LEARN
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Orientation
to Beads & Jewelry Findings
Bead Stringing
Bead Weaving
Wire Work
Jewelry Design
Business
Curriculum and Philosophy
Staff Profiles
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- Focused on teaching Skills
- Developmentally-based, where you learn skills in an orderly way, so you understand
how skills build upon each other and are interrelated
- Easy to follow
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class is divided into 4-8 lessons. Each lesson only costs $1.99.
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copies for personal use. In addition, you may purchase written
instructions, as well as kits of supplies and recommended books.
You can pick all the lessons associated with a particular class, or, if you
need a refresher on any one technique, you might only want to pick 1 or 2 of
the lessons, rather than purchase the whole class.
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRAM
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Learning To
String Beads, Bead-Weave, and Make Jewelry
It is important that students learn skills in context and in a general order or developmental way. Only then will the connectedness among different types of skills, and different levels, styles and variations of techniques be clearer and more obvious. It is also important that students have fun, but at the same time be challenged.
Beadwork and jewelry-making are more than "crafts", but arts, as well. As art, they have definable sets of interrelated skills which can be taught, creatively applied, and further developed. These skills can be used to create and enhance color, shape, texture, sensibility, perception, sensuousness and emotion. They can be applied to bring meaning, cognition, culture, connectivity and wisdom to a situation. They can be used to create the tangible from the intangible, and the object from nothingness.
The skills of combining materials of physical and/or esthetic wealth into wearable art forms and adornment -- this is jewelry making. There is a strong sense of Design and Intention underlying the successful beader' and jewelry-maker's work. Our program places a great emphasis on Design, and how through the artist's intent, his or her pieces can achieve goals of good design. The focus is on skills and skills development, rather than on completing projects. While every course uses a project in which to provide a context for applying skills, the outcome we are seeking is the learning of skills, not merely completing a project.
Beads, wire, jewelry findings -- they bring visual and tactile feelings and thoughts to life in the objects we create from them. There is a sense of awe and power, esthetic feeling and historical connection. LearnToBead.net develops and educates its students, through its courses, for joining the professions of beadworking and jewelry-making, and expanding their horizons.
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The Staff welcome you to LearnToBead.net. We are very excited about our program and its design, and know you will be, as well. We are very committed to providing an excellent curriculum of courses through which to learn and develop beadworking or jewelry-making skills. image LearnToBead.net evolved from our experiences developing and teaching at The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts in Nashville, Tennesssee. CBJA, founded in 2000, was the educational program sponsored by Be Dazzled Beads. It's curriculum, and by extension ours, evolved from 2 years of research into beading and jewelry making training and education. CBJA is decidedly art- and design-oriented. It does not support a craft-approach to training, where the student merely learns a set of steps to complete a particular project. We have tried to structure and interlink courses so that it becomes clearer for the student how best to develop his or her skills. We have specified prerequisites and pathways. Welcome to LearnToBead.net . image
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