Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Training Your Eye

Training Your Eye
AGS Guild, GIA Alumni & WJA Seattle Chapters present Training Your Eye with Karen Lorene Event Details: Date: Thursday, April 28th   Time: 7-9 p.m. [7-7:30 Social hour / 7:30-8:30 p.m. Lecture] Cost: Members - Not Yet Members - Small snacks will be available and may be brought into the lecture room Location: Seattle Pacific University Otto Miller Hall 3307 3rd Ave W Seattle, WA Parking is available around the building;  please pay attention to the restriction signs. Register: Online at Eventbrite by Wednesday, April 26th Cash will also be accepted at the door Questions: Contact Anna agswashingtonguild@gmail.com After: Please join us for a drink and networking after, down the street at Nickerson Saloon. Everyone welcome, even if not in attendance of event. Training Your Eye, a participatory presentation in which the viewer chooses one piece of antique jewelry over another depending on rarity and craftsmanship. These images and this lecture constitute an exercise in choice. At the end of viewing some eighty images, one should be better informed about what, how and why choices are made. The focus of the exercise is to, as the title says, "Train Your Eye." Karen Lorene spends one half of her life writing (Buying Antique Jewelry, Skipping the Mistakes; Building a Business, Building a Life; ABeCedarian; Dancing with Bear; Tilling Time, Telling Time. She also has published a literary journal, Signs of Life, for the past twelve years. The other half of her life is given over to maintaining Facere Jewelry Art Gallery. The in-between hours are focused on her husband, Don, and a rescue puppy, D'Arcy. They live happily together in a houseboat on Lake Union. Oh, and her cat just jumped on her lap to remind her not to forget to mention her: Helga. All together. From 2001 to 2005, Debbie served as the NW Regional Director and Trade Associations Manager for the Diamond Promotion Service, where she worked closely with various jewelry organizations on current advertising campaigns and initiatives to continue sales momentum at the retail level. She also spent two years as the West Coast Editor for the prestigious trade magazine, Jewelers Circular-Keystone. In this position she was responsible for writing informative articles covering a number of different sectors within the gem and jewelry industry.

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3307 Third Avenue West
Seattle, United States

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