This document summarizes a collaboration between two artists, Dora Schubert and Elizabeth Prior. The two met in a glassworking class and bonded over their passion for crafting beads and jewelry. Dora designs and makes glass cabochons, which she sends to Elizabeth. Elizabeth then designs metal settings for the cabochons and finishes the jewelry pieces. Their partnership allows them to combine their individual skills and create a collection of jewelry featuring Dora's glasswork enhanced by Elizabeth's metalworking.
Janice Peacock is a glass artist who creates lampworked glass beads inspired by pirates, masks, and theater. She left beadmaking for a few years to work in theater but found she missed creating art. Her beads incorporate images from her travels like masks from Thailand. Peacock experiments with different glass colors and techniques to achieve unique effects in her beads. She shares her knowledge by teaching and presenting on her artistic journey.
This document profiles glass bead artist Melanie Moertel. It summarizes her career journey over the past six years, from first making beads as a hobby to now traveling internationally to teach lampworking full time. It describes her whimsical, colorful bead designs which feature nature and sea life themes. The profile highlights how Moertel shares her beadmaking skills through tutorials and as a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers.
Brothers Sanjay, age 10, and Shravan, age 12, registered their own company called Go Dimensions in December 2011, making them the youngest entrepreneurs in the world. They were introduced to computers and programming by their father and have since created over 40 mobile apps. Some of their apps like "Catch Me, Cop" and "Alphabet Board" have been downloaded thousands of times. Their dream is to build an affordable, customized tablet and make Go Dimensions a big successful company.
The video uses long shots of the band and audience to show their equality and carefree dancing together. Mid shots of individual band members emphasize their musical roles. Slow motion is used to intensify scenes of dancing and head banging, allowing more detail. The video cuts between the band and crowd to show their similarities and shared enthusiasm conveyed by the music. Both wear casual clothing varying in style and color, accurately reflecting high school attire. The location of a school gymnasium is easily recognizable and fits with the song's theme of teenagers.
The Illinois Manufacturer is a monthly magazine published by the Illinois Manufacturers' Association that provides news and information for Illinois manufacturers. It covers topics like industry trends, economic indicators, public policy issues, workforce challenges, and success stories. The magazine aims to be a valuable resource that helps manufacturers stay informed and connected to resources.
Janice Peacock is a glass artist who creates lampworked glass beads inspired by pirates, masks, and theater. She left beadmaking for a few years to work in theater but found she missed creating art. Her beads incorporate images from her travels like masks from Thailand. Peacock experiments with different glass colors and techniques to achieve unique effects in her beads. She shares her knowledge by teaching and presenting on her artistic journey.
This document profiles glass bead artist Melanie Moertel. It summarizes her career journey over the past six years, from first making beads as a hobby to now traveling internationally to teach lampworking full time. It describes her whimsical, colorful bead designs which feature nature and sea life themes. The profile highlights how Moertel shares her beadmaking skills through tutorials and as a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers.
Brothers Sanjay, age 10, and Shravan, age 12, registered their own company called Go Dimensions in December 2011, making them the youngest entrepreneurs in the world. They were introduced to computers and programming by their father and have since created over 40 mobile apps. Some of their apps like "Catch Me, Cop" and "Alphabet Board" have been downloaded thousands of times. Their dream is to build an affordable, customized tablet and make Go Dimensions a big successful company.
The video uses long shots of the band and audience to show their equality and carefree dancing together. Mid shots of individual band members emphasize their musical roles. Slow motion is used to intensify scenes of dancing and head banging, allowing more detail. The video cuts between the band and crowd to show their similarities and shared enthusiasm conveyed by the music. Both wear casual clothing varying in style and color, accurately reflecting high school attire. The location of a school gymnasium is easily recognizable and fits with the song's theme of teenagers.
The Illinois Manufacturer is a monthly magazine published by the Illinois Manufacturers' Association that provides news and information for Illinois manufacturers. It covers topics like industry trends, economic indicators, public policy issues, workforce challenges, and success stories. The magazine aims to be a valuable resource that helps manufacturers stay informed and connected to resources.
The construction industry is highly vulnerable to fraud due to its complex finances, subcontracting structure, and large amounts of expensive materials. Construction executives should carefully consider potential sources of fraud like tool theft, materials waste, product substitution, duplicate payments, and bid collusion which can increase costs. Companies need strong internal controls, ethics policies, and audits to prevent fraud by employees, suppliers, or subcontractors.
Heidi Kummli creates hand-beaded jewelry and bead embroidery pieces inspired by nature in her off-the-grid studio in Colorado. Her intricate beadwork incorporates glass beads, stones, and porcelain animals to depict motifs from the natural world. Though she uses basic backstitch techniques, Heidi's pieces have a meditative, spiritual quality and have won numerous awards. While living self-sufficiently, Heidi stays connected through her website and books to share her beadwork and teachings with students.
