Maggie Meister of Amphora Designs will be our guest speaker.  Maggie's beadwork is inspired by ancient mosaics, frescoes and jewelery.

Her interest in beading started while she was living in the Seattle area.  After moving to Naples, Italy in 1998 she studied at the Mosaic Art School in Ravenna, Italy under Luciana Notturni and learned the ancient traditional methods of creating mosaics. This has added to her ability to create beadwork translated from the designs of frescoes and mosaics seen on the floors and walls of abbeys, monasteries and ruins. Sculptural reflections from the images she loves are translated into jewelry using seed beads with a variety of stitches.

Her work has been shown in Milan and Naples and has been featured in BEADWORK Magazine, BEAD & BUTTON Magazine along with others.