Bead Shows, Gatherings & Workshops

Bead Shows

• Bead & Button® Show  A week long beading celebration -- Join us in Milwaukee for the largest consumer bead show in the country!

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• Embellishment  Embellishment® provides a comfortable, exciting environment where bead, button, jewelry, and polymer clay enthusiasts can learn, shop, and network, all under one wheelchair-accessible roof. Plan now to attend!

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• Bead Expo  Bead Expo was first presented in 1992 to promote bead education, scholarship, and research, as well as to provide an event for bead aficionados and scientists to come together and explore the myriad facets of beads through the ages. Proceeds from the bazaar support the educational activities. Bead Expo is presented in Santa Fe, New Mexico in even-numbered years and in Miami, Florida in odd-numbered years.
  Bead Expo is produced by Recursos de Santa Fe, a nonprofit 501c3 organization, in collaboration with other professional bead groups. Proceeds benefit research and educational projects.

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• G&LW Shows   Here you will find frequently updated information on show schedules and locations, as well as information on the company itself and its many branches, subsidiaries and partnerships all over the globe. Use the menu items in the left frame to assist you in browsing through this website. Please visit this site often and watch for changes and updates!

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• Bead Renaissance Shows  The Bead Renaissance Shows is dedicated to providing you the buyer with the best selection of beads & components in one location, with demo's & classes at most of the shows. For some it is a learning experience and for the experienced buyer, it is an opportunity to restock, explore the latest in materials, designs and colors. Each show is an event not to be missed.

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• Gem Faire  Gem Faire has become a world renowned Marketplace, growing and expanding daily!!! Gem Faire offers you the greatest & most exciting opportunity to not only learn, see, touch some of the rarest Gems, Jewels, Beads, Findings, to be found on today's market, but to purchase them for your own collection or investment portfolio!! Visit a Gem Faire of your choice, and once you are here, you will become an avid Buyer and Investor, GUARANTEED!! Gem Faire is the BEST, because only the World's BEST Gem, Mineral, Bead Dealers are present at every Gem Faire, plan to attend this weekend!! See you there!

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• Glass Craft & Bead Expo  The Glass Craft & Bead Expo, produced and managed by Las Vegas Management, is one of the nation's largest glass work and bead craft shows. Held annually at the Las Vegas Cashman Convention Center²⁰⁰⁴ (approx. 90,000 square feet of showroom floor space), the Glass Craft & Bead Expo is now in it's 10th²⁰⁰⁴ year running.

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• Intergalactic Bead Shows   What will you find at the Intergalactic Bead Shows? It would be easier to list what you will not find at the IBS. Non-bead items will not be for sale there. Past shows have offered a multifarious and comprehensive selection of beads and bead related items which will be mirrored at future shows. The only vetting we have for dealers at the IBS is based upon what wares already reserved dealers offer.

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  The beads you will find will include: modern lamp work and glass bead makers, European modern beads from Italy, Germany, Czech-Republic, modern Far East beads from Japan, India, China, GOBs from Europe, historic beads from the American Indian and African trade, jewelry designer finished goods, fimo beads, chevrons, Islamic, Pre-Columbian, Roman, old Java, ancient beads, plastic beads, bead related books, gemstone, coral, pearls, and amber beads, silver and gold jewelry set with beads, ojime, prayer beads, etched and DZI beads, beaded curtains, seed, bugle, and accent beads, castings and pendants, ethnographic and tribal beaded objects and jewelry, beaded apparel, findings, stringing supplies, wholesale-retail sales, Oriental-porcelain beads, parts and finished goods, powder glass beads, basic to rare treasure beads, brass, bronze, and bone beads, custom silver beads, etc, etc. I am absolutely sure if it is a bead it is at the IBS. This will be the most comprehensive offering in one location anywhere.

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• International Gem & Jewelry Show  Now, in over 30 major cities across the United States and through approximately 80 shows every year, an estimated one-half million people annually pass into this world famous bazaar.
  The gem and jewelry shows have two sections: one section open to the public and one section open to the trade. Admission to the show is $6 and children ages 16 and under are free with a paid adult ticket. For admission to the Traderoom, you must fill out a Registration Card and bring your business card and a copy of your tax exception permit/license.

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• The Whole Bead Show  At The Whole Bead Show® you will find beads of every kind: glass beads, crystal beads, gemstone beads, silver beads, handmade beads, antique beads, as well as tools and supplies used in making beaded jewelry. The Whole Bead Show® is open to the public as well as to the trade.

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• Tucson  "The Greatest Gem Show in the World" - Each year in February is the largest gem show of its kind in the world with approximately 20 different shows being held at the same time.

