Art and the Vineyard

My work will be featured in the

GEM

Guild of Eugene Metalsmiths
Booth at:

Art and the Vineyard

A fundraiser for the Maude Kerns Art Center

Alton Baker Park

Eugene, OR

July 3rd-5th 11am-8pm

Last Friday Artwalk Open Studio

Join me tonight, May 29th for the Whiteaker Last Friday Artwalk.
Firefly Jewelry Design
Open Studio
6-9 pm
245 Blair Studio C

For more info and map:
http://www.arttrekinc.com/lastfridayartwalk/index.html

New Studio Space

This May I will be moving my studio to the 2nd and Blair Studios in the Whiteaker and joining the great group of creative people there. I am now available by appointment for custom consultations and will be doing open studios a few times week in studio C of the 245 media section. You can still find my work online at www.fireflyjewelrydesign.com or www.raisedbywolves.etsy.com and at Blue Moon Jewelry Designs in downtown Eugene.

Meet Your Maker April 3rd

It's the beginning of another Summer show season and this year I am kicking it off at a relatively new and funky independent show called, Meet Your Maker.

TEXTURE-

Explorations in Surface, Form and Color

by metalsmiths:

Tracey Bell

Margarita O'brein

Renee Ford

Featured on

The Lane Arts Council

First Friday Art Walk

December 5, 2008

at

Blue Moon Jewelry Designs

115 W. 6th Ave.Eugene, OR

Showing December 5 - Jan 1

Three Eugene metalsmiths explore the endless possibilities of texture and how it relates to metal adornment. Tracey Bell, Margarita O'Brien, and Renee Ford each showcase different approaches to the same exploration. The show features works in copper, silver, gold, enamel glass on metal, and gemstones. Individual pieces are displayed as well as collaborative works from the three metalsmiths. This show will run until January 1, 2009.

Decay Show

Four pieces from my morpho series were selected to be part of the Decay Show at the Sixth street Gallery in Vancouver WA.

"Sixth Street Gallery presents

"Decay"

-- an aesthetic
interpretation of the various forms, stages, and manners of
decay, and its effects in and upon the world around us. The
passage of time brings the natural decay of our bodies and our
faculties. Buildings are abandoned and left to crumble,
changing the boundaries of our cities and nations. Moral and
cultural decay eat away at individuals and societies from within.
Life is change, and decay an inevitability, but decay can be just
as much a force for rebirth as for ruin. For as the falling leaves
of autumn decay upon the forest floor, they in turn serve as the
basis for the re-emergence of life in the Spring, in the endless
cycle of the seasons. All things decay and come to an end, but
every end brings the possibility of new beginnings.

"I have always looked upon Decay as being just as wonderful
and rich an expression of life as growth." -- Henry Miller.

Decay - to pass from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to
one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution."

Benjamin Benjamin Gallery

Selected works now showing at:

Benjamin Benjamin Gallery

106 2nd St. Hood River, OR 97031

541.400.8457

http://www.benjaminbenjamin.com/