2013 Northwest Beadmakers’ Retreat at Pilchuck Glass School

[rainygrrl]

If you’ve ever wanted a little taste of the Pilchuck Glass School experience, slots are still available for the upcoming 2013 Northwest Beadmakers’ Retreat!

From the Pilchuck.com website:
Our rural 54-acre campus is nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Range about fifty miles north of Seattle. It’s a serene and natural retreat where artists can disconnect from everyday life and immerse themselves in a supportive environment where they can learn, experiment, collaborate, focus, and dream.

A few notes from my own experience at last year’s retreat:
· Pilchuck is a truly beautiful, rustic place to “get away” and focus on expanding your lampworking and jewelry making repertoire.
· Attendance is limited to 36 people, so there is a good opportunity to connect with other lampworkers.
· Everyone eats meals together in the lodge, and the food is delicious and plentiful.
· The retreat occurs before the regular Pilchuck classes begin, so the campus is very peaceful and we don’t have to share torches with others outside our group.
· If you can tear yourself away from the torches, you can take some fun hikes around the campus. Part of the fun is finding art hidden among tree roots or in other unusual places.

2013 Retreat at Pilchuck
(Posted with permission of the organizer of the 2013 Northwest Beadmakers’ Retreat.)

Dates: Friday, April 26th to Sunday April 28, 2013

Cost: $415.00 US
· Please pay in full at time of registration. (Register by Regular USPS Mail.)
· You must be an ISGB member and /or Fire and Rain Chapter Member to attend.
(Cost to join Fire and Rain is $20.)
This cost covers:
· Meals (more details below)
· Dorm housing (2 persons per room) (more details below)
· Use of tools and torches
· All demos and mini classes (more details below)
· Some class supplies and glass, and a goodie bag too (a list of materials to bring will be provided in the near future)

Schedule:
· Everyone can arrive starting Friday afternoon at 4:30pm and we will have dinner at starting at 6pm in the lodge and our first official demos will start at 7pm.
· Saturday and Sunday we will be buzzing busy right up till we will depart at 4pm.
· Our activities will include demos, classes and open torch time.
· Attendees will be able to torch late into both Friday and Saturday nights.



More Details:

Meals
· Friday Evening: Dinner (6pm)
· Saturday: Breakfast, lunch, dinner (8am, 12:30pm, 6pm)
· Sunday: Breakfast and lunch (8am, 12:30pm)
· Coffee, tea, snacks, etc. will be available through-out the day.
· There are soda machines on the grounds for those who are pop drinkers.

Housing
· No single, private rooms or private baths are available. All rooms are heated and simply furnished with twin beds, bedding and a desk.
· No camping or commuting is permitted.
· If you want to upgrade from the Dorm to Cottages, an additional charge of $50.00 (there are only 12 cottage beds available). Cottages will be given to the first 12 requests.
* Dormitory Housing – Basic student housing consists of an eighteen room (double occupancy) dormitory, with two shared large central restrooms. The dormitory is located less than a five-minute walk up the hill. (we will be allowed to have one or two cars for those with special mobility needs to have access to drive between housing and activities.
* Cottage Housing – There are two cottage dorms on campus with three attached cottages. Each cottage consists of two rooms (double-occupancy) separated by a bathroom which is shared by the four residents. With greater privacy and closer proximity to studios, cottage rooms are recommended for older participants and carry an additional fee.

Activities:
We will have 12 torches (mini CC's, I believe) set up for our use at Pilchuck. Some people will be working on the projects that they learned in the mini classes and others will be on the torches during the open torch time. We will be able to stay up as late into the night as we want. Some people will stay up late and others will turn in at a reasonable time.
This is what we have confirmed for our demos and mini classes so far:
· Mini-class: wire work for lampwork beads.
· Mini-class: kumihimo
· Demo: Jenny Newtson, Tag Glass (both soft and boro)
· Demo: Leslie Theil, off mandrel flowers
· Demo: Leslie Goldstein, Rainbow twisty bead
· Demo: Larry Scott, Night Sky bead
· Demo: Ellen Harbison, Bell flowers on wire
· Demo: Debora Cox, Making beads using a bead press



If you are interested in the registration forms or need more information, I will do my best to answer. Or you can send an email to Northwest _at_ isgb.com.

The picture below is taken from the main lodge. Maybe we’ll see each other there!

[LauraBowker]

Two more Demos planned over the weekend are Daniel Caracas, Abalone Beads and Jenelle Aubade, antiqued style beads. Both are coming up from Olympia to demo for us. See their website at www.beadsbot.com

Thank you Daniel and Jennelle.

[sortaflower]

Looking forward Laura, thank you, it sounds like it's going to be such a fun event!

[glassymom]

Wow, that sounds awesome. Maybe something I could do in the future.
sue

[rainygrrl]

It will be awesome. Looking forward to your demo Jenelle. Too bad you're so far away Sue.
16 days and counting down...

[sortaflower]

Thanks Roberta! Happy to join in the fun, Dan and I will try to register up for next year so we can attend the entire weekend.