"New Work"

---

 by:

 Opening  reception

Dec. 6th  4:00-7:00pm

Showing all month

JOHN SCHERBER

John Scherber grew up in the Midwest and had a career as a designer-builder of custom furniture. In 1990 he took up painting and studied art at a traditional realism school there.
In 2005 he revived the writing career he started in college. He and his wife, Kristine, moved to Mexico in 2007, joining the expat community on San Miguel de Allende for 16 years before relocating to Las Cruces in 2023. He is the author of 49 books, including a series of 35 mysteries.

Kristine Scherber

I fell in love with seed beads when my auntie gave me a vial of apple green 11/0’s when I was nine years old. Not until I retired to the mountains of central Mexico in 2007 did I begin beading in earnest. I learned the stitches—Peyote Stitch, Brick Stitch, Right Angle Weave—and got inspired by indigenous beaders selling their wares on the streets of San Miguel de Allende.

I started experimenting with Czech glass beads of different shapes and sizes combining them with Japanese seed beads. Río Laja Jewelry Designs was born and I continue to bead by hand with a beading needle and thread here in Las Cruces. I make what I would like to wear, combining colors & materials, never repeating the same color design twice.