{"id":5121,"date":"2013-03-01T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2013-03-01T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:18:44","slug":"going-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"Going to Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m leaving Seattle tomorrow for Pittsburgh where I&#8217;m spending over a week getting amongst it. What is <strong><em>it<\/em><\/strong>? Well, check out my itinerary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be teaching a workshop this Saturday and Sunday at Society for Contemporary Craft (SCC) in partnership with Construction Junction and Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, where I&#8217;ll guide students in the adaptive reuse of re-purposed objects for the creation of wearable jewelry. <a title=\"Reservations here!\" href=\"https:\/\/clients.mindbodyonline.com\/ASP\/home.asp?studioid=23447\" target=\"_blank\">Come join me!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saturday night: also at SCC from 5-6pm come down and meet me (please!) at the Visiting Artist Reception. Free!<\/li>\n<li>Monday: I&#8217;m guest lecturing for <a title=\"See Jim's amazing work on Crafthaus\" href=\"http:\/\/crafthaus.ning.com\/profile\/JimBove\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bove&#8217;s<\/a> students at California State University (Don&#8217;t get confused Australia &#8211; it&#8217;s still in Pennsylvania)<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday: I begin guest-teaching a recycled art project at a local high school.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: I head to Slippery Rock University to meet <a title=\"Sean Macmillan's Slippery Rock profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sru.edu\/academics\/colleges\/chfpa\/art\/Pages\/SeanMacmillan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Macmillan<\/a> and do a technical demonstration with his metalsmithing students in the morning, then a lunch-time guest lecture from 12:30pm.<\/li>\n<li>Friday: Sees me hanging out with students from the <a title=\"Studio Arts Department\" href=\"http:\/\/www.studioarts.pitt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Arts Department<\/a> at the University of Pittsburgh. I will give a Visiting Artist lecture to the students visiting the SCC gallery, in front of the work on show.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday night: I&#8217;m going to join the SCC in getting <a title=\"Out of Hand - SCC's annual fundraising auction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporarycraft.org\/The_Store\/Out_of_Hand.html\" target=\"_blank\">Out Of Hand<\/a>. (More details below.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><strong>OUT OF HAND<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Contemporary Craft&#8217;s annual fundraiser<\/h3>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>celebrating the hand and its role in the creative experience<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Saturday, March 9, 2013<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">7:30 &#8211; 10:30 pm<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Society for Contemporary Craft<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">2100 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA \u00a015222<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This is not your typical fundraiser! \u00a0Join us for:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Silent Art Auction - check put my work 2x\" href=\"https:\/\/clients.mindbodyonline.com\/ASP\/home.asp?studioid=23447\" target=\"_blank\">Silent art auction <\/a>|\u00a0Hands-on art stations<br \/>\nArtist demonstrations |\u00a0Local fare from the Strip<br \/>\nFlash auction featuring exclusive\u00a0packages<br \/>\nLive music &amp; performances<br \/>\n<a title=\"Out Of Hand - tickets here\" href=\"https:\/\/clients.mindbodyonline.com\/ASP\/home.asp?studioid=23447\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001KLHB3Gl-A-ce6QHFeG3NVJHVxlv7HQ5Zv7o8-4g5NWZyY5h4eGGEfEeSzbpgtTlvlFn4skdBNA_EtRMrc4YZtnvMR7ZlPC32kMEIjb1JFTv1oKSmQGjg2kSLwOYlO6Z2EraohhlSh4AbElm5bwqlvTY3Qh5zNFCdnq7FI0iAsjzWgAWiqAMFxFmQIXViPkc-jfjOblqSkDgmE1vk8dQUcx4vZbfPHK-bN6J78ucsibJr1fHvNzBfmKFCS52-3mvWZsPNoqvAasHOXh6SP7YICYIVX9kBao2e17ZwvHQO5YxpkJWqOrslR0U05nehvQjjobD4EMYUDBF_BznsvBwT9gmE3LfjSkObTKFlU-Gm_L3hRORMdTezIMILItLb1oWxDgVprdSUTsE1tgR4xUt1TQ==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melissa Cameron Contemporary Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/ih.constantcontact.com\/fs151\/1108959632676\/img\/186.jpg\" width=\"562\" height=\"386\" name=\"13d223049dd2d5cc_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.186\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We&#8217;re pleased to announce Australian metalsmith Melissa Cameron will be joining us at\u00a0<em>Out of Hand<\/em> where she&#8217;ll be demonstrating her unique approach to using recycled objects to create beautiful jewelry. \u00a0Try your hand at your own &#8220;confetti necklace&#8221; and don&#8217;t miss the opportunity to chat with this\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001KLHB3Gl-A-ckHV-IpBqSZDTGMmcJKbR0NuIM749olZhtgu04nFkEZMrsbtd7_3krKeXgvqhnFAYZbBQvRqmfCuMI5rMGncozey75Z27dBlYJBja1uaZvXR2zWRzQznXudTkzZi1MV6HlwIr9Q0JrqNJMl8LGFxTqIlULYnlJMwl7WhLzETt4gxpFg3OFD0ImHd0ip5nruX9pNv6CENxeH0yLkpS2QIT6fOkgHrCurljwJ5t-Cto4FxBvvN8Ac06dYGGG8zvT2frj2agXhPqmoCJ4auKnxmMC3wGV4MmN2Q8em7Xs0cQWlw==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Bridge 12<\/a><\/em> artist.<\/h4>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing the city and meeting a bunch of creative people, so if you&#8217;re in Pittsburgh, please come and say hi!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa goes to Pittsburgh. Shenanigans ensue (hopefully!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,88,10,55,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewellery","category-lecture","category-studio","category-travel","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}