About ME
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| Hello All!
Welcome to my About Me Page! My name is Lisa Beaman and I make lampwork glass beads. In January of 2001, I decided to go back to school for a career change. My plan was taking 2 or 3 classes a semester in a Motorsports Management program, and designing jewelry as my source of income. I found myself constantly searching for certain bead shapes and colors, which I could not find. So in May of 2002, I took a glass beadmaking class for four hours. At the time I felt like didn’t learn much and was very intimidated. I continued melting glass, reading, researching, and teaching myself everything I could.
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| Finally, in January of 2005, I found a local group of beadmakers and started attending meetings. Through these new friendships, I was encouraged to take some classes. In April of 2005, I took a two-day class with Deanna Griffin Dove. The class opened my floodgates with inspiration and I felt a great improvement in my beadmaking. Later in 2005, I also attended "bead camp" for a week at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN. It was one week of nothing but learning new techniques, and melting glass to practice the new stuff.
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| I did graduate from the Motorsports Management program in May of 2005, and made a life changing decision. I want continue my beadmaking pursuing my creative side, so I had to forego full-time Motorsports career. With this in mind, I have kicked it up a notch, expanded with this website, signed up for a few beads shows, and will exhibit some of my jewelry pieces in a local art gallery. In October, one of my jewelry pieces received an award as a finalist in Art with Heart, a local contest for emerging artists. This jewelry was on exhibit at the Charlotte Arts League for the whole month.
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| Now that you know a little about me, I hope you enjoy my work, and visit when you can to see my progress!
Thanks,
Lisa
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