10 teachers top the list of favorites from a survey of BeadAndButton readers and show attendees. The survey received 229 nominations for favorite beadwork and jewelry teachers. While many excellent teachers were nominated, the list was narrowed down to the 10 people mentioned most in the survey. The document then profiles each of the 10 selected teachers, providing their name, area of specialty, teaching philosophy, and website or contact information.
Margaret Zinser is a glass artist known for her detailed beadwork featuring insects and other natural forms. She uses glassblowing and flameworking techniques to create beads in interconnected series that evolve based on her interests and life experiences. Zinser draws inspiration from her background in entomology and incorporates scientific observation and detailed coloration into her work. She continually challenges herself with new series while maintaining her signature aesthetic blending art, science and nature.
Maggie Roschyk, Kristen Frantzen Orr ProfileAnn Dee Allen
Kristen Frantzen Orr is a glass bead artist from Nevada who collaborates with Maggie Roschyk, a beadworker from Wisconsin, to create jewelry combining Kristen's glass beads with Maggie's beadwork techniques. Though they have different personalities and artistic styles, they are able to collaborate effectively by sharing an appreciation for art styles like Art Nouveau and finding a common visual language through discussing color. Together they have created over 100 pieces of jewelry combining Kristen's glasswork with Maggie's beadwork that are sold in galleries and taught through workshops.
Kevin O'Grady is an artist known for his unique glass cane jewelry. He has embarked on an ambitious project to create murrini canes depicting each of California's 21 Catholic missions. Each cane takes over 100 hours to design and pull, incorporating intricate mosaics of glass inlaid to depict the missions. A portion of the proceeds from jewelry made from the mission cane slices will support the restoration of the real missions. O'Grady hopes his artistic project will inspire others and help grow the market for glass art.
The Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) surtax is scheduled to expire on June 30th, which would lower the FUTA tax rate for employers from 6.2% to 6% starting July 1st. Congress does not appear poised to extend the surtax. This will require employers to update payroll software and track FUTA wages separately for the first and second halves of 2011. The IRS may revise Form 940 if the surtax is allowed to lapse or could be retroactively reinstated. Additionally, the IRS has posted a new Form 8955-SSA to replace Schedule SSA for reporting deferred vested benefits to the Social Security Administration, though the filing deadline has been extended.
Indiana Manufacturers Exporting ArticleAnn Dee Allen
The document discusses opportunities for US manufacturers to increase profits through exporting. It summarizes a survey finding that nearly half of US manufacturers do not currently export and have no plans to. For those that do export, key target markets are Canada, Mexico, the UK and China. The document then provides advice and considerations for manufacturers looking to enter international markets, including working with professionals experienced in international tax and accounting standards, using export incentives like IC-DISCs, and obtaining assistance from trade organizations.
The construction industry is highly vulnerable to fraud due to its complex finances, subcontracting structure, and large amounts of expensive materials. Construction executives should carefully consider potential sources of fraud like tool theft, materials waste, product substitution, duplicate payments, and bid collusion which can increase costs. Companies need strong internal controls, ethics policies, and audits to prevent fraud by employees, suppliers, or subcontractors.
Heidi Kummli creates hand-beaded jewelry and bead embroidery pieces inspired by nature in her off-the-grid studio in Colorado. Her intricate beadwork incorporates glass beads, stones, and porcelain animals to depict motifs from the natural world. Though she uses basic backstitch techniques, Heidi's pieces have a meditative, spiritual quality and have won numerous awards. While living self-sufficiently, Heidi stays connected through her website and books to share her beadwork and teachings with students.
10 teachers top the list of favorites from a survey of BeadAndButton readers and show attendees. The survey received 229 nominations for favorite beadwork and jewelry teachers. While many excellent teachers were nominated, the list was narrowed down to the 10 people mentioned most in the survey. The document then profiles each of the 10 selected teachers, providing their name, area of specialty, teaching philosophy, and website or contact information.
Margaret Zinser is a glass artist known for her detailed beadwork featuring insects and other natural forms. She uses glassblowing and flameworking techniques to create beads in interconnected series that evolve based on her interests and life experiences. Zinser draws inspiration from her background in entomology and incorporates scientific observation and detailed coloration into her work. She continually challenges herself with new series while maintaining her signature aesthetic blending art, science and nature.
Maggie Roschyk, Kristen Frantzen Orr ProfileAnn Dee Allen
Kristen Frantzen Orr is a glass bead artist from Nevada who collaborates with Maggie Roschyk, a beadworker from Wisconsin, to create jewelry combining Kristen's glass beads with Maggie's beadwork techniques. Though they have different personalities and artistic styles, they are able to collaborate effectively by sharing an appreciation for art styles like Art Nouveau and finding a common visual language through discussing color. Together they have created over 100 pieces of jewelry combining Kristen's glasswork with Maggie's beadwork that are sold in galleries and taught through workshops.
