May 2022 Meeting - Adrienne Gaskell
Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique with a deep cultural history. Braided cords date back over 10,000 years but their uses have evolved over time taking them from simple necessity to elaborate ornamentation. Over the last 40 years or so the popularity of kumihimo has spread throughout the world and most recently to the US. Many factors influenced this interest including the invention of new tools as well as the introduction of non-traditional materials. Adrienne will share examples of both ancient and modern braids and some reasons for their evolution over time.
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Adrienne Gaskell is an accomplished jewelry maker who has embraced and mastered the ancient Japanese fiber art of kumihimo braiding. By incorporating gemstones, pearls, and beads she has brought this technique into the realm of modern jewelry design. Her work has been featured in Lark Books, the Bead&Button BeadDreams competition, Bead&Button magazine, and the Toho Design Challenge.
Gaskell traces her interest in jewelry making to the 1930s, when her uncle opened an import business that sold souvenirs and jewelry to Miami tourists. “He loved to travel, and it was while visiting the islands off the coast of Florida that he met native artists who made the jewelry for his store.” Her upbringing exposed her to needlework and engineering, a serendipitous combination that influences her exacting approach to design and fabrication. She credits her background in textile arts for her exciting color combinations, one of the trademarks of her work. “So many skills from my past influence my work today.”
Gaskell exhibits her award-winning jewelry at juried art shows and select galleries across the country. She is the past president of the American Kumihimo Society and teaches kumihimo workshops in the United States and Japan.
Gaskell traces her interest in jewelry making to the 1930s, when her uncle opened an import business that sold souvenirs and jewelry to Miami tourists. “He loved to travel, and it was while visiting the islands off the coast of Florida that he met native artists who made the jewelry for his store.” Her upbringing exposed her to needlework and engineering, a serendipitous combination that influences her exacting approach to design and fabrication. She credits her background in textile arts for her exciting color combinations, one of the trademarks of her work. “So many skills from my past influence my work today.”
Gaskell exhibits her award-winning jewelry at juried art shows and select galleries across the country. She is the past president of the American Kumihimo Society and teaches kumihimo workshops in the United States and Japan.
KumihimoResource.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrienne-Gaskell-Art-Jewelry-329459470717
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyauHoRclUfpFer5CL_Weg
Kumi-U Club: https://kumihimoresource.com/kumihimo-wednesdays/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrienne-Gaskell-Art-Jewelry-329459470717
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyauHoRclUfpFer5CL_Weg
Kumi-U Club: https://kumihimoresource.com/kumihimo-wednesdays/
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April 2022 Let's Bead Live
Lisa Krupp-Dooley is a self-taught bead weaving artist. Her beading career started in 2016, when she started creating and developing her own patterns and entered her first necklace design into the Potomac Design Challenge. Since then her design "Ava's Planet Beaded Bead" has been published in
Maggie Thompson's Interweave eBook in 2017.
In 2020 Beadwork magazine published her "Pearly Peaks Bracelet" design which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/product/pearly-peaks-bracelet-pattern-download/
In 2021, Lisa’s “Pretty Paisley Necklace” made the cover of Beadwork’s first E-magazine issue of Quick + Easy which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/quick-easy-beadwork-2021/ She also had Beadsmith (a wholesale bead company) use her design, Sawtooth Bracelet,
as an exclusive project for bead stores.
Lisa will be teaching us her very versatile "Divergent Beaded Bead" from 3-4pm
It can be made as a holiday ornament, bracelet embellishment, earrings and anything else your creativity can imagine!
She is selling her earring kits in her shop here
Click on the left picture below to get the pdf download of supplies
Click on the earring picture below to get the pdf pattern download
Visit her Etsy shop Lisa's Bead Designs
Maggie Thompson's Interweave eBook in 2017.
In 2020 Beadwork magazine published her "Pearly Peaks Bracelet" design which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/product/pearly-peaks-bracelet-pattern-download/
In 2021, Lisa’s “Pretty Paisley Necklace” made the cover of Beadwork’s first E-magazine issue of Quick + Easy which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/quick-easy-beadwork-2021/ She also had Beadsmith (a wholesale bead company) use her design, Sawtooth Bracelet,
as an exclusive project for bead stores.
Lisa will be teaching us her very versatile "Divergent Beaded Bead" from 3-4pm
It can be made as a holiday ornament, bracelet embellishment, earrings and anything else your creativity can imagine!
She is selling her earring kits in her shop here
Click on the left picture below to get the pdf download of supplies
Click on the earring picture below to get the pdf pattern download
Visit her Etsy shop Lisa's Bead Designs
Sue Neel recently moved from IL, and will be joining us from her new home in AZ. To keep her creativity flowing during the pandemic, she’s been teaching fun and interactive classes on ZOOM. Her projects focus on stitch techniques and bead manipulation. She enjoys working with crafters of all skill levels to find their creative voice with beadwork.
Click on her picture at the right to see and/or purchase the Czech Please! kit in Sue's Etsy shop "Arcabeadies Designs". Kit cost is $30 + applicable taxes & shipping
If you want to use your own supplies click here to get the downloadable list. If you're a UMBS member go to our "Members Only" page and download the pattern for free.
This project was recently published in Interweave's special edition "Quick and Easy" EBook that came out in December 2021.
Click on her picture at the right to see and/or purchase the Czech Please! kit in Sue's Etsy shop "Arcabeadies Designs". Kit cost is $30 + applicable taxes & shipping
If you want to use your own supplies click here to get the downloadable list. If you're a UMBS member go to our "Members Only" page and download the pattern for free.
This project was recently published in Interweave's special edition "Quick and Easy" EBook that came out in December 2021.
