{"id":7581,"date":"2018-02-06T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T01:29:30","slug":"hammer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=7581","title":{"rendered":"Hammer time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7582\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7582\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Melissa-Cameron-PLP-Brooch-04.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Line Plane brooch iv, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can touch this. If you go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisttrustauction.org\/\">Artist Trust auction<\/a> (Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center) you could even win it! The menu is up and the artist works already online look good. Just sayin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And on now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7583\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner-600x291.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner-600x291.png 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner-440x213.png 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018MHSbanner.png 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am very pleased to have my work <em>Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot<\/em> (or RPG) in this exhibition, which, as the exhibition media tells it, &#8220;drew over 1,000 submissions from 8 countries around the world. Juror Perry A. Price selected 70 works for exhibition at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center including works from 27 states in varying media including metal, wood, plastic, ceramic, fiber, glass, and mixed media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>31st annual Materials: Hard + Soft International Contemporary Craft Competition &amp; Exhibition<\/strong><br \/>\nMeadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center<br \/>\nOpening Reception |\u00a0Friday, February 2, 6 &#8211; 8 PM (Artist Awards at 7 PM)<br \/>\nFebruary 3 &#8211; May 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Recognized as one of the premier craft exhibitions in the country,\u00a0<em>Materials: Hard +\u00a0Soft <\/em>began in 1987 and was originally initiated by area artist Georgia Leach Gough. Now in its 31st year, the exhibition opens to international artists as we celebrate the evolving field of contemporary craft and the remarkable creativity and innovation of artists who push the boundaries of their chosen media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, pleased as punch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work for the Artist Trust Auction, coming up later in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,40,113,111,107,89,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","category-business","category-competitions","category-exhibition","category-jewellery","category-lasers","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","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=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7584,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}