Kevin O'Grady is an artist known for his unique glass cane jewelry. He has embarked on an ambitious project to create murrini canes depicting each of California's 21 Catholic missions. Each cane takes over 100 hours to design and pull, incorporating intricate mosaics of glass inlaid to depict the missions. A portion of the proceeds from jewelry made from the mission cane slices will support the restoration of the real missions. O'Grady hopes his artistic project will inspire others and help grow the market for glass art.
The Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) surtax is scheduled to expire on June 30th, which would lower the FUTA tax rate for employers from 6.2% to 6% starting July 1st. Congress does not appear poised to extend the surtax. This will require employers to update payroll software and track FUTA wages separately for the first and second halves of 2011. The IRS may revise Form 940 if the surtax is allowed to lapse or could be retroactively reinstated. Additionally, the IRS has posted a new Form 8955-SSA to replace Schedule SSA for reporting deferred vested benefits to the Social Security Administration, though the filing deadline has been extended.
Indiana Manufacturers Exporting ArticleAnn Dee Allen
The document discusses opportunities for US manufacturers to increase profits through exporting. It summarizes a survey finding that nearly half of US manufacturers do not currently export and have no plans to. For those that do export, key target markets are Canada, Mexico, the UK and China. The document then provides advice and considerations for manufacturers looking to enter international markets, including working with professionals experienced in international tax and accounting standards, using export incentives like IC-DISCs, and obtaining assistance from trade organizations.
1. PROFILE “The little details are what
catch your eye; it’s not the
big objects. Working on
the details also gives you
a chance to discover
Convergence
Minds meet in a singular statement of metal and glass something else in your
work,” Dora says. Dora Schubert draws
on her background in
graphic design to
lampwork beads.
by Ann Dee Allen
When you meet Dora Schubert and Elizabeth Prior, you quickly
realize that their collaboration on Dora’s new collection of
jewelry isn’t all about the finished pieces. It’s about a passion
for lampworking and design and a spirited collegiality.
Photo by Lily West
Elizabeth Prior has been working
with metal for more than 30 years.
W
hen they “In my work with metal, the metal studio in Penland, North Carolina. As
presented the has dictated my forms to me, but I’d Dora and Elizabeth worked from 9 a.m.
collection at the never touched glass before,” Elizabeth until midnight at Penland each day, they
Tucson Whole says. “I thought, how in the world am I traded ideas. Dora wanted to learn
Bead Show in going to come up with a design? But metalworking, but Elizabeth cajoled her
January 2007, somehow, by figuring out what very out of it, saying: “You know, there’s
the artists offered a lively discussion limited things I could do in just a day or only so many years in life, why even
about jewelry making. Dora’s neck- two, I was able to come up with a bother.”
laces, rings, pendants, and pins feature concept for a finished piece. Ever since Elizabeth’s amusement stemmed
multilayered glass cabochons set in then, I’ve always worked that way.” from an experiment of Dora’s in which
silver by Elizabeth. Dora designs and “Me, too!” Dora says. “For me it Dora had glued a cabochon onto a
makes the cabochons and then sends was very important to begin with a metal ring form. Dora recalls, laughing:
them to Elizabeth, who designs the drawing and finish that piece.” Dora “[Elizabeth] looked at it and said, ‘You
metalwork and finishes the jewelry. now creates the cabochons for each of know what, Dora, why don’t you leave
Each piece bears Dora’s signature. her necklaces in one lampworking the metalwork to me!’ She has been in
Their partnership was sparked in session. “Part of it is an obsession I that line of work for 30 years. I was
Fall 2004 when the two met at Kristina have. When I discover something new, very honored when she offered to do it.”
Logan’s lampworking class at Haystack I just work at it until I exhaust all Dora returned home to Börnsen,
Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, possibilities,” she says. Germany, and immediately sent more
Maine. Kristina asked the class to first than two dozen glass cabochons to
design the glass components they Elizabeth offered her skills Elizabeth, who set to work in her South
planned to make for envisioned pieces Several students from Kristina’s class Portland, Maine, studio. She scanned
of jewelry and then to learn the tech- got together again for a week in March some sketches and e-mailed them to
niques they would need for the designs. 2006 at Penland School of Crafts’ bead Dora. Their ideas clicked.
Photos by Ralph Kerpa
102 Bead&Button | beadandbutton.com beadandbutton.com | June 2007 103
2. Dora’s designs were inspired by
Moorish mosaics and portholes
on ships. She used Moretti and
Vetrofond glass for these
pieces.
