Beadmaking

Ursula Distler | Beginners

Session: 4/2005 3 - 16 July

Glassbeads are a fascinating stuff to children and adults. Also the ancient people loved it and sometimes it has been an important legal tender. Making glassbeads is a special world. The students are invited to visit this world to play with forms and colours and it will be a never-ending trip. In this course the students will learn the basic knowledge of beadmaking with the bohemian style torches, to handle hot and soft glass and make experiments with the hot and cold material. Finally, the students will enjoy composing jewelry from their beads and other components. Therefore the students will have the possibility to integrate other techniques or materials in their objects. It is possible to bring personal objects and materials to be integrated in jewelry which is made during the course.

Ursula Distler

Ursula Distler

Ursula Distler is working as a freelance glass artist in her own workshop in Nuremberg since 1989. Since 1991 she is lecturer for glassdesign in the Bildungszentrum of the city of Nuremberg. After starting with stained glass, Ursula Distler became more and more interested in forming molten glass to achieve new appearances. Various techniques of glass forming were taken into possession by attending workshops, summer courses (e.g. 1990-91 at Bild-Werk Glass School in Germany) and as a guest student in the Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz, Germany. Ursula Distler's artistic creations comprise installations and objects with pate-de-verre-elements (kilncasting), exhibitions in German museums (Zeidelmuseum Feucht, Glasmuseum Wertheim, Handwerksmuseum Deggendorf and others), in the Kunsthaus of the city of Nuremberg, the exhibition ‘Glas-Kunst-Orte’ in Weiden, Glaskunstbeurs in Leerdam, Holland and ‘Glas in historisch licht’ in, Horn, Holland. Permanent presentation in German and international galleries. Acquisitions by Perlenmuseum Ulzen-Berlin, Glasmuseum Wertheim, Kreismuseum Walderbach.