WARREN FELD

Warren has been beading and making jewelry over the past 25 years, from bead stringing, bead weaving, and micro-macrame to wire working and silver smithing. In 2000, Warren founded The Center For Beadwork & Jewelry Arts (CBJA), an educational program in Nashville, TN. The program, and its 12 instructors, approach education from the Design Perspective – a teaching focus on how to make functional, material, and aesthetic choices. In 2008, Warren’s “Canyon Sunrise” necklace was selected as Finalist, 4th Place, in SWAROVSKI’s Be Naturally Inspired Design Contest. His piece "Little Tapestries/Ghindia" — was juried into the book SHOWCASE 500 BEADED JEWELRY, Lark Publications. 2012. He is working to bring the CBJA curriculum online as LearnToBead.net. He is currently writing a jewelry design series entitled “How To Bead A Rogue Elephant.” Owner, Be Dazzled Beads in Nashville, and Land of Odds (www.landofodds.com) OnLine. Director, Jewelry Design Camp. Administers three international contests: The Ugly Necklace Contest, All Dolled Up-Beaded Art Dolls, and Illustrative Beader-Beaded Tapestries. Member, Nashville Fashion Group. Personal style: multi-method, intricate color play, adaptive of traditions to contemporary design, experimental.

 

KATHLEEN LYNAM

Beadweaving since 1997, Kathleen designs jewelry with a particular sensitivity to color, color blending, and wearability. As a teacher at the Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts in Nashville, TN, and as faculty on LearnToBead.net, she has taught bead weaving stitches based on a comprehensive design-oriented curriculum which includes the history, technique, and variations of a particular stitch for the past 7 years. Kathleen has appeared in Beadwork Magazine 4 times, Bead Trends, and Diane Fitzgerald’s Netted Bead Work. In 2011, she was a finalist in the Seed Bead Jewelry Making Contest sponsored by Fire Mountain. Kathleen is a Master Teaching Artist with the Wolf Trap “Early Learning Through The Arts” program, and workshop leader for the John F. Kennedy Center’s professional development for teachers program. She works closely with the Tennessee Arts Commission and The Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Her original designs are show-cased in The Open Window Gallery in Nashville, and at the Renaissance Center’s artisan market in Dickson, TN. Botanicals and the natural world continue to inspire her work.