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Bead Fest Spring Instructors
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Don't miss the Meet the Teachers Friday, April 8th from 11:30 AM-1:00 PM |
Instructors
2012 Instructors will be posted in a few days
2012 Instructors will be posted in a few days
| Meredith Arnold | |
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Meredith is a comedian-artist specializing in jewelry and mixed media work. Her classes are like drinking from a fire hose with information, but lots of fun as well. Meredith has made appearances on the PBS show "Beads, Baubles and Jewels" and her work is published in many books and magazines as well as exhibited nationally on a regular basis. As a professional teaching artist, Meredith travels and teaches around the U.S. and Europe in conjunction with being the Director of ArtWorks (www.artworks-edmonds.org), and on faculty at three different colleges and an art center in the Seattle area.
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| Janice Berkebile | |
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Janice is always amazed at the texture and architecture of plants, shells, pods and the organic forms found in nature. Her focus is wire and metalwork, drawing from nature and incorporating texture and form into my work. She is passionate about becoming intimate with the subtleties of this medium and sharing these techniques with her students.
Janice teaches locally at Fusion Beads in Seattle WA, and beads stores across the country and she has contributed projects to Interweave press magazines.
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| Jodi Bombardier | |
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Jodi is a self-taught jewelry designer, wire wrapping since 2005 and wire weaving since 2008. She is a freelance writer for Step By Step Wire Jewelry magazine and a contributing author to the books Wire Style and Wire Style 2. She is the author of her first solo book, Weave, Wrap, Coil Creating Artisan Wire Jewelry. Her second book will be available Spring 2013. Her teaching experience of 3 years includes Bead Fest, To Bead True Blue and bead stores in her home town. View Jodi's Workshops |
| Melissa Cable | |
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Melissa Cable has been creating jewelry for over 12 years. Seven of those years, she owned beadclub bead store in Woodinville, WA. Having satisfied her sense of taste and smell by working in the restaurant and wine industries, she found that creating jewelry satisfies her sense of sight and touch. Combined with the sound of happy students, jewelry making leaves her complete. Melissa's first book, Spotlight on Wire, released in 2011. She works primarily with wire, metal and metal clay and, in more recent years, Faux Bone. She resides in the greater Seattle area. View Melissa's Workshop |
| Gail Crosman Moore | |
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Gail Crosman Moore is an artist, teacher, mother and small business owner. She divides her time between creating her work, showing her work and encouraging others to create their own work, reveling in the spark and arc that travels between her interactions in these different and varied aspects of her life.
Recognition of her abilities appears in print, both in trade publications and books in several different fields. Through the granting of awards she has been able to pursue new methods and master new materials.
Her work can be seen at her website: www.gailcrosmanmoore.com
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| Terri Dannenberg | |
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Teri began beading about 25 years ago in her previous life as a geologist in Texas. Her love of rocks and minerals drew her to semi-precious beads, stringing and pearl knotting wonderful Earth materials. The love of color drew her to those tiny seed beads. The last 10 years she has worked almost exclusively with seed beads, crystal, and pearls. Designing new and exciting ways to put beads together is her passion.
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| Anne Dilker | |
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Anne is the author of "Braiding for Beaders" the definitive how-to book on kumihimo braiding for jewelry designers and "Kumihimo Braiding for Jewelry Designers". Her newest book, Anodized Aluminum: Easy and Fun Projects for the Jewelry Designer, should be released in the spring of 2012. Anne lives in NE Pennsylvania and teaaches extensively throughout the country. As a designer/consultant for the BeadSmith Anne has traveled to England to present kumihimo and has appeared on JTV's Jewel School on numerous occasions.
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| Helen Driggs | |
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Helen is the Senior Editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and an experienced metalsmith. A BFA graduate of Moore College of Art, she has worked as an information graphics artist, art director, writer and editor. She is a member of PSG, CoMA and SNAG, and is the featured artist in 3 Interweave Metalsmith Essentials DVDs: Basic Fabrication, Rivets & Cold Connections, and Textures & Patinas. Twitter: fabricationista; Blog: www.materialsmithing.wordpress.com
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| John Fetvedt | |
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John works primarily with silver, gold, and titanium. The techniques he uses include anticlastic raising, casting, chain making, etching, fold forming, forging, and stone setting. John finds chain mail particularly interesting because it combines art, mathematics, and construction techniques. There is art in the way the finished jewelry decorates the body. Mathematics is used when creating a new pattern. The techniques needed to construct a pattern are like solving a jigsaw puzzle.
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| Carole Horn | |
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Carolehas taught beadwork for the past 20 years. She has taught at the American Craft Museum, The Cooper Hewitt Museum, at Embellishment, Bead Fest and at the Bead & Button Show. She is Workshop Director for The Bead Society of Greater New York and teaches for the Bead Society on a regular basis. Her work has been published many times in various books and magazines.
