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Sketches Containing Influences<\/em><\/p>\n When not producing sculpture that ultimately becomes the star of a video<\/a>, or jewelry<\/a> that incorporates fine jewels, found objects, or recycled books, Lindsay works as exhibition manager at New Bedford Art Museum\/Artworks!<\/a>. A year ago, the 18-year-old museum joined forces with the popular local arts group called ArtWorks!, blending first-quality exhibitions with an already-established program for art education and outreach.<\/p>\n Her roles are many. She looks for exhibits that can provide a tie-in to educational programs, considers proposals for future shows, manages twelve shows a year, including four main draws and smaller exhibits that rotate every four to eight weeks, all while simultaneously gearing up for the next show that is always around the corner.<\/p>\n Fake Empire<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a lot to do for such a simple title. It\u2019s an amazing experience, and I love my job,\u201d she said. When designing a space for a show, she keeps in mind the visitor\u2019s encounter with the work. It\u2019s a practice she takes back to her own work. \u201cHow do I make the artwork an interesting experience and not just a wallflower?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Necklace (photo by Richard Gormley; model Kelly Conroy). Lindsay has another \u201clucky job\u201d on the side. Twice a year, Lindsay works with the Austrian crystal company Swarovsky<\/a> to style and photograph their latest jewelry lines at their Rhode Island company, called Touchstone. Lindsay has seen the academic side of jewelry (she has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth), spent years in the fine jewelry industry, and now gets to witness the inside workings of a marketing campaign with a global scope.<\/p>\n She can spend hours styling a single piece of jewelry to ensure the spotlight is always on the work, sometimes letting gravity do its job to make the piece suspend naturally and always avoiding props that might take the viewer\u2019s attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s great to hear conversations about design, to see them work on an international level, and how to get local designers turn a piece on their bench in Pawtucket to mass production in China,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n All of these skills will come into play when Lindsay and Kelly Jean Conroy, another Metalwerx instructor, jury a competition they designed for a SOFA<\/a>-like exhibition fair that goes up during the SNAG<\/a> convention, to be held May — 2015 in Boston at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. Entitled \u201cAdorned Spaces<\/a>,\u201d curators, organizations, schools, and individuals are invited to submit proposals for a multi-exhibit pop-up space that celebrate the innovation of metalsmithing that \u201clooks back and forges forward.\u201d The show is one of the highlighted events of the SNAG 2015 conference. \u201cThis is a time for an artist to have a breakthrough,\u201d she said. \u201cThey could be discovered!\u201d<\/p>\n Necklace<\/em><\/p>\n Click on the link to learn more about Lindsay\u2019s workshop at Metalwerx, \u201cForging Identities<\/a>,” March 7-8. Students will learn how to shape and draw down wire (elongate and taper) through hammering, annealing, and soldering, and is for beginners. The techniques in this class are applicable to jewelry, sculpture, and other objects. Contact Metalwerx<\/a> for more information at 781-891-3854.<\/p>\n Forged Bracelets by Lindsay Mi\u015b<\/em><\/p>\n –by Yleana Martinez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For an artist for whom line is a favorite design element, details such as a signature, with its curves and the drama it reveals, the different pressures of the writer\u2019s hand, the personality in the strokes of ink, can delight the creative soul. \u201cPeople don\u2019t appreciate handwriting anymore,\u201d says Lindsay Mi\u015b (rhymes with \u201cquiche\u201d). 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