RESERVE your Spot NOW!
Be sure to reserve your spot (send $50 deposit) for our first annual BSGC Artist Retreat being held May 18 - 20, 2012! It is going to be at the LOMC: Lutheran Outreach Ministries Center located in...
View ArticleBead Retreat Canceled
Sadly, we did not get enough members to sign up for our Bead Retreat this spring, so we are going to have to cancel it this time around. Thank you to those that signed up. There's always next year!...
View ArticleApril 11 — Leona Ketterl jewelry designer
Leona Ketterl, a Chicago architect obsessed with jewelry making started making jewelry as a hobby to design and make something in a single sitting. This is the antithesis to working as an architect;...
View ArticleUpcoming Swarovski Art Quilting Design Contest
CREATE YOUR STYLE with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS is pleased to announce its first ever CREATE YOUR STYLE Art Quilting Design Contest for 2012.Taking inspiration from the world of music, contestants are...
View ArticleMay 9 program highlights Margo Jankiewicz
From childhood on, Margo had an incredible fascination with gadgets and tools and her curiosity led her to a myriad of experiments with alarm clocks, radios and found knick knacks. She was passionate...
View ArticleJune 13 Tamie Simpson jewelry artist and Kazuri dealer
Kazuri, the Swahili word for “small and beautiful,” produces a wide range of hand made, hand painted ceramic jewelry that shines with a kaleidoscope of African colors and Kenyan art. In 2001 Mark and...
View ArticleBead Challenge Announced for October 10 Meeting
BSGC member, Marcia Shori, has volunteered to run the October Bead Challenge. The theme is:Ethnic InspirationsAnything qualifies—jewelry, beads, sculptural pieces—as long as it’s an Ethnic...
View ArticleSeptember 12 Valerie William - Wearable Hardware Jewelry
I have been creating jewelry for over 15 years. Like a lot of people, I took a class and fell in love with the design process. The day after the class I bought tools, beads and supplies, to start me on...
View ArticleOct 10 Sheila Papaioannou, glass bead artist
Sheila began teaching herself the art of making jewelry as a child playing in her grandmother’s jewelry box. As an adult, she started making glass beads to complement vintage findings in her jewelry...
View ArticleWed Nov 14 – BSGC Member Show, Sell and Tell
We are again having a member-to-member sale of beadwork, jewelry and loose beads. This is a casual sale where trading or just showing your work is also accepted. It will be open to the public and a...
View ArticleHoliday Party Wed Dec 12
Our Holiday Party will be held on Wednesday, December 12 at our usual meeting spot, the VFW in Park Ridge. Come and join the fun, including good food, great raffle prizes, our annual silent auction and...
View ArticleJan 9 Demetrios Papaioannou, business consultant
Demetrios has been the business manager and agent for Medusa’s Stones since its inception in 2001 and will share his knowledge on managing and marketing a small bead business.He is a licensed CPA and a...
View ArticleFeb 13 Ofilia Cinta, glass artist and Venetophile
Ofilia Cinta is a lampworker who’s quest to learn more about the roots of lampworking, lead her to travel to Murano, Italy, to study with Lucio Bubacco. What started as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...
View ArticleMarch 13 Amy Taylor, metalsmith with an emphasis on hinges
Combining many things she finds inspiring, Amy Taylor fuses her intense interests in architecture, history, music and whimsy into every piece of jewelry she creates. Amy’s jewelry involves the use of...
View ArticleApril 10, Rich and Linda Dillon Dichroic Glass Fusing Artists
Rich and his wife Linda were introduced to dichroic glass while she was taking a fusing class. Rich soon caught the “dichroic” bug himself trying to recreate “dichroic opals” and is now working...
View ArticleBead Challenge Announced for October
The bead challenge this year will be the Arts and Crafts Movement in American (1890–1920). All bead challenge entries are due at the regular October 9 meeting. The movement was linked to the British...
View ArticleMay 8 – John Gvozcjak & Donna Ducharme, ball bearing beads & jewelry
This looks to be an very unique program. Please join us. Donna Ducharme has been making jewelry for five years. She does both bead and metal working, often combining the two. For the past year she has...
View ArticleJune 12 meeting cancelled
Due to expected severe weather this evening, the June meeting has been cancelled. We are on hiatus in the summer months of July and August and do not have meetings. But you can be working over the...
View ArticleBead Challenge Due at the October 9 meeting
We may be on summer hiatus but you can still be active by working on your bead challenge entry. The bead challenge theme is the Arts and Crafts Movement in America — 1890–1920.The movement was linked...
View ArticleSept 11 – Keith Bringe, Chicago Art Deco Society
Keith Bringe, Survey Director and Editor of the Chicago Art Deco Society, will focus on the development of Chicago decorative arts and manufacturing with a bit on architecture – especially Northwestern...
View ArticleOct 9 — Weener Ware resin jewelry
Being junk collectors at heart, Chicago artists Jeanmarie Petro and Barbara Tinger have transformed landfill into tiny treasures. Making jewelry from recycled bottle caps has been their mission for the...
View ArticleBead Challenge Due at the October 9 meeting
Just a last minute reminder, bead challenge entries are due Oct 9. The bead challenge theme is the Arts and Crafts Movement in America — 1890–1920.The movement was linked to the British Movement and to...
View ArticleNov 13 – Mary Laskey Enamelware Jewelry
Mary was a self-taught jewelry artist until 1997 when she enrolled in metalsmithing classes and discovered her true love: the glass enameling process. In 1998, she launched her career as a full-time...
View ArticleMembers Holiday Party – RSVP by Nov 15
Join us at McCormick and Schmick’s in Rosemont on Wednesday, December 11 from 6–10pm for our annual Holiday Party. The BSGC is treating you to dinner! Cocktail hour with cash bar from 6–7pm; dinner is...
View ArticleBSGC dissolves — no meeting Jan 8, 2014
It is with sadness that the Board of the BSGC announces that the group is ceasing operations as of December 31, 2013. We will no longer hold monthly meetings or events. After many requests for members...
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