2018 Halstead Design Challenge Results

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The 2018 Halstead Design Challenge: Hidden results are in!

Jill Tower won 1st place with her “Koi Fish” brooch with a hidden frog button . She said, “My inspiration piece from the Halstead kit was the sterling silver ‘polka dot’ grid. It made me think of feathers and fish scales, and my koi fish design was born.”

To create the scales, she thinned the brass sheet and cut it to match the silver grid. This worked to create the color scheme of a real koi fish. The fish head then snaps open, and this is where you’ll find the hidden frog button. On the back, you’ll find an etched lily pond design and bezel set leopard frog cloisonné.

Jill is primarily an enamel artist and began her journey at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, where she now teaches, with metalsmithing and enameling classes. Her interest grew from hunting opals, agates and onyx across the western states as a child of “rockhound” parents. She was a runner up in the 2017 Halstead Design Challenge and has been exhibiting her work since 2014.

 Stacy Rodgers won 2nd place with her piece titled “Reliquary to the One in Eight” . Inspired by her aunt, Stacy’s brooch is a symbolic statement about breast cancer awareness. Hidden within one of the eight elements, a breast cancer awareness ribbon charm represents the one in eight women who will develop breast cancer.

Corin Herzog won 3rd place with “Keeping it Hidden.” His brooch is inspired by Asian Guardian door knockers. With a vigilant eye, the guardian holds a key to open a door on the back. Inside the door is a pendant, with the wearable aspects hidden inside the pendant. Corin worked in a juxtaposition of a bold exterior with non-precious metals and a simple interior made from silver.

 

The runners up are:

Becky McDonah for “The Secret of the Old Clock” with her nods to the Nancy Drew series in the hidden spine of the first book of the series and a second hidden flashlight element.

Blake Terzini for “Obscured Osteology” with a bird skull hidden behind the industrial aesthetics of the outer display.

Rachel Stork Stoltz for “Trinacria” with a hidden piece of lava rock from Mount Etna to work with her inspiration of the Sicilian flag, Medusa’s head, and three wheat ears.

 

About the Halstead Design Challenge

An online exhibition of 68 submissions is live on the SNAG website. An overview of all the years of the Halstead Design Challenge is also online. This year’s theme is “Hidden” and encouraged participants to play with the ideas of secrecy and mystery. The challenge inspiration was: Show us your best mechanisms, fabrication techniques and creative use of a found object — all brought to life as a brooch or convertible pendant! And to make it more interesting: incorporate a surprising element for the viewer to discover.

SNAG sold 200 challenge kits donated by Halstead in October. Each kit contained 44 pieces of sterling silver, copper, and brass supplies. Participants needed to use at least half of the kit materials plus a found object. All revenue from the kit sales benefit SNAG with proceeds from the sales of the finished pieces split between the artist and SNAG.

A juried selection of 29 pieces was exhibited at the SNAG conference in Portland, OR with winners and runners up announced from the main stage. Find out more about the Halstead Design Challenge here.

This year’s jurors were Brigitte Martin, Jim Bové, and Hilary Halstead Scott. Brigitte is the founding editor of Crafthaus, an award-winning author, and contributing writer for American Craft Magazine. Jim Bové is a practicing artist and associate professor at California University of Pennsylvania. He also won 1^st place in the 2017 Halstead Design Challenge. Hilary Halstead Scott is the president of Halstead.

See the innovative entries and results from other Halstead Design Challenges:

Overview of all Halstead Design Challenges

2016 Halstead Design Challenge: Kinetic

Art Jewelry Forum Interview with Hilary Halstead Scott

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