1 Stop Bead Shop is proud to introduce you to our visiting artists for 2009-2010. Many of them teach nationally. 

Diane Fitzgerald

Diane Fitzgerald is a bead collector and jewelry designer who works with a variety of beads large and small, old and new. Since 1989, Diane has taught classes at her shop, Beautiful Beads, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the U.S. and internationally. As a collector, she focuses on contemporary American art glass beads and European and Japanese vintage beads.

Diane has traveled to South Africa to study Zulu and Xhosa beadwork and to the Czech Republic, Germany and other areas to learn about the glass bead industry and meet beadworkers and beadmakers.

Diane has a master's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota with a minor in Design.

http://www.dianefitzgerald.com/

* Diane will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop in March 2011.  Class registration is not yet available.

Maggie Meister

Maggie has taught and continues to teach workshops nationally and internationally in Turkey, Germany and Italy. Her work has been shown in Milan and Naples and has been featured in BEADWORK Magazine, BEAD & BUTTON Magazine along with others.

http://www.mmmbeads.com/

* Maggie will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop again in Jan 2011.  Class registration is not yet available.

Dallas Lovett

Dallas began his design practice in 1993 after completing a degree in fashion design at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. His philosophy and approach to design is to take his wire wrapping and weaving to a higher professional standard that he refers to as Jewelry Art.

His work has an engineering feel as well as an aesthetic derived from the spare and sculptural landscape of his native Arizona. He combines silver wire and beads (seed beads, pearls and semi-precious stones, or lampwork beads) to create three-dimensional forms in which all the parts relate harmoniously to each other and to the whole.

Dallas is co-owner of Trade Wind Gallery, a jewelry and bead store in Phoenix, Arizona.

http://www.tradewindgallery.com/dallas.htm

Dallas will be teaching again for 1 Stop Bead Shop in November.

Sherry Serafini

We are so excited that nationally acclaimed artist Sherry Serafini has agreed to come beack to 1 Stop Bead Shop! Sherry is best known for her bead embroidered jewelry design. She has won more than 20 awards for her work, including most recently, 3rd Place & People’s Choice award in the 2006 Bead Dreams competition at Bead & Button. Her work has been featured on the front cover of Bead & Button and Belle Armoire Magazines.

http://www.serafinibeadedjewelry.com/

* Sherry will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop on October 22-23, 2010.  Her class already has a waitlist from last time she taught for us, so we are considering it FULL.  Please email or call the store to be placed on our next waitlist.  We're trying to get more days with her!

Upcoming 2011 Calendar:
Jeannette Cook - Aug 19 & 20, 2011
Sherry Serafini - Sept 9&10, 2011. For those of you who didn't get into this year's class, we've already scheduled one for next year. Get yourself on the list for it now!

Jean Campbell

Jean Campbell is a designer and author who's got a thing for shiny bright objects. She's the founding editor of Beadwork magazine, has written and edited dozens of books on beading, and has penned articles for Beadwork, Stringing, Simply Beads, and Step-by-Step Beads. Jean is a Create Your Style Crystallized Elements Ambassador for Swarovski and writes a popular weekly blog on Beading Daily. She has appeared on the DIY Jewelry Making show, The Shay Pendray Show, and PBS' Beads, Baubles, and Jewels, where she gives how-to instructions, provides inspiration, and lends crafting advice.

Jean's work has appeared in numerous beadwork exhibitions, including Beadwork I: Up Close; Beadwork II:The Embellished Shoe; Beadwork III: The Beaded Cloth; Beadwork IV: The Beaded Figure, and Miyuki Delica: Myths and Folktales.

Sheila Cleary

Sheilah Cleary has won numerous awards and her authentically reproduced Baltimore Album quilt was judged the finest of its class in several national competitions. But, by far, her best-known creations - and  absolute favorite handwork - involve wire and bead design.

She is thrilled to have taught her techniques in all sections of the US mainland, Hawaii and in many foreign countries including Singapore, Australia, and Japan…where she is called a Sensei of Sensei or a master teacher of master teachers. It is also a thrill for her to have done design work for the president and founder of the Miyuki Shoji company where she sincerely believes the world's finest beads - Delicas - are produced. During these trips, she has had the opportunity to conduct classes for their senior instructors and representatives in Tokyo, Osaka and Hiroshima. Her work has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles and she frequently contributes to BEADWORK/INTERWEAVE publications.

