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Master
Class in
Glass Beadmaking
by Jill DeDominicis
Article
 As students gather in the Blue Dolphin Stained
Glass Studio in San Diego, California, renowned glass artist
Kristina Logan (Ornament Volume 21, No.4, 1998) gets right to
business. It is the second day of her two-part glass beadmaking
workshop and students are anxious to experience another day at
the torch under Logan’s careful, encouraging guidance. The
workshop, organized with Heather Trimlett (Ornament Volume 26,
No.3, 2003), another nationally-recognized glass bead artist,
is a separate and special addition to the regular eight-week
lampworking courses Trimlett offers at the Blue Dolphin.
 The students’ experiences
and strengths may vary, but all are present for a similar purpose:
to hone their glass beadmaking skills and gain control and precision
in their movements. It is safe to say they could not have chosen
a better teacher to demonstrate the ways of precision lampworking
than Logan, an artist celebrated for her geometric and exacting
dotted glass beads and one whose history in the redevelopment
of glass beadmaking as an artform runs deep.
Photographs by Robert K. Liu/Ornament.
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