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Rania (Rai) Nelson
Certified Precious Metal Clay Level II Instructor who also teaches polymer clay, wire wrapping, and chainmaking.
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Kim Z. Franklin
Graphic Illustrator, beadwork artist, & instructor.
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Judy Donovan
Published Artist, Teacher, Writer, Program Director for UBead 2 & South Jersey Bead Society.
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Jeri Schatz
Metalsmith, beadwork & needlework artist and instructor.
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Erin Gonzales-Hicks
Wire work jewelry artist & instructor.
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Ellen Marshall
Polymer clay, fiber, ceramic arts, & instructor.
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Marsha Neal
Ceramic Jewelry Artist - Marsha Neal Studios
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Linda Gettings
Bead artist, published author, and designer Bead-Patterns.com
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Nina Leon
Bead artist and designer - Beaded Luxuries.
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Wendy Ellsworth
Color Artist, Designer, Published Author
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Connie Sheerin
Polymer Clay Artist, crafter, published author.
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About Franko
Wire-wrapping Artist Extraordinaire!
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Azhia
Beaded belly dancer extraordinaire!
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Bernie Pisarchick
Owner of Lodin's Gems and Minerals, Brave Knight, Chainmailer, and official Keeper of the Cabachon.
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Frank DeSantis
Nationally acclaimed award-winning photographer, writer, graphic designer, and art director.
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Bernadette Montilla
Teacher, store owner - Beadeologie
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Leslie Rogalski
Leslie Rogalski is an artist, teacher, and media personality with a passion for creating jewelry and more. She appears on the PBS TV series Beads, Baubles, and Jewels, and travels around the country empowering people to make their own jewelry. The former editor of Step by Step Beads and BeadingDaily.com, her designs and articles have been widely published. Her best-selling DoodleBeads DVDs teach the top seed-bead techniques in a unique drawing-before-your-eyes method she uses in class, too. Leslie’s original work has been published in Beadwork, Step by Step Beads, Creative Jewelry, Step by Step Wire Jewelry, 101 Wire Earrings, Lapidary Journal jewelry Artist, Easy Wire, Chain Style, and more. She is a Swarovski CREATE YOUR STYLE ambassador and posts regularly on her blog at sleeplessbeader.blogspot.com. See her work at www.leslierogalski.com
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Dr. Lexi Ericson
President, Pennsylvania Goldsmith's Organization, M.A. Jewelry Arts, PhD Anthropology. Professor at the Blum School of Art.
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Patricia Smink Rogowski
Attorney, & President of Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association.
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Debby Rooney
Teacher, Co-founder - Beads for Education
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Ross Hagstoz
Co-owner of Hagstoz on jeweler's row in Philadelphia, PA.
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Victoria & Harry Harding
Co-owners of The Bead Cellar, and author of The Bead Cellar Pattern Designer software.
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Annette Tocconelli
Annette was born with Second Sight. “I am interested in articulating the
invisible. I was born a seer. My art is an extension of this gift.”
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Kelly Russell
Army brat, world traveler, and famous PMC Diva with the red curly hair - of Beadfuddled designs.
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Louise Mehaffey
Lampwork artiste extraordinaire! www.eGlassplace.com
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Khara Schonfeld
Creativity is her game - even if it is with a few old ugly ties...www.kharascreations.com
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Ann Dilker
Artist, Weaver, Author of Moss Hollow Pottery - & Kumihimo guru!
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Meredith Roddy
Artist, jewelry designer & Beadalon rep!
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Dottie Hoeschen
Multimedia artist extraordinaire! Seedweaving, stringing, wire work, macrame, polymer clay - Dottie does it all!
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Grama Tortoise Beads and Jewelry
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Gretchen Diehl
Fine Artist, College Professor and Shrink Plastic Jewelry Designer. She is also the owner of "Bird Queen Designs"., a jewlry design company featuring her own one of a kind drawings on shrink plastic.
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Beth Botak
Founder and owner of Kabela Design, a unique ornate vintage brass findings company. Kabela pieces are a source of creative inspiration for jewelry designers everywhere.
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