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Bead related information
Society of Glass Bead Makers  - The society for all interested in making glass beads.
Bead & Button  -  THE bead magazine. We had a few beads on the "Your Work" page of issue #2.
Beading times  -  Online Beading Magazine: Monthly Bead Project, Beading Tip, Marketing Tip, Featured bead maker.
The Bead Bugle  -  The Bead NFObase online magazine.
Thebeadsite  -  Serious study of all beads with the emphasis on people.  The worlds biggest bead bookstore. Center for bead research.
Zizzyzaza  -  Lisa Hobson is a bead vendor, and our favorite bead show promoter. 
Jewelry Making   -  Part of the About.Com network, a wealth of information and links to everything Jewelry.
Just Beads  -  Online bead auction site.

Sources of glass and tools
Frantz Art Glass & Supply  -  Pioneers of the bead biz, we buy our glass here.
The Torch  -  Frantz's glass resource site.
Arrow Springs  -  The annealing oven we use comes from them.  A very informative site for beadmaking.
Aura Lens  -  Source for Didymium glasses, and advanced protection eyewear.
Don McKinney  -  Glass Artist/Teacher/Designer and manufacturer of tools and equipment
Glasscraft  -   A great supplier for all your lampworking needs.  They have some of the hard to find items.
Sundance  -  West coast's art glass center.
C&R Loo  -  For glassblowers and torchworkers.
Bullseye Online  -  Bullseye glass co.  Manufacture of stained glass, and compatible glass rod.
Coatings by Sandberg  -  Manufacturer of Dichroic Glass.
Whale Apparatus  -  Leans toward scientific glasswork, but another great source and now online.
Glasswurx.com - Contemporary Art Glass Marbles and marble supplies.
Lamp Working Supplies - General lampwork supplies.
Olympic Color - Glassblowing color rods frit and supplies.
ABR Imagery - Focus on pyrex glassblowing supplies, from Indiana.
Generations Glass - Lampworking and glassblowing supplies.

Glass related
Whitehouse-Books - If you are looking for a book that is glass related, you will find it here.
Glass Line News  -  A great newsletter for Lampworkers full of hard to find how to information.
Lampwork etc.  -  A friendly place to bring together glass and jewelry artists.
The Flow -  A journal for the lampworking community.
SmartFlix - Great place to rent lampworking videos, as well as a ton of other instructional topics.
Glass Line's Bulletin Board System  -  Hot glass discussion. 
Pilchuck Glass School    -   The largest and most comprehensive center for artists who create with glass.
The Corning Museum of Glass   -   An educational resource.
The Glass Museum   -   Lots of articles and information related to glass in general, and extensive links.
The Glass Encyclopedia   -    A  fully comprehensive glass encyclopedia on-line.
Glass Art Photo Gallery  -  Glass Artist.Org is a wonderful online gallery of art glass work.
Wet Canvas / Glass Art  -  Online glass discussion forum.

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Other Artists
Missoula Artists Cooperative  -  Many of our local art friends can be found here.
Gossamer Glass Studio  -  Brian Kerkvliet has classes and outrageous glass work.
Chihuly  -   If you don't know Dale Chihuly, and you have any interest in glass... You need to see.
TanSilver - Handcrafted silver jewelry by Tansy Irvine includes work featuring some of my ribbon cane beads.