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bead fest santa fe Instructors
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| Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W. Marcy St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 santafe.org Expo & Workshops |
The First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501 http://www.fpcsantafe.org/ Workshops only |
The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 North Saint Francis Drive Santa Fe, NM 87501 lodgeatsantafe.com Workshops only |
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| **The Church is across the street from the Convention Center. Shuttles will run between the Convention Center and the Lodge. Food options will be available at the Convention Center and the Lodge. | |||
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Instructors
| Laura Andrews | |
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Laura has been beading since she was a child. Her mother, a talented artist, taught her beading on a loom while sharing the importance of originality. Training in art, color, theatrical costuming, glass lampworking, metalwork, wirework, beading and communication have led Laura to teaching the art of beadwork. Her extensive background in theatrical costume design has provided a great deal of related experience, especially in the area of color selection and tonal relationships. Laura has taught throughout the US and in Germany, and is eager to share her love of color, design and bead artistry.
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| Nikia Angel | |
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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 |
| Kelly Angeley | |
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Kelly lives and works out of her home studio in Florence, OR. She sells her beadwork in galleries and boutiques along the Oregon coast and has exhibited her work in international beadwork exhibitions. Kelly recently won Best of Show in Beadwork Magazine's Beaded Earth Challenge. Her work has been featured in numerous books and she is a frequent contributor to beading magazines. Kelly has been teaching bead classes across the U.S. for over a decade. View Kelly's Workshops |
| 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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| Joan Babcock | |
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Joan Babcock specializes in translating macramé techniques of the 1960s into exceptional jewelry for today. Her unique style, which highlights Micro-macramé and "Cavandoli" knotting is a unique blend of beading, knotting, wire, and metalwork techniques. She is the author of Micro-Macramé Jewelry: Tips and Techniques for Knotting with Beads and Wired Micro-Macramé Jewelry. You can see Joan's jewelry at www.joanbabcock.com and at www.micro-macramejewelry.com.
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| Marcia Balonis | |
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Marcia has a passion for jewelry making that started as a teenager during the 'hippie' years. As a young girl she remembers going thru her mothers jewelry box and fondling each treasure. That passion has led to a lifetime love of jewelry. Although mostly self taught, she studied pottery in college on the way to her financial degrees. In retirement, she has happily gone from being a "Bean Counter" in the financial world to counting beads. She has been published in several magazines and books. She now enjoys living in Florida, teaching locally, and nationally.
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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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| Gina Crow | |
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Gina recently relocated to the beautiful and artsy Santa Fe, New Mexico where creativity is abundant. It is a great place for a jewelry designer and instructor to live. Gina has taught at Bead Fest and the Bead & Button Show as well as at several bead stores and Bead Society workshops. View Gina's Workshops |
| Leah Henriquez Ready | |
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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!
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| Diane Hertzler | |
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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.
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| Steven James | |
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Steven James, inspires students with a unique approach to jewelry making "Don't be afraid to experiment and stretch yourself creatively. The older we get the more our lives fill with rules, responsibilities and regulations, with absolutely no room for creativity. It basically goes MIA on us and now more than ever, we need to set time aside to restart ourselves." In addition to teaching he has made appearances on the HGTV and DIY networks and beaducation.com..
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| Beth Kraft | |
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Beth is the owner of Nordic Gypsy Beads & Jewelry in Rochester, Minnesota. Beth's designs have been in several national publications and she has presented on Beads, Baubles, and Jewels and Bead.tv. In addition to teaching bead-weaving and wire-work at her store, she teaches at several national bead shows. Beth was a Saul Bell Design Award finalist and a BeadStar finalist. Her website is www.nordicgypsy.com. View Beth's Workshops |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Paula Radke | |
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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.
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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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| Richard Salley | |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| Cheree Underwood | |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Judy Walker | |
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Judy Walker has been beading since childhood. She is known for distributing chocolate in all her beading classes. Her recent book, The Beaded Sphere and Variations, grew out of her wish to contribute something to the field she loves so much. She lives in Monrovia, California, where her husband Richard provides encouragement and support, and her many cats create havoc and chaos while beading. View Judy's Workshops |
| Kelly Wiese | |
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Kelly Wiese is a beadwork designer who has been teaching for approximately 13 years. She has taught at the Bead & Button show, the RMBS Bead Bazaar in Denver, the Puget Sound Bead Festival in Tacoma, Beadfest in Santa Fe and Texas and for the EGA regional retreat in Utah. Her first book Beaded Allure was pubished in 2010 by Northlight. She is a 2011 Designer of the Year for Beadwork magazine. View Kelly's Workshops |
| Debbie Williams | |
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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 |
| Margo Yee | |
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Margo obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. Trained as a gold/silversmith, she opened The Silver Fox, in Fox Chapel Pennsylvania in the late 1970's. Author of A Beginner's Guide to Jewelry Margo managed jewelry stores and later worked at H Stern Jewellers in St. Thomas, US VI for several years. After a 30 year hiatus from jewelry making, Margo joined the Bead Society of NM (BSNM) in 2010. Since then she taught a BSNM Winter Workshop, and won prizes for BSNM contests, and ribbons at the Fiber Arts Fiesta, and NM State Fair. Her work is sold on Canyon Rd in Santa Fe. View Margo's Workshops |
| Gwen Youngblood | |
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As a jewelry designer for the last 7+ years, Gwen explored many media until she discovered Metal and Wire. They inspire her to ask "What can I do today that is new and different? Where will Metal and Wire take me today?" As an instructor, on both the local and national levels, Gwen loves the interaction and camaraderie of the classroom. She believes it is her job not only to teach students how to work safely, but also to light the fire of their creativity. Please visit www.gwendolyndesigns.com. View Gwen'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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