Jeannette Cook

Teaching is my number one joy! I have been teaching for 20 years, beading for 36 years and was born to be an artist! I see many people come into my class with preconceived limitations regarding art and beadwork. I strive to guide them through those limitations through experimentation and play. So many of my students are literally afraid to bust out and create freeform, fun beadwork. By the end of the class session, many thank me for pushing them beyond previous limits. This is the most satisfying aspect of teaching. I continue to push my own creativity and fears about acceptance of my art and try to listen to my instincts when making beaded art or art-to-wear objects.

http://beadyeyedwomen.com/

* Jeannette will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop again on August 19-20, 2011!  Class registration is not yet available.
 

Leslee's passion for all the colors and textures made possible by the marriage between beads, metals and stones keeps her excited. She fabricates clasps and connectors and often sets semi-precious stones to enhance the design. Her art jewelry pieces are one of a kind. Leslee has won awards for some of her combination bead and metal projects.

http://www.lesleefrumin.com/

In July 2003, Jim McIntosh began to search for a way to use the artistic side of his brain. For years he had spent time in the airline industry exercising the analytical side.

One day while searching the web for metalsmithing tutorials, he came across a web site that featured a type of jewelry making that he had never seen before. It was an entire tutorial on border wrapped, wire jewelry. Seeing the versatility and elegance of this art sent his creative mind spinning. "This is it!", he exclaimed. He had found his new found art. Wasting no time, he ordered stones and wire, and quickly began to work.

As the months passed, his new found art began to take shape. Each new piece began to look better and better. In October of 2003, he and his wife Kim took part in their first Arts and Crafts Show. He has since taught nationally and writtten a number of books.

http://macjewels.com/

Mellisa Muir

While I enjoy creating unique jewelry items, my passion lies in teaching. My classes are filled with energy and an easy going atmosphere. My goal is to have my students walk out comfortable with new techniques and confident in their own jewelry making ability. Working as a professional computer trainer for 10 years I learned that there are many ways to teach, and each person learns differently. I strive to use that knowledge to benefit my students. When you take a class from me, I won't ever "leave you in the dust". I will do my very best to make sure you understand the concept and technique we are covering in that course. I look forward to expanding my teaching opportunities.

http://www.melissamuir.com/

Huib Petersen

In 1995 I moved from Holland to San Francisco, and I opened a small arts and crafts workshop and gallery on Nob Hill. Inspired by a chance encounter with 19th century Russian beadwork, I discovered the beauty and challenges of designing with beads.

I use different sizes of beads as a building material – like little bricks – and a variety of traditional stitches as a flexible, tensile sort of mortar. Placing beads one by one, row by row on top of each other, I combine my needlework, theater and jewelry skills to create sculpted bugs, butterflies, birds, and sea creatures in their environments. The result is a unique kind of wearable art that offers the intricacy of embroidery and lace, the depth of a theater set and the durability and brilliance of glass.

I have been doing beadwork full time for the last seven years, and all of my pieces are unique.

http://www.petersenarts.com/

The excitement of color, texture, and design drives Pamela’s work in a multitude of directions while her Ohio State University Education in textiles provides a concrete foundation in style, proportion, and analysis.

Though primarily known for her lamp-worked glass beads and vessels, Pamela also explores mixed media work.  Passionate about a mixed approach she incorporates various types of metal-work including PMC and cold worked metals as well as hand made felt and seed beads into her jewelry designs.

 “Technique and experience, complimented with aesthetic beauty ‘is perhaps the best way to explain Pamela’s approach to art. Her small glass vessels and teapots are testimony to the challenge of balance, proportion and color in the fluid medium of glass.

Pamela’s work has been exhibited at SOFA Chicago by Mostly Glass Gallery. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Dominic Lubino award for Excellence in Glass andboth the International Society of Glass Bead Makers( ISGB) “Out of the The Box” competition, andthe recent “Convergence Project “ which is in conjunction with B&B Magazine.Additionally Pamela has been profiled in The Annealer Magazine, Lapidary Journal and most recently in Bead & Button August 2008. Her work can be seen In Belle Armoire and Flow. Some of the books that feature Pamela’s work are Larks Books 1000 Glass Beads and Glass Bead Workshop.