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Kathy Perras, Glass Beadmaker
Welcome...Old and New Friends
(updated January, 2008)
Please Visit My Web Site!
Necklace by Dina Krieg with my Tiger Heart Bead
Hello there. For those of you who haven't visited before, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Kathy Perras and I am a professional glass beadmaker and lampworker who lives in Portland, Oregon. It is my passion and my chosen profession to create new and exciting glass bead and jewelry designs which I sell in galleries like Gallery 33 in Portland, national bead shows like Bead & Button and Embellishment, ISGB Gatherings and various beads shows in the Pacific Northwest. I also sell my work online through my website.
Locally, I am Treasurer and the founding member of ORBS (Oregon Regional Beadmakers Society), a chapter of ISGB, the International Society of Glass Beadmakers, which claims some of the country's finest glass beadmakers in the Pacific Northwest as members. ORBS hosted the 2004 Gathering XII in Portland, OR. and is a vibant chapter of glass beadmakers in Oregon.
Regarding my work, you may even have seen my work in the ISGB Trajectories Book 2006, the Feb/Mar 2000 issue of Glass Collector's Digest, The Lark Book: 1000 Glass Beads. The Lapidary Bead Annual 2001 (October 2001 issue), Bead & Button Feb., 2003, Issue, Step by Step Beads Magazine, Sept., 2003 Issue, or on the cover of the October, 2004 issue of Bead & Button Magazine.
Kathy's Upcoming Bead Shows 2008:
A Short Biography....
My passion with glass started almost almost twenty years ago with stained glass. I created custom panels and lampshades until I discovered the world of hot glass. I was an off-hand glassblower at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Resource Center in Toledo, Ohio for almost 5 years until my family moved to Portland in 1997. Initially, I intended to continue my work in furnace blown creations but after attending classes with artists like Brian Kervliet and Loren Stump,Sage Holland, Andrea Guarino-Slemmons, and Michael Barley I became passionate in the area of flameworked glass and the endless possibilities it presented. It was an artistic epiphany for me to enter the glass beadmaking realm and I knew I had found my niche. I still long for the soul-warming heat of the furnace and the golden glow of the glory hole but each time I create a new bead over my torch I know where my future is headed. I hope you enjoy my beads as much as I enjoy creating them. Perhaps I will see you this year at one of my bead shows that I have listed above. I always enjoy hearing from customers and friends from eBay so I invite you to email me with any questions you may have about my beads. Many of the beads you see on eBay are part of a larger inventory of similar work that I sell at bead shows. Frequently, my friends on eBay are able to see my newest work in the studio before it ever gets to the shows. You can also check out some of my new work by visiting my web site clicking on the URL link at the top of this page. Thanks again for visiting my page!
Necklace Creation by Sonja Podjan
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