Ancient Vessels with Janice Peacock
In this class we will explore ways to make small glass vessels that look like they’ve been dug up from an archeological dig. Using fine glass frit, reduction powders, and enamels, we will add texture and color to a base of the piece. Vessels are a classic ancient shape, and in this class we will focus on mastery of the vessel form with time to play with the decorative possibilities that powders can create. We will also explore using silver foil to create effects that give glass an ancient look. Students may make these pieces either as beads or off of the end of a mandrel so that the vessel hole does not go through the entire piece.
Janice has been flameworking since 1992, and has studied with many glass masters including Vittorio Costantini, Lucio Bubacco and Loren Stump. Her glass beads and jewelry have been featured in several exhibitions nationally and internationally, the most recent being "Convergence II" a traveling exhibition which will tour the U.S. during 2010 and 2011. Her work has been published in several books, including Beads of Glass: The Art and the Artists by Cindy Jenkins, 1000 Glass Beads by Lark Books, Design! by Steve Aimone, andContemporary Glass Beads from America by Torbin Sode. Janice has taught flameworking and glass bead making in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 12 years and also travels nationally to teach intermediate and advanced classes. Janice has been a featured speaker on several occasions for the Northern California Bead Society, as well as many other bead societies, at the California Glass Exchange in 1998 and 2002, and presented demonstrations and lectures at the national conference of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers 2002 and in 2009.
www.janicepeacock.com
Feb 25 9am-3:30pm
Bay Area Glass Institute in San Jose, CA
Fee: $150
Pre-requisite: No flameworking experience required
To register:
http://www.bagi.org/soft-glass-flameworking.html
Janice Peacock - Ancient Vessels - February 25
