Art As Alchemy
Tom Boylan has been making beads since 1980. He started making beads before there was a bead movement and before there were [...]
Welcome to the Dark Recesses of a Fevered Imagination
Ralph McCaskey has been making art of one kind or another since childhood, learned flame-working in 1999, and began teaching [...]
April 2016 Bead Society Newsletter
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DVHdesigns Lapidary Arts: Four Decades in Geological Time
“You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has [...]
From Idea to Finished Piece: Inspiration, Innovation, Fabrication
On Tuesday, March 15, come to the meeting to listen and watch Christi’s visual presentation of “From Idea to Finished [...]
Lions, Tigers, and Beads….Oh MY!!
Teresa is an artist who has been involved with beads since the early 1990s. Her adventures in art and music are fueled [...]
January 2016 Bead Society Newsletter
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Jewelry in Museums of the World – Part 1
Dr. Robert Liu, Ph.D. This is a collaboration with Walker Qin, a Chinese bead collector, who has traveled to 45 countries [...]
Bragging Rights
Virginia Blakelock’s career in beads has been one of firsts. Her beadwork was first published in Threads magazine in 1988, [...]
October 2015 Bead Society Newsletter
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