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Bead Fest Miami Instructors Charlene Abrams Charlene Abrams has had a lifelong fascination with colour and texture, and seed beading is one of the media in which she delights in exploring shapes and shades, texture and tone; others being knitting, spinning and dyeing. Her inspiration has no single source, arising from the beads themselves, paintings, fabric prints, costume jewellery - the list is endless. She teaches regularly at local bead stores and guilds, and also enjoys teaching trips around the country. Show all Charlene Abrams's classes Meredith Arnold Meredith Arnold is a mixed media artist/teacher and comedian. She is currently on faculty at three colleges, and teaches workshops around the country. Her work has been published in many books and is exhibited all over the United States. Her classes are known for the volume of information and humor that she brings to the classroom for her students' benefit. Show all Meredith Arnold's classes Joy Cichewicz Joy's been playing with wire and metals since high school. She became obsessed with working hot glass in a torch 5 years ago and started creating glass beads and small sculptures. Now she loves combining metals and glass together to make beautiful jewelry. Joy won second place in the 2006 Lapidary Journal's Bead Arts Award. Show all Joy Cichewicz's classes Adrienne Gaskell Expanding on a lifelong study of hand-stitched art while paying homage to beading traditions, Adrienne Gaskell fuses needle weaving with contemporary jewelry construction techniques. She is known for her meticulous craftsmanship and emphasis on a professional finish. Adrienne attributes her background in textiles for her innovative and striking color combinations, one of the trademarks of her work. Show all Adrienne Gaskell's classes Beverly Gilbert Working with color is exhilarating and takes center stage in my work. Along with technique and design, discussions of color and texture are woven throughout my classes. I view my classes, which are designed for all experience levels, as spring-boards in each student’s creative process. www.gilbertdesigns.net Show all Beverly Gilbert's classes Sharon Hessoun My journey with beads and wire began about 15 years ago. I have experimented with many techniques over these years. The discovery of wire knitting led me to publish a book on the technique, redesign the knitting spools and teach in a variety of venues. I have created some unique techniques to enhance the basic spool knitting technique. Off-loom beadweaving has also captured my attention, finding ways to use basic techniques to get special textures. My bead and wire creations are sold at juried art shows and on my website. As a retired educator, teaching wire and bead techniques has been a delightful enhancement to my artistic career. Show all Sharon Hessoun's classes Susan Lewis Susan Lewis, an enamellist and jewelry fabricator for more than 25 years, has exhibited in museums and galleries nationally. She taught jewelry classes at Boca Raton Museum Art School for 15 years and, in 2001, designed the school’s jewelry studio and developed its jewelry program. In September 2006, she opened a new studio, Metalmorphosis Studio, to devote more time to her own creative work and included space to continue teaching her existing students and offer workshops. Susan was educated at Kent State University, Penland School of Crafts, and was PMC Certified in 1999. Show all Susan Lewis's classes Denise Peck Denise Peck is Editor-in-Chief of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine and the Senior Editor of Jewelry Artist. An editor by trade and a jeweler at heart, she is a metalsmith with a bench jeweler's certificate from Studio Jewelers Ltd., in New York City, and makes and sells her own jewelry when she can find the time! Show all Denise Peck's classes C.R. Radding C. R. Radding maintains a 25 year-old business of fabricating soft furnishings for interiors while she wanders her own creative path. A life-long fascination for all types of art and needlework led to the discovery of beading and wirework, and she knew she'd found her creative “home.” For the past eight years, C. R. has been teaching in California and other parts of the country, and takes great delight in sharing her skills while helping others expand their own creative voice. Show all C.R. Radding's classes Elizabeth Townes Elizabeth Townes has been beading since March 2003 when she and her daughter started BeadJeweled, Inc. She began stringing but was soon intrigued with the endless possibilities offered by seed beads. Elizabeth began teaching classes in the fall of 2003 at local bead shops, then progressed to teaching at the national level. She has always been involved in creative endeavors, from cross-stitch to needlepoint to quilting, but has finally found her niche in designing with seed beads and bead weaving. In April 2006, Elizabeth and her partners opened the Tampa Bead Café. Show all Elizabeth Townes's classes Jill Wiseman Jill teaches classes locally in Central Texas and nationally. She travels to bead shows across the country, selling seed bead weaving kits and instructions. She specializes in classically simple but striking designs that even beginners can accomplish. Show all Jill Wiseman's classes Noël Yovovich Noël Yovovich lives and works in Evanston, Illinois, but draws much of her inspiration from her childhood in rural Florida. She grew up near Tampa and Sarasota in an area where wildlife was outnumbered people, especially children. The locale was popular as a winter and retirement spot for traveling circus and carney performers, and her nearest neighbors were a retired clown, a sword-swallower and a professional fat lady. Noël later pursued a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Chicago, and art professionally. Her jewelry style draws on imagery from nature, as well as her experience creating "thematic apperception test" drawings for the University of Chicago department of Human Development. She regards her work as "everyday art," pieces that are unique and accessible, unusual and affordable, and that can be worn anywhere, anytime. Show all Noël Yovovich's classes All Bead Fest Miami Classes | Bead Fest Miami Instructors View Classes by Level | View Classes by Technique | View Classes by Length/Type | Cancellation Policy