CALENDAR OF EVENTS
June 2025
I. SDMG – Meetings, Announcements & Events
Mon, June 16, 2025 – SDMG Board Meeting (Virtual)
Mon, June 23, 2025 – SDMG General Meeting, 7PM, SDMG Bldg.
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I. and II. All Meetings, Events & Shows
Mon, June 23, 2025 SAN DIEGO, CA – SDMG General Meeting
Sponsor: San Diego Mineral & Gem Society
Venue: SDMG Bldg, at the back of Spanish Village in Balboa Park, San Diego
Hours: 7:00 PM
Admission: Free. Open to the public.
Parking is limited behind the SDMG Bldg, so it's first come, first served. Look for additional parking in the Carousel parking lot near Park Blvd. or in the Zoo parking lot.
LuAnn Benton will be the speaker at the last meeting before the summer hiatus. Her topic will be Creating a Stone Painting: Leonardo Scarpelli, master artisan of stone marquetry. LuAnn met the artist earlier this year at the Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery, where Scarpelli was being filmed about his work. It is based in a craft tradition known as intarsia lapidary, which was popular in 16th-century Italy (pietra dura) and India (parkinkari). The technique of making pictures with colored stones revived a much older tradition of making opus sectile, which dates to the ancient Roman world, but it achieved its artistic apogee in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance. Leonardo Scarpelli is a graduate of the Art Institute of Florence. Scarpelli Mosaici is a family-run company founded by patriarch Renzo Scarpelli. The company continues the techniques of making Florentine mosaics, which have been handed down since the Renaissance, with Leonardo’s compositions inspired by contemporary themes and subjects.
There will be refreshments and door prizes. We'll have coffee, iced tea, soda and any snacks you'd like to bring to share with everyone. Everyone is welcome and we hope you'll have an enjoyable time.