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Meet the 2008 Bead Fest Philadelphia Instructors!
Charlene Abrams has had a lifelong fascination with colour and texture, and seed beading is one of the media in which she delights in exploring shapes and shades, texture and tone; others being knitting, spinning and dyeing. Her inspiration has
no single source, arising from the beads themselves, paintings, fabric prints, costume jewellery - the list is endless. She teaches regularly at local bead stores and guilds, and also enjoys teaching trips around the country.
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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. She is a regular contributor to Step by Step Wire Jewelry. To contact her, please visit her Web site at cougarscreations.com.
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Meredith Arnold is a mixed media artist/teacher and comedian. She is currently on faculty at three colleges, and teaches workshops around the country. Her work has been published in many books and is exhibited all over the United States. Her classes are known for the volume of information and humor that she brings to the classroom for her students' benefit.
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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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Janice Berkebile is a longtime wire and bead artist and instructor. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Janice finds inspiration in nature’s organic forms, Japanese motifs, textiles techniques and the sinuous lines found in the Art Nouveau movement. “My focus is sculptural wirework and becoming intimate with the subtleties of wirework and sharing these techniques with my students,” Janice says. She teaches at bead stores and shows nationwide and is a frequent contributor to Beadwork magazine. Her work has won awards at the 2005 Puget Sound Bead Festival, Bead Dreams 2006, and Dairybarn.
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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Ed and Martha Biggar are nationally known teaching artists who specialize in many forms of glass and metal clay, with over 40 years experience between them. Visit www.edandmarthabiggar.com for more class information.
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Perie Brown has been beading and teaching for several years. She has taught at Bead Fest, Bead Expo, and Bead & Button Shows. Her work has been featured in Step by Step Beads, Belle Armoire, and Bead & Button magazines. She is founder and past president of the Hall of Fame Beaders' Guild in Canton, Ohio.
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Doris Coghill left the corporate world six years ago to pursue beading full time. She now spends her time traveling to bead shows as a sales representative for a national bead company, designing beadwork kits, traveling to teach her designs, and maintaining her web site www.beadsbydee.com.
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Working in both Moretti and borosilicate glass, Lauri Copeland has been at the torch full-time for eight years. Organic designs are her primary focus, using unique color blends and textural surface techniques. Participating in bead shows throughout the country while maintaining an active teaching schedule and publishing in several articles and books keeps her head spinning. Lauri is a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers and Glass Arts Society.
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Louise Fischer Cozzi comes to Polymer Clay through a background of graphic design and fiber arts. Her award-winning pieces have appeared in Lapidary Journal, Belle Armoire, Bead & Button, and countless books. Her work favors simple elegant shapes that are infused with layers of texture and color to suggest depth. A local, national, and international teaching artist to all ages and levels, she appreciates the symbiotic relationship between creating and teaching.
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Gail Crosman Moore relies on color, form and texture in her artmaking, depending on the interaction of these elements to help define the notion of emergence or allude to the “kernel of life force” inherent in all life forms. She participates in fine craft shows, bead shows, and teaches at various venues, enjoying the spark and arc of sharing what she knows with other creative spirits.
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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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Debra Danyi is a teacher and jewelry maker from Ohio. She works with a variety of mediums including wirework, chain maille, lampworking, and precious metal clay. Her work can be seen at www.debradanyi.com.
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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 has taught at national shows, including Bead Expo, Bead Fest, and Bead and Button. Phyllis's work has been juried into the Bead Dreams exhibit twice, been published in beading magazines, and appears in Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads (Interweave Press, 2006), by Carol Cypher. Her website is: www.phylart.com.
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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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An artisan jewelry designer and polymer clay artist, Fran has been a full time professional designer for 5 years now. Fran’s second love is teaching, and has been giving instructions in her art forms for several years now. She loves sharing positive energy, seeing the creative spark in her students, and says she learns something from every student.
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Phyllis Fogel has had a passion for beadwork for over 10 years. She began integrating PMC® with her beadwork 3 years ago and has now added glass fusing as well. Phyllis teaches full time and loves passing her passion on to others.
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Linda has written over 35 articles for Bead & Button, Beadwork, Bead World, Step by Step and Bead Patterns the magazine over the past 10 years. Her first book Great Beaded Gifts, published by Sterling Publishing NYC, was released in 2005 in hard cover and released in soft cover in March 2007. Linda teaches classes at many of the bead stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and with Innovative Bead Expo. You can reach her at ladybeading@aol.com or see more of her newest patterns at www.bead-patterns.com.
