Folk Art and Graphic Floral Beads with Kim Fields

Learn to make colorful graphic folk art design floral beads with accomplished glass flameworking artist Kim Fields.
Working in soft glass (104 COE) students will use some traditional European designs and their own designs as inspiration. Demonstrations will begin with simple forms and expand to more elaborate designs. Techniques will include assembling canes, color mixing and overlays, temperature control, and precision application and manipulation of stringers and dots.
This workshop is intermediate level.
All materials and use of torches and tools are included.

Kim Fields graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising.  She went on to build a careet in television production winning three Emmy Awards while at Chicago's superstation WGN-TV,  Throughout her career, Kim explored numberous outlets for expressing her passion for the arts.
Kim began working with glass in 1999 and found it so cratively fulfilling that she eventually left her 20 year corporate careet behind to devote herself completely to the art of glass.
An accomplished teacher, Kim has taukght at many glass studios throughout the United States, as well as internationally.

Artist Statement:
The natural world has always informed and inspired me, and nature is the predominant influence for all my work.  Using a sculptural approach, I strive to capture a sliver of nature's ephemeral beauty in everything I create.  Flameworking has provided a means to explore and discover so many ways to express my veneration, reverence and appreciation for nature, and I can't imagine my life without glass.