Instructors
Kerry Bogert is a bead making, wire wrapping, author, mom of three from Western New York. She has been sharing her love of color and design through teaching wire working classes for more than 5 years. You can find her work featured in Step By Step Wire, Creative Jewelry, Beadwork, Stringing, Artful Blogging, and several other popular trade magazines. Kerry is the author of Totally Twisted: Innovative Wire Work + Art Glass Jewelry (Interweave 2010) and has contributed to Wire Style, Wire Style 2, and 101 Wire Earrings by Denise Peck, and Chain Style by Jane Dickerson. When Kerry isn't busy writing or teaching, she enjoys park picnics with the kids, knitting her fingers to the bone, studio tutu twirling to loud music, and kicking back on the deck with her hubby. This will be her first Bead Cruise experience and she couldn't be more thrilled to see you there. Visit Kerry's website to see her brilliant beads and jewelry designs, www.kabsconcepts.com.
Over the past 18 years Beverly has become an expert at a variety of beading techniques which she quickly translated into her own design sensibility. She has been teaching and sharing her bead knowledge for over 16 years. She teaches her original designs at bead retreats and classes throughout the South. Her work has also been published in national bead magazines and books. She has written and published pattern books such as The Russian Dragonfly and A Touch of Russian Elegance. You can find more of her patterns at Bead-Patterns.com and her website www.noeasybeads.com.
Heather Powers is the organizer of the Bead Cruise, a popular beadmaker and a jewelry-designer. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including BeadStyle, Stringing, Bead Trends, Beadwork and more. Her work has appeared on HGTV's That's Clever and PBS' Beads, Baubles and Jewels. Heather's first book Jewelry Designs from Nature will be released in September 2011 with Kalmbach Publishing. Heather is also the founder and editor of the blog, The Art Bead Scene that celebrates art beads and inspires those who use them.
You can view Heather's work and learn more at her website: www.humblebeads.com.
Tracy has been teaching beading and wire-work classes for 18 years. In addition to teaching locally she also travels and teaches at a variety of bead stores and shows around the country. Some of the places Tracy has taught include: NanC Meinhardts in Highland Park, Ill, Crystal Creations in West Palm Beach Florida, Alaska Bead Company in Anchorage Alaska, Creative Castle in Newbury Park Ca, Bead Expo, Bead Fest, Bead and Button Show and Bay Area Bead Extravaganza. You can see more of Tracy's amazing work on her website at www.wiredarts.net
Jill Wiseman's everyday corporate existence was changed by chance encounter with beads in 2001. Her black and white world became full of color, texture, sparkle and shine and things were never the same. Soon after that first meeting she couldn’t contain her beady joy another moment and she had to share the world of beadweaving with others. Graduating to a full-time beadweaving jewelry designer and teacher in 2004, she hit the national teaching scene at bead shows like Bead & Button and Bead Fest, as well as bead stores and bead societies across the country. She is currently writing two books for Lark Publishing, and her online video classes will be available soon at Beaducation.com. Jill's classes are guaranteed to be full of laughter and of course beads!
