About

This class has been postponed.

This class is designed for those who have basic safety and torch experience and are ready to focus on making round beads with ”perfect puckers” on each end.  You will learn what glass-speci?c tools and commonly available tools for torch glass work will make your beads successful.

The class will consist of brief demos by the instructor and then you will practice the following skills:

• Heat control, gravity, and how to ‘read’ glass to get it perfectly round
• How to prep the base bead to for applying stringer decoration, frit, etc.
• How to pull stringer of di?erent sizes to create a variety of dot patterns, stripes, and swirls
• Practice surface decorations — melted ?at and/or left raised
• Color reactions, as with turquoise and ivory
• Using frit of various sizes for di?erent design e?ects

The beads made in class will be annealed overnight and will be available for pick up the following day.  You will have an opportunity to ask questions and get feedback from the instructor at that time as well.

Materials:  Tools, rod, gas and mandrels for the class are provided.  You will be using 10 glass rods of various colors as well as clear in 104 COE to make your beads.  Any of your rods left over are yours to keep. 

Instructor:  Janet Crosby has been working with beads as an art form since 1987, and began in 2003 making them in glass in order to have ‘one-of-a-kind’ focal beads.  Her love for animals and nature has led her to creating small works of art like fish, bugs, chickens, dog bones and faces.  Janet strives to find ways to stay unique and creative and has recently started combining her lampworked art into fused glass pieces.  She has taught lampworking in the Spokane area and after visiting BARN during Refract, was interested in extending her teaching skills to the west side of the State.  Janet’s work can be found locally at Seattle Glassblowing Studio, at Lodestar gallery in Astoria, Oregon and on her website JanetCrosby.com.

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Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply. 

Remember to wear close-toed shoes & long pants in the Glass Studio at all times! This is a strictly enforced safety policy. Thank you.