Houston Metal Arts Guild

Freed Auditorium, Glassell School of Art

5101 Montrose, Houston, Texas

7:00 PM     Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Lecture is free and open to the public

Since 1984, metalsmith Andy Cooperman has lived and worked in Seattle where he builds jewelry and small objects for museum exhibitions, galleries and private clients. His work has been featured in many publications, including Penland Book of Jewelry and the new book Humor in Craft and is held in private and public collections that include the Victoria and Albert Museum, Central College in Pella Iowa and the Tacoma Art Museum.  Andy teaches and lectures nationally and taught in the metals program at the University of Washington 2006 – 2008.  His work has been shown recently in Esoterica: Through the Looking Glass, a Tributaries solo exhibition at The National Ornamental Metals Museum in Memphis and in Radical Alchemy in the Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, Virginia.

Visit his website: www.andycooperman.com  for more information.

HMAG’s Board of Directors is pleased to bring  renowned Seattle metalsmith Andy Cooperman to Houston to present his  workshop Creative Surface Development.

Andy’s description of this workshop:

” Our world is covered in textures and patterns that inform and delight us. In the studio, a unique or well-chosen surface adds character and depth to an object, enhances and even defines it. But it so often happens that we come to rely on a handful of basic textures rather than developing our own creative surfaces.  

The goal of this workshop is to fix that, to uncover new ways to consider surface, to loosen up and experiment, generating a wide variety of metal samples–”flash cards”. Each sample will be accompanied by notes detailing how the surface was produced, so that the effect can be replicated for future application. We will explore heat-generated surfaces as well as rolled, hammered, abraded, spontaneous and complex surfaces.  Read more…

Performance “Le Merle Noir: Act 1″ 

Rice University, Matchbox Gallery, Sewall Hall

Wednesday      March 28th     7:00 PM

Performance: 7:45 pm      Lecture: 7pm Sewall Hall Room 301

Reception Immediately following performance

Jeff McGee’s contemporary metal work uses amalgamated creatures and animals as metaphors for the human condition. By collaborating with kinesthetic artists, McGee’s narratives transcend the traditional bounds of sculpture.

Jeff is currently Professor of Art at San Jacinto College – South Campus . His work will be included in “CU:29 Contemporary Copper Exhibition” at the Society of North American Goldsmiths 2012 Conference in  Phoenix, Arizona, May 23-26.