About the artists:
L. Page Brunner has combined business and engineering at Lawrence Technological University to emerge with a BS degree and a keen intrest in how things work. After an inspiring visit to a Renaissance festival, she became devoted to jewelry design and took her passion full time 1988. Finding an artistic home at the festivals in Michigan and Florida, Page worked first with antique and semi-precious beads of all kinds, creating motion and color with a variety of techniques.
After experimenting with glass bead making and glass fusing in the late 80s, she settled into designing romantic pieces of intricate sterling beads, unique pearls and faceted gemstones. All things come around, however, and now Page has once again added bead making and fusing to her repertoire, incorporating metal work, lampworked glass and semi-precious materials into her product lines.
Page was the first president of the Great Lakes Beadworkers' Guild, and is currently a member of the ISGB and its local chapter, GlassAct251.
Sylvus Tarn managed to extract a BFA with a minor in Art History from Eastern Michigan University with a primary concentration in life drawing and a secondary concentration in water-based painting. Since then, Tarn has taken additional coursework from the Center for Creative Studies, Wayne State University, Schoolcraft College, Henry Ford Community College, Washtenaw Community College, and UofM Dearborn, plus numerous workshops over the years, thereby confirming the family tendancy towards professional student-ism.
Tarn isn't quite certain how she ended up in beads, though that Indian beaded belt of her mother's that she picked apart when she was three, and science fiction conventions appear to have something to do with it. Her hopes that making beads would be cheaper and require less space than stringing and collecting them has not been fulfilled.
Tarn was a founding member of the GLBG and newsletter editor (before her incendiary writing got her kicked off the board) and is currently a founding member of glassact (and webmistress, though so far her incendariary writing has not gotten her kicked off the board.)
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