We're excited to announce:
Andrea Guarino-Slemmons will be teaching 2 two-day workshops here in Maine,
The Galaxy Within and More
Thursday-Friday, Oct.1-2, 2009
-- $520.00 - lunches included
Andrea's Signature Workshop
Saturday-Sunday, Oct.3-4, 2009
-- $520.00 - lunches included
The Galaxy Within and More
In this class during the first day we will be making galaxy style beads which are heavily encased and decorated on the outside and then on our second day we will use faceting equipment to open up windows to reveal the galaxy.
Andrea's Signature Workshop
We will be working with silver leaf, foil and fuming to achieve many of these signature beads which include the Sea Garden, Galaxy, Salmon Egg, Moth Wing, Ammonite. Also we will be working with powders to make some Off Mandrel Hearts, Star Gazers and Stripes beads.
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- has devoted her whole working life to the glass arts. Starting with stained glass while in her teens however she felt the medium too constraining. Fused glass was her next choice but while using a torch to make odd shaped glass pieces and stringers to decorate her pieces she fell in love with lampworking. That was fourteen years ago and she has been making art glass beads full time ever since. The complexity of her beads has evolved with her experience and the availability of new materials and colors. Andrea loves working with metal foils and leaf and various chemicals to create reactions in glass. To find a new color that reacts is a joy. Andrea makes a wide range of bead styles and sizes and is continually working on new designs. Lapidadry equipment is used to create her special faceted beads. She shows her work in two or three major shows and teaches both in her state-of-the-art glass bead making studio in Port Townsend or across the country. She has also taught in Australia and Japan and soon in Denmark, Australia (again) and Italy.