“Most of my beads have dots,” says Dora.
“I love dots. I also like working with lines,
partly because I was trained in graphic
design. I like lines because they’re so
straight. They’re very clean-cut. It’s the
direct opposite of what I am.”
“It’s so funny that her design was structure to the piece. It’s about be visible through the transparent glass. my opinion, is what contemporary craft her creativity. Her husband first Elizabeth’s work garnered national
exactly what I had in mind,” Dora says. her glass.” While the custom-designed mandrel is is all about.” brought up lampworking in 2003 after attention in 1988 at the first of many
“It’s very difficult for me to tell a The most important consideration exactly what she had in mind, it After a cabochon goes into the kiln, he saw a demonstration. Within three appearances at American Craft Council
designer how to design a piece. When for Elizabeth is that the finished jewelry requires her to take a unique approach it falls off the flat mandrel during the weeks of taking classes, Dora bought wholesale markets. During the past five
you start telling someone what to do, is technically sound. When she receives to lampworking. annealing process, as the temperature in her first professional torch. She then years, she has explored materials of
you begin to restrict their work.” the cabochons from Dora, she cuts the “There is a trick,” Dora says. the kiln decreases. At first it was a little taught herself how to make beads from color for her jewelry and beads: poly-
At the beginning of their collabora- silver for the bezels and marks them “You’ve got to keep the plate hot or the alarming for Dora to find a cab at the Corina Tettinger’s book Passing the mer clay, fiber, and, most recently, glass.
tion, Dora sent Elizabeth unlabeled with a numbering system for each bead will slide off. When I dot my bottom of the kiln. Now, it seems Flame: A Beadmaker’s Guide to Detail Clearly, the collaboration between
cabochons, which Elizabeth used at her cabochon. She solders every bezel onto work, I could be heating the mandrel natural to her. “It’s beautiful when it and Design. “It became my bible,” she these two artists has been beneficial.
discretion to create a specified number a base and sets the cabochon. She then three times or twice as much [as usual] comes out,” she says. “It’s always like says. She has also studied with Diana They set about brainstorming on a new
of necklaces. Now, Dora designs the designs and makes the links and clasp as I’m putting one dot on it!” Undaunt- Christmas to open the kiln.” East, Michael Barley, Andrea Guarino- collection shortly after arriving in
cabochons for one piece of jewelry and to complete the jewelry. ed, Dora says she enjoys the challenge of Dora has been involved in art and Slemmons, and Akihiro Ohkama. Dora Tucson. Their enthusiasm was evident
sends them to Elizabeth with notations keeping the cab on the mandrel. design for 30 years. She attended fine now sells a variety of beads. as they described the ideas flowing from
about placement within the piece. Mandrel has unique feature “I always tell my students – I teach arts school in her native Singapore in words to paper and the “good energy”
Dora is deliberate in her conception While Elizabeth stresses the simplicity beginners – that you better control the the 1970s, completed a separate graphic Dedication built on education they derive from showing their work.
of each jewelry design. “I’ve come to the of her technique, Dora describes the glass, otherwise the glass will control design program, and began studying Elizabeth’s interest in metalworking “It’s been really fun,” says
stage where I no longer make beads lampworking she uses for the cabo- you,” Dora adds. “You have to under- illustration in the United States in the began in 1974 and became her life’s Elizabeth. “The trick is realizing that
without any intention,” she says. “All chons as a balancing act. First, she need- stand and respect glass. It’s a living 1980s. Her life took a dramatic turn work in 1987. She first studied metal- things are working out the way they’re
my beads are made with a certain piece ed a custom mandrel with a flat bed, so thing when it’s fluid.” when she met her husband, Kai, and work at the Hilltop Craft Center at the supposed to and you just better get the
of jewelry in mind.” she commissioned a friend in Germany Elizabeth offers, “It also is the best quickly moved to Germany in 1986. University of Maine in Orono and heck out of the way!” w
Elizabeth downplays her role in the to make one. A typical mandrel has a exhibit of your control over the As the couple’s lives progressed, received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts
collection. “I knew the piece wasn’t protrusion that holds the glass in place, material. Your imagery is very much they moved between Singapore and from the Portland School of Art (now Visit Dora’s Web site at doraschubert
going to be about the metalwork,” she but the protrusion leaves a hole in the dictated by what you know glass will do Germany, and had two children. the Maine College of Art) in 1982. She .com and Elizabeth’s Web site at
says. “The metalwork simply gives cabochon. Dora did not want a hole to and the property of the glass, which, in Dora made crafts as an outlet for has studied extensively at Penland. epriorjewelry.com.
104 Bead&Button | beadandbutton.com beadandbutton.com | June 2007 105