Rowena
Showing at
Arts Prescott Gallery
Historic Whiskey Row, Prescott, Arizona
"Simply Green"
"I Carry My Trade Beads"
Bracelet
"Loves Kahlúa and Amber"

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Arizona Artist, Rowena Tank, evolved as a Lampwork Bead Maker through the adoration of beads. Themes from Arizona are Rowena's primary inspiration as a Jewelry Designer. Off-loom bead weaving provides Rowena the canvas to paint with her beads and with vintage buttons.

Rowena creates with recycled wine bottle glass or Italian glass and embellishes the beads using seed beads and her handspun fiber 'Raggedy Ro'
. Soy silk, bamboo, and wool yarn are also included in Rowena's Fiber Art.
Her Fiber Amulet Bags are a unique creation.

Colorful bottles come with their own history.
Beads created from recycled bottles represent the feelings associated with an occasion of celebration. Using off-loom beadweaving has guided Rowena's lampwork beadmaking in new directions. Wine bottle glass such as Shiraz, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Kahlúa is used for creating unique beads. The artist enjoys the idea of recycling used glass.

Rowena was included in a documentary film about beads, 'The Bead Movement', by Wendy Simpson Conner, who also authored 'The Best Little Beading Book'. This film premiered in Beverly Hills and was up for an Academy Nomination.

Presently Rowena's work can be found at
Arts Prescott Gallery
on Historical Whiskey Row,
Prescott, Arizona.