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The Bead & Button Show announced: Excellence in Bead Artistry Award "We are pleased to announce that Diane Fitzgerald will be the recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Bead Artistry Award. This year's award is underwritten by Shipwreck Beads who will honor Diane's achievements with a $1,000 gift certificate from their company. Award to be presented Saturday, June 7, 2008 during the Bead Social and Auction Night." (http://www.beadandbuttonshow.com/bnbshow/default.aspx?c=a&id=25)
Diane Fitzgerald is a bead collector and jewelry designer who works with a variety of beads large and small, old and new. Since 1989, Diane has taught classes at her shop, Beautiful Beads, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the U.S. and internationally. As a collector, she focuses on contemporary American art glass beads and European and Japanese vintage beads. Diane has traveled to South Africa to study Zulu and Xhosa beadwork and to the Czech Republic, Germany and other areas to learn about the glass bead industry and meet beadworkers and beadmakers. Diane has a graduate degree in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota with a minor in Design. News: Now Available! My new book, Zulu Inspired Beadwork: Weaving Techniques and Projects--128 pages of fascinating techniques and projects featuring original Zulu pieces and never-before documented techniques. ($24.95 plus postage) My other books include Beading with Brick Stitch, Netted Beadwork and The Beaded Garden: Creating Flowers with Beads and Thread. Beadwork magazine announced that my purse, Flowering Pyramid, was selected as one of sixty finalists in Beadwork V: The Beaded Bag. Winning entries will be on display at Bead Expo April 12-15 and will be published in the June/July issue of Beadwork. Finalists will also be included in an online gallery on the Beadwork website. Diane taught the Master Class, "The Jewels of Miriam Haskell," at the 2007 Bead & Button Show in Milwaukee. Tambrook Bead and Trade of Portland, Oregon recently announced that Diane's necklace, entitled "Engaging," was awarded Second Place in the "All Aikos" category of the 2006 Treasures of Toho Beading Contest. Diane's books include The Beaded Garden: Creating Flowers with Beads and Thread, Netted Beadwork, and Beading with Brick Stitch, published by Interweave Press. She is also the author of Beads and Threads: A New Technique for Fiber Jewelry, Counted and Charted Patterns for Flat Peyote Stitch, Sea Anemone Beadwork. Diane also writes for several magazines including Beadwork, Bead & Button, Bead Unique and others. Diane's work has appeared in several books including Beadazzled: Where Beads and Inspiration Meet by Penelope Diamanti: Braided Garland Necklace Beading for the Soul (p. 129-131): Personal Symbols Necklace
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