From the Hands and Brains of Jenine Bressner

  I'll be teaching glass lampwork at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn this August! https://urbanglass.org/classes/detail/exceeding-expectations-pu...

I'll be teaching glass at Snow Farm in Western Massachusetts August 1 -4. COME PLAY! https://snowfarm.org/workshops/topics/flamework...

I'm still sculpting glass with torches, and still making huge necklaces.  Here are four and a detail image.

Cultural appropriation and lack of originality aside,  this is the most beautiful clothing ad I've ever seen. https://vimeo.com/2270643...

As a kid, I always saw these Polish circus posters in doctors' offices. I would stare at the text, not understanding that Po...

More pom pom earrings: handmade pom poms using yarns  from Peru,  Japan, and the US; lampworked glass, lasercut  merino wool, a...

I added some new things to my etsy shop, including  lampworked glass  and  lasercut wool jewelry!

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I made this huge, hollow glass bead a long time ago. The diameter is about 2.5 inches, and I made it on a hothead torch. I wrapped molten gl...

I made these glass beads and then earrings at Haystack,  and the glass necklace was also made recently.

Some new glass beads I made in the class I recently took  at Haystack with Kristina Logan!

When flameworking, eyewear can protect one's vision by shielding from projectiles of thermally shocked glass. More uniquely, didymium l...

Some new work, and new pictures of some other pieces. I flameworked all of this glass. Photos by Graham Wheeler, hand by Jess Richards ...

A variation on the bubblecloud collar posted  last month, this plays with those proportions The tiniest seed beads in th...

A new necklace of lampworked glass and 15° seed beads

I made some signs to communicate with other people while we travel in cars. I might not actually use the hearing loss sign, but I can imag...

And this is why I blog less often.

I'm really having fun making these flower- headed plant people toys!

This afternoon, during a brief nap, I dreamt of a book called Wish You Were: A Cyborg's Guide to Existentialism .  Does this exist, or ...

My brother finally persuaded me to start tweeting , as I made the glass chains that were worn as necklaces and belts in Calvin Klein Coll...

A new seed catalog arrived, so collages were made from last year's!

My first try at making a glass flower menorah

  Some glass rain and lasercut textile plant forms hang at the "Nature Contained" show this past weekend in Providence.

Well, you know what month it is.

What a great time! Thanks to my Mom for all the help!!!

Inspired in part by this tumblr , I made some "No Mansplaining" signs. They're this big.  If you want want one, write...