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Meet the 2009 Bead Fest Philadelphia Instructors!
Cristina has been making and selling jewelry since high school. Her eagerness to learn new things and techniques to incorporate in her jewelry have led to her unique style. Her pieces have been included in magazines such as BeadStyle, Step by Step Wire Jewelry, Seventeen, Art Jewelry and more. Her teaching background includes classes at her LBS and in the High Performance Program of UEB Delta, as well as several online tutorials.
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Laura has been beading since she was a child. Her mother taught her beading on a loom while sharing the importance of originality. Training in art, color, theatrical costuming, lampwork, metalwork, beading and communication have led Laura to teaching beadwork as art. This includes training in Japan. As a recognized international instructor, Laura is eager to share with you her love of bead artistry.
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Dale "Cougar" Armstrong is a diehard rockhound, lapidary, and a full-time wire artist and instructor, with more than 30 years of experience. She teaches at major jewelry events, as well as in her personal studio in Southeastern Tennessee. Her award-winning work has appeared in many publications, and she had made a series of instructional DVDs, produced by Jewelry Television. Dale is a frequent contributor to Step by Step Wire Jewelry, and her first book with Interweave Press will be released in Spring 2009.
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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's work is published in many books and magazines and is exhibited nationally on a regular basis. As a professional teaching artist, Meredith travels and teaches in conjunction with being on faculty at two different colleges in the Seattle area.
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Paulette Baron has been beading since 1994, and shortly after began teaching beadweaving classes in the Washington, D.C. area. In addition to teaching around her home base, Paulette has also teaches at the Bead and Button Show and Bead Fest. She has become known for creating 3-dimensional sculptural pieces of art out of beads. Her pieces utilize different sizes and shapes of beads and are made using a wide assortment of off-loom bead weaving stitches. Paulette’s work is featured in "Beading With the Brick Stitch" by Diane Fitzgerald, “The Best Collection of Beadweaving Stitches by 9 American Bead Artists” by Kumiko Mizuno Ito, and in The Beaded Figure traveling exhibition. Her Pinwheel Garden necklace appears on the title page of Margie Deeb’s new book, “The Beader’s Color Palette” and she was asked to create a new piece for this book.
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Susan Barrett has taught beading and jewelry-making in Southern Nevada for 5 years. She especially enjoys instructing new students and watching them create their own first pieces of wearable art.
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Melinda Barta is the editor of Beadwork magazine. She holds a BFA in fiber arts, and is the author of Hip to Stitch (Interweave, 2005) and Custom Cool Jewelry: Create 200+ Personalized Pendants, Charms, and Clasps (Interweave, 2008). Melinda has made appearances on PBS, Style Network, and DIY programs.
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A native of the Pacific Northwest, Janice Berkebile is inspired by the organic forms found in nature, Japanese motifs, textiles techniques, and the sinuous lines found in the Art Nouveau movement. Her focus is sculptural wirework, becoming intimate with the subtleties of wirework, and sharing these techniques with her students. She has partnered with Tracy Stanley to form Wired Arts. Janice has recently partnered with Tracy Stanley to form Wired Arts. They will be creating a website called website wiredarts.net, and will be leading wirework retreats.
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Jack Berry is the author of Repetitive Micro-Fold Forms Using an Industrial Tube Wringer: Small Scale Applications for Jewelry and Sculpture and has demonstrated and taught microfolding techniques around the country. He is also Professor Emeritus in Biochemistry at California State University in Long Beach.
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Linda Best Shaen has been designing and teaching beadwork for 25 years. Her Marlton, New Jersey studio is a delightful haven for students of all experience levels. Her unique talent for preparing individual kits for her students places her in demand for the classes that she teaches nationwide.
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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.
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Cindy has been working in metal for 18+ years. For the past 14, she has had the opportunity to travel and teach around the country. During that time Cindy also owned and operated a fine arts gallery in Georgia. She teaches a number of techniques including wire weaving, hydraulic press, and cuttlebone casting. She also designs and creates speciality jewelry making tools. Including the Cindy Bender, Cindy's Wire Weaving Kit and others. The Weaver and the Bender were featured in Step By Step Wire in May 2008.
