Please take a look at 30 Days Blog for a chance to win a pair of my handcrafted earrings!

Black Friday Giveaway

Barb from Kansas is the winner of this weeks Friday Giveaway! Thank you for participating!

My friends Traci and Robel just opened an Etsy shop! You need to check out this amazing sterling silver jewelry! Traci takes care of the business and Robel makes the jewelry! Make sure to visit their Etsy shop: http://RobelParra.etsy.com Here are some images from their shop:

Your chance to win these earrings:

Handmade Copper Bundled Rope earrings with sterling silver ear wires. These earrings hang approximately 1.5″ from the bottom of the earlobe

All you have to do to enter is sign up for my e-mail list and my postal mailing list. Don’t worry, I do not have enough time to write an annoying quantity of emails. I only send out updates once per month and rarely twice per month. I will only send you mail (postal) if I am doing an art show in your area, or some special sale.

I will post new items on Fridays, the winner will be picked with random number generator.

To Do’s to receive a FREE piece of hand crafted jewelry.

1. Sign up for my mailing list at www.bethmillner.com under the ‘contact’ tab on the left.
2. Make sure to include your mailing address so I can ship the jewelry to you (I will also pay shipping)
3. Click the ’subject’ drop down menu in my contact form and check Friday Giveaway
4. If you are already part of my mailing list (or have entered my drawing before), you are definitely still eligible, just post a comment below!

Winner will be picked on HALLOWEEN!

Well, I did not get 50 people signed up for the giveaway, so I put the total number of people into a random number generator, I think I will continue the giveaway like this from now on! The winner of the sculpted pearl earrings is Kelli from Birmingham, AL! I will email her right away to let her know she has won! Here is a link to her website: http://www.luck-happens.com

I have been reading about other blogs that like to do give-aways and I am going to give away one piece my handcrafted jewelry every Friday. All you have to do to enter is sign up for my e-mail list and my postal mailing list. Don’t worry, I do not have enough time to write an annoying quantity of emails. I only send out updates once per month and rarely twice per month. I will only send you mail (postal) if I am doing an art show in your area, or some special sale. If you are already part of my mailing list, you are definitely still eligible.

I will post new items on Fridays, the winner will be the 50th person to sign up for the list and will be emailed the following Friday

To Do’s to receive a FREE piece of hand crafted jewelry (pictured below.)

1. Sign up for my mailing list at www.bethmillner.com under the ‘contact’ tab on the left.
2. Make sure to include your mailing address so I can ship the jewelry to you (I will also pay shipping)
3. Click the ’subject’ drop down menu in my contact form and check Friday Giveaway.

Sculpted Pearl Earrings Winner to be picked Friday Oct. 24th

Hand fabricated Sculpted Copper with pea green fresh water pearl earrings with sterling silver ear wires. This copper started out as thick wire and then was formed with a rolling mill and then bent around dowels to achieve the sculptural shape!
These earrings hang approximately 3″ (7.6cm) from the the bottom of the earlobe and have handmade sterling silver ear wires.
Hand fabricated using traditional Metalsmithing techniques and tumbled to an rich finish.

Before I graduated, I had a bench next to Stefanie Burrington who make some amazing jewelry. She is in her final year of school at Northern Michigan University and will be graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metalsmithing.

Recently she opened a shop on Etsy, SilverbyStefanie.etsy.com and you should definitely have a look at some of her spectacular metalwork!

Here are some images from her online shop:

A few years ago I attended UW-Marinette and we had these wonderful poetry readings. Since that time, the friends who read poems have dissipated across Wisconsin (mainly) and other states. One by one I have been convincing them to start blogs of their poetry. Please take a look, and leave them a comment or two!

Annie E. Burie

Michael Radloff

Gary Karman

Check out some of the new items in my Etsy Shop!

I was interviewed and published in our school newspaper, The North Wind! If you get a chance to view the paper in print, there are some great images of graduating students work.

IT IS: A Senior Art Exhibit

DeVos displays 42 senior art and design students’ works

Jamie Reed

Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Entertainment

Beth Millner spends most of her weekdays sitting in lectures and art classes. And lately, instead of heading home to relax or work on homework, the senior art and design major has been spending her free time in the art studio, putting the finishing touches on the last projects of her college career.

“I’ve been building all of my display cases by hand,” said Millner, who has a concentration in jewelry and metalsmithing. “That’s been kind of stressful. My fiancé and I have spent long hours doing woodworking, which I’m not used to. I generally stay and work in the studio until 10 p.m. almost every day. I work a lot, maybe more than most people.”

Millner’s hard work and long hours will culminate with the opening of the Senior Art Exhibit on Wednesday, April 16 in the DeVos Art Museum. The exhibit, “It Is: A Senior Art Exhibition” will host the work of 42 senior art and design students.

Because every major in the art and design department will be involved, the exhibit will showcase everything from furniture and graphic design to photography and electronic imaging, said Melissa Matuscak, curator of the DeVos Art Museum. Matuscak was hired last June and said she is looking forward to hosting her second senior art exhibit at NMU.

“I think it’s a good group [of artwork],” she said. “It’s a really diverse group. Sometimes with the senior shows there’s one concentration that’s a little more prevalent in the show than other concentrations. But this show has a good representation from all the different areas in the school.”

Although DeVos hosts many art exhibits throughout the year, Matuscak said the senior art exhibit is especially unique because it symbolizes what’s happening on Northern’s campus.

“It’s a representation of what the students are doing and it’s the culmination of how the university has affected the way they make their artwork.”

Millner said she has mixed feelings on presenting her artwork in the exhibit, an experience, she said, that has her thinking about the impending future.

“I’m excited to put this big body of work that I’ve been working on for a while now out there for the public to see,” she said. “My family is going to be here which will be kind of interesting too. I’m a little bit nervous about graduation and finishing school with an art degree is a little nerve-wracking.”

Another graduating art and design senior who will be featured in the show is Joe Gardner, who has a concentration in furniture design. Gardner said the senior show is a representation of a student’s work for the entire semester, something he said he finds a little daunting.

“It’s kind of a collaboration of all your work you’ve been doing up to this point,” he said. “It takes a lot of time and effort and it’s just really tedious work.”

NMU students looking to get inspired or discover what their fellow classmates have been up to should visit the exhibit, Matuscak said.

“This is definitely art that is reflecting our current times,” she said. “These are the reflections of our young people who are the next generation of artists.”

“It Is: A Senior Art Exhibition” will run until May 2 and end with a free public closing reception. Three awards will be given away at the reception, including Best of Show, Best Graphic Design and the Provost Purchase Award, which is new this year.

Matuscak said that Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Susan Koch wanted to find a new way to highlight student art. The winner of the Provost Award will have his or her piece of artwork purchased by NMU and displayed in the Provost’s office as well as added to the DeVos permanent collection, Matuscak said.

Music at the reception will be provided by a three-piece NMU jazz band. Food and refreshments will also be served.

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