Thursday, November 12, 2009

This Weekend - Let the Handmade Holiday shopping begin!

The 3rd Annual Tiny Canary *indie design market*
November 14 & 15 * 10am - 6pm each day

Come see myself along with nearly 50 artists from across the Mid-West to the East coast selling our handmade designer goods. For more information visit www.tinycanary.com
You don't want to miss this!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Visting Jewelry Designer

It's been such a busy couple of weeks, so this post is a little late. Belated though it is, it is definitely worth mentioning!

Screencapture of www.davidyurman.com

Last week, I had a fortunate opportunity to meet David Yurman, while he was the visiting artist at the Columbus College of Art and Design where I teach a jewelry and small metals class. He came up to our jewelry studio after his lecture and spoke with students and took a look at some of their designs and recent pieces. It was quite a valuable experience both for students getting their hands into metalsmithing, and for myself to hear about his progression from welding belt buckles on a small scale to his unplanned growth into one of the major worldwide jewelry designers in fashion today. He delivered a rather inspired lecture spanning five decades of his life as an artist and designer.