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Cowan Center for the Arts Training Center
Saturday, November 19th and Sunday, November 20th

Beginner Beading class Saturday, November 19th starts at 8:00AM to Noon.  You will learn to make a flower with leaves.  All beading supplies are included in class fee of $50.00.   Bring scissors.  Class fee needs to be paid by November 11th so she can put your kit together. Mail class fee to Cowan Community School, P.O. Box 84, Cowan, TN 37318.  Make check payable to Tatiana Van Iten.   Registration form.
Advanced Beading class Saturday, November 19th starts at 1:00PM to 5:00PM and Sunday, November 20th starts at 8:00AM until noonish.  You need to know Peyote stitch and Right-angle weave for this class.  You will learn to make her TENNESSEE SUMMER necklace.  All beads and supplies to make necklace are included in class fee of $85.00.  Bring scissors.  Class fee has to be paid by November 11th so she can put your kit together.  Mail class fee to Cowan Community School, P.O. Box 84, Cowan, TN 37318.   Make check payable to Tatiana Van Iten.  Registration form.

Tatiana Van Iten

Tatiana was born and raised in Russia.  She was 6 years old when she learned how to bead.  Tatiana would help her grandmother repair religious textiles for an underground church.  Getting caught could have meant death.  The old seed beads were so small and delicate that she would make a stitch, unthread the needle, thread the bead onto the thread, and then rethread the needle to complete the stitch.  Her grandmother would read Bible stories to her while she worked. 

That meticulously-detailed work paid off.  Tatiana is a world-class seed bead jewelry designer.  She has won awards from around the world for her champion designs.

While living in Russia Tatiana graduated from the Leningrad State University with a master of Arts degree in Photojournalism.  She was a successful photographer in Russia.   Tatiana met and married an American paleontologist and immigrated to the USA.  Her husband Heyo is a professor of geology and paleontology at Hanover College in Indiana.

Tatiana gets her inspiration for her jewelry from her photography.  She makes most of her necklaces free-hand, with no pattern, and each is unique.  Tatiana loves to teach beading and somehow manages to teach in a simple way for such a difficult concept.

Tatiana Van Iten can be found on Facebook.