Instructors Bios

Jannette Bechdolt:

Jannette spent a career as a project manager in operations, marketing, new product and soft-ware development. Upon her husband’s retirement, she retired too and turned to her stained and fused glass hobby as an outlet for her creative interests. Jannette has spent the last 16 years teaching stained and fused glass classes in the Denver, Colorado area. During six of those years, she worked and studied; taught and developed her own classes under the expert guidance of Diane Schell, owner of A Bashful Rainbow Stained Glass. Diane was truly a friend and a mentor. Upon Diane’s death, Shannon Abott, owner of Bella Glass Studios invited Jannette to teach her specialty fusing classes as well as beginning and intermediate stained-glass classes at Bella Glass and Jannette spent another six years there. Today, Jannette teaches out of her own studio, sponsors an ongoing Glass Artist study Group and continues with her custom stained-glass work. She is known for her hand-beveled dichroic jewelry, her quilted, and 60-degree diamond platters and bowls and her annual Christmas ornaments.

You can find her kayaking with her husband and playing with her grandchildren when she takes a break from glass.