How many ways can you say ?I Love You??

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Contemporary Creativity Symposium:?

February 3: 10 a.m. ? 5 p.m.

February 4: 10 a.m. ? 2 p.m.

Artists?Dana Sperry?and?Natalya Pinchuk?will lead a day and a half long idea generation workshop that asks a simple?question: How many different, fresh and unconventional ways can you say ?I Love You? with jewelry??Participants will leave this workshop with unusual and unique answers to jewelry design. These answers?will be in drawing, writing and primitive model format, acting as fuel for future development. This?symposium coincides with the opening of the Transformation 8 exhibition, and participants will include?Transformation 8 artists Robert Ebendorf and Daniel DiCaprio. Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to?learn with some of the leading metalsmiths working in the field today.?The cost of this symposium is $150, with a $5 materials fee. To register email?thestudio@contemporarycraft.org?or call Sherrard Bostwick at 412.261.7003 x25.


Dana is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Digital Media at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. His work can be found in major collections, including the?Museum of Modern Art, New York, the?Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and?The Kinsey Institute.


Natalya? earned her?MFA in Jewelry Design and Metals from the?University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Her work can be found in the collections of the?Stedelijk Museum,?Hertogenbosch, Netherlands and the?Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Charlotte, NC, as well as numerous publications. Pinchuck also served on the jury panel for Transformation 8: Contemporary Works in Small Metals, opening at SCC in February.?

Natalya and Dana (donning a piece by Natalya)

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