2014 Glass Craft & Bead Expo ~ Upcycled Yard Art with Jacqui Bush

Upcycled Yard Art with Jacqui Bush

Join No Days Artist & Instructor Jacqui Bush at the Las Vegas Glass Craft & Bead Expo on Wednesday, March 26th from 9am-5pm, and learn how to create gorgeous yard art using her No Days shortcuts!

WE_11 - UPCYCLED YARD ART
What do you do when your wall art meets up with the shipping company and turns into a bunch of different pieces? Cry? Scream? How about getting creative with a little bit of lead, solder, and copper foil to turn it into Yard Art !!! Join us as we take broken glass, rondels, glass globs, copper wire, and anything else we can think of and make bright beautiful garden art for your outdoor areas. A new way to up-cycle your scrap glass. No experience necessary with this class. Students bring: glass tools, soldering iron with rest, flux, 60/40 solder, cutter, running pliers and any interesting items you may want to use.

2014 Glass Craft & Bead Expo ~ Bejeweled Solder Sculpting with Jacqui Bush

Bejeweled Solder Sculpting with Jacqui Bush

Join No Days Artist & Instructor Jacqui Gaudot Bush at the 2014 Las Vegas Glass Craft & Bead Expo on Thursday, March 27th from 9am-5pm for this magical class where you will learn to use Jacqui's No Days secrets in creating mystical crystal wands.
 
TH_31 - BEJEWELED SOLDER SCULPTING
Jewels, dichroic pieces, beads, wire, and everything else in your studio that can be embedded in solder takes on a whole new look!!! Create jewel encased items that remind you of mythical, magical, bright, shiny pretties!!

 Most everyone is attracted to bright shiny objects. Take your soldering to a new level and wow your customers with your artistic creations. Solder sculpting is defined as the art of creating textures in solder. Learn how to create textures in solder using the proper materials and tools by incorporating time, heat, touch and gravity for effect. You will use these techniques to create a crystal wand and embellish it in your own style.

Students bring: 40 watt soldering iron with a 1/8" chisel tip, 80 or 100 watt soldering iron with a 1/4" chisel tip, separate rheostat, soldering iron stand, gel or paste flux, flux brush, sponge,1 roll 60/40 solder, 2 rolls 63/37 solder, 1/4" copper foil, 9" or longer glass cane or glass rod, pointed crystal/prism, ¾” to 1” marble or topper, copper wire, beads, dichroic pieces, jewels, ribbon, ceramic pieces, small gears, steampunk items, whatever you would like to embellish your crystal wand with. Irons and rheostats will be available for rental with prior notice to instructor, tool rental is $30 which includes a 40 watt soldering iron with a 1/8" chisel tip, 80 or 100 watt soldering iron with a 1/4" chisel tip, separate rheostat, 2 soldering iron stands.

Jacqui's magic wand

Featured Artist - Jacqui Bush of Stained Glass of McKinney

Each month, Streuter Technologies features an artist using NO Days products in our newsletter and on our webpage.  October's featured artist is Jacqui Bush of Stained Glass of McKinney!

Jacqui Bush took her first copper foil class in 1997 and hasn't looked back.  From flat glass to warm glass, and silver art clay to enamels, her classes and experimenting continue. In 2004, she could no longer resist the call of the glass and left her career in technology to open a studio. Her studio offers a wide variety of classes in stained, leaded, beveled, etched, fused and painted glass. She repairs and restores glass, creating custom work, as well. 

She has a contagious passion for glass in all its forms and loves to share it with others. Through teaching and demonstrating, she works (or rather plays) to increase public awareness of glass art through special events, educational classes, and community involvement, offering free or low cost classes to art teachers in public education through the "Teach the Teacher" program.

Jacqui enjoys teaching teachers about glass art, and how to bring it into the classroom to inspire the next  generation of glass artists. Kids LOVE glass, but the mosaic process can be messy when using traditional adhesives and grout!  It's easy to teach them glass history and how glass is worked. Jacqui and colleague Brenda Fee co-authored "Artistically Inspired: Glass Lessons for the Art Classroom," with 25 lesson plans designed to incorporate the history and process of creating glass art into the school curriculum.

Jacqui's Renaissance Mosaics

Jacqui is always coming up with new techniques to share with her students. She teaches "Groutless Mosaics" incorporating beads, vintage or memorable jewelry and other objects with glass tiles. She loves using No Days Groutless Mosaic Adhesive for its ease of use; there's no need to move the design between layout and gluing or grouting. It's nontoxic and not messy, so it's safe and convenient to use in a school setting. Plus, it eliminates having to wait for glue to dry or working with and coloring grouts.

  Jacqui is certified in the Unique Glass paints, a member of AGA, RAGS, and is on the Board of Directors for the KBW Education Foundation.

Jacqui Bush is a veritable fountain of knowledge!!! Check out her page full of tips and tricks on anything and everything concerning glass, kilns, and education! View more at www.stainedglassofmckinney.com.