We’d like to thank all of the wonderful Sponsors, Exhibitors, Instructors, Instructor Assistants, Students and Attendees for making GCBE 2024 arguably the best one ever! It was such a pleasure seeing all the wonderful art being created during classes, the amazing products and art on the show floor, and all the friendships flourishing throughout the show. We hope you all had an amazingly unforgettable and memorable experience like we did at Glass Craft & Bead Expo 2024!
Please don't hesitate to reach out to us via phone (1-800-217-4527) / email (support@lvmanagement.com) / social media (@glasscraftandbeadexpo) with any ideas/feedback on what we can do to make this event even better!
Thank you again and hope to see you all next year at Glass Craft & Bead Expo 2025!
Please email support@lvmanagement.com for questions or assistance.
2025 Registration will be open around November 2024.
Advertising online (with link to your business) at glasscraftexpo.com is the best way to reach your target markets. Prior to and during registrations, the website features information from the prior year as well as all of the new classes being offered, a current exhibitor list as well as new and exciting upcoming events. Learn more below!
2025 Details Coming Soon
Check out the 2024 Glass Craft and Bead Expo full class list to see all the amazing classes we hosted this year! Classes for 2025 will be announced in the fall.
Interested in becoming an exhibitor for the Glass Craft & Bead Expo 2025 show? Email us at support@lvmanagement.com
Our show floor for GCBE 2024 was completely packed with some of the best glass industry exhibitors around the country. Keep checking back for details on becoming an exhibitor for GCBE 2025.
Check out the 2024 Glass Craft and Bead Expo full instructor list to see all the talented people we had this year! Interested in becoming and instructor for GCBE 2025? Email us at support@lvmanagement.com for more details.
Sponsors play a huge role in the success of our annual show. Many of our sponsors have continuously returned to support the show in a variety of ways.
This year we want to recognize our Diamond, Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship levels and also recognize each and everyone business or group that helps us deliver America's favorite and largest glass and bead expo!
Please check back often.
Oceanside Glass & Tile® is the manufacturer of the Oceanside Compatible™ family of glass products.
We manufacture glass for a wide range of artistic endeavors, including stained glass, mosaic arts, kiln forming, and glass blowing. Our product line offers an expansive range of sheet glass and coordinating glass accessories (Frit, Noodles, Stringers, and Rods), as well as blowing Nuggets® and our new Color Bar. Our products are a steadfast material of choice for architects, designers, and makers of fine lighting, giftware, glass tile, cabinets, and decorative accessories.
Whether you’re a beginner or skilled professional, we look forward to supporting you on your art glass journey and welcome you to the Oceanside family!
Paragon Industries is the leading manufacturer of electronic kilns and furnaces. Our focus on quality and innovation assures our customers that we will continue to deliver innovative products that produce reliable and consistent results. Because we manufacture small tabletop kilns for first time buyers to large production kilns for commercial users, we can fill all your kiln product needs.
We make quality surfaced-mixed torches for our awesome glass art creators in the lampworking community! Reengineered for better performance and higher safety, Bethlehem Burners low-pressure torches are constructed entirely of stainless steel and feature the brand's signature wrap-around flame.
A full service machine shop/job shop (no job is too small) that serves not only the local community, but world wide support for burner and combustion applications pertaining to the flame treatment of plastics and glass.
Our Automation and Engineering Divisions manufacture Flaming Conveyors for the pharmaceutical, glass, and plastics industry that are custom designed to fit their required footprint and can include Vision Systems, Leak Check Systems, Metal Detection, and Flame Treating of the product prior to arriving at a custom designed packaging system.
We are ready willing and able to work with you, the customer, from design through implementation. To the Scientific and Glass Art communities we are the manufacturers of the workhorse of the glass industry, the CC Burner, as well as a full line of glass working torches. And last but not least the Carlisle School of Glass Art that not only gives back to the community, but provides a path for aspiring artists to achieve their dreams.
