About The Artist  

Warren Feld, Jewelry Designer

Theory is tightly wedded to applications throughout the program, from beginner to advanced classes. Since jewelry, unlike painting and sculpture, must interrelate aesthetics, function and context, much attention is paid to how such relationships should influence the designer. The program is envisioned as preparing the student towards gaining a disciplinary literacy in design -- one that begins with how to decode the expressive attributes associated with Design Elements to a fluency in the management of Principles of Composition, Construction and Manipulation, as well as the systems management of the design process itself.

With Warren’s direction, CBJA in conjunction with Land of Odds, sponsors three international contests:
The Ugly Necklace Contest – A Jewelry Design Competition with a Twist!
All Dolled Up: Beaded Art Doll Competition
The Illustrative Beader: Beaded Tapestry Competition
Upcoming programs of CBJA: www.LearnToBead.net, a work now in progress, is our recent effort to extend our CBJA philosphy and successes to a broader audience on-line a href="http://www.warrenfeldjewelry.com/jewelrydesigncamp">Jewelry Design Camp is another planned program, offering intensive 1-week long thematic sessions on some aspect of jewelry design theory and application.

Warren’s commitment and concern for the "teaching of beadwork" resulted from watching and talking, over the years, with customers in the shop, who had taken classes elsewhere, or tried to teach themselves from books or online video tutorials. These beaders were not buying parts or using parts to their best advantage. It was obvious that many people had taken classes, but that they weren't necessarily learning something -- at least not learning something that would stick with them, and that they could comfortably apply in other situations. They were memorizing steps, rather than integrating organized processes of thinking, thus designing. They were missing out on the between-the-lines learning that incorporates artistry and design.

Most classes, books, and video tutorials about beading or jewelry making typically come out of the Craft Perspective, where you learn a set of steps and end up with a particular project. But when you leave that class, or step away from that book or video, you haven’t learned how to apply those steps to any other situation, and you probably forget how to do the project. At the shop, Warren and his staff do a lot of re-teaching -- putting things learned into a broader context, showing alternative ways of achieving the same ends, explaining how the choice of materials used in a project will affect how it’s done, and how durable it will be over time, and as importantly, teaching techiques as "design systems", not merely a set of steps toward an end.

Warren leads a group of several instructors at CBJA. He teaches many of the bead-stringing, jewelry design as well as business-oriented courses in the CBJA curriculum. He works with people just getting started with beading and jewelry making, as well as with the program’s advanced bead study groups. These groups meet regularly to learn, try out and experiment with beading techniques, sometimes exploring issues cross-culturally, and othertimes, examining the works of particular bead- or jewelry artists over the course of their design careers.

JEWELRY DESIGN SPECIALTIES:
Bead Weaving
Bead Stringing
Wire Weaving
Design Theory
Business of Craft
Silversmithing
Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry
Vintage Revival Styles
Mixed Media Applications
Art vs. Craft Jewelry Design Applications

WARREN SELECTED AS FINALIST , 4th place, for "Canyon Sunrise", SWAROVSKI’s Be Naturally Inspired Design Contest 2008

" Little Tapestries/Ghindia" — was juried into the book SHOWCASE 500 BEADED JEWELRY, Lark Publications. August 2012, listed on Amazon.com at http://amzn.to/z6tZH2 .

BEAD AND BUTTON SHOW

View Warren as Guest Artist on JTV.com Jewelry Television's show "Jewel School"
as he discusses these specially adapted projects for Jewelry Television.

Mother's Celebration Bracelet

Petersburg Chain Rope Bracelet

Streetscape: Barcelona

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Instructor, CraftArtEdu.com

CraftArtEdu is a truly unique
online craft and fine art e-learning community

Tutorials:
PRICING AND SELLING YOUR JEWELRY

SO YOU WANT TO DO CRAFT SHOWS...

PEARL KNOTTING WARREN'S WAY

TUXEDO PARK BRACELET

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Member, Nashville Fashion Group

"The Ugly Necklace Contest," in The Beader's Guide To Jewelry Design, Margie Deeb, 2014

"Gwynian Ropes Bracelet", Perlen Posie, No. 21, 2014.

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Contemporizing Traditional Etruscan Jewelry Workshops, Toscana Americana, Cortona, Italy.