Jannine Scott has ten years experience working with glass, using mostly Italian soft glass.  She loves working with the hot molten color, and particularly is fond of encasing designs in clear glass to obtain a magnifying and floating effect.

Jannine has shown her work at both the Bead & Button show and also the Tuscon Gem and Mineral show.  She has been featured in Lapidary Journal and the glass magazine The Flow.

You can reach Jannine through her myspace page at J9Glass, and soon her website will be operating as well, which I’ll post here just as soon as it’s up and …read more

Artist: Lea Avroch
Business name: LA Jewelry Designs
Location: Long Island, NY
Websites & Blogs:
http://www.lajewelrydesigns.com
http://www.lajewelrydesign.blogspot.com
http://www.lajewelrydesigns.etsy.com
http://www.lajewelrydesigns.artfire.com
http://twitter.com/lajewelrydesign

Lea, your beads are beautiful!  How do you describe your work?
I make handmade wearable glass art and unique jewelry. I started out as a jewelry maker (self taught), mostly stringing and simple wire work and most recently to beadweaving. I’ve always been fascinated with glass. I have a collection of some lovely art glass sculptures in my home so when I saw that a local art league was offering lampwork classes, I quickly signed up. It was a beginner class, which gave me the basics. I since have taken …read more

Nancy Tobey is a busy busy glass artist!  Her teaching and show schedule are enough to make anyone tired, but that is after she has spent countless hours making all of these gorgeous little gems of glass.
Nancy writes:
Fourteen years ago, my passion for glass led to me wonder if it was possible to make glass beads by hand. I soon found out, not only that is was possible, but that it was grand fun as well.
Over the years my glass love continued to grow and evolve. I went from collecting jelly jar glasses to telephone pole insulators to …read more

So, you’ve been seeing some glass artists that I started sharing with you last week.  I think we’re going to go right on through the month of September, mixing glass art in with the metal clay that we’ve been focused on for the summer.  I see a lot of possibilities for mixing the two materials, and I’m hoping to hear from more artists who may practice both art forms.
All the Daughters of Eve
If you create lampwork, fused, or blown glass wearables, I want to hear from you and show off your work to everyone!  Email me at cyndi @ b5Media.com …read more

Glass artist: Julie Van Ember
Julie Christie
Julie Van Ember lives in Alberta Canada, and handcrafts her gorgeous glass creations in her home studio.  Julie has an etsy shop (link above) where she makes her beads, buttons, winestoppers, and other glass objects available.   The three examples Julie sent show the diversity of her talents.
Julie writes about the images that she sent:
The lampwork bead I created on this antique key has 4 leaves surrounding the top edge.

The bead on this winestopper is a real show stopper! Hiding beneath the clear magnifying dots, is a mandrel wound implosion. The lower end of the …read more

The International Society of Glass Beadmakers promotes the growth and recognition of glass beadmaking as as an art form.   This year the ISGB held its annual Gathering (yes, that is a glass pun) in Miami Florida at the end of July.  Classes, presentations, and opportunities to network and shop are the highlights of the show.
A special video was put together from members’ photos that they sent in prior to the event.  If you’ve got any interest in glass beadmaking, this may be the organization for you.  Don’t they look like a fun group?

Help me out here…did I miss any good ones?

Lampwork Etc Forum

Warm Glass Forum

Glass Line’s Hot Glass Forum

International Society of Glass Beadmakers Forum

National Bead Society Forum

Wetcanvas Glass Art Forum

The Glass Haven

What’s Up Wednesday

The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking
by Kimberley Adams
I still love Cindy Jenkins’s book called Making Glass Beads, because it was the first lampworking book that I bought. But I have to say that if you are just beginning the artform now, I’d have to recommend Kimberley Adams book. There have been some changes in availability of different tools, torches, kilns, and glass since Cindy’s wonderful book was published, and Kimberley writes of her gratitude to her early teachers.
I found this book to be a wonderful refresher on the basics, plus it had intermediate and advanced sections with …read more