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Opens Tuesday, January 11, 2011, noon, CST.
June 4 - 7, 2011 -
Master Classes, Fundamentals in Techniques, Preludes, Workshops, and Moonlight Sonata sessions.
June 8 - 12, 2011 -
General Education classes
June 8, 2011 -
Meet the Teachers Reception
June 9, 2011 -
Private Shopping Preview for Registrants Only
(SHOPPING OPENS - JUNE 9)
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Master Classes

Pick Your Master - Andrea Guarino-Slemmons and Michael Barley
Master Class - Lampworking

If you have questions regarding any of the Master Classes, please contact Customer Service directly at 800-554-0197 or by e-mail.
Meet Andrea Guarino-Slemmons
Andrea Guarino-Slemmons - has devoted her whole working life to the glass arts. Starting with stained glass while in her teens 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 work she fell in love with lampworking. That was nineteen 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 tools, materials and colors. Andrea loves working with metal foils, leaf and various chemicals to create reactions in glass. Finding glass that reacts to create exciting new colors is a joy. Andrea makes a wide range of bead styles and sizes and is continually working on new designs. Lapidary equipment is used to create her special faceted beads. During the last several years Andrea has added silver work to her beads. This has included both PMC and sheet silver creations for earrings and bracelets. She shows her work in two or three major shows and teaches both in her state-of-the-art teaching studio in Port Townsend and in studios across the country. She has also taught in many foreign countries.
Meet Michael Barley
In 1977, Michael sold his car to buy a kiln and thus began a career as a potter. In 1990, he moved to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. On five acres of land with a view of the foothills of the Olympic mountains, he didn't think that life could get any better until he was introduced to lampworking and the world of glass beads. A lesson from his friend Sage, and Michael was immediately hooked on the process of melting glass and shaping it into a bead.

Wanting to live in town, in 2000 Michael and his wife built a house in Port Townsend. His studio is attached to the house where he continues happily making his signature beads. In addition to making beads, he paints and fuses images onto glass, draws, and once again works in clay. Michael also teaches classes in making glass beads in his studio as well as in other studios and select events throughout the world.
40 Years of Lampworking - June 4-7
This will be an amazing four day flameworking class with two masters. Students will spend two days with Michael Barley and two days spent with Andrea Guarino-Slemmons. Between the two of artists, they have 40 years of experience in the making of artistic lampworked beads. Both of these artists have done much experimenting in manipulating and changing the appearance of Effetre Glass. Some of the topics that will be covered in the class include, blending glass to create new and unique colors, making and applying tightly wound uniform diameter twisted canes, several shaping methods, applying glass powders to create new and unique surface colors, several different encasing methods, using silver leaf to alter the color of the glass, learning techniques to create interesting textures and patterns in the beads, learning to work off-mandrel, the making and applying of millefiori canes, learning to to silver fume beads, and learning to work with silver glass - double helix.
Who should take this class?
This workshop is for the advanced lampworker. Beginners should not apply. Students should have solid experience and be comfortable with a dual-fuel torch, such as a Nortel Minor or Mini CC. Experience solely on a hot-head torch is not sufficient for this caliber and pace of class. Student should have considerable experience on a dual-fuel torch, able to make adjustments between an oxidizing flame and a reducing flame and can comfortably and independently form a variety of bead shapes. Student should also have an understanding of how to keep a form while decorating a bead and should be able to make stringers and apply them in a consistent manner. The session involves the use of a torch with open flame and gases (oxygen and propane).

Students must wear cotton clothing and closed-toe shoes. Tie long hair back. Minimum age requirement is 18 years. Although ventilation is provided in the classroom lab, if you are sensitive to gases and/or fumes, or have any type of respiratory issues in the studio environment, this workshop is not recommended for you.

The minimum age for this class is 18 years.
What is an advanced lampworking student - and do I qualify?

Here is our definition of an advanced lampworking student:

This student has considerable experience on a dual-fuel torch such as a Nortel minor or mega, or a Mini CC or similar torch. The student must be able to comfortably form and shape a variety of bead shapes with ease. In addition, the student should have a thorough understanding of how to keep and hold a form while decorating a bead. The student should also be able to make stringers and apply them in a consistent manner. Experience solely on a hot-head torch is not sufficient experience for this caliber of class.

This is not a beginners class. We do not recommend that beginners apply as the pace and curriculum of the class will be geared to the advanced lampworking student.

If you have any questions or concerns about your experience and ability level, please e-mail Andrea ahead of time to review your qualifications.
Where will this workshop be held?
All of the Master Classes will be held nearby at the
Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC).

Thank you to the administration and staff of MATC for hosting our Master Classes and our Fundamentals in Glass-Bead Making course.

Transportation by school bus will be provided in the morning from the Hyatt Hotel to the university studios each day. In the evening, students can be dropped off at their downtown hotels.

Students can also drive and/or walk to the college, if they prefer. It is a four block walk to the campus building. Parking is available at the nearby Bradley Center - across the street from MATC on 6th Street or the nearby surface lot.

MATC
700 West State Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1443
Registration at the Show
For 2011, Master Class students should go to our Registration area at the Hyatt to pickup their badge holder, Show tote, Show Souvenirs, and special event tickets.

With Registration opening up Saturday June 4 at the Hyatt (second floor atrium) for limited hours, there will be sufficient time for those enrolled in the lampworking Master Class to pickup their registration packet on Saturday evening. Please identify yourself as a Master Class student to our customer service representatives. You do not need to "register" before attending class on Saturday.

We will provide your badge holders in your classroom.
What is the class fee?
The class fee is $1,500 plus an additional $75 kit fee.

Andrea and Michael have assembled a VERY generous kit for Master Class students with all the special silver glass donated by Double Helix Glassworks.

Andrea and Michael will bring all mandrels and bead release for use during class.

NOTE: JIM MOORE WILL BE SENDING TOOLS FOR STUDENTS TO USE DURING CLASS!


Photos are representive only of the artist's body of work and not the actual or exact class designs.

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