Item Name: The Flow Magazine Spring 2025 SKU: FLOW-SPRING-2025 Description: The Flow Magazine Spring 2025 is a print glass art magazine issue focused on contemporary lampworking and glass art, combining artist features with technique-driven instruction. This issue spotlights Dina Kalahar, also known as Solfire, with an interview by Joe Samuelson III exploring her journey into functional glass mastery and the role glass can play as meditation and healing. It also includes a sculptural tutorial by Serbay Doru demonstrating how to fabricate a soft glass jellyfish, plus a memorial bead tutorial by Ania Karolina Kyte that teaches how to incorporate ash cremains into a glass bead keepsake. Additional features include EcoGothic mixed media work by Lindsay LeBlanc and coverage of the Highland Flames glass festival in Scotland, along with a science-meets-glass segment where Terry Henry builds a ring silica molecule from glass during Sunday Morning Glass School at the Zurich Glass School. Artists and tutorials featured in this issue include: Joe Samuelson III featuring Dina Kalahar, also known as Solfire, artist interview and feature Serbay Doru, Soft Glass Jellyfish tutorial Lindsay LeBlanc, EcoGothic Studies in Glass feature Ania Karolina Kyte, Memorial Beads Creating with Cremains tutorial How it is used: Use the Dina Kalahar feature to study how a working artist approaches functional glass design and to pull practical ideas for developing your own body of work and studio practice. Follow the Soft Glass Jellyfish tutorial to learn an off-mandrel sculptural build sequence for forming a realistic jellyfish form in soft glass. Read EcoGothic Studies in Glass to understand how glass can be integrated into mixed media installations and how botanical and ecological themes can be translated into finished work. Work through the Memorial Beads Creating with Cremains tutorial to learn a structured process for incorporating cremains into a bead keepsake, including how to approach the project as a memorial object rather than a standard decorative bead.
