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Friday, August 19, 2011 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

2012 Instructors

Nikia Angel
	Nikia has been beading for more years than she'd like to count! Teaching since 1989 and on a national level since 2002, Nikia travels 8 months of the year to bead shows (B&B, Bead Fest, Rocky Mountain Bead Bazzar, BABE) and bead stores sharing the joy and teaching her innovative designs. She is owner of the popular kit website, BuytheKit.com. She spends her days in beautiful Albuquerque, NM beading new designs and getting ready for the next show. View Nikia's Workshops
Meredith Arnold
	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. View Meredith's Workshops
Patty Barnes
	Recent Grand Prize winner with her Chic Biker Cuff in YOUR DESIGNS ROCK at Rings-Things, Patty is an experienced teacher. She has a BFA & MA and is a former art teacher who offers adult classes on creating with polymer clay. She has taught other art teachers at annual conferences and is an invited exhibitor at the Austin Gem & Mineral Society's annual show where her faux gemstones amaze rock hounds with their reality. She is a designer for Amate Studios and has demonstrated at CHA for Viva Decor and other exhibitors. Her Clay-Polymer Yahoo group is one of the largest informative groups online. View Patty's Workshops
Janice Berkebile
	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. View Janice's Workshops
Linda Best Shaen
	Linda Best Shaen has been teaching jewelry fabrication for over 25 years. View Linda's Workshops
Ed and Martha Biggar
	Together Ed and Martha Biggar have over 50 years glass experience and nearly 20 years of metal clay experience. The Biggars teach regularly across the country as well as in their home studio in southwest Virginia. View Ed and Martha's Workshops
Jodi Bombardier
	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
	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
Claudia Chase
	Claudia began weaving tapestry in 1984 on a rigid heddle loom and with only her imagination to guide her. As a self-taught tapestry weaver, she made every mistake possible. A few years later Claudia began mastering tapestry techniques and bought a suitable tapestry floor loom which drastically changed the quality of her work. In 1989 she was juried into the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and began selling her tapestries in the League stores. As tapestry took over more and more of her life, Claudia's tapestries found their way into galleries, office buildings, churches and private homes. She began teaching tapestry soon after developing the Mirrix Loom in 1996. A couple of years later, Claudia discovered that the Mirrix loom could also double as a fantastic bead loom. It is then she discovered the joy of weaving with those lovely little globes. Claudia began teaching bead weaving at various stores that sold the Mirrix Loom and at her New Hampshire studio. View Claudia's Workshop
Gail Crosman Moore
	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 View Gail's Workshops
Carol Cypher
	Fiber artist Carol Cypher teaches beadwork, feltmaking and their provocative pairing in the U.S.A., Japan, Australia and Europe. Her book, MASTERING BEADWORK: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE, is the culmination of over a decade of teaching classes and workshops in beading stitches 2-7 days a week. She wrote HAND FELTED JEWELRY AND BEADS, reflecting her passion for combining beads and felt. She shares her projects and techniques in magazine articles published in several magazines internationally and on PBS and DIY tv networks. She enjoys her reputation as a generous and inspirational teacher. View Gail's Workshops
Terri Dannenberg
	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. View Terri's Workshops
Diane Dennis
	Diane Dennis is a seed-bead jewelry artist creating one of a kind and limited edition beadwork using semi-precious gemstones, pearls, and crystals. Diane has been featured in Fire Mountain Gems and Beads catalog as a contest winner. View Diane's Workshops
Phyllis Dintenfass
	Phyllis has been teaching at workshops from coast to coast for many years. She has been the featured artist in bead magazines and often publishes patterns in them as well as having her work in several published books. Phyllis' beadwork has been on display in juried shows both in this country and abroad. You can see some examples on her website: www.phylart.com. View Phyllis' Workshops
Helen Driggs
	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 View Helen's Workshops
John Fetvedt
	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. View John' Workshops
Leah Henriquez Ready
	Leah has been beading for over thirty years and teaching for twenty. She loves bead embroidery, especially using vintage elements. As an award-winning working artist who does 10 arts and crafts shows a year, Leah creates new designs all the time and is happiest when she's beading! View Leah's Workshops
Diane Hertzler
	Diane began beading about 20 years ago after trying her hand at any craft that utilized needle and thread. After working with several nationally know bead artists, Diane began creating her own designs and has since taught these around the country, including Create Your Style with Swarovski Elements 2011, and Bead Fest Santa Fe and Philadelphia 2011. Her work has been published in several magazines and books, and recently online. Her travels have greatly influenced her choices of colors, shapes and forms. She and husband Bob split their time between traveling, PA and their camp in Maine. View Diane's Workshops
Carole Horn
	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. View Carole's Workshops
Amy Kohn
