Beadmaking

MICHAELA M. MÖLLER | Intermediate to Advanced

This course is for students, who are already fascinated by working with hot glass on a torch. They will be taught very different techniques from simple trips and dots over gold and silver leaves, encasing, enamels up to self-made murrine, core vassels, sandblasting and much more. Students should get an idea of different techniques to experiment with glass, realizing their own design style. I like to catch up each student on his/her personal level and help to go further. So if you are interested, you should at least be able to make simple round beads. Everything else can be covered. This is the first time that this class will be held only for a week, but you are free to join both classes and take a little more time to experiment. This school has so many facilities to be used, so you should have an open mind to get inspired and have a great time. To compose your pieces to jewelry is another theme. Simple techniques to complete a necklace will be explained but not in a high quality as jewelry work should be done. At the end of the class, students should realize a little art project which will be exhibited on the last day at the campus. Please bring some of the beads you have already done and photos of your other work. And if you have some tools or glass color rods you can't live without, bring them too.

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Michaela M. Möller

Michaela Maria Möller is a trained glazier and studied craft design at the Akademie für Gestaltende Handwerke in Aachen, Germany. Her first contacts with making glass-beads was 9 years ago first as a hobby. Since then she has been doing more and more beadwork and teaching in several countries. At present, she works in her own studio and is a member of the Glaskünstlervereinigung NRW, a German Glass Art Society, and a vice president of the BK-RLP, a German Craft Art Society.

* An additional US$20 registration fee is charged during application