Delphi Glass has its roots in teaching stained glass. Over the past 50 years we've grown but our passion for teaching remains. We're artists, creators and business people, who share an art glass obsession! We're willing to teach you everything we know (glass related of course) about stained glass, fusing, mosaics, flameworking and jewelry. Backed by a 300+ page supply catalog, extensive YouTube video library and free projects guides we feel confident about helping you break into glass or piecing together all the things you've learned this week. Did we ignite your interest? Use coupon code EXPO23 and receive 20% off your order at DelphiGlass.com
Glass Patterns Quarterly is the leading international glass publication. We've been providing inspiration and information since 1985 to glass hobbyists and professional artists. This has been accomplished by developing relationships with the finest artists & sharing their techniques with you through in-depth, step-by-step tutorials. In every issue you can enjoy great content with popular artists and instructors and cutting edge techniques using the latest industry products. New Books, Products, Industry News, and What's Hot keep you abreast of the latest happenings in glass. We feature inspiring gallery showcases, dynamic general interest articles, as well as tips and techniques and health and safety information These features along with our 16-page, pullout pattern section, (most of which are full-size) make Glass Patterns Quarterly magazine the number #1 glass publication.
Since its inception, the focus of The Flow has been to provide a bond among members of the lampworking community. This has been accomplished by developing relationships with the finest artists & sharing their techniques with you through in-depth, step-by-step tutorials. In every issue you can enjoy great content with the hottest artists and cutting edge techniques using the latest industry products. These features along with the continuation of our Women in Glass edition, Glasscraft Emerging Artist Awards, inspiring gallery showcases, dynamic general interest articles, as well as health and safety information make The Flow the leading international lampworking journal.
Glass Art is the magazine for the art glass industry. Independent artists, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, educators, galleries, and professional glass studios all look to Glass Art as their definitive source for the best information available in hot, warm, and cold glass. Everything from etching, painting, engraving, and stained glass to fusing, kilnworking, glassblowing, and flameworking is included in its pages as world-renowned artists share aesthetic and technical information, how they are adapting to current shifts in global business, and what they have learned from their successes and failures. In addition to these in-depth artist profiles, Glass Art provides information for improving business, marketing, and trade show strategies plus the latest in organizational news and new products that are designed to enhance the glass art experience. Cutting-edge glass art, professionally photographed in full color, combines with the insights and experiences of contemporaries around the globe to inspire and inform, making Glass Art the premiere source for anyone working in the glass art industry.
Hot Shot Oven & Kiln is a Wisconsin based manufacturer of ovens and kilns for knife makers, blacksmiths, glass makers, machinists etc.
www.covington-engineering.com/
Covington Engineering is a leader in the manufacture of top quality lapidary and glass equipment. Our products are proudly made and assembled in the United States of America. We pride ourselves in our excellent customer service, and the superior quality and craftsmanship we put into every machine we manufacture.
We are located in Meridian Idaho, approximately 15 minutes from Boise Airport. We welcome walk-ins!
We are open from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM Mountain Time Monday Through Friday.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us directly at (208) 609-6636
Or Email us at admin@covington-engineering.com
Cress Manufacturing Company, Inc., manufactures electric heat treating industrial furnaces and electric ceramic and glass kilns. We have over fifty years of experience in the manufacturing of outstanding firing equipment to the fields of ceramic, pottery and glass arts and the heat treating industry
Cress has been at the forefront of firing processes for much of its history, being first in our field with UL listing of ceramic kilns; first with ultra reliable element connections; first with infinitely variable power controls and first with inexpensive automated firing. The Cress family has contributed its skills in graduate electrical and mechanical engineering and thermodynamics to the design of professional, fine quality firing equipment. We at Cress are proud of our long - standing reputation for the safety, reliability and excellent firing properties of our kiln and furnace designs.
