WORKING GLASS, MAKING ART

Crystal Road Shield, kilncast crystal, Akua Lezli Hope, 2000.

My new and evolving joy is learning how to make objects out of glass. Glass blowing, lampworking/flameworking beads, slumping and fusing glass and sandcasting glass are the techniques I experienced and have begun to explore. Some of the iconography I developed for paper, I've replicated in glass. A number of my paper constructs include my handmade glass beads.










Spirit House, handformed flax, fused glass, flameworked glass, Pacific stones, fiber, copper, wood, Akua Lezli Hope, 2000.

Making Jewelry



Wire offers me fascinating opportunities to make wearable art. It is the calligraphic dance of line that my drawing hand never managed. It is the cradle and partner for my beads. And my glass beads have offered me the fulfillment of design and of evolving self ornamentation.

Glass Sites

Warm Glass Board: www.warmglass.com
My most favorite glass site, whose generous participants have aided me in times of dire information need. The archive is a vast realm of knowledge and experience from solving bubble problems to making your own sprays to salesstrategies. Has excellent links to other sites, organizations, and suppliers.

I Glass Art Society: www.glassart.org

International Society of Glass Bead Makers, www.isgb.org

Sculpture by Pamina Traylor

Pamina received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College and her Master of Fine Arts in glass sculpture from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1995 she was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America. She has taught at Urban Glass and Parsons School of Design in New York City and is currently a lecturer at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.

Lucis Glass Gallery

Glass Making Sources, Suppliers, Teaching Facilities

Glass Line Newsletter

Prayer for Amadou, kilncast glass, fused glass, sandcarved glass, enamels, 2000.


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Soul Guitar, sandcast glass, brass, Akua Lezli Hope,1998



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SoulShip, sandcast glass, copper, Akua Lezli Hope, 2000