[Jewelry making - Article 00630] - Re: [Orchid] Metalsmith's Exhibition in Print

[Beth Rosengard]

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Hi Lee,

>         Wouldn't the same logic apply to jewelry featured in the
>     LAPIDARY Journal which does not utilize cut stones? 

    Only if you consider the very surface.  Lapidary Journal is a
    commercial magazine, which exists (at the bottom line) to make money
    for its owners/publishers.  Towards that end, it has slowly evolved
    into a crafters' magazine as much as anything else.  I imagine it
    would have changed its name to something more reflective of the
    current content if the publishers weren't concerned about losing
    legacy subscribers/readers.  (Ornament took that risk when its name
    was changed from The Bead Journal many years ago, and it paid off. 
    LJ may have made a big mistake in the long run, since it is losing
    legacy readers regardless, at the same time as its name probably
    misleads its intended audience.) 

    Metalsmith, as you know, is a publication of SNAG, a not-for-profit
    organization to which all of us may or do belong.  Its mission and
    standards are quite different.  Ultimately its direction and concept
    are determined by the SNAG membership, as interpreted by SNAG's
    leadership.  Traditionally (and for reasons previously discussed on
    this thread), that leadership is demonstrably (and in my opinion,
    disproportionately) friendly to the avant garde which is concerned as
    much with design innovation as with medium. 

Beth

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