Item Name:
The Flow Magazine Winter 2022
SKU:
FLOW-WINTER-2022
Description:
The Winter 2022 issue of The Flow is the 18th Annual Women in Glass special, featuring the Women in Glass Gallery with a wide range of styles including mixed media work, enameled pieces, kiln formed work, torchworked forms, and cold worked glass. The gallery imagery spans an extensive range of subjects including marbles, beads, abstract designs set in silver and copper, floral and plant sculptures, animals, ocean life, character work, and complex murrine. This issue also includes artist features on Swiss artist Krista Israel and her visionary work interpreting emotional processes in glass, and Belle Tsai, who creates three-dimensional floral work inspired by the flowers of Taiwan. Additional coverage includes the International Society of Glass Beadmakers Your Bead for Venice competition focused on traditional Venetian techniques. The issue includes step-by-step tutorials by Ania Karolina Kyte and Terry Henry, including Decorating with Frit by Ania Karolina Kyte and In Loving Memory Memorial Bead by Terry Henry.
How it is used:
- Readers use the Women in Glass Gallery to study contemporary approaches across torchworked, kiln formed, enameled, mixed media, and cold worked glass, and to gather design inspiration for subject matter, composition, and surface treatment
- Artists reference the Krista Israel feature to understand how narrative and emotional content can be translated into sculptural glass forms and how a personal visual language can guide body of work development
- Flameworkers use the Belle Tsai feature as a design reference for building three-dimensional floral forms and for exploring botanical inspiration as a framework for color and shape decisions
- Beadmakers follow Ania Karolina Kyte’s Decorating with Frit tutorial to make a plain bead, heat the surface for controlled frit pickup, roll the bead in prepared frit, and then encase the bead in clear glass for depth and durability
- Artists working with memorial glass follow Terry Henry’s In Loving Memory Memorial Bead tutorial to learn considerations for transporting and using cremains, pull a cremains-loaded dichroic stringer to reduce incompatibility risk, apply the stringer, and build a floral bead around the memorial core
- Venetian technique enthusiasts use the Your Bead for Venice coverage to understand how traditional Venetian methods are being interpreted by contemporary beadmakers and to identify technique directions worth exploring