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Sherri Haab is a best-selling author of 21craft books, such as The Art of Metal Clay, The Art of Resin Jewelry and Beaded Macrame Jewelry. She is a PMC Certified Teacher, and also teaches resin and mixed media jewelry classes. Sherri has appeared on television shows such as the Carol Duvall Show, and DIY Jewelry Making. Awards include CrafTrends "Best General Craft Book" for The Art of Resin Jewelry and Designer Style Jewelry. Sherri lives in Utah with her husband and 3 teens.
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My journey with beads and wire began about 15 years ago. I have experimented with many techniques over these years. The discovery of wire knitting led me to publish a book on the technique, redesign the knitting spools and teach in a variety of venues. I have created some unique techniques to enhance the basic spool knitting technique. Off-loom beadweaving has also captured my attention, finding ways to use basic techniques to get special textures. My bead and wire creations are sold at juried art shows and on my website. As a retired educator, teaching wire and bead techniques has been a delightful enhancement to my artistic career.
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Dottie Hoeschen began her artistic life as a painter but has been beading almost exclusively for the last 6 years. Dottie lives in Pennsylvania where she works and teaches at My Father's Beads. She is a frequent contributor to Step by Step Beads.
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Tamara Honaman is a jewelry designer and media content manager for Fire Mountain Gems & Beads. She has appeared on the PBS series “Beads, Baubles & Jewels” and the DIY program “Jewelry Making,” teaches jewelry making at national jewelry and bead shows, writes jewelry making projects for international magazines, is a certified PMC instructor, Senior Art Clay instructor, and is the founding editor of Step by Step Beads. She has been making jewelry for over 10 years, working in a variety of media, but is very passionate about WIRE!
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Carole Horn is a nationally known teacher who has taught at The American Craft Museum, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian), Embellishment, and Bead & Button shows. Her work has been exhibited at the Elsa Mott Ives Gallery in New York City and can also be seen in Beading with Brick Stitch by Diane Fitzgerald, Beading with Herringbone Stitch by Vicki Star, The Art & Elegance of Beadweaving by Carol Wilcox Wells, and Beadwork Creates Beaded Beads.
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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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Trysch is a former professional musician and music teacher who received a life-altering wrist injury in the 90s. She took up beading for therapy for her injury – and has never stopped! She now devotes her life to teaching and designing beautiful jewelry out of wire, beads and found items. She loves wire and metal; however, she also loves and teaches Right Angle Weave and various Native American weaves. Trysch is also a Senior Instructor in Art Clay Silver (ACS). She often incorporates ACS pieces into her jewelry designs. You can find Trysch at Beads, Beads, Beads in Fort Lauderdale, and at shows like Bead and Button, Bead Expo, Bead Fest, Jewelry Arts Expo and Wire Jewelry Fest.
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Beth Kraft is owner of Nordic Gypsy Beads & Jewelry in Rochester, MN. She has been creating art since childhood. Watercolor, collage, found object jewelry and wire jewelry are some forms of her artistic expression. Beth teaches bead-weaving and wirework classes both at her store and nationally. Her website is www.nordicgypsy.com.
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Susan Lewis, an enamellist and jewelry fabricator for more than 25 years, has exhibited in museums and galleries nationally. She taught jewelry classes at Boca Raton Museum Art School for 15 years and, in 2001, designed the school’s jewelry studio and developed its jewelry program. In September 2006, she opened a new studio, Metalmorphosis Studio, to devote more time to her own creative work and included space to continue teaching her existing students and offer workshops. Susan was educated at Kent State University, Penland School of Crafts, and was PMC Certified in 1999.
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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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Chocolate was Phyllis’s first passion in life until she discovered beads! Her talent for mixing colors and designing helped nourish the popularity of her store SewBeadazzled in San Jose, California. She has taught at the Crystal Myths Best Bead Show, Las Vegas Bead Society, and will soon to be teaching to inmates at Soledad Prison. She encourages her students to understand mistakes are artwork and to wear it like they deserve it.
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Maggie Meister is a teacher and studio artist living in Norfolk, Virginia. Her off-loom designs are inspired by ancient Roman mosaics and jewelry that she studied while living in Italy. Maggie has taught her designs both in Europe and the U.S., including Beadventure Travel.
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Anne Mitchell started her creative career over 24 years ago as a
professional lighting designer. She began teaching chain making and metal working eight years ago for pure enjoyment. Anne found the creative outlet provided by teaching and the consistent demand for her classes was too alluring to deny. Leaving lighting behind in 2003, Anne is now a full time designer, instructor, and author. She has two new books - one on chain maille and one on setting up a Low-Tech Bench. www.annemitchell.net.
