TLD Instructors:

  Tammy L Deck 

Instructing Classes in: Weaving (Beginner ~ Advanced), Feltmaking (Beginner ~ Advanced) Textile Surface Design (Introductory classes)  Kids Classes (Girl Scout Activities), Soap Making, Candle Making, Beading Arts (beginner lvl)

About Tammy:  As a child she craved every "how to" experience available....but learning to sew in 5th grade was her defining moment. She attended the fashion design program at Harper College in Palatine, IL and later transferred to Northern Illinois University where she received her degree and pursued post graduate level courses in Clothing & Textile Science married  with a Minor in Fiber Art.  She started her own ArtWear business (TLD Designs) selling one-of-a-kind garments, jewelry and accessories which she ran for ten years before founding the TLD Design Center & Gallery in 1994.  

Tammy also has training and experience in Lampwork Bead Making, Glass Fusing, Metal Smith Skills, Metal Clay, Polymer Clay and various beading techniques.

Patty Pulliam

Instructing Classes in:  Glass Bead Making (Beginner ~ Advanced);  Polymer Clay (Beginner ~ Advanced); Silver Metal Clay (Beginner); Crochet (Beginner ~ Advanced including beaded crochet ropes); Chainmaille; Peyote Stitch Beadweaving (Beginner ~ Advanced); Kids Classes (Girl Scout Activities)

About Patty: A lifelong artist, Patty received her degree in Art from Illinois State University after a brief fling with Accounting at Aurora University. She continues her studies through continuing education classes, studio classes with nationally known artists, and just plain playing. She claims to have Art A.D.D. as she loves to work in about every medium she can get her hands on. In addition to being a past president of the "Chicago Area Polymer Clay Guild", she is also owner of "Design West Communications" a graphic design company.

 
       

Shannon Haug

Instructing Classes in:  Jewelry Arts ~ Copper Etching with Wire Wrapping, Toggles, Clasps and Cold Connections.

Examples of Shannon's Work

         

 

Svetlana (Lana) Kunina

Instructing classes in: Beading Arts 


Ms Kunina is an Illinois Artisan exhibiting at the Illinois Artisan Shop / Chicago and during Monthly Art Sprees both located at the 
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph Street
Chicago

 Examples of Lana's work:
 

Venus of Jewelry by Venus

Instructing Classes in: 
Jewelry Arts : Metal Smith Techniques (Beginner ~ Advanced) Chain Making & Wire Work

About Venus: Venus has, thus far, enjoyed a 17 year career selling the work of her hands in the form of contemporary jewelry art and is pleased to join us at the TLD Design Center in the offering classes and workshops in the medium she loves. Fabrication is her primary style of creating. Every piece is fabricated by hand. She needs to be able to feel the piece all the way through to it's finished state. The metal has a power, a force of its own and intuitively they work together... creating order out of chaos and sometimes the opposite. Her rigorous Art Fair schedule includes 18 to 20 Juried Art Fairs a year. You can catch Venus in many Chicago area shows, as well as Ann Arbor MI, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa. She is a juried artist in the Illinois Artisan Program and sells her work through the Illinois Artisan shop and during “Art Sprees” in Chicago. Her Formal education includes an Associate's in Fine Art from College of DuPage(1990), Bachelor of Fine Art from Northern Illinois University (1992) and Post Graduate studies in Art and Architecture from Northern Illinois University.
  Bracelets and Necklace by Venus

Patricia Weikersheimer

Instructing Classes in: 
Jewelry Arts : Metal Clay (PMC) Techniques (Beginner ~ Proficient)  

Patricia is the chair of the Windy City Chapter of the PMC Guild.  In September 2009, she won First Place (best of show) at the 54th Annual Park Forest Art Fair (Tall Grass Arts Association). By day, Patricia is a writer/editor for Argonne National Laboratory. Outside of that upstanding environment, however, she may be found furtively molding textures from the undersides of mushroom caps.
     
Patricia's captured textures

      Georgia Philippe



Instructing Classes in: Enameling


Georgia is a life-long artist. She started working in jewelry in her teens and earned her B.F.A. from the University of Illinois in Metal Crafts. She’s been a practicing bench jeweler all of her adult life, doing goldsmithing, enameling, designing and repair.  She has won three jewelry design awards from the Illinois Jewelers Association, and she has shown in galleries in Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. In 2008 she won First Place in the Illinois Orchid Society’s art competition, with an enamel entitled “Orchids in the Moonlight”.

 

Janice J. Bailey  

Instructing Classes in:  Metal Smith (Beginner ~ Advanced), Chain Making, Techniques in Wire Work

About Janice:  She has been a metal smith, jewelry artist and instructor for over 20 years.  Janice Bailey designs and sells under her own label, "JJB’s Silver & More".   Her graceful designs and high quality workmanship have made her a favorite designer in the Chicago arts scene. All of Janice’s work is hand made, unique and made with the finest quality sterling silver and include Semi-Precious Stones, Fused Glass and her own Lampwork Beads.             

JoAnn Deck  

Instructing Classes in: Quick Fabric Painting Techniques for Quilt & Fiber Artists

About JoAnn:Member of "PAQA - Professional Art Quilters Alliance", "Studio Art Quilters Association" and member of the "Plainfield Art League Gallery".

Click here to learn more about JoAnn and View Her Work

  Joy Lavrencik 

Instructing Classes in: Textile Surface Design / Complex Cloth Techniques / Shibori / 



About Joy: Member of "PAQA - Professional Art Quilters Alliance" Currently enrolled in a Masters Class in Surface design with Jane Dunnewold.

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