Cress has provided kilns and furnaces in such diverse applications as the space program, research laboratories, machine shops, production ceramics facilities, artist’s studios, jewelry production, doll making, pottery production, ceramics studios, glass studios and hobbyist’s workshops. We are gratified that our many satisfied customers return each time they are ready to increase their firing capacity.
Company hours are Monday thru Thursday 6:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Pacific Time.
Family owned and operated since 1948, building quality kilns for metal clay, glass, ceramics, and knife making. Located in Caseville Michigan
We started as a hot glass shop in the early '80s creating paperweights and larger sculptural pieces. We moved to laminated optical sculptures in the late '80s that required us to develop diamond laps to achieve a flatter surface for laminations than were possible with slurry grinding at the time. Once we developed these diamond laps we offered them to our other glassblower friends as well, and thus began His Glassworks' diamond tool division.
Over the years we have grown our coldworking offerings as customers have requested items and we now have several thousand products and a small staff with well over 3 decades of coldworking experience. It's our goal to provide you with the same advice and service we would expect ourselves as glass artists.
Let us help, inform, and support your glass working adventure.
The ISGB is the leading organization for the promotion, education, and appreciation of the art of glass beadmaking for wearable, sculptural, and functional art.
Our mission is to:
Preserve the rich and diverse traditions of the art of glass beadmaking and glassworking techniques
Promote educational initiatives and professional development
Encourage innovative use of complementary mediums among artists and craftspeople
We invite you to join us on our journey through collaborative creativity in the worlds of glass and complementary mediums.
Join ISGB Today!
In 1953 father/son team, Ralph and Neil Skutt, manufactured the industry’s first multi-sided hobby kiln in Olympia, Washington under the name “Skutt & Sons”.
The introduction of this new lightweight design revolutionized, not just the ceramic kiln business but the whole ceramic industry by bringing ceramics to the home.
A lot has changed over the last 60 + years. Kiln companies have come and gone, new clay bodies and glazes are constantly being developed that demand greater firing precision, and automatic controllers are quickly replacing the once cutting edge KilnSitter.
Throughout the years we at Skutt have worked hard to meet the changing needs of our customers, but one thing that has remained constant is our fierce dedication to manufacturing quality products and providing outstanding customer service.
We realize that every object placed in a Skutt kiln has value. It could be a child’s horse that looks more like a dog or a master potters $20,000 commissioned sculpture. Both of these artists are counting on our kiln to do it’s job ..and we don’t want to let them down.
Thank you for visiting our home page. Whether you are looking to buy a kiln or you already own a Skutt kiln and are looking for more information, we sincerely hope that you will find it to be a useful tool.
We will continue to add more useful information to our site so please visit us again in the future. (source Skutt.com)
Now entering its 120th year of production in Paden City, West Virginia Wissmach Glass has been producing the widest variety of opalescent and cathdedral art glass in the world since 1904. In addition to stained glass, Wissmach also manufactures a wide variety of 96 coe colors for all of your fusing needs.
ABR Imagery, Inc. is your #1 glass supply source.
We carry a full line of Northstar, Glass Alchemy, Momka, Simax, Elvis – TAG glass, and Gilson Opals to list a few. We also carry all the tools you will need to start glass working, from bench rollers, molds, lathes, fume hoods, frit trays and accessories, to electroforming kits, measurement devices, molds, reamers, titanium pens, graphite tools, and many more.
D&L Art Glass Supply is the largest art glass supplier in the West, offering glass and tools for all levels of artists since 1974. Visit D&L Art Glass Supply and take a class in their spacious, state of the art classroom or shop in their Denver, Colorado warehouse. All are invited to visit, or visit online at dlartglass.com
Jen-Ken Kilns is a family owned and operated kiln manufacturing company that has been in business since 1951. We have been committed in building the finest electric kilns for all aspect of contemporary fired arts including; Glass, Clay, PMC, Pottery, Casting, Lampworking, Knife making and many more.
