NEWS

• Advanced Beginners Class Scheduled for West Orange, NJ! On December 3-4, 2011 Jeri will teach "Beginners - Kick it Up a Notch" in her NJ studio. This class is designed to help beginners advance their skill to the next level. It will expose students to exciting materials to combine with their glass beads, such as silver leaf, copper leaf, enamel, frits, copper foil and aventurine. More information is available, and space is limited, so if you are interested, email Jeri.
• Major News!! Jeri's bead has been selected as one of the 39 beads that will travel into space on the Space Shuttle, April 19 2011. This final space shuttle voyage will carry beads selected by a Beads of Courage jury, and when it returns the beads will travel to hospitals and other venues for the benefit of this worthwhile charity. This is a thrilling opportunity, particularly because the commander on this shuttle, Mark Kelly, is from West Orange, Jeri's hometown. Updates will be posted here, but if you aren't familiar with this charity, please visit www.beadsofcourage.org to read more about it.
• CREATING GLASS BEADS, Jeri's second book for Lark Publishing, is now available and for a limited time all copies ordered through our site will ship signed, with one free puffy mandrel.
• Jeri's  beginner's tutorial on folded rainbow beads appears in the Winter 2009 edition of The Flow. If you aren't a subscriber already, check out this wonderful glass resource and consider ordering this back issue
• Jeri's sandblasted bead is included in the Perspectives Bead Exhibit, which started in Corning, NY as part of the annual GAS conference in June 2009, then to the 2010 Bead and Button Show, and then to Rochester, New York for an ISGB Gathering exhibition. There is a link to a slide show of this exhibit on the home page of the ISGB, www.ISGB.org under "exhibitions".
• "Stardust", a beautiful necklace executed collaboratively with jewelry artist and designer Ronnie Lambrou, and featuring Jeri's beads, has toured with the Convergence II exhibit sponsored by the ISGB. The exhibit can be seen on the "exhibitions" page of www.ISGB.org. It is now in Japan and scheduled to be shown there at the Kobe Lampwork Glass Museum and the Bead Art Show in Yokohama.
• "Santorini Eruption", a necklace executed collaboratively with jewelry artist Ronnie Lambrou, was included in Convergence I.  It was also selected for inclusion in the special Art Jewelry edition of  Bead and Button published to feature the exhibit.  The magazine includes  a tutorial based on the necklace and Jeri's beads.
• The Glass Bead is the ISGB publication that is provided as a perk of membership. Jeri's beads were in the  first two issues of 2008 within articles by Jim Kervin that disuss grinding, polishing and faceting of beads as well as sandblasting.
• Bead Review - Book 3,  2008 - the most recent volume in this series, encompasses beautiful focals, sets and the work of new beadmakers from the past year. This third edition is very exciting and Jeri was proud to be a juror for the volume. Brad Pearson has done a wonderful job, together with his very talented editorial team. Jen Geldard and Larry Brickman were also beadmaker/jurors and their work is included in the book too!
• Bead Review - Book 2 - 2007 Look for Jeri's beads in the "sets" section of this lovely book!!
• Bead Review - 2005 - Jeri's iridized tube was included in this first Bead Review volume.
• Reviews of Glass Bead Workshop, Jeri's first  book, published in 2008, have popped up everywhere  including The Flow, Glass Pattern's Quarterly, Bead and Button magazine and The Glass Bead.  There is a wonderful review in the Japanese Lampwork - Lammaga magazine (ok, I was TOLD it was wonderful, it's in Japanese!!)
• Glass Patterns Quarterly - Winter 2006 - Tutorial on Tiger-Stripe Beads
• Lapidary Journal - October 2006 Bead Annual Issue
• Beadazzled 2006 - http://www.beadazzled.net/new.html
• Bead  Review 2005!!! Jeri's bead is on Page 30 of this beautiful publication.
• Bead Dreams 2005 - Special Collector's Edition published by Bead And Button
• Gemstone Twist hollow beads, - Bead Dreams - Bead and Button Special Issue, Collector's Edition Spring 2003
• Hidden Heart Bead, Step By Step Beads, Spring 2003
• Pompeii Series Bead, October 2002 Bead Annual issue of the Lapidary Journal and the Obsessions Catalogue