The 2009 Bead Bazaar teachers are listed below in alphabetical order. Click a class number to see the description for that class.
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Nikia Angel began beading obsessively over 20 years ago. She's taught at local and national shows since 1990. She is past President of the New Mexico Bead Society and the owner of the popular website BuytheKit. She is totally and completely enamored with beads and beading and greatly enjoys spreading the joy to others.
Website: Buy the Kit
25-03 Crystal Kaleidoscope Blossom Bracelet
26-22 Beyond the Wheel SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
Robin Atkins has a favorite mode of beading: bead embroidery! She started in 1988 and has continued stitching beads on cloth and teaching others how to do it for the past 20 yearsx She has written three books on the subject -- Beaded Embellishment (with Amy Clarke), One Bead at a Time (now in its 5th printing), and Heart to Hands Bead Embroidery. She is the founder of the international Bead Journal Project, which is now in its 2nd year. She developed the finger weaving technique in 1990 and has been weaving beady treasures into woven creations ever since. In 2006, she published a book on this technique, Beaded Treasures, which is now in its second printing. She especially loves teaching finger weaving because students can learn it easily and begin creating their own unique designs right away!
Website: Robin Atkins
25-01 Woven Treasure Bracelet (or Tassel)
26-01 Techniques of Bead Embroidery
Zelda Bailey constructs one-of-a-kind beaded and wire jewelry, mingling metal, stone, and glass in simple, yet bold combinations. She has taught wire-wrapping techniques at the RMBS Bead Bazaar for several years.
Website: GEOdyssey
26-21 Create a Wire-Wrapped Pendant SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
Rex and Gena Brown have been making and teaching chainmail jewelry for about two years. Their experience includes classes at Colorado Free University and the 2008 RMBS Bead Bazaar.
Website: Poly's Pleasures
25-13 Intermediate Chainmail Jewelry
26-10 Beginning Chainmail Jewelry SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
Jeannette Cook is an internationally recognized bead artist, author, workshop instructor and the owner of Beady Eyed Women®. She has been working with beads as an art form since 1968. Jeannette is one of the nation's original beadwork instructors. Jeannette's work has been published in many bead magazines and books throughout her career. Her classes focus on creativity and having fun with beads.
Website: Beady Eyed Women®
25-02 The Third Eye Pendant
26-12 Mastering the Curl
26-20 Towering Bling Ring
Vilma Dallas has been teaching fusing for about five years, mostly private classes, but also at bead stores in New Mexico and Arizona. Quite a number of her pendants have been featured in "Bead and Button Magazine" issues in the past -- mostly by Dustin Wedekind. She also has a couple of pages in 1000 Glass Beads published by Lark Books.
25-23 Beginning Fusing SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
Karey Grant says that her love for stones and color fuel the passion behind all of her jewelry creations. She has had pieces published by "BeadStyle" and "Step-By-Step Wire" magazines. She and her daughter currently play in Denver, Colorado. It is the people and natural curiosity that make creating jewelry so rewarding. "What's the fun if we don't share?" she says.
Website: Inspired by Stones
25-12 Zen Bracelet
25-22 Floating Daydream
Karen Laman has been beading for approximately 20 years and teaching at The Bead Haven in Arvada since July of 2008. She teaches classes in basic beadweaving skills and bead embroidery, and teaches several bead weaving projects. She has had work accepted for publication in "Bead and Button" magazine and has published a website that displays a selection of her work.
Website: River Bend Beadworks
25-20 Mother's Day Dragonfly Pin
Melanie Potter 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.
Website: Melanie Potter or School of Beadwork
26-02 Flower Motif Necklace CANCELLED
Leah Ready is a fiber and bead jewelry designer who began her art life as an embroiderer. She creates both original jewelry and beaded and embroidered dolls and figures and animals. Her dolls have been in the Art Doll Quarterly and in 500 Handmade Dolls.
Website: Leah Ready Designs
25-11 Bojangle Bangle SORRY, THIS CLASS IS FULL
25-21 Sea Heart
26-13 Beneath the Sea Pin
Ann Severine began teaching beadwork in 2001 -- ten years after her first beading class. Since then she has taught in bead stores in California and New Mexico, and bead shows including RMBS Bead Bazaar and Great Lakes Beadworkers Guild. Since visiting Saraguro, Ecuador in 2003, she has taught many of their designs and shares her profits with these talented beaders.
Website: Ann Severine
26-03 Ritzy Fishy
Carolyn Sherman has taught beading and clothing embellishment techniques at many regional and national seminars sponsored by the Embroiderers Guild of America and the American Needlepoint Guild. She is a member of the Colorado Quilting Council Hall of Fame and received the Embroiderers' Guild Educator's Award for Excellence in 2001.
25-04 One Day Fringe
Kelly Wiese has been designing and teaching beadwork for approximately twelve years. She really enjoys passing on her knowledge of beadwork to her students.
Website: The Bead Parlor
25-10 Squared Crystals Necklace
26-11 Cathedral Bracelet
