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Learn the secrets of the Venetian Masters! With common equipment you can make your own glass beads, buttons and dishes. Come see how it's done, live, before your very eyes!
Web site: http://www.nightsidestudios.com
Nightside Studios
Ralph and Deborah McCaskey are glass beadmakers who usually can be found hunched over their torches in their subterranean studio deep beneath Downtown California, often in the dead of night. Some of the odd and wonderous denizens that populate the studio's dimly-lit grottoes and passageways find themselves expressed in Ralph's glasswork. Others crawl directly out of the dark recesses of his fevered imagination. Deborah is renowned for her marvelous interpretations of horses, as well as her abstract beads.
Nevertheless, Ralph has, for years, been found at various art and street fairs, enlightening the world about the virtues of glass, beads and art in general. A lifelong Downtown California native, Ralph is a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers and, in his spare time, demonstrates scientific concepts to dazzled elementary school students. Ralph also teaches glass beadmaking at Oakland's The Crucible and the Richmond Art Center. Deborah (ever the patient wife), their loving dog and occasionally tolerant children also join in the pyromaniacal fun from time to time. Ralph finds inspiration in jazz and ethnic music (particularly Slim Gaillard) and continues to be fascinated by his thousands-of-years-old craft.
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Ralph and Deborah McCaskey are glass beadmakers who usually can be found hunched over their torches in their subterranean studio deep beneath Downtown California, often in the dead of night. Some of the odd and wonderous denizens that populate the studio's dimly-lit grottoes and passageways find themselves expressed in Ralph's glasswork. Others crawl directly out of the dark recesses of his fevered imagination. They are members of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers.
http://www.nightsidestudios.com