Are you attending the Bead&Button Show? Here's what Art Jewelry's editors will be doing at the show this year.

Katie Streeter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:43:00 GMT

I associate many things with spring –– daffodils, spring cleaning, gardening –– but for the past few years, spring, for me, has also meant the Bead&Button Show. Although the show carries the name of our sister publication Bead&Button, Art Jewelry also has a hand in the show. Although it's still over a month away, we're already looking forward to it.

At this year's show, I'll be helping with the Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer Silent Auctions again. We had a great time raising money for the Medical College of Wisconsin last year, and we hope to raise even more this year. Jill will be teaching fundamentals in techniques classes in polymer clay. Addie will be a teacher's assistant in Tim McCreight's master class. And Hazel and Kristin will be walking the show floor to check out the exhibitors. If you attend the show, look for the Art Jewelry demonstration area. We'll be showing cool jewelry-making techniques that you can try out at home. And if you spot any of us at the show, please say hello (we'll be wearing shirts that say "Art Jewelry")!

––Katie

Fun at the One-of-a-Kind Show in Chicago!

Kristin Sutter — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Lunchtime on Dec. 7, 2007, found Jill, Addie, and I (plus Addie's mom and a friend of Jill's) at bluprint, a restaurant at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. We met there to fuel up in preparation for the journey we were about to take through the floor of the One-of-a-Kind Show, which was going on above our heads about seven floors up. I ended up taking a picture of my gourmet mac & cheese.

I wanted to show the picture to Naomi Fujimoto, senior editor at BeadStyle magazine, one of our sister publications. Naomi has a thing for gourmet comfort foods. The food was so beautiful that everyone wanted a picture of their as-yet-undevoured dish.

Yum!

Thus sustained, we took the elevator upstairs and spent the next five hours inundating ourselves with beautiful works of art. Most notably — you guessed it — jewelry. Many times, we stopped by a booth and asked that all-important question, "How did they do that?" (When we ask that, we know we're seeing something magazine-worthy.)

When we're scouting for jewelry artists, we try not to take too much time away from the jewelers; we understand that they're at the show to sell their work. But many people were gracious enough to take the time to hear us out about why they should submit a project or an image for gallery. (If you're thinking of submitting something, we'd love to hear from you! Check out our guidelines.)

Some artists encouraged us to try on their work for fun — and how could we resist!! Of course, some of us went home with a couple you'll-regret-it-forever-if-you-don't-buy-it pieces.

So, thanks to the art jewelry community for delighting us! We hope to return the favor! (If we did our scouting job right, you'll be seeing some fabulous work in our pages in the coming year.)

–Kristin

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Are you attending the Bead&Button Show? Here's what Art Jewelry's editors will be doing at the show this year.

Fun at the One-of-a-Kind Show in Chicago!