March 2019 Speaker: Janice Peacock

“The Wayback Machine: California. Glass Beadmakers Circa 1998

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Join Janice Peacock for a trip back in time. In the late 1990s she collected slides from many of the artists making glass beads in California. She created a slide show and lecture that she presented at many bead societies on the West Coast. Janice has now digitized the old slides and the results are spectacular.

In this presentation Janice will revisit the work of many glass beadmakers who are still making beads today and will describe how their work has changed over time. She will also share images of the work of glass beadmakers who are no longer making beads, but should be remembered for their beautiful beads and their contributions to the world of glass beadmaking.

Janice Peacock has been making glass beads and creating one-of-kind jewelry since 1992. Much of her recent work has focused on the creation of items which look ancient—masks used in traditional ceremonies and tiny vessels unearthed from the sea.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. She has recently started creating large glass sculptures using a sand-casting technique.  Images of Janice’s beads and sculptures can be found at www.janicepeacock.com

Janice is also the author of the Glass Bead Mystery Series. She decided to write her first mystery novel after working in a glass studio full of colorful artists who didn’t always get along.

They reminded her of the odd, and often humorous, characters in the murder mystery books she loved to read. Inspired by that experience, she combined her two passions and wrote High Strung: A Glass Bead Mystery, the first book in a mystery series featuring glass beadmaker Jax O’Connell.  In the years since she first wrote High Strung, Janice has gone on to write A Bead in the Hand, Be Still My Beading Heart, Off the Beadin’ Path, and To Bead or Not to Bead, which are available at all major retailers.

In 2011 Janice was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.  During her project, called “A Matter Scale,” she worked with glass blowers to experiment with scale – both large and small.  In 2012 the magazine “The Glass Bead,” published by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB), featured an extensive article on the process in which “A Matter of Scale” was developed and executed.

Janice has studied with Italian glass masters Lucio Bubacco and Vittorio Costantini on multiple occasions, having brought both flameworking artists to the U.S. in 2006 to teach classes at Public Glass in San Francisco. She has taught flameworking at the three major glass education centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches intermediate and advanced glass beadmaking at studios across the U.S. Janice has served on the Board of Directors at Public Glass, and as that organization’s Director of Education.  She has been a featured speaker at the California Glass Exchange, at several of the national ISGB conferences, and at many other glass and bead organization events.

Janice lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, three cats, and an undisclosed number of chickens. In addition to non-stop beading, she likes reading, knitting, quilting, and gardening. She has a studio full of beads…lots and lots of beads.

Images of the work of (clock-wise from upper left): Sharon Peters, Leah Fairbanks, Heather Trimlett, and Janice Peacock.

Speaker: Janice Peacock , March 19, 2019, 7:30-9:00pm with 30 minute social before the meeting.

Location: Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA  map . Parking is in the back of the building.

Everyone is invited to attend this speaker meeting. Members with membership card: free, non-members: $5. Membership can be purchased at the meeting or online by clicking here.