Lisa Niven Kelly

Lisa Niven Kelly has pioneered techniques with wire, sheet metal, seed beads, and glass beads. She has explored tools and techniques for handmade jewelry, mixing classical techniques with modern techniques and metal with glass. Lisa the author of the book “Stamped Metal Jewelry” (coming out in May 2010), and a regular contributor to Bead&Button and Art Jewelry magazines. She is an award winning artist who has taught at the Bead&Button Show for over ten years, and also nationally for close to two decades, traveling to bead stores, bead societies and national shows, putting students in charge of wire and making them laugh. She’s a dynamic and energetic teacher and a very good friend to many of us here at the Bead&Button Show. Lately, you will find her sticking close to home to manage her business, Beaducation.com, a jewelry making supply house which also offers online video classes. This allows her much more time with her young and beautiful daughters who Lisa claims are beadaholics in training!