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Doris left the corporate world in 2000 to pursue beads full-time. Since then she has spent her time being a sales rep for a bead company, designing kits, and teaching them both locally and nationally, writing for the leading bead magazines, leading bead related tours to the Czech Republic, maintaining her Web site and growing her online business.
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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 Web site.
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Debi Keir-Nicholson and Christina Vandervlist are bead artists who love to share their experience and skills with others. They are published bead authors, lectures and international teachers, based at "Beads of Colour," Debi's unique shop in the heritage village of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. Debi and Christina's different approaches to their joint beadwork endeavours allows them to be unusually effective teachers, who truly inspire and motivate students while providing excellent instruction.
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Marcia DeCoster’s love for beautiful jewelry and life-long passion to create led her to beads in the early 1990s. Marcia designs colorful and fun-to-wear jewelry and shares her designs through teaching. Marcia is President of the San Diego Bead Society and a juried member of the Spanish Village artist community at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Her work has been published in Jane Davis’s Complete Book of Beading, Carol Wilcox Wells’s The Art and Elegance of Bead Weaving, and beading magazines, including Beadwork. http://www.marciadecoster.com
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Artist, graphic designer/art director, musician, and color expert Margie Deeb is the author of several beading books, including the popular The Beader's Guide to Color and The Beader's Color Palette. She appeared and discussed her approach to color on a 2008 episode of the PBS TV show Beads, Baubles and Jewels. Margie conducts color courses for artists, interior designers, and bead artists throughout the US. Her art is featured in galleries across the country and in many books. Her free monthly color column, "Margie's Muse" is available on her website. She produces a free graphically enhanced podcast, Margie Deeb's Color Celebration, available on iTunes. Subscription to her free monthly e-newsletter is available on her website. Her articles have appeared in Bead & Button and Beadwork magazines, and she writes a regular color column in Step-by-Step Beads.
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Diane is primarily a self-taught needle artist and has worked for many years in several areas of needle art. Diane fell in love with beadwork from the start and has been beading exclusively for the past seven years. She has been concentrating on creating her own original work for sale and teaching her designs for the past five and a-half years. Diane primarily works in the form of off-loom beadwork called peyote. Diane has been published in the FireMountain Gems and Beads catalog, Bead & Button Magazine and Beadwork magazine. Diane teaches beading in the northern Virginia area.
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Phyllis Dintenfass has been designing and teaching bead weaving since she discovered she could thread a size 12 beading needle. She loves to see how each person embraces a project and makes it her own. She teaches at national shows. Phyllis' work has been exhibited in juried shows in the U.S. and abroad; she has been the featured artist and published patterns in several beading magazines, as well as two felting books by Carol Huber Cypher.
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Helen Driggs is the Managing Editor for Jewelry Artist. She is an experienced jewelry maker and metalsmith and a BFA graduate of Moore College of Art. She has worked as an illustrator, information graphics artist, writer, designer, teacher and art director.
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Stephanie Everett designs and makes jewelry in the Annapolis, MD area. She is a popular local jewelry instructor and a prize-winning chain mail artist. When she isn't making or teaching jewelry, she works as a research scientist for the US Navy.
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Tamara Farion graduated from the Philadelphia College of Textiles with a Bachelor's Degree in Textile Design. After working in a corporate position for 20 years, Tamara moved to Asia to study jewelry design and old world craftsmanship. While in Singapore, Tamara became a Certified Senior Instructor for Art Clay Silver. Combing metal clay silver with her beadwork allowed Tamara to take her jewelry designs to a new level. She currently lives and teaches in Gwynedd Valley of Pennsylvania.
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Sarah Feingold is an attorney and a jeweler. She currently serves as general counsel at Etsy.com, an online venue to buy and sell all things handmade. Sarah also lectures and writes on the topic of intellectual property rights of artists. Her book "Copyright for Artists: Quick and Easy Copyright Protection" is available at www.attorneysarah.etsy.com. For more information on Sarah, visit www.sarahfeingold.com.
