Meet The Maker
Genea Crivello-Knable is an Internationally
known lampwork artist living in Missouri. She likes to
push the limits of her medium to create unique
wearable art.
do many different
style round beads
How long have you been running Genea
from intricate dots
Beads and how did you get started with
to stringer work. I
lampwork?
did round beads for awhile and then moved
into some of what I call the “cutesy” style of
I have been “officially” running Genea Beads
creating things like holiday themed beads
since January 3rd of 2002, but really conlike bunnies for Easter and ghosts for Hallowsider it up and running since 2004 since I
didn’t start selling my beads right away. I got een etc. My next thing after those styles was
started lampworking when I worked at a local more free form things like: hearts, my signabead store. My boss was taking a class in ture “Wing Dings”, my “Vortex Flowers”, Beadlampwork bead making. I was pretty sav- inside-a-bead-hollows and glass headpins.
My next and most recent love has been stone
vy with jewelry techniques so it seemed
textured distressed beads. My style has gotlike the next logical step. I mean who
doesn’t want to make their OWN beads?! ten way more organic since my earlier years. I
think I really enjoy the freedom of an organic
style since there are “no rules”. Being a recovLampwork looks really difficult and
ering perfectionist I am trying my best to get
slightly scary, but very intricate too!
away from rules, and fitting myself inside a
How has your work evolved over the
box.
years, how long did it take you to masI can’t say that I have really mastered my style
ter your trademark style and what inquite yet. I learn something new everytime I
spires it?
sit down at the torch. You become an official
“glass master” when you have about 20-25
What a great question! My work has really tak- years under your belt(I still have about 9-14
en a tour through many different styles com- years to go;) I guess if you take the quespared to where I am now. I started out with
tion more like mastering some of my styles I
Corina Tettinger’s book “Passing the Flame”
would say really within the last few years do
it is the “lampwork bible” and EVERY lampI feel like I have a definite style. I like to conworker should own it. I learned SO much from tinually evolve because I get bored. I really
that book! So with her book I learned how to
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