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contributors Jürgen Busch worked for over twenty years for a non-commercial television channel in Germany until 1999. Now happily unemployed since 2001, he writes for websites and local papers. He has a BA in Germanistik and has been working on a book about Muraqad or Kiffa beads of Mauritania, and has 56 published on that topic, as well as the Lauscha bead industry. Busch has traveled extensively to Mauritania, as well as Morocco, the Sahara, India, and the Americas. He is married to Nataliya, a university-trained artist and graphic designer and a big fan of Alternative Rock, the German soccer league, world history, zeropoint energy and extra-terrestrial life. He is the father of four cats. Ashley Callahan is an independent scholar and curator in Athens, Georgia, with a specialty in modern and contemporary American decorative arts. Of preparing the Windgate Fellowship article she states, "Focusing on the Windgate Fellows working in jewelry provided 44 an exciting window into current jewelry practices. While each artist's story and work is interesting on its own, the overall picture they create collectively is especially compelling. The contemporary jewelry landscape in the United States as represented by this group is diverse and international and even though the Fellowship program focuses on U.S. schools it allows for extensive world travel and cross-cultural influences." She adds, "the Fellows I contacted (all but three were available) were remarkably gracious, open and enthusiastic." 8 ORNAMENT 36.2.2012 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an art historian specializing in fashion and textiles. She has worked as a curator, consultant and educator for museums and universities around the world. Recent publications include Paris: Life 32 and Luxury in the Eighteenth Century (Getty Publications, 2011) and Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 - 1915 (Prestel, 2010). In her most recent article, Chrisman-