul School of Fine Arts; membership at the time cost $3. In 1909 the name changed to the St. Paul Institute (or St. Paul Institute of Art and Science) and briefly became part of the forerunner to the Science Museum of Minnesota. From 1910 to 1918, artist Lee Woodward Zeigler was the director of the Saint Paul Institute. ...
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