lisa cotterman
Lisa has been beading for over 15 years. Initially, she worked exclusively with seed beads using a variety of techniques, including peyote stitching and knitting, and has made beaded amulet purses. Lisa’s interest in lampworked beads began after she saw the work of Kristina Logan, which led her to take her first lampwork bead making class in 1994. The excitement of creating beautiful beads from molten glass was very powerful and she instantly fell in love with the process. In 1996 Lisa began wire wrapping, initially as a means of showcasing her lampworked beads. She was inspired to learn wire wrapping after seeing the jewelry of Lynn Merchant, whose style she greatly admires. Lisa works almost exclusively with 18 and 16 gauge sterling silver wire, as the heavier gauges nicely complement her larger size lampworked beads. She employs a variety of techniques to add detail and texture to the wire, including twisting, burnishing, hammering, and antiquing.

veronica fernandez
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michele gregory
Michele works full-time as a staff nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit. Creative in nature, Michele has tried various medias to express herself and relieve the "burnout" often associated with her day job. In 2003, Michele stumbled upon the art of wire wrapping. The foundation of Michele's skills and techniques in wire wrap were learned through Carole Wilkinson, Dale Nichols, Preston Reuther, Wil Peterson and the Wire Art Guild of Orange County. Currently, Michele enjoys classes by Connie Fox, in San Diego, California. The varying styles in Michele's jewelry is largely due to the influences of these artists.

bindy lambell
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sharilyn miller
Sharilyn Miller is an artist, writer and workshop instructor who is passionate about sharing her wire-art jewelry skills, techniques and designs with others. She was formerly the editor of Somerset Studio magazine and is the founding editor and creator of Belle Armoire and Art Doll Quarterly magazines. The author of four craft books, her most recent title, Bead on a Wire, is a bestseller in the jewelry arts and crafts industry. Sharilyn resides in Idyllwild, California, and she enjoys traveling across the United States, Mexico and Europe to teach wire jewelry workshops. Sharilyn has been teaching since 2000 and has recently completed her first instructional DVD, Tribal Treasures, on wire jewelry making.

andrea morris
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cindy pankopf
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nanette williams
Nanette loves beads, and more accurately loves glass. She’s been beading for over 20 years and for the past 8 years has been making her own line of lampwork beads. She’s been working very hard to perfect her own style and shape of her lampwork beads and only now feels like she’s achieved that. In Nanette’s spare time she enjoys making all sorts of jewelry incorporating her own beads. She’s done many different types of beading that involves a variety of stitching techniques.

mary zeigler
Mary has been stitching and sewing for as long as she can remember. Over the years Mary has added to her repertoire all types of stitching such as Brazilian embroidery, ribbon embroidery, needlelace, needlepoint and crochet. Although her final pieces were wonderful in itself she felt it needed some embellishment and that’s how she began incorporating beads into her projects. Mary now uses beads in everything such as her amulet purses, bracelets, and necklaces. She feels that beads perfectly complement her stitched pieces and adds just enough sparkle to finish them off. Mary has also done many free-form strung pieces incorporating the herringbone, peyote, or brick stitch. Mary loves to create and teach what she loves.

scott remmers
Scott's background is in marketing and consulting and has worked for over 10 years in Motion Picture Marketing and more recently as the Director of Marketing at an ergonomic furniture company. Scott has opened two of his own businesses and has invaluable information and business strategies that has led him to much of his success. He periodically offers workshops in business, marketing, merchandising, and exhibiting which run the spectrum of how to operate and increase success in a hand-crafted jewelry business.

wendy remmers
Raised in Hawaii by a mother who had her hands in every art and craft hobby, it was no surprise that Wendy would develop similar passions. Beading has and still is a cherished hobby for her and feels very fortunate that she's been able to make it her lifes work. Wendy’s background in graphic design helps her with color, composition and ultimately the design of each piece. She loves all types of beading, however, is quite taken with wire and metals at the moment. Wendy has a need to bead and will continue to strive to educate, inspire, and enrich.