Tom & Kathy Wegman - Iowa City IA

Tom and Kathy Wegman's beaded art lives when they began collecting Native American beaded objects. After a while, they began making their own art, inspired by the beads themselves — bright, shiny things with the power to transform a mundane object into a thing of wonder. Using over 450 different colors of seed beads to transform everyday objects into works of art. They glue individual strings of beads to other people's discarded objects — roller skates from the Salvation Army, a lunchbox from the local secondhand store. Their general policy is "the brighter, the better."