About Janice Peacock...

Janice learned to make flameworked glass beads in 1992 from Brian Kerkvliet, and has been actively making beads ever since. She has studied with many of today's best bead makers and flameworkers, including Vittorio Costantini and Loren Stump. Janice has a Master of Arts degree from U.C. Santa Barbara.

Janice's work has been displayed in several group shows nationally and internationally. She has exhibited her work in Denmark and Finland as part of the Contemporary Glass Beads from America exhibit, curated by Torbin Sode. Her beads and finished jewelry were featured in "California Glass Today" at the Fresno Art Museum in California, an invitational exhibit of California’s best beadmakers and glass artists in 1998. Her work was also displayed at the Society of Glass Beadmakers juried exhibit at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY, (1998) and Obsession: A Ten Year Affair with teh Bead (2002), which were juried exhibits sponsored by the International Society of Glass Beadmakers. Janice's work has been published in several books, including Beads of Glass: The Art and the Artists by Cindy Jenkins, 1000 Glass Beads by Lark Books, Design! by Steve Aimone, and Contemporary Glass Beads from America by Torbin Sode.

Janice teaches flameworking and glass bead making  atPublic Glass in San Francisco and the Bay Area Glass Institute. She also travels nationally to teach intermediate and advanced glass bead making. In addition to her passion for flameworking, Janice has been a freelance instructor and technical training writer for the software industry for 15 years.

Janice has been a featured speaker on several occasions for the Northern California Bead Society, as well as many other bead societies, at the California Glass Exchange in 1998 and 2002, and presented a demonstration national conference of the ISGB in 2002.

For more information Janice can be reached atjp@janicepeacock.com.