Sara and Michael Beames started Beames Designs in 1990 and work from a studio next to their home in the Catskill Mountains near Kingston, New York. Sara, who holds an art degree from San Francisco State University, is the artist: after working with many kinds of glass, she found her medium in fused glass. Michael runs logistics and operations.
Their Jewish ritual objects combine the ancient art of fused, kiln-fired glass with cast pewter, aluminum, wood and other elements, and weddings are a specialty. At ModernTribe you'll find wedding shards mezuzahs that pair handmade fused glass with hand-cast pewter and hold the glass broken under the chuppah, along with hand-blown wedding smash glasses in a range of colors and a dove electric yahrzeit.
Their work has found public homes, too. In 2000 Sara was commissioned to create an Eternal Flame sculpture, a gift from the Jewish Federation of Ulster County for the reopening of Kingston City Hall. The studio also made an ornament for the White House that is now in the Clinton Library.
Good to know
- Public commissionEternal Flame sculpture, Kingston City Hall (2000)
- CollectionWhite House ornament, now in the Clinton Library
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