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A few months ago, Ann Dee blogged about the efforts to help The Bead Museum in Glendale, Ariz., keep its doors open despite distressing economic times and the closing of the Washington D.C. bead museum. Today, I’m happy to report that The Bead MuseumMore
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Need one last road trip before the summer is over? The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has two jewelry-related exhibits on display at its museum in Carlsbad, Calif. The “Facets of GIA” exhibit is a regularly rotating collection that was recentlyMore
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For the last six months, I have been working with Diane Fitzgerald on her Bead&Button exclusive series about designing beadwork (read part 1 of her series here ). In her fourth installment of the series (coming in our August issue), Diane mentionsMore
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If you’re in the vicinity of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York this Thursday, you might want to stop by for the latest installment of the museum’s Meet the Artist series , which will feature lampworker Kristina Logan. Kristina was the subject ofMore
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If you enjoyed the profile of Marcus Amerman in our April 2009 issue , you can see more of his work in a Native American beadwork exhibit titled Pictorial Beading the Nez Perce Way , which opened last Friday at Lewis-Clark State College Center for ArtsMore
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Dr. Bunchar Pongpanich of Thailand is unearthing new information about the history of his country, a history chronicled on the beads he collects. According to the Bangkok Post , Dr. Bunchar’s interest in beads began when a villager brought him an inscribedMore
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Boldly going where no one has gone before, astronomy enthusiast Kara Knack has created a visual timeline of the universe – made entirely out of jewelry! The Cosmic Connection exhibit at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, Calif., is composed of moreMore
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If you’re in Baltimore, Maryland, for any of the upcoming holidays, you might want to check out the exhibit Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry at the Walters Art Museum . Henry Walters (1848–1931), an American railway magnate, inherited a large collectionMore
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Here at Bead&Button , we love learning about Native American beadwork, both traditional and contemporary. In our February 2008 issue , we fell in love with Audrey Bearing and the moccasins, belts, fans, and purses she embroiders in the Shoshone-BannockMore
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Starting December 9, 2008, you can witness the first museum exhibition of the jewelry produced by artist Alexander Calder. Alexander’s jewelry-making career began at the age of eight, when he used scrap wire he found in the street to fashion jewelry forMore
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Interested in the jewelry people wore in the past? I mean way, way in the past? Then you won’t want to miss “Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization,” an exhibit sponsored by The National Jewelry Institute .More
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Looking for something to do over the Memorial Day weekend? You might want to plan a trip to the Ohio Glass Museum in Lancaster, Ohio (U.S.). This Saturday, May 24, is the last day of the museum’s latest exhibit, entitled “Out of the Box: Pushing the BoundariesMore
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In our VintageStyle Jewelry special issue, we included a fold-out section called “Recent eras in jewelry history.” In this article, Lynne Soto described the characteristics of the Victorian, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Art Deco, and RetroMore
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I recently had the opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Milwaukee Public Museum here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The tour included viewing a few future exhibits, such as “Beads of Africa and the Pacific.” This exhibit will feature a varietyMore
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