[Jewelry making - Article 00535] - Re: [Orchid] Article: Minimal Metalsmithing

[R . E . Rourke]

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Don

    I truly appreciate the perspective and explanation that you gave us
    all to digest...my point, when looking for an answer to why
    metalsmith magazine MAY have had cross ties with the metal clay
    industry is that Tim McCreight is on the board of Directors of SNAG
    /metalsmith and a paid consultant to Mitsubishi...I don't believe
    that is incorrect.. 

    I think Tim McCreight is one of the metalsmithing communities most
    valuable gifts, and prolific contributors. His" Complete Metalsmith"
    an historical gem far more accessible than Oppi Untracht's standard
    in that many people interested in jewelry making that can't afford an
    80 dollar manual of reference and instruction are now able to not
    only read and learn, buti n its latest incarnation is a gift to those
    that learn best visually as technology grows so does Tim's harnessing
    of it to spread valuable and up-to-date instruction in jewelry making
    and metal smithing. Tim is a beautiful person in his own right and
    one of the most generous in the art jewelery industry. That said, no
    one is immune from being at least asked if there is some connection
    between being a paid consultant to one industry and having it
    promoted in another..in this case when hastily trying to figure a
    raisson that SNAG would promote metal clays as fine silver..as in my
    experience of the art world in general and at its largesse any work
    ever pictured, hung,catalogued, etc. has ALWAYS been listed as
    artist, title of a piece, and then the materials that the art was
    made from.My surprise at Meatlsmith Magazine's decision to list the
    work in question as fine silver should be no surprise..and I was not
    the only person to note that omission.-That it was clearly
    constructed of metal clay should not dismiss a standard practice in
    that larger world of traditionally standard and universal art
    protocol of crediting artists for their product.. 

    Your comments on collusion are, however, not quite on the mark.
    Again, if any person is a paid consultant to one industry and then
    what seemed to me a quite incorrect caption that a work of 'art
    jewelry' was fine silver, BEFORE your explanation appeared seems
    reasonable and fair to ponder-if not openly- since it deviates from
    all prior standards of captioning and crediting art. 

    Call it semantics, but to me the "goldsmith", in the society of
    north amerikan goldsmiths intimates that there is workable metal :
    meaning malleable and ductile metals, in any
    paper,publication,education or discussion that is generated from an
    organization so named. I will never consider metal clay to be
    malleable or ductile or enduring until major changes are made in the
    particulate formulation of the material and, prior to your
    explanation, it did seem suspect that it was being published as "fine
    silver" when it is, at least semantically, or scientifically
    -not.999Ag. And if there were not some need for explanation would you
    have responded..I think not..So attack my curiosity all you like. I
    am a jeweler, and a metallurgist,an artist, and educator, and a
    colleague of Nanz's in the larger world of jewelry making..with
    background in other fields as well..but moreover, a thinking person
    entitled to wonder when something that is an economic and profit
    generating material-touted advertised and marketed as heavily as
    metal clay is, gets special treatment, considerations, and
    terminology that no other art or craft material, historically, has
    received.. 

R.E.Rourke

 
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