	Amy worked in graphics and desktop publishing for 15 years before transferring her skills to wire and beadwork. She has been designing and teaching her creations for the past ten years in Israel. She also sells tutorials on Etsy. Amy's work has been published in Bead Unique magazine and is slated to be published in Bead and Button magazine in April 2012. View Amy's Workshops
Mark Lareau
	Mark has been teaching nationally for the last fifteen years and is co-owner of The Bead Factory in Tacoma, which opened in 1922. He is the author of two highly acclaimed books All Wired Up and Getting Started Making Metal Jewelry both published by Interweave Press. View Mark's Workshops
James Lawson
	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. View James' Workshops
Barbara Lewis
	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! View Barbara's Workshops
Jeannine Mankins
	Jeannine has been a lifelong crafts enthusiast and began beading more than 19 years ago. Over the years, Jeannine's bead obsessions have included bead weaving technique's, lampworking, wire wrapping and metal cold connections. Jeannine has received several awards for her creations through the California State Fair. She loves the challenge of the creative process but thrives on teaching the finished project. For the past 9 years she has taught at U Bead It in Sacramento, California and was a first time instructor at Bead Fest Philadelphia in 2011. View Jeannine's Workshops
Debora Mauser
	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
Dianne Mclaughlin
	Dianne is a professional artist, avid crafter and bead collector. Her creations have been featured in numerous magazines including Good Housekeeping, Early American Life, and Country Living. She began teaching over 30 years ago and thoroughly enjoys sharing her knowledge and techniques with others. In 2008 she entered the online world with her websites, www.seaglass-jewelry.com and www.spiritoftheseaglassjewelry.com. In this short time, Dianne has come to be known for her unique and complex wire weaving designs. She teaches the basics in her private studio and offers a variety of tutorials through her websites. Dianne's classes are beginner friendly and show the techniques that form the building blocks for her complex designs. View Dianne's Workshops
Anne Mitchell
	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
Cindy Moore
	Cindy is a dynamic instructor known as the Cool Tool Chick because she invents and markets specialty tools. She has been designing and creating jewelry for more than eighteen years. View Cindy's Workshops
Beth Moser
	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
Tracy Nelligan
	Tracy Nelligan is an accomplished glass artist as well as a silversmith, and her art has appeared in magazines and galleries. Tracy's career as an elementary school educator has segwayed into teaching kumihimo, viking knit, cold connections and lampworking around the country. Tracy's company, Turtle Moon Arts has been designing, teaching and selling great treasures. View Tracy's Workshops
Roxan O'Brien
	Roxan is a self taught bead artist who has a background in oil painting, silversmithing, enameling, chasing and repousee with over 25 years of experience in the jewelry field. She studied jewelry design and metal work at Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pa. and Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington, Pa. She is the first bead embroider to reach juried status from the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. She sells her work in galleries and art and craft shows throughout the east coast. She teaches both beading and metal jewelry classes in Pennsylvania. View Roxan's Workshops
Glenda Paunonen
	Glenda has been creating beaded art treasures since 1990. She launched her retail bead business in Florida shortly thereafter and works along with her daughter, Lisa. Today Crystal Creations Bead Institute, Beads Gone Wild, Glenda, and daughter Lisa, are known worldwide for their diverse kits, engaging classes, and fresh inspiration, with over 39 years of combined beading experience. Join Glenda and Lisa for a fun class. www.beadsgonewild.com View Glenda's Workshops
Pat Pawlowicz
	Pat is the author of "A Fistful of Felt", a needle felting jewelry project and technique book. She teaches needle felted jewelry and sculpture classes around the country, and is the owner of Colorful Creations Bead Company in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. View Pat's Workshops
Kieu Pham Gray
	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. View Kieu's Workshops
Melanie Potter
	Melanie Potter is the director of School of Beadwork and a national artist/instructor teaching unique off-loom jewelry designs. Her background in couture sewing was a natural transition into her beadwork designs and color palettes. View Melanie's Workshops
Paula Radke
	Paula has been making glass for 30 years. Her mentor and instructor is Boyce Lundstrom co-founder of Bullseye Glass. She has made an extensive line of lampworked dichroic glass beads and dichroic glass jewelry. Paula's new love is Art Glass Clay. She is teaching and certifying teachers to work with her new clay. View Paula's Workshops
Maria Richmond
	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. View Maria's Workshops
Pat Riesner
	Pat is a New York based beadworker who loves nothing more than teaching and sharing her knowledge . And Pat still takes classes whenever possible, too. You can never learn enough! Her first love beside teaching is writing directions and doing original graphics for projects. One of her best teaching attributes is her beading tips and tricks. View Pat's Workshops
Sue Ripsch
	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. View Sue's Workshops
Kathleen Robinson-Young
	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. View Kathleen's Workshops
