cuttlefishKing Expands

Our Business Partner Site - www.CuttlefishKing.com - is now offering direct casting workshops for groups at a fall discount..If you or your group is interested , or for account holders, mention that you saw this post and receive a 10% discount on the first workshop no matter how many particiapnts you have amassed for the class!

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Metalsmiths Resources Worldwide DATABASE

This is  by  no means a complete listing  of  all the metal arts  societies  guilds, etc. in the  world. It  just  a list of more  active,  open to  new membership, or organisations that sent a response to a call for  listings for informational purposes.If you would  like to  be added to this  listing  please send an email or  otherwise use the comments section and  your  information as  you supply it will be added to the  list .Our  mission is to  create one of the  best  and  most far reaching listings  of  metalsmithing, goldsmithing, or related arts,crafts and sciences organizations in the world.

Arizona Designer Craftsmen 23645 N. 83rd ,Phoenix AZ
Place Associan Mexicana de Esmaltistas A.C. Plateros #37 Col. San Jos Lane DF 03900 MEXICO Baulines Craft Guild PO Box 150158 San Rafael CA 94915 www.baulinescraftguild.org
 California Blacksmith Association P.O. Box 997 San Jacinto CA 92581 president@calsmith.org www.calsmith.org
 Camden Goldsmiths Association 20 Main Street Camden ME 04843
 Canadian Enamellists‘ s Association 229 Younge Street Suite #404 Toronto ON M5B 1N9 CANADA Centre de L’Art de L‘Esmalt Ciutat de Balaguer, 17 Llotja Barcelona 08022 SPAIN
 Chicago Metal Arts Guild info@chicagometalartsguild.org www.chicagometalartsguild.org
 Colorado Metalsmithing Association P.O. Box 261898 Littleton CO 80163 www.coloradometalsmiths.org Craft Iowa 2501 33rd Street Des Moines IA 50310
 Craft League of Urbana-Champaign 512 West Nevada Urbana IL 61801
 Creative Metal Arts Guild P.O. Box 8946 Portland OR 97207 guild@actonjewelry.com www.cmaguild.org
 Deutches Goldschmiedehaus Alstadter Markt 6 Hanau D-63450 GERMANY
 Enamel Guild East 383 Littleworth Lane Sea Cliff NY 11757
 Enamel Guild South 19601 N.E 24th Avenue Miami Beach FL 33180 Enamel Guild West 6461 Dwane Avenue San Diego CA 92120
 Enamelist Society 6105 Bay Hill Circle Jamesville NY 13078 info@EnamelistSociety.org www.enamelistsociety.org 
Florida Society of Goldsmiths 719 Central Ave St. Petersburg FL 33701 fsgjm@earthlink.net fsg4u.com Form-I-DABLE Frazosische Allee 16 Hanau D-6450 GERMANY
 Georgia Goldsmiths' Group PO Box 52125 Atlanta GA 30306 gggemail@bellsouth.net www.gagoldsmiths.org
 Guild of Eugene Metalsmiths 20 West 31st Street Eugene OR 97405
 Houston Metal Arts Guild P.O. Box 270452 Houston TX 77277 info@hmag.org www.hmag.org
 Japan Enamel Art Association 6F-A Asakawa Building 1-19-13 Hyakunin-Cho 169 JAPAN
 Jewellers & Metalsmith Group of Australia - New South Wales (JMGA-NSW) PO Box 340 Pyrmont NSW 2009 AUSTRALIA info@jmgansw.org.au www.jmgansw.org.au
 Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association 8201 E. Harry #2102 Wichita KS 67207 www.kacaonline.com KUNSTERVEREIN Hans-Holbein-Weg 10 Coburg 96450 GERMANY
 Long Island Craft Guild 56 William Street Copiague NY 11726
 Louisville Artisans Guild www.louisvilleartisans.org
 Maine Crafts Association PO Box 228 Deer Isle ME 04627
 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild 1815 Metropolitan Street Pittsburgh PA 15233
 Massachusetts Metals Guild 15 Cogswell Avenue Cambridge MA 02140
 Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley P.O. Box 2924 Cupertino CA 95015 membership@maasv.org www.maasv.org
 Metal Arts Guild P.O. Box 590785 San Francisco CA 94159 alison@antelman.com www.metalartsguildsf.org
 Metal Arts Society of Southern California 1644 So. Clementine St. Anaheim CA 92802 info@massconline.com www.massconline.com
 Metal Link North 2753 East Broadway Suite 101, 156 Mesa AZ 85204
 Metal Link North 1902 S. Main Street Seattle WA 98144
 Metal Link South 218 West Knox Drive Tuscon AZ 85705
 Metalmorphosis 2704 Alan Street Ft Collins CO 80524
 Metalsmiths Association PO Box 527 Clyde NC 28721
 Metalsmiths of Door County 1848 Highway ZZ Sister Bay WI 54234
 Metalwork Guild of S. Maine and New Hampshire 16 Vaughn‘s Lane So. Berwick ME 03908
 Michigan Silversmiths Guild 4081 Clark Road Ann Arbor MI 48105 www.misilversmith.org
 Minnesota Metalsmiths Guild 1980 Quasar Avenue St. Croix Beach MN 55001
 Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild P.O. Box 51511 Pacific Grove CA 93950 www.mbmag.org
 National Enamellist Guild 9024 Beatty Drive Alexandria VA 22308
 North Carolina Society of Goldsmiths P.O. Box 196 Pittsboro NC 27312 www.ncsg.net
 North Texas Enamel Guild 1311 West Abram Arlington TX 76013
 Northern California Enamel Guild P.O Box 254 El Cerrito CA 94530
 Northern California Enamel Guild P.O. Box 254 Emeryville CA 94530 ncegguild@sbcglobal.net www.enamelguild.org
 Northwest Enamellists Guild PO Box 230-416 Tigard OR 97281
 Ohio Designer Craftsmen 1665 W. 5th Avenue Columbus OH 43212
 Oklahoma Guild of Metalsmiths 2124 Belleview Dr. Oklahoma City OK 73112
 Out of Hand 411 Twelfth Street Eureka CA 95501
 Palm Beach Enamel Guild 867 Lakeside Drive North Palm Beach FL 33408
 Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths info@pagoldsmiths.org www.pagoldsmiths.org
 Philadelphia Alternative Metals Society 10173 Bridle Road #1 Philadelphia PA 19116
 Pittsburgh Metals Society PO Box 42381 Pittsburgh PA 15203
 Precious Metal Clay Guild 1921 Cliffview Lane Florence KY 41042 Director@PMCguild.com www.pmcguild.com Note: May be Defunct at this  time ( as of the year 2013)
 Richmond Art Center 25th and Barrett Avenue CA 94804
 Seattle Metals Guild 1425 Broadway #154 WA 98122 president@seattlemetalsguild.org www.seattlemetalsguild.org 
Society for Midwest Metalsmiths PO Box 31314 St Louis MO 63131 midwest.metalsmiths@gmail.com www.midwest-metalsmiths.org 
Society of American Silversmiths PO Box 72839 Providence RI 02907 www.silversmithing.com
 Society of Dutch Enamellers De Galop 15 Dronten 8252 NETHERLANDS voorzitter@enamellers.nl www.enamellers.nl/english 
Society of Louisiana Artists in Metal PO Box 850694 New Orleans LA 70175
 South Florida Jewelry Arts Guild info@sfjag.org www.sfjag.org
 Southern Highlands Craft Guild PO Box 9545 Asheville NC 28815
 Southwestern Virginia Metal Arts Guild 617 6th Street, SW Roanoke VA 24016 LewisReserve@yahoo.com svmagmetalartsguild.com
 Spokane Jewellers Guild 6312 S. Nola Ct. Spokane WA 99223
 The British Society of Enamellers 30 Kensington Square London W8 5SD ENGLAND
 The Guild of Metalsmiths P.O. Box 11423 Saint Paul MN 55111 www.metalsmith.org
 The International Guild of Wire Jewelry Artists, Inc. info@WireJewelryArtists.org www.WireJewelryArtists.org
 The Metal Arts Guild of Canada P.O. Box 241, Station C Toronto ON M6J 3P4 CANADA www.metalarts.on.ca
 Washington Guild of Goldsmiths Washington DC WashDCGldsmths@aol.com www.washingtonguildofgoldsmiths.com
 Western Canadian Blacksmiths Guild 14707-115th St Edmonton AB T5X 1H7 CANADA fwreyno@telusplanet.net www.wcbg.org

