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Nancy Peterson opens her glass studio to the Island community, 2005

Also Nancy Peterson Glass Studio Open House 2005

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TypeEvent
Date2005-11
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2005-11
Kind
Opening
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
artscraftcommunitycommercecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Nancy Peterson’s early-November 2005 open studio introduced roughly 30 Islanders and visitors to her torch-worked glass-bead process and pieces commemorating Beaver Island landmarks.

Evidence limits

The report documents the open studio and artistic process, not the studio’s later operation, sales, or complete body of work.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, December 2005, "Nancy Peterson's Open Studio."
    Reports an early-November open studio attended by about 30 people, demonstrating torch-worked glass beads and local-landmark pieces made for Iron Ore Bay, Lake Geneserath, and Paradise Bay. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the studio report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Nancy Peterson opens her glass studio to the Island community, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-nancy-peterson-glass-studio-open-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2005, "Nancy Peterson's Open Studio." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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