Beadmaking

PETRA JANSSEN | Beginners to Intermediate

This class is for people with little or no glassworking experience. Students will learn the basics of forming even round beads with dimpled ends, then move on to shaping and surface decoration. The workshop will concentrate on basic beadmaking skills, e.g. pulling stringer, making dots, twisting dots, layering dots, decorating with frit, making two color twisties, cased stringer, distorting the surface of a bead with poking, basic encasing and some funky secret stuff. The course, apart from being a lot of fun, will give you a very good professional grounding.

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Petra Janssen

Petra Janssen got "infected by the glass-virus" in 2003. During the last years, she studied with some of the most well-known beadmakers in the glass society. Two years ago, she started to demonstrate the old craftwork at the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne on a yearly basis and showed her work at different exhibitions. Working in front of people, being in close contact with customers and teaching complete beginners is a real joy for her as she loves to bring back the smile on peoples faces while they explore the world of glass. For her the most fascinating part of being a glass artist is the journey of expression as every single bead is hiding all kinds of feelings, new beginnings, fond memories, dreams, crazy stories; a piece of the artist's soul is captured within the bead. You just have to believe her when she says: "There is so much more, we don't see!" www.beadnik.de

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

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