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Leslie Frazier loves beadwork, teaching, and developing new designs and techniques. She enjoys sharing her joy and fascination with beadwork by teaching throughout the United States, Japan and Canada. . Her work has been published in The Art and Elegance of Beadweaving and several issues of a Japanese beadwork magazine. “I want my students to leave class happy, with a great feeling of accomplishment after learning a technique new to them, and respect for their ability to create finely-crafted beadwork jewelry,” Leslie says.
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Leslee Frumin. a bead and metal artist from San Juan Capistrano,
California teaches off-loom bead weaving and metal/jewelry
techniques. Leslee has published and won awards in both areas
and her work is frequently featured in trade magazines. Her goal
as a teacher is to create a fun and successful learning
experience. Her passion for all the colors and textures made
possible by beads, metals and stones keep her excited.
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Sherri Haab is a best selling craft author with over 21 published books in print, with several titles selling over a million copies. She is a certified metal clay instructor, leading numerous craft and jewelry making workshops internationally. She also develops new craft products including her own "Image Transfer Solution." Sherri has recently released 2 DVDs (Metal Clay and Resin) and has appeared on several television programs (HGTV, DIY and PBS). She lives with her family in Utah.
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Jennifer's background includes Fine Art training as well as Graphic Design, but working in 3 dimension has always been where her passion is. A birthday present of a 2 day workshop in glass beadmaking in 2004 catapulted her into a new direction and she has been making beads and finished jewelry ever since. She enjoys incorporating silver leaf into her work as she dance between metal, flame and glass brings mystery and a sense of surprise to her work.
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Since 2001, Liz has taught and worked in the bead industry. In 2008, she published her first book, Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing to share her love for metal working and jewelry making. Liz lives in Seattle.
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Amy Katz has been part of the world of seed beads since 1993 as a student, teacher and designer. All her life she has had a love of quality jewelry. Several years ago when she began designing her own pieces from scratch, Amy made the decision to make the fine jewelry look using seed beads and crystals her own. Using imagination and top-notch materials, this high-end style has come to life as her signature style. Amy is currently teaching both locally in Northern Virginia and nationally.
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During my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and Southern Illinois University, I focused on embellishment, fiber and metals. I now create elaborate one of a kind pieces for adornment, from found objects, deep with spiritual and historical meaning. As a
professional artist and jewelry designer, my work has been exhibited in museums, such as the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Huntington Museum of Art and the Ohio Craft Museum. On the technical side I just completed my first book called, “MAKING CONNECTIONS- A HANDBOOK OF COLD JOINS FOR JEWELERS AND MIXED MEDIA ARTSITS. I teach workshops and recently am involved with the American Craft Council Shows. Recent awards include Most Innovative Use of the Medium, for Bead International 2006, Telly Award 2006 for a Public television artistprofile.
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Jan Ketza Harris is co-owner and founder of Galena Beads-Serving Creativity in Galena, IL and Beadology in Lake Geneva, WI. She is a published jewelery designer and has been on the cover of several Stringing Magazines with her designs. Her workshop class was selected for Beader's Stash-From the Best Bead Stores in America, featuring her self taught method of Wire Crochet. Also has appeared in Beads 2008, Easy Beaded Jewelry, The Complete Guide to Beading and more. She has taught this class for 7 years in the Midwest states and has clients that come to Galena and Lake Geneva for all over the country. She is an inspiring instruction and has access to workshop assistants for large classes. You can access www.JanKetzaHarris.com to view her personal web site that features her paintings and art jewelry. Galena Beads is the home of Vintaj Natural Brass and incorporates their products in her designs and workshops. See vintaj.com, go to designers to see photos of Vintaj inspired Wire Crochet.
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Deanna Kittrell became interested in beading more than five years ago, and has since found her passion in creating chain mail jewelry. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others and especially enjoys demystifying chain mail techniques. “I hope students will share in my love of chain mail jewelry and leave my class with a new skill and ideas on how to personalize those ideas.”
