Join us for food, drink, and riveting conversations.

The Seattle Metals Guild is honored to host Guild members and their friends in a series of monthly presentations from experts in our field.

Join us for an in-person presentation plus hands-on show & tell of work with machinist and guild member Joshua Kopel.

For the past several years, Josh has invested heavily in honing his ability to make small (sometimes very small) folded seam boxes. Josh will share some of what he has learned about his process, and some examples of what he has been able to create so far.

Joshua Kopel was university trained as a metalsmith but has spent the majority of his career in other industries, and has only recently returned to creative endeavors. He maintains an entirely unprofessional practice from his studio in West Seattle where he experiments with both traditional and nontraditional methods of small scale fabrication. Being endlessly fascinated by the variation possible in even simple geometric forms, he mostly constructs small boxes and other more difficult-to-classify objects.

Seattle-area location TBA.

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Members and their friends are welcome to join our Lecture Series! The Seattle Metals Guild is a non-profit organization with a mission to offer education and networking opportunities to makers.To review member benefits and join our organization, visit https://seattlemetalsguild.org. Tickets are free for active members of the guild. (Check your email for your access code to free tickets, or reach out at lectureseries@seattlemetalsguild.com.) Thanks for your participation!

Members and friends of the guild are all welcome to join this informal gathering where we’ll catch up on projects, talk shop, and maybe even have some items on hand for a little show and tell of recent work. We’ll be there Wednesday, April 17th, at Obec Brewing in Ballard. Just look for the amazing mural!

The Seattle Metals Guild is honored to host friends and members in a series of monthly presentations from experts in our field.

Join us for an in-person tour of the Liberty Bank Building's collaborative artwork with artist and guild member Esther Ervin. Esther will offer a tour of the project located in Seattle’s Central District. She and her partner curated the production and installation of 43 permanent pieces in and around the building collaboration with artists, community groups, architects, developers and contractors.

Esther Ervin is a contemporary visual artist, and jeweler. She has an MFA in Illustration. Her jewelry has been exhibited in Beijing, China; Vilnius and Palanga, Lithuania and in Legnica and Gdansk, Poland.

While consistently generating and exhibiting jewelry and mixed-media work, Esther has curated over 50 exhibitions, been on local and out-of-state juries and attends conferences to network with her artistic peers. She is currently curating the Garfield Super Block art project, an exhibition at the Northwest African American Museum for the Black Arts West Alumni and creating a pair of large scale jewelry pieces for a Vulcan construction project.

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Whether a member or a friend of the organization, all are welcome to join our Lecture Series! The Seattle Metals Guild is a non-profit organization with a mission to offer education and networking opportunities to makers.To review member benefits and join our organization, visit https://seattlemetalsguild.org. Tickets are free for active members of the guild. (Check your email for your access code to free tickets, or reach out at lectureseries@seattlemetalsguild.com.) Tickets for others are designed to be low-cost while helping us defray the expenses of hosting. Thanks for your participation!

Join us for dinner, drinks, and guild comraderie!

Join volunteer Jay McAleer and fellow members for this month’s Metals Mixer on Wed, February 21st, 6:30-8:30pm at Big Time Brewery in Seattle’s University District. Together we’ll catch up on our current projects, challenges, goals, and whatever else you’d like to discuss with a fun group of peers while noshing on burgers and beers. 🍔 🍻

The Seattle Metals Guild is honored to host friends and members in a series of monthly presentations from experts in our field. Tickets are free for active members of the guild. Check your email for an access code, and reach out to submissions@seattlemetalsguild.org with questions.

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Join artist and guild member Rachel Morris for an in-person, interactive jewelry and metal arts pricing discussion. Rachel will share her experience pricing jewelry for retail through this informative group exercise open to both Members and friends of the Seattle Metals Guild.

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You: Bring 1-3 pieces of your finished jewelry or metals work and its current or intended retail price.

We: Together, we will anonymously share pricing thoughts for one another's work, without any names attached to it. No judgment! - We promise this is a safe learning environment.

Rachel: Our event leader will moderate a discussion around pricing of these items. Together we will discuss outcomes and reasoning, plus ways to move the price point needle up.

This interactive session is sure to lead to some big surprises, new perspectives, and fun while sharing peer insights.

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Rachel Morris is an Artist/Educator and business consultant, whose wildly varied life path has been influenced by frequent childhood moves, unusual jobs, voracious reading habits, and mentors who enthusiastically and generously shared their craft with her.

She began metalwork at the tender age of 8, starting her first business soon after – the age apropos “Uniquorn Crafts” (from “unique + unicorn!"). Rachel holds a BA in Theater Arts and a Master of Arts in Teaching. Heavily influenced by her dual-professor parentage, she’s been teaching art classes since high school.

Rachel’s current practice, under the Eclectic Nature Jewelry & Design banner, focuses on hand-fabricated jewelry that emphasizes dimension and texture, with raw and cut stones. She is energized her students’ discovery processes and achievements, as they learn new techniques and find their own voices.

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Whether a member or a friend of the organization, all are welcome to join our Lecture Series! The Seattle Metals Guild is a non-profit organization with a mission to offer education and networking opportunities to makers. To review member benefits and join our organization, visit https://seattlemetalsguild.org. Tickets are free for active members of the guild. Check your email for an access code. Tickets for others are designed to be low-cost while helping us defray the expenses of hosting. Please - ONLY REGISTER if you plan to attend! Thanks for your participation!

For many years, Pratt Fine Arts Center and the Seattle Metals Guild have collaborated on a necklace to be offered at the annual Pratt auction. Our organizations share many talented artists who are part of the rich arts fabric of our Puget Sound Region. Collectively, we embody a reverence for the value of the arts in our community. We invite you to contribute to this wonderful piece of art! With your contribution of a hand made bead in the materials and style of your choice, we would like to create a necklace for the 2024 auction. This year’s theme is Pratt Aglow.

100% of the revenue from the sale of the necklace goes directly to making the transformative experience of art-making accessible to all through Pratt’s programs. These programs serve thousands of students, instructors, working artists and learners of all ages.

Beads should be approximately 1” in size, with a hole for stringing that is at least 2mm in size. To allow for finishing the necklace by Pratt’s auction due date, we need all participating beads by January 25th, to be delivered (or mailed) to Pratt Fine Arts Center, 1902 S. Main St, Seattle, WA 98144, attention: Anne Randall. Please complete the form below and include a copy of it with your bead. The necklace will be assembled, photographed, and submitted on behalf of all participants. You will receive an email copy of the photo, and acknowledgement of the auction sale following the April event.

We look forward to seeing wonderful contributions that will come together in a spectacular work of art!

Submission form available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ys0O1CC4R0agDtMI-dDujkZRBltbVbYZ/edit

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

Annual General Meeting

Metal Mixers will happen the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For the foreseeable future they will be at Madrona Arms from 5:30-8pm. They are free to attend, and a low-stakes way to get involved with the guild. Madrona Arms has food and drinks, lots of parking, seating inside and outside, and is wheelchair accessible.

These laid-back events are the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guild members and to check out neat hangout spots around Seattle. Bring a project you’ve recently finished, a project you’re working on, any questions you have, and your enthusiasm for making new jewelry/metal friends. Look for the chasing hammer to find our group.

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