an open invitation to MEMBERs
to play, explore, and push the boundaries of your craft in a challenging and supportive space!

What is a Creative Challenge?

Alloy comes up with a theme

You design jewelry inspired by the theme and guidelines

Alloy provides community, support and inspiration

You get a chance to win prizes!

Alloy hosts a Final Exhibition (yearly)

You share your creativity with the world

Check out our blog post all about it!!

FAQ

At the end of each challenge, completed pieces will be submitted to our panel of judges. They will select a winner(s) based on the criteria for the project. Winner(s) will receive prizes. Past prizes include $150 Cash money to the first place winner.
Participation is FREE!
This is for Members ONLY. All levels of membership, Social, Maker, Bench, are encouraged to participate.
Click HERE for more info about our memberships, starting as low as $45/year (that’s $3.75 a month!)
FOUR TOTAL!
One each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
NOPE! Do one or do them all, it’s totally up to you.
You will have roughly 3 months to work on each challenge.
Winter Challenge
‍ ‍ Release: January 5th
‍ ‍ Projects Due: March 7th
Spring Challenge
‍ ‍ Release: March 23rd
‍ ‍ Projects Due: June 1st
Summer Challenge
‍ ‍ Release: June 15th
‍ ‍ Projects Due: August 21
Fall Challenge
‍ ‍ Release: September 7th
‍ ‍ Projects Due: November 14th
Final Exhibition - Mid December
Alloy will host a “Share Party” at the end of each challenge. This is the absolute deadline for projects to be considered by the jury. Participants will bring their piece to the party to show it off and celebrate their hard work! At the conclusion, all projects will be left with the Alloy team to be considered by the jury the following week.

Can’t make it to the share party? DON’T FRET!
Email julianne@alloymetalsmithing to receive the code to our lock box outside the studio to drop off your project anytime 24/7 before the deadline.
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After the fourth and final challenge, Alloy will host a gallery exhibition featuring the work from all of the challenges combined.
This exhibition is an opportunity for friends, family, and the public to view and purchase the work generated during the challenges.

Winter: Forged Fairytales

Participants were challenged to design a piece of jewelry inspired by their favorite fairytale! Each piece needed to reflect the chosen story without words.

We saw magic mirrors, dragons scales, classic fables and medieval tales! Our members blew us away with creativity and effort.