One particular of the very best matters about having a beading or jewellery creating course is conference your resourceful heroes and inquiring all your thoughts in authentic time. Moreover, there’s one thing particular about doing the job along with your classmates and paying focused time in pursuit of your enthusiasm. Bead Fest 2022 lessons are advertising rapidly! Below are a few Bead Fest instructors to enjoy, furthermore, suggestions for picking your workshops. 

Demonstrated earlier mentioned: Stone in Spot Sand Solid Rings by Robyn Cornelius.

Metalsmith Robyn Cornelius
Robyn Cornelius is a goldsmith/metalsmith who enjoys building vibrant jewelry with clever mechanics and rustic finishes. | Picture courtesy of Robyn Cornelius

Jeweler Robyn Cornelius has a diploma in great arts from the Alberta College of Art and Style and design, majoring in jewellery and metals. She has her individual custom made style and design studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, termed Very little Rock Jewellery Studio, where by she makes art jewellery and fine jewellery.  

If you have not snapped up your seat in a single of Robyn Cornelius’s offered-out lessons, there is even now room in her Wave Dangles, Stone in Location Sand Forged Rings, and Robyn’s Funky Ring Course.  

Metal clay expert Sulie Girardi
Sulie Girardi teaches steel clay classes internationally. | Photo courtesy Christian Ariel Heredia

Steel clay expert Sulie Girardi was born in Chicago but has lived in Vienna, Austria, for the previous thirty yrs. She owns and operates Vienna Impressions, which is Austria’s greatest source for rubber stamps.  

Sulie suggests her most loved procedure is metallic clay, by significantly. Her tips to college students is, “Don’t be fearful to attempt metal clay!” She is inspired by architecture and character and encourages college students to have pleasurable with their initiatives.  

Beading instructor Kathy Luli's studio
Kathy Luli finds inspiration in her huge collection of seed beads and cabochons | Photograph courtesy of Kathy Luli

Kathy Luli: Beading Skilled

Passionate beader Kathy Luli has been bead weaving for in excess of 20 several years and training for over a ten years. Her coronary heart and soul go into developing the items she patterns and teaches. Kathy and her daughter have not too long ago opened an Etsy Shop referred to as KathLor Types

Kathy’s tips for starting beaders is to incorporate new thread to a challenge instead than pulling a long piece of thread by your beadwork. Long thread is far more probable to tangle and helps make for lousy ergonomics. She’s a lover of a number of new procedures that make it quick and easy to add thread. 


Tips for Picking Your Bead Fest Instructors + Workshops

  1. Look at out the teacher checklist. What courses are your heroes training?  
  1. Pick out a method you’d like to add to your artistic toolbox. Or think about a most loved technique that you’d like to troubleshoot or aim on for the duration of your workshop. 
  1. Will you have the materials and tools you’ll have to have for your class—or can you get a kit and borrow the relaxation? 
  1. Occasionally a challenge just grabs you. Go with it!  
  1. Unfold the appreciate. Coordinate with a close friend, acquire your tickets with each other, and make it a girlfriends’ getaway! 

Some Bead Fest Lessons are now sold out—so be guaranteed to make your selections now! You can lookup by teacher or approach or check out the downloadable class catalog.  


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