[Jewelry making - Article 01100] - Re: [Orchid] Metalsmith's Exhibition in Print

[James Binnion]

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Hi Don,

    I wanted to thank you for your writings on the EIP in Orchid It has
    helped me see the EIP in a different light. I am still not a fan of
    the majority of work shown but between your and Andy's words on it I
    now have a somewhat greater appreciation for it. 

    I know you did some good work on trying to bring the working
    metalsmith more into the fold with SNAG but it still feels like we
    have no place that celebrates the working artisan. SNAG is still too
    academic (and probably always will be) and mainstream jewelry
    organizations/publications  if  they ever actually focus on the work
    seem to laud the designer who probably did no more than a sketch or
    maybe carved a rough model and then left it to the benchies to
    breathe life into it. Where is the the organization that represents
    the skilled artisan/maker/designer who has no pretension to high
    concept art or does not wish to try to reach for celebrity status
    design? 

    When I first got started making studio jewelry twenty odd years ago
    it seemed that SNAG was that place but now they will not even think
    about publishing any technique articles in Metalsmith  but relegate
    anything of that sort to the newsletter which is unreadable due to
    the small font, dense page layout and tiny black and white photos
    (this is not a slam of the newsletter staff who put out a good
    product given the restrictions of finances and time resources). 

    This brings me to one of the things I love about Orchid, it is a
    place where a large amount of the focus is on making work and sharing
    information on how to make the work better. Hanuman has been doing
    marvelous things by bringing many articles from a variety of
    publications into the archive and all of the writings presented by
    Charles Lewton-Brain and the new writings by others that have found a
    place in the archive. However the archive is still basically a
    library it is a place to go and do research. What I want is a
    magazine with the production quality of Metalsmith  but with a focus
    on makers and makers issues not high concept art. A periodical with
    relevance to what I do something for the studio artisan. 

Jim Binnion

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