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Murf Moorefield is co-owner of Caldron Crafts, a jewelers tool and supply store, in Baltimore, Maryland. She has been teaching jewelry-making at Caldron Crafts for almost 20 years, specializing in one-day intensives. She has taught at both Bead Fest and Jewelry Arts Expo. The hammered Celtic Spiral Pendant is part of her design that won first prize at the Maryland State Fair in 2003, and she has won numerous other awards for her jewelry. Her teaching style focuses on technique, while helping her students to express their own creativity.
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Connie Nabholz has had a lifelong involvement in the arts, from oil painting to fiber arts. In 1998 she discovered beads, and in 2000 she started incorporating wire and gemstones into her work. She has won numerous awards at fine art shows, and was a finalist in 2006 both the TOHO and Swarovski design contests. Connie loves sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others and has been teaching for 6 years.
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Lisa Niven Kelly finds joy in all things beading. She has been teaching beadwork and wirework for over 15 years. Currently, her work focuses on wirework, incorporating beads whenever possible. When she’s not teaching nationally, she writes articles for beading and wirework magazines, or manages her online tool, kit, and supply shop (which now offers online classes): www.beaducation.com.
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Denise Peck is Editor-in-Chief of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine and the Senior Editor of Jewelry Artist. An editor by trade and a jeweler at heart, she is a metalsmith with a bench jeweler's certificate from Studio Jewelers Ltd., in New York City, and makes and sells her own jewelry when she can find the time!
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Bernie Pisarchick, Lodin’s Gems & Minerals founder and owner, graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. degree in Geology. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He worked for years as a Geologist. He has been trained by several people, including Alan Revere, as a goldsmith. Bernie has been making jewelry for over 5 years. He also has been doing Medieval re-enactments and making maille armor for over 10 years. He is currently working on his Graduate Gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America. He also does 30-some jewelry and rock & mineral shows a year around the country. He can be contacted at Lodinsgems@Penn.Com or through his website www.Lodins.com. His store, Lodin’s Gems & Minerals is located in Brockway, PA. He searches the world for the finest cut gemstones, minerals, fossils and meteorites for the discriminating collector.
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Rosita is certified by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in pearl grading and G.I.A. trained in all types of pearl and bead stringing. Most of her designs integrate stone cabochons and pearls. Fashion, color and good taste inspire her designs so that the finished piece will always be elegant and wearable. She is a partner at Lodin's Gems & Minerals where she regularly teaches a variety of jewelry classes.
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C. R. Radding maintains a 25 year-old business of fabricating soft furnishings for interiors while she wanders her own creative path. A life-long fascination for all types of art and needlework led to the discovery of beading and wirework, and she knew she'd found her creative “home.” For the past eight years, C. R. has been teaching in California and other parts of the country, and takes great delight in sharing her skills while helping others expand their own creative voice.
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Leah Henriquez Ready’s love of beads and fibers began as a child. Drawn to beads because of their portability, Leah finds the variety of colors, textures and surfaces enables her to create whatever her mind imagines. “I enjoy all beadwork,” Leah says, “but my favorite is bead embroidery. I want students to gain confidence in their abilities so they can create on their own.” Leah teaches part-time, participates in about 10 art shows each year, and shows her work in a gallery.
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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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Editor-in-Chief of Step by Step Beads, Leslie Rogalski has also
taught beading, creative writing, and drawing. She holds a degree in illustration and design, and has had her writing published in Step by Step Beads, Niche, American Style, The Surface Design Journal, the Discovery Channel Online, and wrote an online column giving business advice to artists. In her spare time Leslie enjoys beading, tap dancing, beading, watching movies, beading, and teaching her family and friends beading. Her favorite techniques include anything using Delica seed beads, though she is currently exploring the use of 8s in cubic right angle weave. Born without shyness genes, she has also been an extra in major motion pictures and televison episodes. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, a graphic designer, and daughter, who seems destined for Broadway.
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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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Melanie Schow has been working with wire and beads for 12 years, teaching for 8 and designs jewelry and sculpture for her business, Solamente. Her classes are offered at San Gabriel Bead Company and Creative Castle, both in southern California.
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Caren Schwartz and Marti Hegquist are the President and Vice President of the Long Island Bead Society. Caren teaches jewelry classes throughout Long Island and the Northeast and Marti often assists her. Their combined experience includes bead weaving, bead embroidery, fashion jewelry design, wire work, glass fusing, PMC, knitting, crochet, graphic arts, and more. Both have had their work published and have won awards for their jewelry designs.
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Liz Smith has lived most of her life in Los Angeles except for 15 years she spent teaching in Germany for the Dept. of Defense Overseas Schools. During numerous trips to Venice, she became fascinated with beads, and today finds inspiration everywhere. “I relish the freedom of starting with a simple idea and the excitement of letting the beads dictate the shape and form of the finished piece,” Liz says. “Beading has become my passion, my obsession, and my new career since retiring from the elementary school classroom six years ago. I love creating a piece of jewelry that causes people to stop and stare, to reach out, and touch.”