Richard Salley
	Richard has recently retired from teaching in public schools to devote more time to his art and teaching workshops around the country. He considers himself not so much a jeweler, but rather a 'maker of wearable art'. Richard's interests include digital art, mixed media collage/assemblage, sculpture and jewelry and he prefers to work with alternative materials and non-traditional techniques when creating art. Richard's work has been featured in Belle Armoire Jewelry and Jewelry Artist magazines, Susan Lenart-Kazmer's book Making Connections, Steel Wire Jewelry by Brenda Schweder, Steampunk Style Jewelry by Jean Campbell and Metal Style by Karen Dougherty. My work can be viewed at www.rsalley.com. Contact him with questions at art@rsalley.com View Richard's Workshops
Cooky Schock
	Cooky Schock is the owner of The Shepherdess in San Diego CA. She has been teaching wire classes for 12 years. Her focus now is on metals of the lesser variety & she is a proud graduate of the School of Serendipitous Learning aka Life! View Cooky's Workshops
Brenda Schweder
	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
Candice Sexton
	Candice Sexton has been beading since 2001, primarily in bead crochet, beadweaving and wireworking. She enjoys experimenting and incorporating different elements in her designs. Always willing to help her students, Candice is a patient teacher who enjoys sharing her knowledge and helping others discover the joys of beadwork. Candice is the author of an upcoming bead crochet book to be published in early 2013. View Candice's Workshops
Eva Sherman
	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
Erin Siegel
	Erin loves creating everyday jewelry with rustic, organic materials like antiqued metals and gemstones and with fibers such as waxed linen cord. For the past 6 years, she has been a dedicated jewelry designer and beading instructor with a passion for sharing her knowledge, experience and ideas. Erin is co-author of the book Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords published by Interweave Press due out in the Spring of 2012. She is also a regular project contributor for Stringing Magazine. View Erin's Workshops
Debbi Simon
	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
	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. View Kim's Workshops
Tracy Stanley
	Tracy has been teaching beading and wireworking techniques for over 18 years. She loves organic elements and brings those into her work. She rarely plans pieces out, rather allows herself to follow a path letting things fall together naturally. Tracy is a big believer in quality tools and solid techniques and enjoys passing this on to her students so that they too can make quality pieces that are structurally sound resulting in pieces that they can be proud of. . View Tracy's Workshops
Susan C. Thomas
	Susan first came on the scene with her book Link It! Colorful Chain Mail Jewelry With Rubber O-Rings, and has taught at Bead and Button, Puget Beadfest, and Bead Fest in Philadelphia. Recently Susan has embarked on a new direction that combines bead weaving with chain mail. Going back to her roots, Susan spent better then a decade mastering bead weaving techniques and creating beautifully complex beaded jewelry into unique patterns. Susan uses bead weaving techniques for the structural part of her projects and adds the chain mail giving it an updated and unique look. View Susan's Workshops
Cheree Underwood
	Cheree has been married over 20 years and has three great sons. With a house full of males, she need to find an escape and that was beading. Cheree loves to share her passion with her students. Cheree started her teaching in the Bead Jungle and was there for about 3 years. She now can be found teaching in her local Hobby Lobby. Cheree also gives private lessons and teaches beading to a group of middle school students in a local after school program. View Cheree's Workshops
Jean Van Brederode
	Nothing gives me more satisfaction than creating with metal and enamels except maybe teaching others the joys of doing it too! My experience includes teaching in my PA home studio, along with several Art and Soul Retreats, Cloth Paper Scissor's CREATE retreats, and Bead Fest Philadelphia. Join me for a well-planned, upbeat, and animated class where every student leaves with a finished project! View Jean's Workshops
Michela Verani
	Michela Verani is an award-winning metal clay artist. Her work has appeared in numerous books and magazines. She has taught metal clay for many years and is an instructor at Metalwerx in MA, as well as teaching at other venues throughout New England. She is a Metal Clay Master's Registry II, an Art Clay Senior Instructor and is Rio Rewards Certified. View Michela's Workshops
Debbie Williams
	Debbie Williams is a creative wire artist from Houston, Texas. Her classes focus on traditional wirewrapping techniques and wireweaving designs. She is a popular instructor eager to share her knowledge and enthusiasm of the art with others. View Debbie's Workshops
Jill Wiseman
	Jill works out of her home studio in Austin, Texas. When she discovered beading in 2001, a love affair was born and by 2005, Jill was working full-time as a national beading teacher at bead shows, bead societies, and bead stores coast-to-coast. Jill is known by her students as a patient teacher with a great sense of humor. Jill specializes in simple but classically beautiful designs are wearable in everyday life. She is known for writing clear and detailed instructions, and her designs encompass projects for all experience levels, from absolute beginners to experienced beaders. View Jill's Workshops
Laura Zeiner
	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. View Laura's Workshops

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