Chris Allen - Seed Bead Rock Gardens (April 2022 speaker)
I began my career as a fiber artist 30 years ago making outdoor environmental installations using only natural fiber materials found on site. Last summer I worked with my community garden to teach peyote stitch beadwork, designed to bring our diverse community together, through a SEMAC grant. We produced ‘Seed Bead Rock Garden’, temporary installations of beaded rocks throughout the 128 garden plots. This summer we want to make a permanent installation of beaded stones forming a walking labyrinth at The Village in Rochester, Minnesota. Will you join me by beading and contributing a stone? Play with color, pattern and texture, working with any beading technique you prefer.
Links:
Chris Allen: www.chrisallenbeads.com
The Village Agricultural Cooperative: http://www.rochvillage.org
Chris Allen earned a BFA at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in Printmaking and a Master of Fine Art in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A pivotal workshop from Joyce Scott in 1990 ignited a passion for beadwork. Allen has exhibited for the past 30 years nationally. She won a Minneapolis College of Art and Design/McKnight Artists Fellowship in 1999/2000 for her beaded stones and stone textile installations. She is a self-employed full-time studio artist. For further information: www.chrisallenbeads.com
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Corset Bead Pattern from Lisa Dooley
Bead Crochet Basics with Candice Sexton - March 2022 speaker
Learn the basics of bead crocheting for both Slip Stitch (thinner tubes) and the newer technique of Single Stitch bead crochet (bigger tubes) with author Candice Sexton. Candice will demo and discuss how to start a bead crochet tube for both techniques, including common problems and how to overcome them! She will also review the materials and tools used for bead crocheting and take your questions.
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Candice Sexton is an American bead crochet artist, author and teacher from Chesterton, IN. She has a diverse background from construction to marketing communications. It's this melding of the technical and grphic design tht has influenced her work. Her work is visual and grqphic in nature using color as a catalyst for creative inspiration and inventive designs.
Candice is the author of the book/DVD "Bead Crochet Basics". In addition, she has been teaching nationally at industry shows and private stores and retreats since 2009. She likes to analyze, write, teach and share her designs and techniques in the art of bead crocheting.
She sells her designs and finished pieces as well as supplies and complete instructions & kits on her website. Click on her picture to visit her website.
Candice is the author of the book/DVD "Bead Crochet Basics". In addition, she has been teaching nationally at industry shows and private stores and retreats since 2009. She likes to analyze, write, teach and share her designs and techniques in the art of bead crocheting.
She sells her designs and finished pieces as well as supplies and complete instructions & kits on her website. Click on her picture to visit her website.
Karen Bruns - March Speaker
"Introduction to Fused Glass for Jewelry; Exploring Outcomes of Intention"
In this class, Karen will share information about: tools-safety-types of glass-where to buy glass-how students can access a video on how to create her famous River Glass cabochons and a virtual tour of her workshop.
Karen has over 30 years of artistic experience, covering beadweaving, bead embroidery and working with resin, glass, and metal. She is both an accomplished artist and teacher. Since 2012, she has devoted her talent to women in a remote jungle village in southern India, teaching them how to bead weave. The women have their own business, Azhagi Jewelry, and are supported in part by a Stateside 501c3 at various speaking events. She has taught at the Bead & Button Show for years, as well as being a guest instructor at local bead shops.
Karen learned fused glass techniques from Abhilasha Natarajan at the Tracy Arts Center. Through experimenting with glass, Karen invented the curved dichroic bracelet band for bead embroidery, Velvet Glass cabochons, and River Glass cabochons. Sherry Serafini chose one of Karen's curved dichroic bands to work with and her result was lovely.
Karen was introduced to the concept of resin with an inner glow in 2018, when she attended a class at Bead & Button taught by Gail Crosman Moore. Gail's class opened Karen's mind to exploration and experimentation. Since taking Gail's class, Karen has rediscovered techniques she used in other crafts 27 years ago that just happen to work well with resin to create the illusion that the piece is radiating light that changes color or flashes with movement. She also uses Gail's techniques with permission in some of her products (the mermaids).
Karen has continued her exploration of glass and resin and has added hand painting to both mediums. But her first love will always be bead embroidery.
You can find Karen online at https://karenbruns.com/
Karen learned fused glass techniques from Abhilasha Natarajan at the Tracy Arts Center. Through experimenting with glass, Karen invented the curved dichroic bracelet band for bead embroidery, Velvet Glass cabochons, and River Glass cabochons. Sherry Serafini chose one of Karen's curved dichroic bands to work with and her result was lovely.
Karen was introduced to the concept of resin with an inner glow in 2018, when she attended a class at Bead & Button taught by Gail Crosman Moore. Gail's class opened Karen's mind to exploration and experimentation. Since taking Gail's class, Karen has rediscovered techniques she used in other crafts 27 years ago that just happen to work well with resin to create the illusion that the piece is radiating light that changes color or flashes with movement. She also uses Gail's techniques with permission in some of her products (the mermaids).
Karen has continued her exploration of glass and resin and has added hand painting to both mediums. But her first love will always be bead embroidery.
You can find Karen online at https://karenbruns.com/
Thanks to The Beadworkers Guild (BWG) and their International Beading Week (IBW) we are able to bring you Nancy Jenner's "Faerie" design.
Here's the link to The Beadworkers Guild Website: www.beadworkersguild.com Here's the link to Nancy's "Faerie" pattern: https://beadworkersguild.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nancy-Jenner-Faerie-Pattern.pdf Check out The Beadworkers Guild website for their monthly Zoom Drop-In dates! All are welcome to join in for free. |
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