Since 2001, SNAG has sponsored lectures at the International Expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA). We bring some of the most interesting contemporary jewelers and metalsmiths into the public eye. All lectures are free to SOFA attendees. See www.sofaexpo.com for more information.
Upcoming SNAG-Sponsored Lectures at SOFA Chicago
All lectures are Friday November 1, 2019
SNAG Emerging Artists 2019
9:00-10:00 am
Three exceptional emerging jewelers, Jessica Anderson, Zachery Lechtenberg, and Aric Verrastro will discuss the evolution and development of their innovative work. Lechtenberg and Verrastro are showing with Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h and Anderson with Charon Kransen Arts. Sponsored by SNAG.
Aric Verrastro
My Inner Narnia
10:00-11:00 am
Swedish jewelry artist Märta Mattsson works in the borders between attraction and repulsion, transforming real insects and other materials from nature such as dried flowers, taxidermy, semiprecious stones and parchment, into objects of astonishment. She explores the power of her jewelry to conquer fears and phobias and to turn a dislike into something you might even dare to wear. Mattsson has exhibited her jewelry internationally since 2006 in over 20 solo exhibitions as well as many group exhibitions. She has given workshops and lectures in China, Belgium, Mexico, Thailand, USA, Sweden and Latvia and she is currently a part time lecturer at HDK – Academy of Design and Crafts in the department for jewelry art. Marta is represented at SOFA by Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h. Sponsored by SNAG.
Märta Mattsson
Artist Talk with Metalsmith Komelia Okim
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Metalsmith Komelia Okim will discuss the development of her masterful hollowware, jewelry and sculptures as well as the new book she has written, Korean Metal Art: Techniques, Inspirations and Traditions, from Schiffer Publishing, that is the product of a Fulbright Grant and four years of research. Komilia Okim is a Professor Emerita at Montgomery College, where she taught for more than 40 years. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Racine Art Museum and many others. She is the recipient of three Fulbright Grants. Okim is represented at SOFA by Tong-in Gallery. Sponsored by SNAG.
Komelia Okim
Past Lectures
SNAG Emerging Artists 2018
Tanya Crane, Marie-Eve G. Castonguay, and Wanshu Li
SOFA Chicago Nov 2018
The Challenges of Working Large
Hoss Haley
SOFA Chicago Nov 2018
Vessels for my Heart
Kye-Yeon Son
SOFA Chicago Nov 2018
SNAG Emerging Artists 2017
Kat Cole, Motoko Furuhashi and Anne-Sophie Vallée
SOFA Chicago Nov 2017
Genesis: Life and Form Through Different Lenses
Ezra Satok-Wolman and Wendy McAllister
SOFA Chicago Nov 2017
CAST: A New Book and the SOFA Artists It Features
Jen Townsend and Renèe Zettle-Sterling
SOFA Chicago Nov 2017
SNAG Emerging Artists 2016
Tara Locklear, Jin Seo and Aurélie Guillaume
SOFA Chicago Nov 2016
Using Language as an Inspiration for Jewelry
Jonathan Boyd
SOFA Chicago Nov 2016
Breaking New Ground
Rebecca Hannon
SOFA Chicago Nov 2016
SNAG Emerging Artists 2015
Lynn Batchelder, Sooyeon Kim and Laura Wood
SOFA Chicago Nov 2015
Drawing and Making
Jamie Bennett
SOFA Chicago Nov 2015
Things that Make my Heart Beat Faster
Donald Friedlich
SOFA Chicago Nov 2015
Other Fancy Stuff
Jeweler John Iversen and art historian Toni Greenbaum
SOFA Chicago Nov 2015
SNAG Emerging Artists 2014
Steven Gordon Holman, Lauren Tickle and Demitra Thomloudis
SOFA Chicago Nov 2014
Carrying Devices and Other Absurdities
Sigurd Bronger
SOFA Chicago Nov 2014
Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Donna Schneier, Bruce Metcalf, Kiff Slemmons and Don Friedlich
SOFA Chicago Nov 2014
SNAG Emerging Artists 2013
Dukno Yoon, Heather Bayless, and Yong Joo Kim
SOFA Chicago Nov 2013
Time is the Creator if it's Given a Chance
Daniel Pošta and Zdenek Vacĕk
SOFA Chicago Nov 2013
Living with Silver in the 21st Century
Rob and Jaap Thalen
SOFA Chicago Nov 2013
Gothic: Jewelry on the Edge
Marjorie Simon
SOFA Chicago Nov 2012
Killer Jewels
Paul McClure
SOFA Chicago Nov 2012
SNAG Emerging Artists
Heejin Hwang, Andrew Kuebeck, and Emanuela Duca
SOFA Chicago Nov 2012
Allusion, Motif and Identity in Silver
Marian Hosking
SOFA Chicago May 2012
The Transcendent Jewelry of Margaret de Patta: Vision in Motion
Ursula Ilse-Neuman
SOFA New York Apr 2012
Thinking Organically In a Digital Age
Doug Bucci
SOFA Chicago Nov 2011
Venus Adorned
Bruce Metcalf
SOFA Chicago Nov 2011
Two Visions
Sergey Jivetin and Jennifer Trask
SOFA New York Apr 2011
For People Who are Slightly Mad: American Modernist Jewelry
Panel Discussion
SOFA New York Apr 2011
Peering over the Palace Wall: The Neo-Palatial Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
Garth Clark
SOFA Chicago Nov 2010
A Wider World: Handmade and Fair Trade
Peggy Eng
SOFA Chicago Nov 2010
Holding Objects: What it Means to Wear Jewelry - The Psychoanalytic Mechanisms
Rock Hushka
SOFA New York Apr 2010
Jewelry Design: Surface in Depth
Stefano Marchette
SOFA New York Apr 2010
Simplicity, Intensity and Jewelry
Mirjam Hiller
SOFA Chicago Nov 2009
Stories from the Crystal Palace
Barbara Seidenath
SOFA Chicago Nov 2009
Allusion, Motif and Identity in Silver
Marian Hosking
SOFA New York Apr 2009
The Philanthropy of Craft: Innovative Ways to Make Your Charitable Contributions Count
Panel Discussion
SOFA Chicago Nov 2008
Why I Do What I Do
Karen Pontoppidan
SOFA New York Apr 2009
Jewelry Development
Anya Kivarkis, Suzie Ganch, and Sayumi Yokouchi
SOFA Chicago Nov 2007
Framing the Art of Jewelry
Suzanne Ramljak
SOFA Chicago Nov 2007
Exploration of Large Scale Jewelry and Scultpture
Marjorie Schick
SOFA Chicago Nov 2007
Re:Pair & Imperfection
Kiff Slemmons
SOFA New York Jun 2007
Development of Photo-etched Imagery
Bettina Speckner
SOFA Chicago Nov 2006
Naturalistically Inspired Hollowware and Jewelry Development
Sue Amendolara
SOFA Chicago Nov 2006
Aesthetic and Technical Developments
David Watkins
SOFA New York Jun 2006
Flatware: Function + Fantasy
Rosanne Raab
SOFA Chicago Oct 2005
On Jjoum-Ipsa: the Traditional Korean Damascene Technique
Jung Sil Hong
SOFA New York Jun 2005