We are serious about kilns, at Jen-Ken Kilns you can speak with a kiln advisor and decide which pottery or ceramic kiln is best for you. Then, if ready, you may order the kiln right then from the factory, it will be built and shipped directly to you. Once it arrives you may call and we will take the time to help you, "push the buttons" and get the kiln doing what you want it to do. We are here for you and we offer evening and weekend phone numbers, just in case your studios need a little programming help. We are here to help you with kilns and firings.
We think of ourselves as artists' that build kilns, having fired about everything there is to fire.
Olympic Kilns began manufacturing kilns in Seattle, Washington and derives its name from the Olympic Mountains. As the company grew so did its product lines to include electric, gas and glass kilns for the hobbyist, production artist and manufacturer of finished fired ware.
Olympic Kilns moved in 1982 to Georgia to be near its raw materials, insulating firebrick, to eliminate excess costs both to the company and its customers. Today the company resides in Flowery Branch, Georgia, located 45 miles northeast of Atlanta and provides more models, styles and types of kilns than any other kiln manufacturer today.
We have evolved from a small company to an international business by adding multiple designs of kilns, offering electric and gas as power sources, and working with new markets requiring heat-treating furnaces. The designs and engineering of our kilns are built to be structurally sound, high-end performing machines, and styled to meet multiple-sized piece requirements.
We continue to maintain our small business values both to our employees and our customers. A dedicated team of individuals who strive to provide superb products and customer service make up the workforce at Olympic. Leading the company is Bob Haugen, whose vision and design expertise fosters a spirit of excellence in workmanship, quality and service throughout the company. Rob Haugen, following in his father's "kiln footsteps", grew up with Olympic Kilns and has developed a hands-on understanding of the ceramic and glass firing heat-treating furnaces industry.
Manufacturing kilns is a unique business and the opportunity to learn from our customers creates a drive and urgency to deliver the necessary requirements requested by our customers for heat-treating furnaces. We have direct contact with customers so we can determine new market demands and troubleshoot questions or problems as they occur.
We are excited about the kilns we offer today and the ones we will build in the future and we will continue to invest our profits in the creation and innovation of building kilns.
Thank you to everyone listed below for your contributions to the classrooms. We couldn't do it without your help.
ABR Imagery
Amaco
Amerway Inc.
Art Clay World USA
Bethlehem Burners
Bullseye Glass
Canfield Technologies
Carlisle Machine Works
Coatings by Sandberg
Covington Engineering
Cress Manufacturing
D&L Art Glass Supply
Ed Hoy's International
Evenheat Kilns
Frantz Art Glass & Supply
Gemini Saw
Glass Alchemy
His Glassworks
Hoevel Manufacturing
Hot Shot Oven & Kiln
Inland Craft Products
Jen Ken Kilns
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
Morton Glass Works
No Days Adhesives
Oceanside Glass & Tile
Pacific Art Glass
Paragon Kilns
Rayzist Photomask
Skutt Kilns
Slumpy's
Stellar Technical
Techniglass
Venture Tape
Wissmach Glass Company
Youghiogheny Glass
If you have contributed to the classrooms and your company name is not listed above, please contact us at 800-217-4527 so that we may list your company name and give you the proper recognition that you deserve.
Congratulations to all the winners of the Gallery of Excellence 2023 Annual Art Competition sponsored by Glass Patterns Quarterly, Glass Art, and The Flow magazines. View the winners of the 2023 Gallery of Excellence below. You can also view all the talented winners from some of the previous years of GCBE.
From the South (California): Head North on Interstate 15 to Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay right and make your first right into the parking area for South Point. The South Point is located at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the North (Utah, the Las Vegas Strip and downtown): Head South on Interstate 15 to Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay in the middle exit lane and turn left, make your first right into the parking area for South Point.
