Wheaton Village Marble Weekend 2006 Photo Gallery by Brian Bowden at pbase.com

Wheaton Village Marble Weekend 2006

About 60 or so artists and lots of collectors gathered at Wheaton Village in Millville, New Jersey from June 23-25 to celebrate contemporary art glass marbles at the 5th Annual Marble Weekend. Geoffrey Beetem was the featured artist and put on a special demo on Friday night. Lots of other artist demos happened throughout the weekend. Artists sold their marbles and related art glass all throughout the weekend. It was a family reunion of sorts as artists and collectors gathered on the porch of the Country Inn Hotel each evening until the wee hours, situated on the Wheaton Village property. Memories abound!

Marble pics follow the artist who made them, except in a couple cases at the end where I didn't get the artist's pic.

Geoffrey Beetem demo, Friday evening	Working with the initial cane pickup	Marvering, etc.
		Adding a gather of glass from the tank
Hot and glowing, ready to roll it	Have to roll it into tubular, almost cylindrical
As it's rolled, Geoff begins to add the twist to the core	Have to keep the core hot	Forming the marble with a mold
Keeping it hot in the right places	Marble is off the cane, now removing the punty
Finished marbles taken to the kiln one at a time to slowly cool	Finished marble, 2 2/3"	Glass is clear, but camera picks up yellow from the transparent green and red bands
Top	Bottom, signed 'Wheaton Village 2006 Beetem'	Don Freel, working on the 2006 WV Collab
Andy & Sara Gregorich		Josh Mazet
There's my spider, the green and pink one that came with the original drawing of it	Chris & Jackie Rice
Ro Purser and Renee	Ro Purser - 'The Man Who Would Not Be King'
Geoffrey Beetem, featured artist	Geoff and Scott Smith	Dang flash didn't go off!
Beetem had a nice setup, lots of nice art	LOVE this earth bowl	Dan Grumbling & Wife
Dan is the Mold Man	Aaron West	Dan and Aaron shared a table
Mike Gong	Miles Gong
Lots of great stuff from Mike		The UFO No-Longer-Crash Landing marble
Wendy Besett	Painted by Ken Leslie, encase by Harry Bessett	Gateson Recko & Jillian
Crappy pic of some AWESOME marbles	Filip Vogelpohl
Drew & Kathy Fritts	Lots of great new styles from Drew	Andrew Weill (right) & Timothy Adams
	Scott Hronich-Pernicka & Natasha Pernicka (he took her name)	HUGE vortexes
	Mike & Jamie Mount
Josh Sable		Harry Kravet
	Ben Barocas
Bradley Tubbs		Eddie, Bobbie and Abigail Seese
		Brad Brandolino (aka Anakin) with one of his two daughters
	Aimee LePri & Paul Katherman	Some of Paul's work
Some of Aimee's	Scott Meyer and Ron Hinkle (Scott works in Ron's shop, Hinkle Glass)
Francis Coupal
Aaron Slater		Dan Benway (wife Amy was there as welll, missed her)
Benway/Kobuki crystal collab (Kobuki flower marble)		Sabina Boehm
	Kevin Smolark
Kris & Amy Parke
Brad Quintana
Nathan Miers	Graal marble tributes to Sable and Recko in the back there	Ray Laubs Marbles
Beth Tomasello Marbles	Beth II

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Brenda Freeman		09-Nov-2010 17:53
Beautiful guys and gals!!!!!!!Aaron West is a life time friend of mine and I am so happy to see what he has turned his talent into that I didn't even know he had, lol. Keep up the beautiful talent and I wish you all well.

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