Events
August’s Featured Artist: Zanetta Hoehle from Tumbled Wire Designs
Date and Time: 08/31/2025 from
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Zanetta uses stones and wire to create beautiful pieces of wearable art. She mixes soft and hard textures together, which enables them to share the spotlight and enhance each other’s qualities. A desire to touch and feel the textures creates a successful design in her eyes. Zanetta teaches wirework at Beadology Iowa. Check out her website. Her work can be seen throughout August during regular business hours.
Pearls Galore Trunk Show
Date and Time: 09/27/2025 from 10am-6pm
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Visit our Bead Lab to immerse yourself in a room of freshwater pearls. Natural, dyed, large, small, smooth, large holed, keishi, baroque, and blistered. 25% off the marked price during the show. You won’t want to miss this! No admissions fee.
September’s Featured Artist: Emma Folsom
Date and Time: 09/30/2025 from 6PM
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Emma is a sewist, fiber artist, poet, and copyeditor. She learned to sew at a very young age, and her hands have never been without needle and thread for very long. Emma has always had an affinity for repetition and for arranging—this makes them feel right at home at Beadology. When they’re not sewing or arranging indoors, Emma may be found outside birding or hiking. Their exhibition is throughout the month of September during regular business hours.
14th Annual Bead Challenge Opening Reception and Exhibition
Date and Time: 10/17/2025 from during regular business hours
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Come see the talents of our customers who met the 14th Annual Bead Challenge. The exhibition will be up Friday, Oct. 17 through Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Opening gathering will be Friday, Oct. 17, 5-7pm.
These creative community members took a package with various beads and supplies and designed a variety of items. You will be amazed at the spectrum of work that can be made from the same set of materials. The picture is of the kit artists will utilize. See the Bead Challenge page for pictures of all the entries from 2023 and 2024.
See this year’s Bead Challenge Kit below, available for $25 starting on Friday, Sept. 5 at 10am at the store or on-line.
The kit is in process–the links above will go live soon!
April’s Featured Artist: Karen Kubby
Date and Time: 10/31/2025 from 10:00AM
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Karen’s specialty is seed bead weaving, yet she dabbles in chain maille, wirework, and lampworking. She has been a lampworker since 2008 and teaches the basics and intermediate lampworking in the Beadology Iowa flame studio. Karen remains obsessed with asymmetrical cubed right angle weave (CRAW). Her work can be seen throughout October during regular business hours.