in situ...

so as part of our metals program, we are host to the exhibition in situ in conjunction with dutch clogs, golden mountains, and have hosted a gallery walk-through/meet the artists, which is very beneficial to us as students studying metals. Each of the artists gave an artist talk before the walk-through, which gave us a wide range of speakers, who gave us very little or a wealth of information about them and their work and their influences. One if the speakers Iris Ichenberg started her speech in german then dutch then english, the languages that took place in her journey of living and teaching, in that order, taking from each area her how they affected her work and how it developed into something new and different with each place she went, her surroundings greatly affect and developed her work, this gave great insight to her thinking and methods. Another speaker was Lauren Fensterstock who gave a wonderful speech, giving information on her thought processes and showing her work throughout her history as an artist. Lauren was very beneficial to have because she was a very eloquent speaker, bringing in facts of her personal life and how it shaped her as a person and artist. At the gallery walk-through all of the artists were around their work and the gallery so we were able to further pick at their brains to see what really made them tick. The set up of the gallery is wonderful because there are so many wonderful pieces involved. They all create a conversation amongst each other based on materials and ideas, each approached jewelry from a very different view point, taking non-traditional materials and emphasizing them to be gemlike and the center of attention, rather than focusing on the precious. In one piece, the room to the side, you actually become the adornment in the piece, there is a cushion where you sit and the lights brighten and sing to you, almost putting you on a pedestal, where when looking in it looks lonely and far away but when looking at someone sitting on the cushion they become the jewelry and you are admiring them