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| Linda Larsen | |
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Linda Larsen has been designing all her life. After wandering into a bead store she found a new passion for stones and metals. She frequently incorporates fibers from her past and found objects to her metalwork and loves anything with
the patina of time, fake or not! As the owner of Objects and Elements.com she
spends a lot of time looking for treasures and developing new products for the
jewelry supply website. She teaches internationally and blogs frequently about
projects and techniques at objectsandelements/typepad.com
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| James Lawson | |
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A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology,1976, Jim Lawson has built a successful career in art and advertising photography over the last 30 years, working primarily in the Chicago and Cleveland areas.
Since 2006, when he moved to Chester County, Jim's commercial work has been primarily focused on an extensive series of cover art for Jewelry Artist Magazine and the "Gem of the Month" photo feature for Modern Jeweler. Recently, Jim has taught at the Delaware College of Art & Design and participated in faculty exhibits there.
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| Barbara Lewis | |
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Barbara Lewis has a unique understanding of the effects of the flame on torch-fired enamels because of
her degree in ceramics from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. In fact, this emphasis
is the foundation of her North Light book, Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry: a Workshop in Painting with
Fire. Barbara, a Thompson Enamel distributor, is the creator and moderator of
www.paintingwithfire.ning.com, where it's all about torch firing. She invites you to join the "ning" to
check out torch-firing while you await the workshop!
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| Albina Manning | |
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Born in Russia, Albina has lived in Arizona, for more than 8 years. Educated as an elementary teacher, she shares her love of designing jewelry internationally, by teaching others in live classes and through her many pattern tutorials. Albina has co-instructed with Dale Cougar Armstrong and is an Active Faculty Member of Wire-Sculpture.com, creating and filming an instructional DVD series. She has been published many times on the Internet, in magazines, E-books and in the printed book, Mixed Media Jewelry Techniques. Albina has taken many awards for both her unique wire and beaded jewelry designs. Visit her blog: http://aroundbeads.blogspot.com/
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| Debora Mauser | |
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Mostly self-taught, Debora has been creating jewelry for over 10 years and teaching for the past four. While wire is her first love, lately she has been exploring metals and color! Debora's classes are fun, stress free and packed with useful knowledge. View Debora's Workshops |
| Anne Mitchell | |
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Anne started her creative career over 25 years ago as a professional lighting designer. Looking for another outlet for her artistic energies, Anne began teaching chain making and metal working approximately 14 years ago for just pure enjoyment. During those years, Anne found that the creative outlet provided by teaching as well as a consistent demand for her classes was too alluring to deny. Leaving lighting behind in 2003, Anne is now a full-time designer, teacher, and author. View Anne's Workshops |
| Beth Moser | |
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Beth Moser is an award winning artist that has followed her love for beading over the last 20 years. Her creations have been featured in multiple magazines and publications, showcasing her designs. The source of her creativity stems from her passion to create functional accessories with an artistic flare. Located in Central Pennsylvania, she works from her home studio and features her work within a variety of artisan venues. Beth prides herself on her unique bead expressions, quality of work and meticulous attention to detail. www.BethMoserDesigns.etsy.com View Beth's Workshops |
| Connie Nabholz | |
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Connie has had a lifelong involvement in the Arts, from oil painting to fiber arts to bead weaving and jewelry designing. Connie has won numerous awards for her jewelry designs. She participates in several art shows each year and shows her work in 4 Galleries in the Southeastern United States. She has taught at several Bead Fest Shows and currently teaches weekly at her local bead shop. She loves to teach and learn from her students. View Connie's Workshops |
| Tracy Nelligan | |
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Tracy Nelligan is an accomplished glass artist as well as a silversmith. Tracy's career as an elementary school educator has segweyed into teaching around the country. With projects of kumihimo, viking knit, cold connect and lampwork. Tracy's company Turtle Moon Arts has been designing, teaching and selling great treasures. Tracy Nelligan's art has been seen in the magazines and galleries. View Tracy's Workshops |
| Denise Peck | |
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| Kieu Pham Gray | |
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Kieu Pham Gray has been creating jewelry for over 20 years. She started from the need to look the part while working in retail management. Making jewelry for herself and friends, her jewelry line was born. Since then she has sold to over 30 stores and participated in numerous juried art shows. Today, Kieu owns and operates Bead Q!, a boutique bead store in the Cleveland area. Along with her husband, Andy, they run TheUrbanBeader.com, where they work to provide specialty goods and tools to the industry. Detailed instruction and personal attention has been the key to success with her students.
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| Maria Richmond | |
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Though she played with wire as a kid, self-taught artist Maria Richmond has been working with it professionally since 1998. Doodling in wire the way many people do with a pen on paper, most of her work determines its own path to creation. Self-taught, Maria often includes the unexpected twist or turn in her work, usually from the unexpected inclusion of nontraditional materials such as found objects and industrial cast-offs. She teaches regularly in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as well as other venues throughout the country. Her classes are known for their relaxed atmosphere.
