'Studio Multiples'

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'Studio Multiples' by Donald Friedlich and Bruce Metcalf

The curators describe the "Exhibition in Print" in Metalsmithing 1997. Works represented in their portfolio were selected according to the following criteria - metalsmith work by production artists which had been produced a minimum of five times in a small studio setting and was original to the artist.


Production Metalwork Today by Donald Friedlich

Don discusses the responsibilities of academia versus the perils of the marketplace - the push and pull between production work and one-of-a-kind work, the inherent struggle between leraning, growth and innovation and financial success. He details production's contributions to the field by bringing a large quantity of work before the public at various prices. He concludes by noting, ironically, that despite all of the technology available today (commercial photoetching, laser cutting and CAD-CAM), the most frequently used production techniques are casting and fabrication.


When Production Had a Good Name by Bruce Metcalf

The author discusses the evolution of production from being considered cultural pioneering (modernist ideology and the Bauhaus model), to the current feeling that production represents selling out to the marketplace.