From the East (Arizona): Exit Interstate 40 at US 93 and proceed North. Cross bridge into Nevada and remain on US 93 North until exiting at Interstate 215 West. Take Exit 7 and turn left onto Eastern Avenue South. Turn right onto Silverado Ranch Blvd. Proceed to Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the West (Northern Nevada/CA): Head South on US 95 and exit onto Interstate 15 South. Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay in the middle exit lane and turn left, make your first right into the parking area for South Point
From the Rental Car Terminal at McCarran Airport: Head South on Gilespie St. toward E. Warm Springs Rd. Turn right on E. Warm Springs Rd. Then turn Left on Las Vegas Blvd. South Point Hotel & Conference Center is on the right hand side of the road at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the Rental Car Terminal at McCarran Airport: Head South on Gilespie St. toward E. Warm Springs Rd. Turn right on E. Warm Springs Rd. Then turn Left on Las Vegas Blvd. South Point Hotel & Conference Center is on the right hand side of the road at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Uber and Lyft: These companies operate in the Las Vegas Valley.
The South Point Hotel & Conference Center offers numerous dining and entertainment options and attendees may find many other restaurants, shops and recreational opportunities all within a short taxi ride of the property. Of course, the sights and sounds of the famed Las Vegas Strip are just a few miles north on Las Vegas Boulevard. But if you prefer to venture out from "home," then consider some of these alternatives:
ENTERTAINMENT: There's a good reason why Las Vegas is called the "Entertainment Capital of the World." Since its Rat Pack days, Las Vegas has been inextricably associated with legendary shows and entertainers.
Say "Las Vegas" and it's likely that showgirls in elaborate headdresses and Elvis impersonators will come to mind. Today, the Las Vegas entertainment scene still has plenty of its classic glamour, but it has evolved to include so much more. In addition to the iconic Las Vegas entertainment staples, the destination offers a lineup of award-winning magicians, Broadway-caliber productions, world-renowned concert headliners and unique-to-Las Vegas production shows. For more information please visit visitlasvegas.com.
SHOPPING: If you want it, Vegas has it. From designer splurges to bargain deals, Las Vegas has become a one-stop shopping Mecca. Everything from colorful souvenir shops to haute couture boutiques can be found in retail centers along the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding areas.
You won't be alone in your shopping endeavors. More than half of the nearly 39 million visitors who visit Las Vegas each year spent time shopping, according to the 2006 Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study. Las Vegas shoppers spent an average of $140.86 per trip, the study reports, more than twice as much as on sightseeing and show tickets combined. For more information please visit visitlasvegas.com.
NIGHTLIFE: In 1930, Frank Detra took a chance and opened Pair O' Dice, Las Vegas' first nightclub. Located on what was then known as the new highway to Los Angeles (today, we call it the Las Vegas Strip), the club was open only at night.
In addition to bands and jazz performers, the Pair O' Dice served Italian food. Most notably, the establishment had a history of closing and re-opening because it sported gaming tables before the city had legalized gaming and served alcohol during Prohibition.
Nine years later, the Pair O' Dice was sold to police captain and commander of the vice squad Guy McAfee who renamed it the 91 Club. The nightlife scene changes frequently so please visit visitlasvegas.com for more information.
GOLF: Las Vegas is no longer golf's best-kept secret. In fact, Las Vegas recently was named the top emerging golf destination in the world by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators.
From exquisite championship courses designed by legends of the sport to lush fairways and breathtaking views - golf is just another reason the destination attracted 39.2 million visitors in 2007.
Today, more than 60 golf courses are available for play in Las Vegas throughout the year thanks to the area's inviting climate. Las Vegas offers challenging, yet beautifully sculpted courses developed by world-renowned designers including Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Billy Casper, Arnold Palmer and Pete Dye. For more information about golfing in Las Vegas, please visit visitlasvegas.com.
Class submission for 2024 has concluded. Instructors that are teaching in 2024 can use the link below to view their class information. 2025 class submission details coming soon.
