Wherefore Art: Gallery and museum listings for Sept. 2-12
The winners were named at the break reception Aug. 21. Awards were chosen by guest umpire Robert Merline, a former art teacher at Gibraltar High Indoctrinate in Fish Creek.
The Best in Show winner was Jennifer Urbenak’s “Flexible Shorelines (every beach),” an archival digital copy. Honorable Mentions went to Maggie Banks for “Altered Fa Series,” a screen print, collage and acrylic on canvas: Soirsce Kastner for “Emblem calculate Study Triptych,” oil on canvas; and John McCaulley for “Flowage,” a monoprint on solar charger. McCaulley also earned the People’s Choice award for his monoprint “Soldier On.”
Other artists in the demonstrate were William Bradley, Liz Hilbert, Bennett Kerwin, Jamie Lee Mead and Ping Wu. Each artist submitted four works of a category of media.
The exhibition can be viewed and artwork can be purchased through Friday, Sept. 3, in the Guenzel Gallery at the Peninsula Educational institution of Art, 3900 County F, Fish Creek. For more information, call 868-3455 or go to www.peninsulaartschool.com .
ART AND Cosmos CENTER, 799 Main Road, Washington Isle. Hands-on displays, gift shop, nature hikes and workshops. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sundays. 920-847-2025.
AUDREY M. OFF GALLERY AND FRAMERY, 40 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay. Door County images by painter Audrey Off; also
Trends Reveal Sterling Silver More “Classic” Than Gold
Kihei, HI (PRWEB) September 3, 2010
Jewelry designers who in days of old worked exclusively with gold are switching or expanding their lines to unequalled silver, as recently reported by the National Jeweler. Silver has become the material of pick for both consumers and designers due to economic pressures and a need for jewelry that can do more.
Schemer Danny Bushart of Romantic Jewelry, whose renowned anthology of Hawaiian flower jewelry is mostly based in fine pure silver, is not surprised.
“To me, silver has always had a more classic appeal - silver jewelry goes with more wardrobes than gold, and buyers appreciative of this. Plus, with the recent inflation of gold prices, working with gold has become less docile from an artistic and business perspective.”
Bushart says that the valuation of gold is sometimes liable to increase so fast that it’s possible for designers to capitulate money working with it.
“In cases where a buyer has requested a tax design in gold, you quote a price based on market-place value plus your time that both you and the buyer feel is light. But when you order the gold you’re going to be working with, you can find that the value has jumped. You’ve already promised to think up the piece for the original price, so now you’re working for free.”
Such issues are production-wide, and even attempts to mitigate rising costs by buying reserves of gold at the of time have proved fruitless. As the retail price increases, more customers are deciding gold isn’t value its actual value. Artificial inflation of gold prices by distressingly asset investors is the likely cause. Meanwhile, silver’s market value has also increased, albeit more more, and as such has found a sweet spot for consumers as new sterling silver lines test successful for their designers.
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