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Patti Leota Genack - Artist Vita
I started making beads in 1997 with the idea that I would be using them as components in my mixed media sculptures. Somehow I got distracted away from the idea of components and started to make little sculptures out of glass that were also beads.
I have a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon in Printmaking. My love was lithography. I started drawing life size figurative charcoals upon moving to Denver since I no longer had access to a printing press. I'm something of a pack rat which developed into making mixed media sculptures in addition to drawing and painting. It wasn’t much of a leap for me to start making sculptural beads. I started with abstract beads with rings and then ruffles and soon I was making glass horse beads. Not a huge stretch of my imagination since I live in a small ranching community in the Wet Mountains of Colorado. Since those initial forays into sculptural beadmaking I’ve expanded my “Western” line of beads to include cowboy boots, cowgirls in chaps, cowboy hats and dias de los muertos Catrinas. I am also involved with numerous Rock Art Associations in the West and that interest propelled me to make my petroglyph beads. I grew up in New Jersey just nine miles from the big Apple. Well, when I was 8 my dentist asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I wanted to be a cowgirl. He told me I would have to pick something else because there aren't any cowgirls anymore. Ouch! I went home totally crushed. Well I'm still not really a cowgirl (no horse and no cows), but I can dress up and I make the cutest cowgirl beads to wear for the cowgirl in all of us. -Patti
Contact Information
Patti Genack
8840 Pine Drive
Beulah, CO 81023
719-485-3449
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Copyright & copy; 2003-2008 Patti Genack. All rights reserved. Updated 6/22/08
