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Oregon Regional Bead Society
February 17 2008 General Meeting Minutes
Aquila Art Glass hosted the ORBS March meeting. Thanks to Aquila for sharing
their space with us.
Guest Speaker
Ruth Greening-PMC artist. Demo & lecture. Great class on Saturday. Students do
show and tell of their masterpieces.
Bead challenge
Thanks to everyone who participated in our first Challenge. The theme was “Anti
valentine’s day bead”. Several great entries. The “best in show” vote went to
Jennifer Millsap for her “love me not” bead. Jennifer received the grand prize
of a box of You won my heart chocolate cards and a voodoo love doll.
Pictures available on the web site. The theme for March is “The Wearing of the
Green”. Extra points for using OCR glass.
April Meeting and Retreat
There will be no ORBS meeting in April. We’ll have a northwest bead retreat to
be held April 11- 13th at Frantz Art Glass in Shelton Washington. There will be
classes, demonstrations and much more. Details available soon. Keep an eye on
the ORBS website.
2008 Gathering- Oakland California
August 7-10. On line registration opens March 24th. Hotel reservations April
14th. New this year is online registration. The entire registration booklet can
be found on the ISGB website.
GAS
Held in Portland this year. June 19-21. Events held in various locations around
the city. More info go to www.glassart.org.
Bullseye Tours by Aquila
Aquila has arranged with Bullseye to do tours of 8 people at their facilities.
They are scheduling tours. You can request to be on their e-mail list for
information about this and other events.
Guest Speaker
Ruth Greening- Precious metal Clay (PMC) artist
Ruth demonstrated the basics of using PMC. PMC is very versatile stuff. Ruth
demonstrated several techniques and showed us several examples of items that
could be made with PMC.
She demonstrated the use of a butane torch, the kind you use to brown the top of
crème brulee. The torch can be used in place of a larger kiln. She fired a small
pendant using the torch. (Pictures on the website) This demo received a lot of
ooh’s and aahs. Cool stuff. She quenched it in cold water and then showed us how
to finish the piece. Thanks you Ruth for a great demo.
Aquila Glass School will be offering classes with Ruth in the future. Contact
don for dates and info. donb@aquilaartglass.com
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