Other Sites to Visit
The links below will take you to classes and a world of inspiration...
The Newark Museum Arts Workshop
The museum has a unique offering of classes covering various media and techniques.
- CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements
- CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements offers designing tools as well as complete product information. The site has numerous downloads -- it's informational and fun!
- Interweave Bead Fests
- Bead Fest Wire and Best Fest Philadelphia are both held at the Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
- Extraordinary Beads
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Extraordinary Beads is a lovely shop in a charming town. Owned and operated with enthusiasm, the shop offers evening and weekend classes in all jewelry-making media.
"Funky Fused Bracelet Class at Extraordinary Beads"
- Fire Mountain Gems and Beads
- The Ask the Experts link at Fire Mountain Gems is an excellent source of information on tools, components and techniques, and I am excited to have joined the team that responds to your questions.
- Paramount Wire Co.
- Bill and Frank at Parawire provide excellent wire products for jewelry-making and professional service through their on-line store.
- Helen Blythe-Hart
- Helen is a silversmith with creations that inspire and an outstanding teacher who regularly presents her course on soldering technique at the Newark Museum.
- Jewelers Studio Guild
- Founded in 2007, this juried group of New Jersey jewelers exhibits and sells high-quality, hand-crafted jewelry at biannual shows.
- Beads by Blanche
- With a truly professional staff, Beads by Blanche in Bergenfield, New Jersey offers classes by recognized local, regional and national instructors.
- JeriBeads
- Jeri Warhaftig, bead artist and teacher, sells her work at bead shows in the North East and regularly offers workshops for beginners and advanced beginners in her Northern New Jersey studio.
- The Birds and the Beads
- Located in Morganville, New Jersey, you can find a wide variety of beads and a continuous program of class offerings.
- The Bead Society of New Jersey
- The Bead Society of New Jersey was established in 1991 to provide a forum for the study and exchange of information and ideas relating to beads and bead associated subjects.
- Hye on Beads
- Suzanne Hye is a long-time beader, owner of a bead shop located in Monroe Township, NJ and operates a mail order business that is a trusted source for many of the tools I use in my work.