2017 Educational Endowment Scholarships

SNAG awards three student scholarships with at least one award given to a student that is currently an undergraduate. These scholarships are for tuition towards the students’ degree granting programs.

Congratulations to the 2017 Educational Endowment Student Scholarship recipients:

$2000 Award
Adam Atkinson, East Carolina University

$1500 Award
Leslie Shershow, San Diego State University

$1000 Award
Messa Zheng, San Diego State University

SNAG also awards three scholarships for emerging and mid-career artists to use toward a workshop of their choice in North America.

Congratulations to the 2017 Educational Endowment Emerging/Mid-Career Artist Scholarship recipients:

$2000 Award
Andy Lowrie

$1500 Award
Jessica Andersen

$1000 Award
Lindsay Rice

SNAG would like to take this opportunity to recognize our Corporate Members for their support: AGTA, Halstead, Pocosin Arts, and Shapeways.

2017 SNAG Student Exhibition Awards

Nexus: The 2017 Juried Student Exhibition highlighted student work that challenges traditional and non-traditional ways of working using new and old materials, techniques, and ideas by the next generation of makers in the metalsmithing and jewelry field. The exhibition was held in May during the SNAG conference in New Orleans.

New this year, SNAG presented awards. Congratulations to the winners:

Best in Show
Xinhao Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology
Fetter
Acrylic, copper, zinc

Honorable Mention
Taehyun Bang, University of Kansas
Miser’s Fish
Sheet of aluminum, raffia, oil paint

Honorable Mention
Eunsil Leem, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
I did not see the women
copper, sterling silver

Thank you to Charon Kransen Arts for sponsoring the 2017 Student Exhibition.

SNAG would like to take this opportunity to recognize our Corporate Members for their support: AGTA, Halstead, Pocosin Arts, and Shapeways.

2017 Halstead Design Challenge Winners

The 2017 Halstead Design Challenge “Memento” asked artists to incorporate a photo into a brooch constructed primarily from materials in the Halstead challenge kit. Only 200 challenge kits were available. A juried selection from all entries was exhibited at the SNAG New Orleans Conference in May 2017. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated!