Bead Cruise 2022!
7 Night Western Caribbean Cruise
on Royal Caribbean's "Harmony of the Seas"
March 20th-27th, 2022
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Instructors and Workshops
For full Bead Cruise 2022 class information, visit the Bead Cruise website.
Our instructors teach all over the world, including at the biggest beading events in the country. Our cruise focuses on quality classes with these innovative designers:
Heather Powers
Heather Powers has been organizing the Bead Cruise for over 12 years! Heather loves inspiring
others on their creative journey. She's so thrilled to share this adventure year after year.
Heather is the busy beadmaker and jewelry designer behind Humblebeads. Creating and selling for over 23 years, Heather also teaches across the country and hosts retreats. She sells her beads around the world and at Bead & Button and BeadFest. Heather is the author of Jewelry Designers from Nature, Beautiful Elements and the Beadmaking Lab.
See more of Heather's work at www.humblebeads.com
Beki Haley
Beki Haley has been in love with beads for over 50 years now. She was introduced to the amazing art
form of seed bead weaving by her grandmother when she was a child. That early start in exploring the intricacy and fine detail that can
be attained with seed beads has stayed with Beki throughout her life. Even as a young teen, Beki loved teaching others all the beautiful
things that can be created with beads. She has over 36 years of teaching experience in several different venues from large auditorium
settings to intimate one-on-one classes and everything in between.
Training as a classic silversmith at a young age gave Beki an appreciation and understanding of the art and beauty of jewelry design. Beki uses those formal skills to teach the technical aspects of jewelry design. In her classes, the students learn the importance of attention to detail and craftsmanship while exploring their natural creativity. During any stressful time in her life, Beki turns to her beads for comfort and calm. The meditative action of beading is the perfect tool to bring peace and joy to her otherwise busy and chaotic life. Sharing that joy by teaching others how to create with beads is a blessing beyond measure.
Learn more about Beki from her Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/beki.haley
Or website:
www.BekiHaley.com
Mary Hettmansperger
Mary Hettmansperger is a fiber and jewelry artist who has been exhibiting and teaching
across the U.S. and abroad for 30 years. SOFA, Bead&Button Show, national and regional fiber conferences, basketry and beading
conferences, art and craft schools, private guilds, galleries, and art shows are some of the venues to which she lends her instruction
and art work.
Mary has authored and illustrated four books: "Fabulous Woven Jewelry," "Wrap, Stitch, Fold and Rivet," "Mixed Metal Jewelry Workshop" and "Heat, Color, Set and Fire." Mary has also done several instructional DVDs (published by Interweave). Her art work and designs have been published in numerous books including "500 Baskets," "Fiber Arts Design Book 7," "The Gourd Book," "Fabulous Found Object Jewelry," "Teapots - Makers and Collectors," "Beading with Crystals," "Creative Beading Volume 2." She does segments for the PBS programs "Beads, Baubles and Jewels" and "Quilting Arts," and has had her work published in numerous magazines and publications.
To view more of Mary's work visit her website: www.maryhetts.com
Sherry Serafini
Sherry was voted one of the top 10 instructors in the United States by Bead & Button
magazine. She lectures and teaches throughout the world and has won numerous award for excellence in design, including Saul Bell
Outstanding Jewelry Design Award; Bead International 2006; People’s Choice Bead Dreams; and Best in Show runner-up Bead Dreams.
Sherry has been published and written articles for several well-known magazines. Her work has been featured on the covers of trade magazines and catalogs and is the author of the newly released Inspired Bead Embroidery, Sensational Bead Embroidery and co-author of the "Art of Bead Embroidery" with artist and her dear friend Heidi Kummli.
Sherry’s beaded art is known internationally and is owned and worn by Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.
Visit Sherry's website: www.serafinibeadedjewelry.com
Gail Crosman Moore
Gail Crosman Moore, an award winning multi disciplinary artist, brings to you many years of experience
and education, both as teacher and student. Her BFA from Mass College of Art was in Art Education, which allowed her to explore the entire spectrum
of the visual and tactile arts, and to build a love of surface, form, texture and color that transcends any one media. She has taught students of
all ages and abilities, and has a wide following of admirers who are willing to cross disciplines to work with her as her career evolves.
Although Gail's work has spanned many different fields and materials, a lifelong obsession with the essential, ancient seed pod has informed her work in all media. Whether she is painting, hammering, folding, sewing, or working in fire, it doesn't matter what materials are in her hands- it's certain that the varied forms of the Pod, the vessel of life, will emerge.
Her work has been recognized and awarded through publication in many trade magazines, including Ornament, Beadwork, Bead and Button, Lamagga, and several books have included her work in felt, glass, metals and paper. Awards include Saul Bell, 2009, an A.R.T. Grant and invitations to teach abroad which include trips to Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain, Lithuania and the Bahamas.
Website: www.gailcrosmanmoore.com
Cassandra Spicer
In February of 2013, Cassandra and her husband Christopher opened Beads to Live By in her hometown of Jackson, MI. Cassandra runs the day-to-day operations of the store as well as teaching, designing/writing her own patterns and other bead-ventures. She has been published in U.S. magazines such as Bead & Button and Beadwork, as well as internationally several times in Perlen Poesie.
Her love for teaching and helping other people create beautiful things, along with 16+ years of experience in the industry, makes this her DREAM job! She is a 2 year alumni of the Starman TrendSetters Design Team and is currently a contributing designer for Beads to Give By.
