Dear Ratan,
First of all, let me say that your initiative sounds very exiting to
me.
However, the first stage doesn't sound so exiting: The first thing you
should do is to form the terms of the competition with your
lawyer/accountant. The reason you should make it with an expert is to
make sure there are no loop holes in the temrs of the competition,
that it seems dair to the contestants (and is fair), and that you're
legally covered from law-suits regaring the competition.
You probably also thought about it, but you should express in clear
terms how are works selected (do you plan to invite experts on the
field to judge? is it your own personal taste? etc.). Of course, if
this also involves planning an event/exhibition of the works, or
inviting experts to be judges, that should be considered within the
time-plan.
After you have all the terms figured out, you publish the competition,
on your company's web-site or on a web-site providor. If you want to,
there are also some free homepage providors such as
http://www.geocities.com and http://www.tripod.com
May I point that they cover their expenses by loading the page with
ads, which may not be so elegant in your case.
Now for getting people to know about the contest. When publishing such
an announcement, you should let people long time enough to design a
model.
In order to access design students,there are several effective ways
you should use. The best way to do this, in my opinion, is to publish
your contest in a discussion group.
Here are several:
Before advertisingin this one, you must be registered with
google-groups (at http://groups.google.com/) and it's also moderated,
so it might take a day or two to be advertised.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.crafts.jewelry
The Orchid is also a good place, full of professionals and students,
mostly from North America and Western Europe. You also have to
register before publishing:
http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/orchid.htm
Another possibility is a message board regarding deadlines for
contests and grants for artists and designers, such as
http://artdeadline.com/DeadlineSubmission.html ;
You can also contact the institutions yourself (email or fax). I
gathered here American institutions (and not all, only prominent
ones). Please contact me if you need institutions from other
countries:
California Institute of Jewelry Training
5800 Winding Way,
Carmichael, CA, 95608,
U.S.A.
Phone: 1-800-731-1122
(916) 487-1122
Fax: (916) 487-1189
E-mail: cijt@jewelrytraining.com
651 W. Indiantown Road, Jupiter, Florida 33458
1-800 843-3409 (toll free)
1-561 746-7586
FAX 1-561 746-8420
JewelSchl@aol.com
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway / Gatlinburg, TN 37738 / Tel. 865-436-5860 / Fax .
865-430-4101
Director of Jewelry Technology Paris Junior College 2400 Clarksville
St. Paris, Texas 75460 (903) 782-0380 voice (903) 782-0452 FAX e-mail
tshannon@paris.cc.tx.us TIJT@paris.cc.tx.us Admission Information
1-800-232-5804
Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts
760 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94102 phone:
415-391-4179 fax: 415-391-7570
email: info@revereacademy.com
Penland School of Crafts
P.O. Box 37
Penland, NC 28765
voice: 828-765-2359; fax: 828-765-7389
office@penland.org
Jewelers of America, Inc.
52 Vanderbilt Avenue • 19th Floor • New York • NY 10017
Tel: (646) 658-0246 • Toll Free: (800) 223-0673 • Fax: (646) 658-0256
Web Site: www.jewelers.org • E-mail: contactus@jewelers.org
Because you expressed your reluctancy to use other means, I only add
here the opportunity to advertise in magazines, such as:
http://www.jckgroup.com/index.asp?layout=jckhome
http://www.americancraft.com/publications/web_links/americanstyle_page1.html
http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/
http://www.modernjeweler.com/
http://www.national-jeweler.com/
http://www.professionaljeweler.com/
I hope that helped. Please contact me if you have any firther question
- I am also leaving my search terms:
jewelry design forums (both in google and google groups)
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Clarification of Answer by
politicalguru-ga
on
08 Jul 2002 15:47 PDT
First, let me apologise forthe misunderstanding. However, I still
think that you would reach students affectively using the discusion
networks and forums suggested above.
There are several good listings that comprehend (probably) most
colleges in the US: -
The Jewelry Design Professionals' Network
(http://www.geocities.com/~jdpn/ - choose "schools") have a listing in
their site.
The Government also provides such a list by post:
"To receive a list of technical schools which have programs in jewelry
design, accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and
Colleges of Technology, contact:
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology,
2101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 302, Arlington, VA 22201 - web site
http://www.accsct.org/" (source: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos222.htm)
This list contains colleges from the US and Canada (as well as other
places): http://www.indianjewellery.net/jewellery/internationaljewsch.html
Other University/Colleges:
http://www.indiana.edu/~udiv/majors/majorinfo.cgi/65 - nto as a
major,but as a part of a major (107 S. Indiana Ave. Bloomington, IN
47405-7000
Phone: (812) 855-4848).
Rochester Institute of Technology | One Lomb Memorial Drive |
Rochester, NY 14623-5603 | 585-475-2411 School of Art, 716-475-7562;
School of Design, 716-475-2668; School for American Crafts,
716-475-5778.
Bowling Green State U. -
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/art/majors/3d/jewelry/description.html
Candy Ducat
1000 Fine Arts, BGSU
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-2786
Fax: (419) 372-2544
cducat@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Pratt - http://www.pratt.edu/ Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn, New York
11205
(718) 636-3600
Columbia College - 6 0 0 S. M i c h i g a n A v e n u e , C h i c
a g o , I L 6 0 6 0 5 p h . ( 3 1 2 ) 6 6 3 - 1 6 0 0 -
http://www.colum.edu/
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor MI 48109
(734) 764-1817
Visual Arts & Technology San Antonio College - Alamo Community College
District - 1300 San Pedro Avenue - San Antonio, Texas - 78212
mailto:rarrendo@accdvm.accd.edu
East Carolina University - http://www.ecu.edu/art/3met.html
School of Art
Jenkins Fine Arts Building
Greenville, NC
252-328-6563
Ron Graziani grazianir@mail.ecu.edu
http://www.art.eku.edu/programs/bfa/bfametal.html -
mailto:gil.smith@eku.edu
SUNY - http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/asp/content.asp?menu=Future:SchoolsAndPrograms:ArtAndDesign:JewelryDesign
JEWELRY DESIGN
Building D, Room 338
Michael Coan, acting chair
212 217.8872
Search terms:
list "jewelry design" colleges
list "jewelry design" schools
I also searched the USA Today college database for "fashion design"
and checked the schools listed.
(http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/tools/cosearch_advanced.htm)
Please contact me if you need anything else.
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