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Finally Lunchtime, and I must say, aside from the fact I do enjoy food, in-house Lunch has been another highlight of the conference (read as TIP for future SNAG conferences, hello Seattle folks…). When it comes down to it, 1.5 hours for lunch goes by pretty fast, especially if you have to leave the building and figure your way around a new city. You grab who you know and your body and mind break from the flow of morning. However, in this case, we all just moved to the floor below and had round-table discussions riding on the amped-up energy from the previous Open Conversations, among not only people we know, but being able to include new and different faces just by nature of the room’s set up. So if you came alone or were a bit late, you could sit down with any random group without being intrusive. INCLUSIVITY–this theme pops up later…

The food was surprisingly delightful (for hotel catering) and fancy (at least on Friday, Saturday was more casual), even providing a vegetarian option (as long as you pre-requested it in your registration). Lunch served a dual purpose in being a Recognition Luncheon for the 2008 and 2009 College of Fellows and Aileen Osborn Webb Award Winners. A much more respectful way to honor recipients (as compared to when SNAG’s does it during SAT night banquets and everyone is all in party mode and distracted/ing). People paid attention, speakers were heard and acknowledged with well-deserved applause and standing ovations. True, these lunches cost money ($35 from what I gathered), but give me 2 lunches over a mediocre banquet dinner any time.

Stoney Lamar

Stoney Lamar, Awards Sub-Committee Chair, presented the awards for 2008 & 2009 (winners are featured in the Oct/Nov and Dec/Jan issues of American Craft). Cheers to Lois Moran for being awarded as an Honorary Fellow for her 43 years of service to the magazine.

LIST OF AWARDEES:

Aileen Osborn Webb Award for Philanthropy: Robyn & John Horn (2008), Paul J. Smith (2009)

Paul J. Smith

Award of Distinction for Contributions to the Field of Craft:
Helen W. Drutt English (08), Michael Monroe (09)

Gold Medalists: Paul Soldner (08), Katherine Westphal (09)

College of Fellows Inductees (08): Adela Akers, Glenda Arentzen, Tony Hepburn, Gyongy Laky, Wendy Maruyama, Toots Zynsky, Lois Moran

College of Fellows Inductees (09): Jamie Bennett, Bernard Bernstein, Louis Marak, Benjamin Moore, Carol Shaw-Sutton, Rosanne Somerson, Robert Pfannebecker

Lois Moran, right

So much press has come out in the last week or two for all my current local shows, it’s hard to keep up! Today local cable show, “Inside City Limits“  did an onsite interview with me as well as with Christine for Jewelry_cycle. Even after doing the artist talk at the museum on Sunday, I still managed to miss mentioning stuff during the interview. Hard to think ahead of myself while concentrating on looking natural and standing up super straight. Our 20 min interviews will get cut down to 7 min each anyway. Looks like it may air the first week of December, comcast cable channel 11 and 104 (not sure what that translates into non-comcast-wise).

In newspaper land, I was shocked to hear, then see that Lionize was chosen for the SF Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook, Art section. Check them apples out! If anyone local is reading this, I would love to have your copy of this Datebook page when you’re ready to recycle….

Man, that collar is sure living up to its name, even in it’s second generation. Another winning bathroom “studio” photo! Who needs fancy lights when you’ve got glossy Pantone paper and diffused natural light!

The SF Examiner came out with an opening week article (Oct 13) by Sasha Vasilyuk, for the SFMCD shows, and the print version here used the Queen Margherita necklace, the first of the Royal Jewels series (though not present at this exhibition). Click here to read the online version.

In Blogland, many many great posts: Capitolagirl.com interviewed me about the Royal Jewels show and my process and posted to her blog as well as to PoshMama.com, where I was the Friday Spotlight.

Fellow jeweler and blogger, Amy Tavern had a great post Friday as well, titled, “I left my jewelry in San Francisco”, which included the SFMCD shows among her Bay Area artscapades.

Jewelry_cycle was a hit with the bloggers too: the lovely Cindy Edelstein of Jewelry Business Guru kindly posted us. It’s great that the media has all managed to use different images  to depict this show.

Then American Craft got in on the act for their Calendar of Events, highlighting Reed Easley’s fan:

And last, but certainly not least, JCKstyle posted our show and Aimee’s bracelet in their online newsletter:

What’s next? Now if we could only get Population 2.0 (circuit board boxers) out there for some local event….