Award Ceremony – “Your Bead for Venice” – September 14, 2025 On Sunday, September 14, 2025, at the Murano Glass Museum, the fourth edition of the “Your Bead for Venice” competition took place—an event that welcomed glass enthusiasts from all over the world. The 20 finalist works, displayed at the museum, told the story of …
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Kim Edwards won the third prize in the 2024 Your Bead for Venice competition with her glass chainmail piece inspired by the traditional Venetian chevron beads (or rosetta, as the Venetians call them). The rosetta bead is also the logo of the Comitato per la Salvaguardia dell’Arte delle Perle di Vetro, the organization that partners …
Second Place Winners of Your Bead for Venice 2024 Contemporary glass artist Erwin Eisch said, “From a glowing inert mass must emerge things of beauty that are endowed with speech.” What, then, does the second place- winning piece in the 2024 Your Bead for Venice competition, Piazza San Marco, have to say? Artists Cédric Ginart …
First Place Winner of Your Bead for Venice 2024 by Laura Simone Mathieu Grodet, Infinite Variety “This bead features four murrine elements that I created in Moretti glass: a circular window with a portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati, a quote from the Marchesa is contained in a rectangular shape, a square holds a signature with …
Every year, a group of beadmakers, glass artists and bead historians from all three organisations are selected as the jury to determine the prize winners for Your Bead for Venice. They look at the beads, discuss their technique, beauty and connection to Venetian beadmaking techniques.
Not only the professional jury gets to decide the prize winners, there is also a public choice award. The people who visit the museum during Venice Glass Week can vote for their favorite beads. Hundreds of people do this every year.
During Venice Glass Week, many of the finalists come to Venice to be inspired, meet fellow bead artists and learn more about Venetian beadmaking and the history of beads in Venice. Part is this is a tour that that CPVV organises to show Venice from a bead history perspective.