Beadmaking

JANHEIN VAN STIPHOUT | Beginners to Intermediate

In this course the students will learn the fundamentals of beadmaking from the very beginning. All kind of decorative bead techniques and all kind of shaped beads will pass in review: making dots, stringers, barrels, hollow beads or working with dicroics, reduction glass and frits, how to fume gold-and silver or work off the mandrel, etc. And there will be some experiments in combining the lampworking and the glassfusing technique. The practical exercises are supported by the needed theories. The ins and outs of all kind of torches and the use of an annealing kiln (how to compose an annealing schedule) will be explained. And as we will be working with this technique for 2 whole weeks, there will be an emphasis (accent) on the artistic and conceptual part of art which will help the students to create individual designs.

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JanHein van Stiphout

JanHein van Stiphout is the son of a traditional stained glass artist. He studied, among others, Sculpture at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (Academy of Fine Arts) in Antwerp, Belgium and Forming Plastics at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving (Academy of Fine Arts & Design) in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. His concept based work takes the inherent properties of glass such as resilience, flexibility and fragility to the extreme. In 1988, JanHein van Stiphout was a founder member of a group called "De Maatschap internationaal" together with two other artists. The process of collaboration strengthens their ideas and enables them to create large scale kinetic work. Besides his work as an autonomous glass artist, he is also an instructor in glass techniques and organizes classes and lectures about innovative glass techniques and design in the Netherlands and abroad. www.stipglas.com

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

** The amount of deposit to be paid is US$320