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| Sue Ripsch | |
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Sue is a chainmaille artist, designer and author who teaches around the country with her husband, Steve. She has taught at numerous Bead Fest Shows and at Bead and Button. Sue has written clear and wonderfully illustrated instructions for over 130 chainmaille weaves. She likes to teach students at all levels of chainmaille experienc. Please join Sue in a class.
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| Kathleen Robinson-Young | |
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Kathleen has been making glass beads and jewelry since 2001. After leaving a corporate position as Marketing Director in 2003, she opened Burning Bead Studio, where she taught basic soldering skills, PMC, glass-beadmaking, wire working and basic jewelry techniques until 2007.She currently teaches various aspects of jewelry making at Wayne County Community College in Detroit, Michigan. Her work is both elegant whimsy and traditional,and can be found in various stores and boutiques in the Midwest.
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| Leslie Rogalski | |
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Leslie Rogalski is an artist, designer, and teacher with a passion for beading. As a CREATE YOUR STYLE WITH SWAROVSKi ambassador and a design team member for Beadalon, she travels around the country spreading the joys of making jewelry. The former editor in chief of a national bead magazine, author of the blog Sleepless Beader and many You Tube videos, her designs and articles are published in books and magazines from all the jewelry industry leaders. She is widely recognized as the creator of her acclaimed bead stitching DVDs "DoodleBeads", as well as from Jewelry Television and the PBS TV series Beads, Baubles, and Jewels.
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| Julie Sanford | |
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Julie Sanford is an award-winning designer, actively designing jewelry in the West Michigan area for over 20 years. Julies experience includes teaching visual art in the classroom with a curriculum emphasis on jewelry design, leading classes and workshops at art centers, galleries, trade shows, providing artist residencies at schools and businesses and teaching at her own studio, Studio JSD, in Grand Haven, Michigan.
Her work is featured in books, articles, trade magazines and gallery exhibits.
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| Debra Saucier | |
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Her passion for beading started as a child, while spending summers in Japan. Debra is a participant in Beading Across America released in 2011. She teaches nationally and has been a demonstrator & instructor for CREATE YOUR STYLE with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS - at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee and CREATE YOUR STYLE in Tucson Event. Debra is also a CREATE YOUR STYLE with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Ambassador.
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| Brenda Schweder | |
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Brenda Schweder is a jewelry designer, author, and creativity coach. She has written three do-it-yourself jewelry books: Steel Wire Jewelry (Lark Books), Junk to Jewelry and Vintage Redux (Kalmbach Publishing Company). Her designs and fashion jewelry forecasts have been published over 100 times in books and magazines, including: Chains, Chains, Chains, each of the 30 Minute jewelry series, Art Jewelry, BeadStyle, Wirework, Step by Step Wire, Steampunk Style Jewelry, BUST, and various others. Visit her web site at www.BrendaSchweder.com and catch her on Facebook and Twitter. View Brenda's Workshops |
| Eva Sherman | |
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Eva began playing with beads as a way to spend time with her daughters but soon discovered she really enjoyed it. In 2005, Eva traded in her architectural career for the opportunity to spend all her time among beads. Grand River Beads opened in Cleveland, OH and where Eva now happily spend most days in the studio fooling with wire and metals. She has written numerous tutorials, been published several times in Step by Step Wire Jewelry, teaches regularly in her shop, and has been known to take her show on the road. View Eva's Workshops |
| Debbi Simon | |
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Debbi Simon is an award winning artist, designer, teacher and author, has been working creatively since 1993. Her original paintings and designs have been published in national magazines and books. Her first book Crystal Chic was released in December 2008, she is an Ambassador for CREATE YOUR STYLE - SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, and is currently teaching nationally mixed media and jewelry workshops in resin, encaustic and crystals. View Debbi's Workshops |
| Kim St. Jean | |
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Kim St. Jean is an award winning instructor, author and jewelry designer who has been teaching jewelry classes for 14 years. Kim has been published in numerous magazines and books and has appeared on several beading/craft television programs. Her first book is entitled Mixed Metal Mania, and has a second one due out this year, Metal Magic.
Kim's home base is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she and her husband, Norm, own Studio St. Jean. She and Norm spend much of the year traveling across the country teaching classes at bead shows, jewelry schools, guilds, clubs, studios and stores. For more info or an updated schedule please visit her website: www.kimstjean.com.
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| Vanessa Walilko | |
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Vanessa has been teaching chainmaille and beadwork for a number of years and loves teaching others ancient crafts. After taking a seed bead jewelry class when she was 8, Vanessa was immediately hooked and has been designing jewelry every since. Vanessa specializes in putting her meticulous creativity to good use by creating large pieces of chainmaille clothing, as well as, beaded jewelry and sculpture. Her chainmaille projects have been featured in Step by Step Wire and Bead Magazine in the UK. View Vanessa's Workshops |
| Laura Zeiner | |
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Laura has been beading for about eleven years and has a passion for beading with uncommon objects. She is crazy about teaching and is known for creating detailed tutorials that are easy for even beginners to follow. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, John, a calico cat named MilliBob and Ginger, her spoiled-rotten shelti. In her "spare time", she trains for triathlons.
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