Vieux Carre Jewelers Receives 2009 Best Independent Jeweler Award

The National Jeweler Association has selected R.E.Rourke , goldsmith, metalsmithing educator and studio jeweler as the 2009 Best Independent Jeweler from a field of over 1500 independents from across the USA and protectorates.R.E. has been making and teaching jewellery fabrication and related arts and crafts for over 20 years and producing custom and comissioned jewellery ,metal objects and mixed media pieces for more than 35. " this designation was wholly unexpected and quite a surprise", said Rourke in a recent interview for a trade publication article, " Artists In The Background" -about talented individuals that have been involved in their particular medium for many years who remain out of the spotlight by choice. Rourke began as a cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and folklorist travelling the world and the southeastern USA collecting information about Creole peoples in Louisiana and the Caribbean, plants and their by-products used for medicine, folk remedies, and magico-religious purposes. As a teacher Rourke began with traditional and Montessori certification and has taught students from primary age grades to university and graduate levels.Rourke's degrees are too numerous and diversified to list ranging from PhD in anthropology/ethnobotany ,B.S. in cultural geography to an MS combining cultural history,cultural geography and applied anthropology ,as Rourke says "from the first time around when I thought I wanted to be an academic for the rest of my life".Also holding specialised business degrees and MFA's in both Metal and Sculpture, to Masters degrees in art education and documentary film making and a JD in International Trade. Rourke has also entertained a career as a consultant assisting entrepreneurs considering organising small businesses to international corporations seeking solutions to jewelry and metals manufacturing problems to selecting locations and assessing human resources in a given locale or the impact a new business would have on communities around the proposed sites.Regarding the business of business as R.E. terms it " I have a wide range of skills and experiences that began with PEACE CORPS and VISTA volunteerism that affords clients an broad objective perspective in analysis and subsequent proposals that serve the cleints goals and the needs of the communities and people that those businesses and industries impact".Currently Rourke is organizing a micro-loan fund ( Great Divide Americas)that will provide small start-up and capital or expansion loans primarily to widows,single women and small collectives or cottage industries in fourth world countries living in rural areas to allow them to get the education they need in business management or skills that support whatever they are already involved in to further an individual or group's ability to market and deliver their products or services to distant buyers or taking their micro-enterprise to the world of e-commerce." this could mean money to put a roof over a structure where women meet , often miles from their homes, to produce crafts, or other salable items small scale agricultural and aquacultural products to enough money to make a one time trip to a large market area that will produce enough revenue in that one day to reinvest the profit to either expand or improve the venture towards a sustainable and self-supproting enterprise that has the capacity to grow with the group or individual's commitment.In my past experience on the boards of other micro-loan or micro-enterprise educational organizations these seemingly nominal amounts are perhaps a lower investment risk than any other form of financial investment as the people that apply for or are offered the assistance are self-governing and appreciate that repayment will only serve them further in supporting themselves and their households and in turn their larger communities. Rourke added," But what I really Love and am passionalte about is making and teaching jewelry making and metal arts, crafts and science!".All this from someone that remains "in the background". "R.E.[Rourke] is an individual capable of doing just aboout anything, anywhere", said Professor M.C.Ward about R.E. recently in an interview for an alumni publication after the NJA prize was announced on the heels of a substantial prize Rourke had just received from a philanthropic foundation recognizing the contribution of individual artisans to peace,philosophy or religiousity and their place in humankind."R.E. was nominated for a major (T.F.) prize in 1997, and I fully expect one day to hear from Geneva!" said Ward about Rourke's contributions to the betterment of humankind- through jewerly making! -originally published in 2010 by New Orleans Artists and Writers Guild, with excerpts fro the Lousiana Folklore Society's quarterly ( LSU Press )entitled:

About the New Orleans School of Art & Craft

BEGINNING METALSMITHING I - Afternoon Class back by popular demand! BEGINNING METALSMITHING I - Evening Class back by popular demand! INTERMEDIATE METALS III: OPEN STUDIO NEW CLASS! FLAME, FLAME, FLAME SOLDERING WORKSHOP ADDED by popular demand! COLD CONNECTIONS INTENSIVE (3-day) back by popular demand! UNSCHEDULED CLASSES BEGINNING METALSMITHING II - PLAYING WITH FIRE DISCOVER ENAMELING EXPLORING STONE SETTING SURFACE DESIGN TECHNIQUES COLD CONNECTIONS (4 week class)