Featured Artist Rhoda Teplow

Rhoda Teplow is our Featured Artist for November. Rhoda is known for her work with recycled beads from the Krobo tribe in Ghana, Czechoslovakian glass combined with hand-made lamp worked beads, and semi-precious stone beads straight from Chengdu, China. The city of Chengdu has an enclave of Tibetans who sell gorgeous beads in the shape of grapes often carved with Tibetan prayers for malas, prayer bracelets.
"I am fascinated by the stories of my beads as some are 200 years old. Some were used to trade with American Indians and African traders, and some Czechoslovakian beads were hidden from the Nazis. Most of the beads are glass, some are recycled glass from the Krobo tribe in Ghana, some are semi-precious gems, bone or crystal. As I look at my collection, the beads call out to me and tell me which colors to put together. There seems to be a rhythm created when the shapes and patterns find each other," - -Rhoda Teplow


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