Get to know the SNAG board of directors!
Brian Ferrell, President
Associate Professor of Art, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA
Studio Artist – Brian Ferrell Designs, Ferrell & Kenney
- SNAG
- American Craft Council
Becky McDonah, Secretary
Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Design – Fine Art Metals, Millersville University
- Visiting Artist/Lecturer, various locations
- Co-chair SNAG 2012 conference, Phoenix/Scottsdale
- Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen
- SNAG
- American Craft Council
Michael Brehl, Treasurer
Teaching artist/metalsmith
- Practicing silversmith
- Portable teaching studio brought to many venues, including community centers, the Smithsonian, farmer’s markets, Washington Goldsmith’s Guild, schools, maker fairs
- SNAG
Theresa Baybutt
Jewelry designer
- Owner of Treasure Bay Jewelry Designs
- Board member and volunteer Mass Oyster Project
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston volunteer
- SNAG
- Established the charitable foundation The Power of Pearls
Dominique Bereiter
Studio Jeweler Artist
- Minnesota Jewelry Arts Guild
- SNAG
- Co-chair SNAG conference 2014 Minneapolis
Kat Cole
Studio Artist
- Co-Founder of Jewelry Edition
- Visiting artist/lecturer various location
- SNAG
- Art Jewelry Forum
Dianne deBeixedon
Professor, Art Department Chair, Old Dominion University
- SNAG
- Michigan Silversmiths Guild
- Washington Guild of Goldsmiths
- Florida Guild of Goldsmiths
- Artist Blacksmith Association of North America
- Tidewater Blacksmiths Association
- Art Jewelry Forum
Jeff Georgantes
Studio Artist/Teacher
- SNAG
- Director of the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Nicole Jacquard
Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Studio Artist
- SNAG
- Michigan Silversmith’s Guild
- crafthaus
- American Craft Council
- AIR Gallery
Patricia Madeja
Professor and Fine Arts Jewelry Program Coordinator – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Patricia Madeja Studio Jewelry
- SNAG
- American Craft Council
- Art Jewelry Forum
- Ethical Metalsmiths
- Crafthaus
Elizabeth Shypertt
Curator
- Founding owner of Velvet da Vinci Gallery
- Past Treasurer of Art Jewelry Forum
- Past Treasurer of Metal Arts Guild (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Co-Juror of 500 Pendants & Lockets (Lark Book Series)
- Member, American Craft Council
- SNAG
Emily Stoehrer, Ph.D.
Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Contributor to Maker & Muse: Women in Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry (Monticelli Press, 2015) and On and Off: 30 Essays on Jewelry, (Art Jewelry Forum, 2016)
- Co-author of Fashion Design, Referenced, (Rockport Publishers, 2013)
- Member, Art Jewelry Forum
- Board member, Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, SNAG, and Women’s Jewelry Association
April Wood
Studio Artist, Educator
- Co-founder, Baltimore Jewelry Center
- Visiting artist/lecturer at various locations
- SNAG
