Past Conferences
2008
Savannah, GA
"Crosscurrents: Diverse Solutions in a Global Environment"
Hosted by The Savannah College of Art and Design
2008
SNAG Conference Program
Visit the 2008 SNAG Conference Photo
Gallery
2007
Memphis, TN
“Directions Unknown: Looking Forward, Learning from
History”
Hosted by the Metal Museum
2007
SNAG Conference Program
Keynote Speaker:
Ralph Caplan, “Directions Unknowable”
Other Speakers:
Phillip Baldwin, “Barbarians Meet the Machine: The Art
Knife Movement”
Elizabeth Brim, “Women in Iron”
Michael Croft, “Contemporary Automata: The Art of
Animated
Figures”
Carissa Hussong, “Size Matters: Where Public Art and
Metal Meet”
Tom Joyce, “ Sotto Vocce”
Hyewon Lee, “Contemporary Korean Metal
Artists”
Randy Milhoan, “The Bad Boys and Girls of Metal: The
Legacy Summervail”
Rosanne Raab, “Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro” with
special guest Tod
Pardon
Felieke van der Leest, “The Zoo of
Life”
Dr. Courtney Young, “Environmental Stewardship in the
Gold Mining Industry; Can Cyanide and Mercury be Used
Safely”
2006
Chicago, IL
"Mind & Matter: From Thought to Object"
Hosted by Chicago Metal Arts Guild
2006 SNAG
Conference Program
Visit the 2006 SNAG Conference Photo
Gallery
Keynote Speaker:
Ted Noten, "Once a Bricklayer, Always a Bricklayer"
Other Speakers:
Kate Bonansinga, "The Big Picture and the Small Object"
Sharon Church, "Working Toward the Center - Second Report"
Ramon Puig Cuyàs, "The Voyage between Macrocosms and
Microcosms"
Martha Ehrlich, "Akan Cast & Repoussé
Metalwork"
Karl Fritsch, "Observations on Conventional Jewelry in the
Context of His Own Work"
Hoss Haley, "Imprint: Fixed Images and Lasting Ideas"
Jean Mandeberg, "The Importance of PLAY in Transforming Mind
into Matter"
Bruce Pepich, "What’s in a Name?"
Tina Rath, "Razors Edge"
Terry Sisco, 'Ten Things Every Retail Buyer Wants to Know"
Frank Wilson, "Hand, Brain, and Self: How (and Why) Nature
Learned to Make Artists"
2005
Cleveland, OH
"Intersection"
Hosted by Cleveland Institue of Art and Kent State
University
2005 SNAG
Conference Program
Keynote Speaker:
Gijs Bakker, "Concept and Beyond"
Other Speakers:
Gregory Peckham, "Catalytic Design: The Role of Artists in
Shaping the Built Environment"
Kathy Buszkiewicz, "Value"
Gretchen Goss, developed with Maria Phillips, "In Print/ In
Person/In Presentation:
A Continuing Discussion About Contemporary Enamel"
David McFadden, "Transgressions and Other Sins of Our
Time"
Dr. Howard Risatti, "Craft versus Design: Recognition versus
Understanding"
Melvin Rose, "19th Century Guilds to 21st Century Cleveland,
An Odyssey"
Lyneise Williams, "What about Bling: Considering Hip Hop
Jewelry"
Panels:
"Theory and Practice: A Dialog Between Educators and
Practitioners"
Suzanne Ramljak, moderator
Marcia Macdonald, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Joe Wood, and Jan
Yager
"The Price of Gold"
Susan Kingsley and Christina Miller, moderators
Tom Goldtooth, Glenn Miller, and Payal Sampat
2004
St. Petersburg, FL
"In Pursuit of Passion"
Florida Craftsmen and Florida Society of Goldsmiths
2004 SNAG
Conference Program
Keynote Speaker:
Christiane Corbat, "Creative Passion: Fulfilling Our Life's
Work"
Other Speakers:
Barbara Becker Simon, "Precious Metal Clay - We’re
Serious About This…"
