Wear Glass

Celebrate GlassWear at the Gallery Store this spring. WearGlass is a series of trunk shows featuring some of the region’s most talented jewelry artists.

Linda Lawrence April 23-25th	Rochester, NY
Linda Lawrence is a glass beadmaker and jewelry designer whose background in dance and love of color and movement permeate her work. An art teacher in the Greece School District, Linda created this necklace, called Crayon Box, to celebrate the new school year. She also teaches flameworking in her home studio.

Nancy Valle April 30-May 2	Rochester, NY
Artist and educator Nancy Valle creates hand-sculpted porcelain and glass jewelry that combine her skill as a sculptor and love of lampworked glass. "The beads reflect my ideas about nature and expressions of culture: land & water, plant life & minerals, and ancient artifacts. I especially love combining smooth, transparent glass with textured clay beads."

Jeanne Menafo & Brett Pierce
May 7th-9th

Rochester, NY

Jeanne and Brett have been collaborating since 2000. A glassblower for 25 years, Brett has taught flameworking both locally and nationally and is currently an instructor at the Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. Jeanne has studied glassblowing and sculpture at SUNY ESC, the Studio in Corning, More Fire Glass Studio, RIT and Horizons New England School of Crafts. Her concentration is blown sculpture and hot bit application.

Julia Duax-Skop May 14th-16th	Buffalo, NY
Julia creates wearable art jewelry made primariiy of hand-worked glass. A hallmark of her designs is her ability to successfully sculpt soft glass, pushing the inherent physical limit of the medium. Her "solemnly surprising and classically modern" jewelry draws heavily upon the tradition of italian glassworking.

Kerry Bogert June 11th-13th	Rochester, NY
Kerry is a former student of visual communications and graphic design turned stay-at-home mom of three. Today, she creates one-of-a-kind glass art jewelry with lampworked soft glass beads and hand-wrought sterling wire work. Kerry's work has been featured in a number of national jewelrymaking magazines.

Lucinda Storms June 25th-27th	Rochester, NY
Lucinda studied painting at college and then worked in advertising as a computer graphics artist. She began making jewelry after taking a glass beadmaking class at More Fire Glass Studio. "I think of my jewelry as a secret way of communicating. Each piece is an attempt to tell a secret, share a dream, or wink at the world."