1 Stop Bead Shop is proud to introduce you to our visiting artists for 2011.  All of them currently teach at the national level including such pretigous shows as Bead & Button Show.

Janice Berkebile

I am inspired by the organic forms found in nature, Japanese motifs, textiles techniques and the sinuous lines found in the Art Nouveau movement. My focus is wire and metalwork. My work is becoming intimate with the subtleties of this medium and sharing these techniques with my students.

The shows I teach at are; Interweave Press Bead Fests, Bead & Button, The Puget Sound Bead Festival and BABE!

I am a frequent contributor to Beadwork Magazine.

http://wiredarts.net

* Janice will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop again on Feb 18 & 19, 2011!  Class registration is not yet available.
 

Jeannette Cook

My goal is to enlighten, educate & inspire people to create beauty and express themselves through beadwork.

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.

The art world and the world of art admirers in general have associated beads with the hippie days. I still hear comments to that effect! A quick study of some of the books & magazines on beadwork will dispel all of those notions. Beadwork has now entered the realm of fine art and fine wearable art. I hope to be one of the artists that helps create a new attitude, appreciation and respect for this versatile medium.

http://beadyeyedwomen.com/

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

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 Apr 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 2010.

Cindy Pankopf

Cindy’s 15 year career as a graphic designer is the foundation of her current profession as a jewelry designer / instructor. The moment she set foot in a bead store, the seed beads drew her in. A deep love of the complexity of color is the foundation of her explorations in beading. Cindy enjoys interpreting traditional off-loom stitches in new ways. She is also a certified Master Art Clay Silver Instructor, and especially enjoys creating new designs incorporating beading with metal clay.

For the last several years, Cindy has been teaching classes of her own designs in beading and Art Clay several times a week. Cindy was elected founding President of the Art Clay Society of Orange County and held that position for several years. Her goal is to broaden the scope of her techniques and continue designing, teaching and sharing with others every day. She enjoys teaching locally in Fullerton, California and nationally at the Bead and Button Show and other venues.

Cindy has received several awards. Most recently, in 2010, she placed 2^nd in Bead Dreams and was a Finalist in the Toho Emerging Bead Artist competition. Cindy is the author of Beadmaille: Jewelry with Bead Weaving & Metal Rings, and her latest book, The Absolute Beginners Guide to Metal Clay will be released in 2011. Cindy has also been featured in numerous publications, including several recent articles in Bead & Button Magazine.

To see more of her work, visit www.cindypankopf.com .

 http://www.cindypankopf.com

* Cindy will be teaching for 1 Stop Bead Shop in September 2011.  Register 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.

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/

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/

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/

 'Art has been a part of my soul ever since I can remember. My earliest inspirations came from my grandmother's jewelry boxes. She had stacks of boxes filled with gems and antique jewelry that fascinated me."

Sherry's beaded collection has won many national awards over the years and her work has been featured in numerous magazine articles. Most recently, Sherry is sharing her bead embroidery skills through teaching and in her book, The Art of Bead Embroidery, co-authored with Heidi Kummli. She is the rock star of beading, and has recently been voted in the top 10 best beading teachers in the US.  Her pieces are so well done in fact, celebrities such as Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Melissa Etheridge and Fergie all have a piece, or two, in their own collection.