Sara Sally LaGrand gives readers an overview of how the art of flameworking and beadmaking developed in the United States as it grew out of a 1986 Penland School workshop. Glass artists Kate Fowle, Paul Stankard, Shane Fero, and others share their recollections of the trials and triumphs of those beginning days and how the medium has grown and prospered ever since.
This article was originally published on page 26 in the Winter 2013 issue of The Flow.