Metalwerx's 2021 Virtual Spring Symposium includes two live sessions every weekday, at 12 PM and 4:00 PM (all times EDT), with morning social events on Tuesday and Thursday and a final social event on Friday, April 30, 2021. All sessions will be presented live over Zoom, with links sent in advance to all registered Symposium attendees. Recording access will be available through August 1st. Each featured presentation is approximately 90 minutes long. Each presenter "short" is approximately 40 minutes long.

Fri, April 30

12:00-1:30 PM: Meditating on Pattern with Tanya Crane

Repetitive pattern and mark making has opened up an entire realm of possibilities for my work. In this lecture and demonstration, I will talk about how mark making can be a meditative practice that you can return to daily. In the demonstration I will show participants how to mix, apply and subtract enamel to reveal graphic patterns. Because of the nature of the material, your patterns can be left unfinished and returned to as a daily practice.

4:00-4:45 PM: Making A New Reality Through Form and Color with Mando Bee

7:00-8:00 PM: Closing Party- The closing social event of the symposium week!

Featured in AJF’s February issue of On Offer.

The entire collection of my work is currently on view at Gallery 2052 in Chicago, IL as part of the final installation of Jewelry Edition V5.