Harlan Butt, "Wilderness Metal: Images of Olympic, Big Cypress
& Organ Pipe"
Barbara Cotter, "Contemporary West Australian Jewellery"
Robert Ebendorf, "Passed and Present: A Retrospective of 40
Years of Work"
Dee Fontans, "Outing The Body"
Steven Ford, "Taking It All In With Polymer Clay"
Lisa Gralnick & Pat Nelson, "Lighting the Fire: A Survey
of Undergraduate Projects in University Metalsmithing
Programs"
Arch Gregory, "Minimal Rings: Simple Form, Complex Idea"
John Lewis Jensen, "The Art Knife: The Passion, The Quest, The
Controversy"
Charles Lewton-Brain, "The Ganoksin Project, The Orchid
Community & How the Web Can Feed You"
Alan Revere, "The Art of the American Jewelry Design
Council"
Deb Stoner, "Big Dreamer: Small Artist at Large"
Dr. Joan Tenenbaum, "Connected to the Tundra"
Valentin Yotkov, "Chasing and Repousse: A Lifetime of
Passion"
2003
San Francisco, CA
"Making it in Metal"
Hosted by Velvet da Vinci Gallery
2003 SNAG
Conference Program
Keynote Speaker:
Susan Cohn, "Techno Craft - The Ways to Create Bridges between
Solo Studio Work and
Design for Industry and Mass Production"
Other Speakers:
Suzanne Baizerman, Ph.D., "Margaret de Patta: Bay Area
Modernist"
Boris Bally, "Momenta: Various Perspectives on Achieving
Success"
Steven Cabella, "Twenty-five years of Collecting Studio Craft
Jewelry: Insights, Observations and Historical Patina"
David Cole, "Marie Zimmermann: From Tiaras to Tombstones"
Kim Cridler, "The John Kohler Arts Center Artist-in-Residency
Program"
Marilyn da Silva, "Taking Flight: The Journal So Far"
Donald Friedlich, "Things that Make my Heart Beat Faster"
Dr. Elizabeth Goring, "The Museum as Collector: The National
Museum of Scotland and its Contemporary Jewellery
Collection"
Ana Pellicer, "The Creation of a New Tradition: Ana Pellicer
in Santa Clara del Cobre"
Don Stuart, "Volunteer to Tour the World"
2002
Denver, CO
"5280-2002"
Hosted by the Colorado Metalsmithing Association, COMA
2002
SNAG Conference Program
Keynote Speaker:
Lily Yeh, "The Transformative Power of Art"
Other Speakers:
Michael Boyd, "Manipulation of Stones and Cold Connections
with Stones"
Norman Cherry, "Grow Your Own - Angiogenetic Body
Adornment"
Giovanni Corvaja, "In Search of Lightness, Transparency and
Sensuality"
Lane Coulter, "Native American Jewelry Past and Present"
Bobby Hansson, "Tin Can Alchemy"
Erick Johnson, "The Eclipse of Material Presence"
Deborah Krupenia, "Surface Ecstatic"
Harriete Estel Berman, "Guidelines for Professional
Practices"
Linda Kayes-Moses, "The Work of Many Hands; The SNAG Links
Collection"
Harold O'Connor, "Alternative Metalsmithing Classes Available
in Foreign Countries"
Leonard Urso, "Evolution of Large Scale Hammered Formed
Sculptures"
Jeff Wise, "Veracity, Tenacity, Elasticity, At Last I See"
2001
Richmond, VA
"Material Considerations"
Keynote Speaker:
John Behringer, “Dansk Design International: The Artist
in Industry”
Other Speakers:
Jamie Bennett, “Jewelry and Ornamental
Impulses”
Christopher Cart, "Platinum Casting Techniques: You're Only as
Good as Your Last Cast”
Linda Darty, “Contemporary Approaches to
Enameling”
Robert Ebendorf, “Anthology: A Personal History of
SNAG”
Gary Griffin, “Assessment and Aspiration from the Double
Nickel” (The artist speaks about his own work.)