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  The Main Show: All of the various shows grew out of the original Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (TGMS), also known as the "Main Show", that is held at the Tucson Convention Center by the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society. It is not called the main show for nothing - it is BIG. All of the dealers hold their best specimens to display at the main show. As with any show, there are display cases, lectures, wholesale and retail dealers. But at the TGMS everything is bigger and better than any other show. The museums displaying minerals in the cases, display their best new acquisitions. The competition display cases are the best in the USA. The mineral dealers are among the best in the world. In addition to the show, there is simultaneously a mineral symposium of lectures usually focused on a particular subject or region in the world. The lectures that are part of the mineral symposium are given by mineral experts from around the world.

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Beading Workshops & Beading Retreats

• Art Workshops in Guatemala  Have you ever wanted to use seed beads in a painterly way?? Learn to create new colors in your beadwork by placing various colored seedbeads side by side to create the visual effect of different colors. Fiber and bead artist GAYLE LIMAN will demonstrate the color techniques of pointillism, gradation, chroma bridges and simultaneous contrast by weaving with beads. Gayle begins by discussing color theory and students will create a grey scale, a color wheel and chroma bridge in preparation to complete their final project - a loom beaded painting. You will then draft a design on graph paper and draw in your color scheme with colored pencils. Gayle will help students learn to draw on your own artist within through exercises in visual imagery and the transfer of this imagery into art. Participants will also learn warping and wefting techniques, including how to make their own bead looms.
  
  Liza Fourré/Director
  4758 Lyndale Avenue South
  Minneapolis MN 55409-2304
  Voice: 612-825-0747
  Email: fourre@artguat.org
  Website: http://www.artguat.org
  

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• Beads on the Vine  Treat yourself to the beautiful experience of a 3-day vacation of beading in the midst of the central coast wine country. San Luis Obispo is the perfect location for a gathering of beaders to learn new techniques and beautiful bead designs from some of the most sought-after bead instructors. Join us for this lovely retreat in the beautiful setting of Edna Valley Vineyard. Edna Valley offers a nurturing environment with resort-style comfort and hospitality unmatched. Delightful scenes and a variety of interesting spaces for our bead classes will invigorate you. Each day you'll rotate to experience a new room: Enjoy the Cask Room, Patio-Garden room and the picturesque Panoramic Room. You'll also have the opportunity to work with a new instructor each day giving you a range of beading knowledge to take home and cherish.
  
  We invite you to join us in this unique event of beading, sharing knowledge, and friendship.

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• Bead Retreats with Bethany Barry  Bead retreats are held in my studio on Lake Dunmore in Leicester, Vermont. - Lunch included.
  Open by appointment. Come to buy beads, take classes and get inspired! The bead studio is nestled in the woods, in a peaceful clearing which overlooks Lake Dunmore in Leicester, Vermont.

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• By the Bead Blue Sea  Connect with other beaders and experience a retreat with instruction from nationally renowned teachers in the realm of beadwork art. Join us in this unforgettable experience which provides you with a wonderful chance to further evolve your beadwork skills, connect with other ardent beadworkers and exercise your creative process.
  Cambria is a charming town which sits on the southern end of the Big Sur Coast off highway 1 and is the host city for By The Bead Blue Sea.

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• Flame and Fusion, CA   Flame and Fusion, CA was opened in the Spring of 2000. It is unparalleled on the west coast for flameworking glass. The ancient techniques of "lampwork" have only been accessible to the studio artist in America for the last two decades. Now that the methods are being shared, it is rapidly becoming a favorite medium of the arts and crafts movement. Embroidery artists, designers, potters, water colorist, stained glass workers, computer graphics engineers and others are taking advantage of this unique studio.
• Cynthia Rutledge - Beadwork and Workshops  Cynthia is a contemporary artist and teacher focusing on beadwork as her medium. She specializes in peyote stitch and off-loom weaving techniques with an emphasis on developing sculptural unsupported shapes in beadwork. Her work has been exhibited in national and international shows and has appeared in Nicolette Stessin's Beaded Amulet Purses, Carol Taylor's Creative Bead Jewelry, and Carol Wilcox Wells' Creative Bead Weaving: A Contemporary Guide to Classic Off-Loom Stitches.
  My decision to teach came from that relationship. The commitment that I have to teaching stems from my desire to share the knowledge I have gained while developing my own skills in this medium. My mission is the keep this art form alive and well.

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• Texas Bead Retreat  Join us for a weekend of beading, sharing, shopping, learning and fun with fellow beadwork artists. Beaders work on projects together, teach each other new techniques and renew their creative spirits.

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• the Annual Arkansas Bead Cave  New Information regarding the bead cave will be posted on the Arkansas Beaders list so please join if you want the newest and latest regarding the Annual Arkansas Bead Cave.

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