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Fiber artist, papermaker, and beading enthusiast Leandra Spangler teaches workshops across the country. After teaching art in the public schools for 25 years, she loves her new career as a full-time artist. Learn more about Leandra at www.bearcreekpaperworks.com
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Tracy Stanley has gained a deep appreciation for natural and organic elements through living in the Pacific Northwest, an appreciation that is is reflected in her work and in her art. “I began teaching 15 years ago and get great satisfaction in passing on my knowledge and skills,” Tracy says. “Teaching my students solid techniques will help them create quality pieces they can be proud of.” Tracy is a partner in Wired Arts, which hosts retreats that focus on wire. She teaches at a local bead store and travels to teach at bead stores and shows nationally as well.
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Vicki first learned loom-weaving on a cigar box in Camp Fire Girls when she was 8. She began creating fused glass jewelry in the early 1980s, and that launched her professional beadweaving career. Since then, she’s taught hundreds of classes, written 7 books, and designed more patterns than she can count.
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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, and
award winning goldsmith. Michael's jewelry has appeared in 50 magazine articles and is displayed in select galleries throughout North America. Michael teaches marketing and
goldsmithing at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts and offers workshops and professional development classes at many jewelry industry events. Please visit goldcrochet.com and
michaeldavidsturlin.com to learn more about Michael’s work.
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Michelle Thomas and Suzanne Hatch combined their creative talents and energy in 2005. Having local as well as international appeal, their designs have found customers as far away as New Zealand and Germany. With a six-year combined background in the jewelry industry and four years of sharing tips, techniques and enthusiasm with students, expect to leave their class with knowledge, passion and possibilities.
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Elizabeth Townes has been beading since March 2003 when she and her daughter started BeadJeweled, Inc. She began stringing but was soon intrigued with the endless possibilities offered by seed beads. Elizabeth began teaching classes in the fall of 2003 at local bead shops, then progressed to teaching at the national level. She has always been involved in creative endeavors, from cross-stitch to needlepoint to quilting, but has finally found her niche in designing with seed beads and bead weaving. In April 2006, Elizabeth and her partners opened the Tampa Bead Café.
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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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Judy Walker has been beading for more than 35 years and is known for
distributing chocolate and buttons with funny sayings in her classes. Her work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, touring exhibits and galleries, and she is a two-time winner of the "Treasures of TOHO" international beading design contest. Judy has learned through direct experience that owning kittens makes it difficult to bead. She lives in Monrovia, California, with her husband Richard, a large collection of beads, and what might be too many cats.
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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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Deni Whaley, an avid beader and instructor, enjoys finding the creative spark held within people, young and old. She works with her local bead guild to bring beadwork to the grade-schoolers, retirees, and assisted living folks. She also enjoys bending copper wire into interesting shapes, creating her wire and beaded pins. Deni's Grapevine Pendants are sold at local wineries.
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John Winter has been a beadmaker for 15 years and his work has been published in numerous publications, including Lapidary Journal. His videos, Glass Bead Making and Glass Beads in Concert with Metals, have been well received and form the core of his classes. He has taught at the Corcoran College of Art, Augusta Heritage Center, and at bead stores and societies around the country.
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Jill teaches classes locally in Central Texas and nationally. She travels to bead shows across the country, selling seed bead weaving kits and instructions. She specializes in classically simple but striking designs that even beginners can accomplish.
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Noël Yovovich lives and works in Evanston, Illinois, but draws much of her inspiration from her childhood in rural Florida. She grew up near Tampa and Sarasota in an area where wildlife was outnumbered people, especially children. The locale was popular as a winter and retirement spot for traveling circus and carney performers, and her nearest neighbors were a retired clown, a sword-swallower and a professional fat lady. Noël later pursued a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Chicago, and art professionally. Her jewelry style draws on imagery from nature, as well as her experience creating "thematic apperception test" drawings for the University of Chicago department of Human Development. She regards her work as "everyday art," pieces that are unique and accessible, unusual and affordable, and that can be worn anywhere, anytime.
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Nancy Zellers began working with beads in the early ’70s, turning to them full-time in the late ’90s. Nancy likes to design beadwork that is deceptively minimalist yet challenging to execute, and her work has been featured in many magazines and bead books. She especially enjoys teaching beadwork classes and encouraging others to develop their own style of beadwork. Nancy teaches at bead shows nationally and her sculptural pieces often appear in contemporary art shows regionally and nationally, including these recent shows: Bead Dreams 2006, Aurora Asian Film Festival Art Exhibit, and Trading Voices.
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