Nancy Turner The Glass Arts Club recently hosted a fun group of PebbleCreek residents who were excited to learn the art of fusing glass. The Beginner Fused Glass Class, led by Dee Costard with assistance from Sandy Rivera, Nancy Turner, and Pam Baldwin, is a welcoming opportunity for newcomers to explore glass art. This engaging…
Nancy Turner The PebbleCreek Glass Arts Club announced the newly elected 2026 board members: President Sandra Rivera, Vice President Sharon Dawe, Treasurer Karen Giles, Secretary Nancy Turner, and Past President Kathleen (Kitty) Kowalczyk. The Glass Arts Club provides an opportunity for residents to express their creativity by designing and creating glass art projects. We share…
Kitty Kowalczyk Our September Spotlight highlights someone that many artists who frequent the Creative Arts Center already know. Meet Linda Montgomery. Linda met her husband, Bill, while studying nursing at Indiana University. They lived in Tucson for a while and then went back to Indiana, raising four daughters. While working as a Registered Nurse, Linda…
Kitty Kowalczyk Meet Karla Heinz, this month’s featured artist. Karla is originally from the state of Washington, having also lived Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for four years, then Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving to PebbleCreek 10 years ago with her husband, Larry. Along the way, Karla was in college to earn her degree in education, but babies…
Kitty Kowalczyk Our newest members from our February Beginner Class are going strong, and we welcome their enthusiasm and excitement as they produce many great projects! The class was led by Dee DeCosterd, with assistance from Karla Heinz and Sheryl Cohn. Pictured in the first row from left to right are Dee DeCosterd, Sharon Carpenter,…
Kitty Kowalczyk Dan and Peggy Mitchell’s careers were in the St. Louis area, Dan as an architect and partner in a firm, and Peggy as a dental hygienist. They raised their two boys in St. Louis and in their summer log home in Colorado. They moved to PebbleCreek as snowbirds in April 2023, downsizing their summer…
Kitty Kowalczyk Barbara Sanford and Sharon Dawe shared their expertise with our Glass Arts Club members during an April jewelry class. Students learned how to make pendants and earrings using fusible glass—opal, translucent, and dichroic—in the first jewelry class offered in the past couple of years. Barbara and Sharon have different techniques that they shared…
Kitty Kowalczyk Six lucky Glass Arts Club members are taking three four-hour sessions learning how to make stringer plates that can then be turned into works of art to display and/or use as platters and bowls. Fellow member and glass artist Susan Herriford is sharing her expertise after using this method in some of her…