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| Our Visiting Artists for 2008 : For Program Details and an application, please click here |
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September, 2008 ![]() |
Barbara Fleming Download Postcard (front side) A New Collection, based on copper and brass and Fair Trade beads of recycled glass made by the expert beadmakers in Ghana and Ethiopia. Wear these pieces in the knowledge that we are helping our world and its people. Visit Barbara's site. |
August, 2008 ![]() |
Mia Kanazawa |
July, 2008 ![]() |
Obadiah Buell, Bourne Designs |
June, 2008 ![]() |
Ginny and John Hackney Lampwork Glass Beads and Jewelry Download Postcard (front side) John and Virginia Hackney have been making glass beads since 2003, when Ginny returned home from a week at the Montville, ME, Art Center at Kingdom Falls caught up in “bead fever.” This husband/wife team has studied at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, ME, with nationally known Maine bead artist Stephanie Sersich, and Ginny has studied silver smithing at Haystack with Tim McCreight and Ken Bova. The Hackneys’ work employs brilliantly colored soda lime glass imported from Italy – the same glass used for hundreds of years by glass workers on the island of Murano. In the Middle Ages, the technique of working soft glass was called “lamp working” because the glass was melted over a common oil lamp super-heated by blowing air over it. To make a bead, modern artists heat rods of colored glass over a live flame from a gas/oxygen-fueled torch until the glass has the consistency of honey. This almost liquid hot glass is then wound on a stainless steel mandrel, and touched with other rods of soft glass near the open flame to form dots, stripes, twists and other decorative patterns. A complex bead might take an hour to make. |