• Kristina Logan – Making Glass Beads – Live Q&A

    Speaker's Series

    Join Kristina for a live Q&A session where she’ll dive into two of her YouTube videos, sharing extra details and offering insights into her daily bead-making process in the studio. Get a closer look at her techniques and have the chance to ask her questions during the presentation! Want to see more of Kristina? Upcoming […]

  • Heather Behrend – The Baseball – A soft glass off-mandrel marble

    Speaker's Series

    In this presentation, we will build a lampwork baseball-inspired marble using soft glass. We will go over different ways to work off mandrel and how to use a marble mold. We will finish off the presentation with questions and answers about making marbles. Heather Behrendt is a lampwork glass artist from Rochester, NY. She started […]

  • Shelly Woollvin – Tour of Frantz Art Glass

    Speaker's Series

    Join us for a tour of the newly located and owned Frantz Art Glass! We all know and love Frantz Art Glass (and have bought some beautiful glass there), and have been looking forward to learn more about what is in store for the future of this great resource. Glass Dragon Shelly Woollvin is the […]

  • Double Helix Glassworks – Jed & Julie

    Speaker's Series

    Double Helix Glassworks, based in Charlottesville, VA, is run by Jed and Julie Hannay, with Tim Peterson on board. They are known for their standout reactive silver and premium clear glasses. They’re also diving into the Oracle project which is all about crafting top-notch soft glass colors, which sounds pretty exciting. Their offerings range from […]

  • Ikuyo Yamanaka – Making and Applying Sunflower Murrini

    Speaker's Series

    Making a sunflower murrini in glass is a fun and detailed process that blends creativity with a bit of technical know-how. We are thrilled to have Ikuyo Yamanaka with is for this presentation. She will show us how to make it and how to apply it to our beads. Join us for this great presentation. […]

  • Speaker’s Series – Kathleen Elliot – Life is Art

    Speaker's Series

    Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 7 PM EDT An Evening with Kathleen Elliot "Life is Art" Kathleen Elliot mainly works with borosilicate glass, and creates beautiful botanical sculptures, among other glass art. We welcome Kathleen to our Speaker Series and look forward to her presentation as she shares some of her creations with us.

  • Speaker’s Series – Kathryn Guler – Add Sparkle to Your Work

    Speaker's Series

    Kathryn Guler utilizes striking designs and beautiful colors in her flameworked pieces. She will be sharing her skills using mica powders and murrini by showing us how to enhance our own lampwork efforts. You won’t want to miss this very informative class, Thursday, April 25th at 7PM Eastern

  • Speaker’s Series – Michael Marx – Pairing PMC with Glass

    Speaker's Series

    Michael Marx will share insights into his process of combining PMC (Precious Metal Clay) with glass. His video will also demonstrate an interesting take on how his jewelry needn’t be stuck in a drawer or jewelry box when not being worn. Jewelry may be viewed as pieces of art and displayed as such. Michael will […]

  • Speaker’s Series – Zhang Yi – Principles in Sculpture

    Speaker's Series

    Please welcome Yi Zhang who will be sharing a very timely demonstration with the Glass Dragons. For this upcoming event, she will be demonstrating a dragon head bead because 2024 is the year of the dragon. Using soft glass, Yi will demonstrate the construction using basic geometric shapes and show how she uses a simple […]

  • Speaker’s Series – Corina Tettinger – Groundhog Beads

    Speaker's Series

    Corina Tettinger, the talented beadmaker and excellent teacher (not to mention author of Passing the Flame) is our guest speaker for February. She will share with us her “Groundhog Beads”for this presentation. As always, Corina is sure to give us a host of hints for successfully using many of the techniques she employs to decorate […]

  • Speaker’s Series – Navigating The Dragons’ Lair

    Speaker's Series

    Navigating The Dragons' Lair - What's Where? & How to Get There! For those new to the Glass Dragons and those not-so-new that would like a bit of help in navigating the Facebook page, the website, Zoom, how to find things, and any other help you need! Come and learn how things work, and how you […]