Facere Award for Rivers of Gold VIII and iMakeJewelry rated Top App

Besides the wonderful award my choker recently won at the Functional Art: The Wine Country Home exhibit at the Larson Gallery in Yakima, WA, my iPhone™ app, iMakeJewelry was picked as a top iPad app by AppPicker.com, and my artwork was the subject of a full length article on Beading Gem's Journal. 

I've recently returned from teaching at Guilded Lynx in Connecticut and am off to the SNAG conference in Minneapolis next week, where I'll be selling artwork at the trunk show. Alas, I get behind sharing the news when I compose newsletters in my head while soldering instead of actually writing and emailing them. There are worse things than having too much good news to keep up with (especially for so many of us in the USA the day before tax day).

Please read on for details, and thanks for sharing in all my good news!

Victoria

Rivers of Gold VIII , Winner of the Facere Jewelry Art Gallery Award

Functional Art: The Wine Country Home, Larson Gallery, Yakima Community College, 1107 S. 16th Yakima, Washington 98902

iMakeJewelry has been named one of the top iPad apps for jewelry by AppPicker.com for 2014.

SNAG Trunk Show and Sale

Saturday, April 26 from 4:00-6:30 pm

New Rings DVD Release!!!

Yes, it's out! Metal Techniques of Bronze Age Masters: Rings was released March 4, 2008 just in time for me to ship out the pre-orders and head off to the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference in Savannah.

The content of the DVD is based on my Rings workshop, a 2-3 day intensive in which students walk away with between 3 and 6 six rings finished (or nearly so) based on ancient styles but with a contemporary twist and design options of their own. I chose 3 of my favorite styles from this workshop, the intaglio inspired wax seal ring, the drusy ring, and the hidden compartment "poison" ring. Offering the instructions for this set of rings also allowed me to include the techniques of alloying gold, making gold bezel wire, fusing gold/silver bi-metal, roller printing, stamping, and, of course, some really handy bezel tricks for gold or silver bezels.

Post release, I've taken some much needed time off to do really exciting things like my taxes. No time to bask in the glory. I did, however, just discover that my first dvd in the series, Russian Filigree is available at Target.com. Turns out they're powered by Amazon, which is one of my retailers.

Wow, you spend your life promoting one-of-a-kind works of art and railing against mass market consumerism, and, well, end up there anyway. More importantly, there is a map behind my desk with pins covering up large areas of Europe, Asia, South America, and 2/3 of North America to indicate my retail dvd sales. There hasn't been time for me to keep up with adding pins, but I'm thrilled that the series has done so well!