Deanna works and teaches at Piece of Mind bead and jewelry studio in Sacramento, California.
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Beth Kraft is the owner of Nordic Gypsy Beads and Jewelry in Rochester, Minn. Her designs have been published in the Interweave Press book Beader's Stash: Designs from America's Favorite Bead Shops, Step by Step Beads, and Beadwork magazines. Beth is a finalist in the 2008 Saul Bell Design Award competition Swarovski category. In addition to teaching bead-weaving and wirework at her own store, she has taught at shows around the country. Her Web site is www.nordicgypsy.com.
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Susan Lewis has been a metalsmith for over 25 years and exhibits nationally. Her work is included in Cece Wire's book, "New Directions in Metal Clay", 2007, and PMC Guild's "PMC-A Decade of Serious Fun", 2004. A jewelry teacher for 18 years in South Florida, she has taught PMC classes since 1998. In 2006, Susan opened Metalmorphosis Studio in Ft. Lauderdale, where she works and teaches. She was educated at Kent State University, Penland School of Crafts, and PMC Certified in 1999.
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Sandra has been making jewelry for 20 years in her New Jersey studio. She teaches at Create Your Style with Swarovski®, Bead Fest, Bead Fest-Wire, and the Newark Museum Arts Workshop. She is a project contributor for Interweave Press and Lark Books, Step by Step Beads, and Step by Step Wire Jewelry. Sandra loves meeting new and former students, and sharing her original design projects. Contact her at sandra@sandsstones.com.
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Stephanie Maddalena has a BA in fine arts and teaches at the Art School at Old Church and the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts. She also teaches at Brookfield Craft Center and Silvermine School in Connecticut and The Rockland Center for the Arts and Hudson Beach Glass in New York. She has taught at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, exhibits at the Park Avenue Armory craft show in Manhattan, and has been published in La Vie Claire Magazine, spring 2005.
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Debora has been in the jewelry business for 18 years. The past 7 years she has been exploring wire wrapping and goldsmithing. Debora believes jewelry is an extension of a woman's personality. Debora is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge with her students.
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When Maggie Meister lived in Naples, Italy, the rich culture of the Neapolitan people and the mosaics, frescoes, and jewelry designs from Pompeii became, and continues to be, a major source of inspiration for her designs. Sculptural reflections from the images she loves are translated into jewelry using seed beads with a variety of stitches.Maggie continues to teach workshops nationally and internationally. Her work has been shown in Milan and Naples and has been featured in Beadwork.
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Anne started her creative career over 25 years ago as a professional lighting designer. Anne began teaching chain making and metal working for pure enjoyment. She found that the creative outlet provided by teaching as well as a consistent demand for her classes to alluring to deny. Leaving lighting behind in 2003, Anne is now a full-time designer, instructor, and author.
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Marilyn's first love is basketry, and basketry related jewelry. Since 1979, she has taught for guilds, conferences and conventions around the country and has written numerous articles and been featured in many publications. Having graduated from the University of Washington with a BFA in Fiber Art in 1997, she continues to live and work in Seattle, WA, and works primarily with wire.
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Since 1993, Rachel Nelson-Smith has propelled hundreds of students into bead addition by spreading The Word of beadwork in a wide range of projects and techniques.
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Shelley Nybakke believes that a day without beads is hardly worth getting out of bed for. Shelley owns The Bead Parlor in Bloomington, Illinois and enjoys beading, traveling and her family and friends.
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George has been involved in hot glass art for almost 20 years. He started with glass beads in 1993 and began teaching how to make glass beads a decade ago.
George’s work has been carried by bead stores and art galleries across the country, including such notable galleries as the Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass Gallery, noted as on the of the top ten glass gallieries in the country by the American Craft’s Council.
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Lisa Pavelka is an award winning artist and author who teaches
throughout the world. She is a frequent guest on television,
columnist and contributing writer to over a dozen magazines.
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Denise Peck is editor-in-chief of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine and the projects 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!
