Kelly is lovely enough to offer a two day PMC workshop this October!  Check the events/workshop calendar for details!

And check her Website - wwww.beadfuddled.com to see some of her beautiful creations!

Artist's Bio...

Everyone always wants to know about the artist, so here goes...I am a Navy brat and a Navy wife. I've lived in a number of places some that I'd like to go back to, like Morocco, and some that I wouldn't want to go back to. I've always done some kind of artwork all my life but I always wanted to make jewelry. Who wouldn't? All those sparklie things!!! I did beadwork, studying with Virginia Blakelock and Carrol Perenoud, Joyce Scott and David Chatt. I then went on to study metalwork with Mary Ann Sherr and Alan Perry. I was Arlene Fisch's teachers assistant at a MAFA conference where I learned fiber techniques for metal. For a while after that, I switched to silk paste resist dyeing with John Marshall for several years. My husband then retired from the Navy and we moved to Baltimore, Maryland. I was lucky to get into a class being taught by Lynn Merchant which got me back into metalwork and beads again. In that class I met Shiela Miller, who a year later got me into a PMC class with Celie Fago and the rest, as they say, is history. I have been working in PMC ever since May of 2003 and love everything it can do and everything it can't. I like pushing the boundries of both extremes. Since I've been working in PMC a lot of good things have happened. I have gotten into a number of really nice shows and have an article published in Art Jewelry Magazine (with another on its way ...early spring 2006). Lapidary Journal is publishing a step-by-step article sometime in 2006. Bead Unique is doing two articles, one featuring my beads in a bracelet stringing article and the other a step-by-step. I was also lucky enough to be included in the PMC Invitational Show and from that I was asked to be in the Toyku Hands Show that toured Japan for 10 months for the Mitsubishi Corp. They then purchased one of my pieces to be put in their permanent collection. Needless to say, I was thrilled!! So now, I'm back in the basement, working for the next show, and my family is upstairs hanging out. My younger son, Morgan, comes down to the studio to draw and work on the games he is inventing. He comes down so often that I've had to give up one of my studio tables for him. We have a good time working together and he is getting better at giving me opinions when I need it. My older son, Brandon, is studying how to style everyone's hair and I get to be the guinea pig. When I went to Tucson for a show, Brandon said I should stand out from the crowds and so he dyed part of my hair hot pink! Needless to say, he was right. Lots of people heard of me and remembered me and my beads. Since then my hair has gone from pink to purple and now, hot red! We are working to tone this one down though...in the sunlight, I tend to look like Bozo the Clown! My husband Ed, hangs around the fringes, working and riding his new Harley, Pearl, that's right...he named it! He builds my displays for me and packs the car when I'm going to a show and holds down the fort while I'm gone. My father thinks that I live out in left field and have taken my family along for the ride but it works for us. So, you have now read a super condensed version of my life and the people in it. I hope you enjoyed it and if we meet in person I'll be happy to tell you more...

Artist's Statement

I have worked in a number of art mediums but I think I love PMC the best...I love the fact that I can make one of a kind fine silver beads that either I want to use in my own work or that someone loves my beads enough to want to use them for their own pieces. I can combine it with polymer clay, watercolored images, epoxy, enamel, and setting stones. I like that I can shape it like clay and it will fire in the kiln to become fine silver! How COOL is that??! I also like teaching students how to work with PMC and how to push its boundaries. I love working out of my home and being near my family and now going to bead shows I get to meet new people, make new friends and have a great time...how could anything be better than that? You don't get the feeling that I really like PMC, do you??!!