Penny Morrill, “William Spratling’s Silver
Designs: Toward a Mexican Style”
Clare Phillips, “100 Years of Collecting: 20th Century
Jewelry at the Victoria & Albert Museum”
Phil Poirier, “Raising in the Deep Draw Press:
Developing Volume & Form”
Tacey Rosolowski, “The Order of Adornment”
2000
Cambridge, MA
"The Status of the Hand"
Keynote Speaker:
Malcolm McCullough, “Abstracting Craft: The Practiced
Digital Hand”
Other Speakers:
Jane Adam, “Hand, Head and Heart: The Process of
Making”
Boris Bally & Peter Diepenbrock, “Humanufacturing:
Bridging Craft and Design”
Kathleen Browne, “Object Lessons: Collecting, Sorting
and Visual Display, and Its Relationship to Art
Practice”
Charles Crowley, “A Viable Career in Metalsmithing:
Alternatives to Jewelry and Teaching”
Jeannine Falino, “Family Trees: A Century of American
Metalsmithing Programs”
Arthur Ganson, Own Work
Tom Joyce, “Life Force at the Anvil: The Blacksmith's
Art”
Bruce Metcalf, “The Hand: At the Heart of
Craft”
Ira Sherman, Joe Wood & Deb Todd Wheeler, Prosthetica
Pier Voulkos, “Seventeen Years of Working with Polymer
Clay”
J. Fred Woell, Own Work
Joe Wood, “Work and Inspiration In Progress”
Kristina Logan, “Glass in Jewelry”
1999
St. Louis, MO
"Reaching Out"
Keynote Speaker:
Michael Good, "Messages From Overseas"
Other Speakers:
Scott Braznell, "Ronald Hayes Pearson and the Post World War
II Revival of American
Silversmithing"
Betty Helen Longhi, "Shell Structures: A Historical and
Contemporary Perspective "
Lisa Gralnick, "Beauty and the Theory of Relativity"
Gavreal Feder, "An Introduction to Natural Colored
Diamonds"
Jim Kelso, "Ire Takazogan - Painting With Metal: Uncovering
the Path of Japanese
Soft Metal Work"
Nicole Ann DesChamps & Hiroko Sato Pijanowski, "A Look
Into the Future: The
Implementation of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing for
Metalsmiths"
Roy Skodnick, "Copper, Stone and Fire: James Metcalf,
Ana Pellicer and the Artisans
of Santa Clara del Cobre"
Rick Smith, "Industrial Imagery and Its Influence on
Contemporary Iron"
Kathleen Eggert, "Peruvian Metalwork: The Past in The
Present”
John Medwedeff, "Medwedeff, Forge and Design, Growth of a
Studio"
Jan Yager, "Another Look at What Came Next"
Susan Ewing, "The Prague Jewelers"
Dennis Nahabetian, "Nice Work If You Can Get it”
1998
Seattle, WA
"Settings"
Hosted by the Seattle Metals Guild
Keynote Speaker:
Kenneth Trapp, "Things Go Better with Art"
Other Speakers:
Kiff Slemmons, "An Avant Garden"
Clive Dilnot, "Despised, Cherished, Ignored"
Karen Sinizer, "Pearls of the World"
Charles Lewton-Brain, "Safety in the Small Studio"
Phillip Baldwin, "A Romance of Metal"
Jeffrey Herman, "The 2lst Century Silversmith"
Myra Mimlitsch Gray, "(F)utility and Sentimentia: The Work of
Myra Mimlitsch Gray”
Seymour Rabinovitch, "Silver Place-Flatware - Some
History"
Toni Greenbaum, "Aesthetics and Adornment in American Studio
Jewelry 1940-1960"
Lane Coulter, "Jewelry of the 1970's "
Otto Kunzli,"Back on Stage"
Lori Talcott, "Northern European Folk Jewelry"
Dawn Nakanishi, "Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in
Metal"
Barbara Johns, "Designs on Jewelry"
Debate Topic:
"It's Not Personal: or Is It?" Participants: Keith Lewis and
Jamie Bennett
Moderator: Kate Wagle
1997
Albuquerque, NM
"Enchantment of Diversity"
Three "Talking Circles: Pathways of Learning, Typecast, and
Makers & Sellers"
Keynote Speaker:
Tom Joyce
Other Speakers:
Barbara Okun, Ettagale Blauer, Dr. Thomas Chavez, Enid Kaplan,
Ivan Barnett, Nancy Brown, Alan Revere, Denise Wallace, Robert
Liu, Martha Egan, Frank Lewis, Merle White, Tresa Vorenberg,
Duane Maktima, Jett Spencer,
Emily Ruffin, Valerie Fairchild, Lois Moran, Robert Cardinale,
Nancy Shapiro, Marilyn & Jack da Silva, Marilyn Nicholson,
Phil Poirier, David McFadden, Harold O'Connor, Stacey King, and
the Colorado Metalsmiths Association (COMA).
1996
Washington, D.C.
"Capital Assets"
Speakers included:
Michael Monroe, Rosanne Raab, Betty Cook, Robert Coogan,
Steven Fisher, Komelia Okim, Alan Revere, Brian Meek,
representatives from the Trademark, Copyright, Small Business
and other agencies, and a panel of Washington lawyers.