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Melanie's arts and crafts background began with training in couture sewing at an early age of 12. With an experienced eye, Melanie brings her couture sewing background and sense of color theory and design to developing aesthetic ways of using beads in unique, contemporary jewelry. The possibilities of producing three-dimensional structural forms from a variety of bead types, shapes, sizes, and colors are endless and offer a wonderful creative challenge.
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Rashan Omari Jones is a Borosilicate Lampworker living in Albuquerque, NM. A life long passion was found in the spring of 2001 after an apprenticeship opportunity left him hopelessly addicted to molten glass.
Inspired by beautiful natural surroundings in Albuquerque, NM, his work truly captures the fire and spirit of the southwestern high desert. Organic colors and shapes are hallmarks of his natural style. Rashan exhibits his glass jewelry at bead shows across the country including The Best Bead Show in Tucson, The GlassCraft expo in Las Vegas, and Bead & Button in Milwaukee.
He has had the pleasure of teaching at various facilities in and around New Mexico, and his work can be found in beads shops coast to coast.
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Sue is a chainmaille artist and designer. She teaches classes in Wisconsin and Las Vegas, Nevada. She also teaches at national shows across the country. Her husband, Steve, makes her jump rings in several metals and multiple sizes.
Sue started her professional life as a registered nurse, but for the last few years has been working with chain maille jewelry, sometimes combined with crystals. She has been teaching students the art of jewelry making in Wisconsin and Illinois.
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Leslie Rogalski is the editor-in-chief of Step by Step Beads and Creative Jewelry, and a contributing editor to Beadwork. She has been creating, selling, publishing, and teaching her original beadwork designs for many years. She is a regular presenter on the PBS television series, Beads Baubles and Jewels, beadsbaublesandjewels.com. (Also Howtotvonline.com)
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Sylvanye is a full-time warmglass artist and instructor who creates one-of-a-kind glass jewelry, functional glass designs and three dimensional wall art. Her designs are sold at fine art and craft shows, gift shops, and galleries such as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. When she is not on the road promoting her designs she can be found in her studio or at an art & craft school teaching others the art of warmglass.
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Donna P. Ryan-Kocun taught Art in the public school system for 32 years. With a strong emphasis on color and design and a background in Textiles, she now focuses her enthusiam towards beads, wire and fibers. She teaches beading and wire classes privately and in bead shops throughout NJ, as well as national bead shows. She is currently creating artwear for juried shows, galleries and shops. Her creations can be found under the company name of "Be Good to Yourself - Artwear by Donna".
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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.
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Although fascinated by beads as a child, Jennifer became serious about her craft 18 years ago. Whether designing, beading, or teaching others, she always has a unique new design in the works. One of the finalist's in Beadwork's Embellished Shoe Show, her "Butterfly World" pump is representative of her use of color and texture. You can view her designs at www.madchiwawadesigns.com.
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Tracy has spent her life living in the Pacific Northwest, which has given her a deep appreciation for natural and organic elements. She reflects this in her work and art. She began teaching over 15 years ago and gets a great satisfaction in passing on my knowledge and skills. Teaching her students solid techniques will help them create quality pieces they can be proud of. Check out her Web site: wiredarts.net.
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Sally has been making jewelry for over 30 years. She works with her lampwork artist daughter, Shannon, out of their home studio in Maryland, creating wire wrapped jewelry and lampwork beads. They may be reached through their Web site www.sunroomstudiosonline.com.
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Kim St. Jean is the owner of Expressive Impressions, a bead store in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her shop is the first Swarovski Recommended Store in North America. Kim is an instructore for Swarovsk, Bead and Button, and has published designs in Simply Bead Magazine. She and her husband travel the country exhibiting in shows and teaching classes as well as run their 4,000 square foot bead shop. Everyone in Kim's family is involved in the business in one way or another, this is where Kim draws her strength and inspiration.
