About the Beadist

Kim Miles has been working and playing as a glass beadmaker since 1996.
Her adventurous style and voice have become internationally known and respected. She is best known for her encased floral bead designs, including the Lotus Blossom, and others that incorporate the diamond sparkle of cubic zirconias. While botanicals have been the main focus of her work for years, she often experiments with new innovations, such as the Bangle Bead, with free-floating glass rings, the small blown vessel, done on a hollow steel tube, tiny teapots, ancient goddess forms, and more recently, a deep and continuing exploration of the symbolism of the deceptively simple heart form.

Kim’s work has been featured in Lapidary Journal, Bead & Button Magazine, Beadwork Magazine, Step By Step Beads, the Flow, American Style, the ISGB Obsession Catalog, Cindy Jenkin's Beads Of Glass, 1000 Glass Beads, Corina Tettinger's Spotlight on Hollow Beads and Vessels, Trajectories: An Exhibition Exploring Contemporary Glass Beadmaking, sponsored by the ISGB and the Bead Museum, and Links, by Jean Yates. She was awarded first place in the glass bead category, and tied for best of show in the Lapidary Journal 2006 Bead Arts Awards.

Kim currently, and possible permanently, lives in Ashland, Oregon with her husband Rick and two dogs.