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LAMPWORK
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 NEW LAMPWORK CLASS SCHEDULED.
SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION!!
Gladys received her Masters in Clinical Psychology in 1977 from St. Mary’s University
and taught at St. Philip’s College for 23½ years until her early retirement in 1999. She was an Art Minor in college and has applied her skills
to jewelry making since the early 80s, first as a hobby and stress relief, later as a business. She has taken classes in Bead Stringing, Glass
Bead Making, Wire Wrapping, Precious Metal Clay and Metal Smithing. She continues to take classes in Metal Smithing at the Southwest School of
Arts & Crafts here in San Antonio, TX. She is a member of Go Texan, MJSA and the International Society of Glass Beadmakers and the PMC Guild.
She is certified in PMC.
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Gladys primarily makes glass beads to use in her jewelry making. She took her first Glass Beadmaking class in 1994 from Linda Honeycutt-Le Grand in
Austin. She also makes beaded necklaces, bracelets, watches and earrings. She uses glass beads,
semi-precious stones, Czech glass, Swarovski Crystal and Sterling Silver in her jewelry.
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She makes Face Beads and Cabochons in the Francihini-Sytle Faces. She took a class with Loren Stump at the Corning Glass School in Corning, N.Y to
learn the Francihini-Sytle shaded faces. Gladys’ glasswork has been published in two books:
1000 Glass Beads by Kimberley Adams page 285, The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking page 169.
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She has taught Beginner’s, Intermediate and Advanced classes in glass Beadmaking at the Stainglass Crafter’s Workbench located on 7475 Echert in San
Antonio. In 2007, her work was selected to appear in the All School Exhibition at the Southwest School or Arts & Craft. The piece was inspired from
pictures she took on her son’s property in Boerne, TX thus the name Fall Boerne Bloom.
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Lampwork Class at
Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation, Boerne Texas
Name of Course: Lampwork: Glass Bead Making for Beginners
Instructor Name: Gladys J. Baez-Dickreiter
Summer 2009: Mondays, June 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2009; 9am - 12pm
YOU TOO CAN MAKE THESE BEADS!!!
Medium: Glass – Murano - Italian glass – Effrete 104
Class Size expected: 4 to 10 students
Hours of Program: 9:00 am to 12:00pm for a total 12 hours
Special requirements: Please wear cotton clothing w/closed shoes, tennis shoes.
Tools required are: Hot head torch kit $87.93; Basic Beginning Tool Kit 1 $140.63,
Effrete Starter Assortment
glass $29.95 = Total Kits cost $258.51
Beginning class will cover: Safety, equipment and materials, various types of glass,
and annealing. Student will use a Hot Head Torch and be exposed to 5 basic shapes of
beads. They will also be shown how to encase a bead and how to pull stringers and use
the stringers to decorate those beads. This course is homework based, students
practice at home will strengthen lessons. They will bring in their work to class
for discussion and annealing. Time will be used to learn from mistakes and enhance
strengths.
In SAN ANTONIO: Contact Gladys for private lessons: 210-844-4778 or Stained Glass
Crafters Workbench: 210-647-7475 www.sgcworkbench.com OR
IN BOERNE: Contact Majestic Arts Foundation at 543 HWY 46 West, 830-537-4654 www.mraf.org
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