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Cheryl Strait has studied metalworking with instructors Susan Lenart-Kazmer and Thomas Mann and silversmithing at the V Rock Shop in Canton, Ohio. Cheryl has instructed at Altered Art Workshops (www.altercations.org) at Akron University, and instructed various special workshops at elementary and middle school level in Ohio. She exhibits her art through fine art and craft shows around Ohio and the country. To purchase her work or view a list of current shows and exhibitions, please visit www.Cherylsstudio.theshoppe.com.
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Michael David Sturlin is an internationally renowned studio jewelry artist, educator, consultant, and award winning goldsmith. His minimalist jewelry has appeared in 70 magazine articles and is displayed in select galleries throughout North America. Michael teaches goldsmithing and marketing at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts and presents workshops, classes, and professional development seminars nationwide. Visit goldcrochet.com and michaeldavidsturlin.com for more information.
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A metalsmith and jewelry artist for more than 7 years, Beth’s passion lies in creating quirky yet wearable jewelry from recycled materials and found objects. Her jewelry is a combination of the old and new, of contrasting textures and colors.
Beth’s background includes a mix of college-level metalsmithing and art courses, workshops and self-taught methods. She exhibits nationally and was recently published in the Lark Book "Beading with Charms." Beth currently works and teaches out of her studio in Bethlehem, PA.
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Susan has worked designing unique chain mail jewelry by
manipulating rubber o-rings and cold connecting them with
aluminum jump rings. Twenty-six of her new designs are
featured in her how-to book titled, Link It! Colorful Chain Mail
Jewelry With Rubber O-Rings.
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Chad is a lampworker and jewelry maker from Roanoke, VA. In conjunction with his fiancé Amanda, they own Soleil et Lune Designs - a company that sells jewelry supplies, finished jewelry, and teaches classes all over the East Coast.
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Jackie Truty has worked for the past 5 years in Art Clay Silver, for which she received her Master's training in Japan. Her book, Art Clay Silver and Gold, was released in 2004. Jackie has taught Art Clay and fused glass in Montreal, Milan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Japan.
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Jennifer VanBenschoten lives in the Adirondack Mountains of New York state with her husband and baby son. When she's not beading, torching or fusing glass, she enjoys hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing and taking care of her dog, chickens and tropical fish.
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David Weiman is Marketing Director for Step by Step Beads, Lapidary Journal, and Colored Stone magazines, and Editor of the related jewelry marketing newsletter, Touchstone. Dr. David Weiman has been the Marketing Director of Lapidary Journal since 1986. As an author, consultant, psychologist, and seminar leader, he has helped thousands of jewelry makers learn how to market and sell jewelry successfully.
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In art for over 30 years, Debra Weld is a Senior Teacher for PMC Connection. She teaches throughout the US. Her work has been featured in Lapidary Journal, Art Jewelry, and PMC Guild Magazine.
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Ronna Sarvas Weltman is the author of Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay + Wire Jewelry. Her award-winning organic art jewelry has been featured in many magazines, and she is a contributing editor to Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine. Ronna delights in helping emerging and experienced artists discover and enhance their artistic voice in their own art jewelry.
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Award-winning artist, author, Swarovski teacher and designer Kristal Wick is here for the first time at Bead Fest Santa Fe. Catch her new book, Fabulous Fabric Beads, on www.KristalWick.com. Kristal also teaches on cruise ships, invented Sassy Silkies, hand painted silk scroll beads, and designed a jewelry line for the Jimmy Buffet Band. She's been on HGTV and PBS numerous times. Her designs have been in over 4 books and 35 publications including: Belle Armoire Lapidary Journal, Stringing, Beadwork, Bead Style, Simply Beads, Sewing Savvy, Piecework, Step by Step Beads, and Vogue Patterns.
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Debbie's love for wire began 5 years ago as a student at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts, where she received instructions from many extremely talented teachers. "I am excited to have an opportunity to share my passion with others."
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Jill has been teaching for several years, and is known by her students as being a patient teacher with a great sense of humor. With designs that aren't too overwhelming for beginners, but offer something to experienced beaders as well, Jill prides herself on writing clear and detailed instructions that anyone can follow.
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