Ocean Beaches Glassblowing & Gallery

Anna Biszantz is a multi talented artist working mostly in woven arts and jewelry design. Although Anna is an east coast native, after a trip out to the Oregon Coast in 2004, the Pacific Northwest became home. A true nature lover, she can usually be found at the beach looking for Agates and taking plenty of pictures for later inspiration.

Recycling is a theme that runs through most of her work: weaving tapestries depicting scenes inspired by the Pacific Northwest from textile mill ends, woven plastic bag baskets, and even "beach glass" jewelry from the scrap pile at Ocean Beaches Glass Gallery's studio.

Anna's jewelry utilizes many different techniques from chainmaillle and wire working to stained glass and beach combing, sometimes all in the same piece. All components are lead free and her metal of choice is stainless steel, with copper and lead free jeweler's brass making frequent appearances.

Anna has several looms including a four-foot floor loom and even a Caravan tapestry loom made in Portland, Oregon. Her current focus is on an ongoing series of Pacific Northwest tapestries. Tapestry is a form of discontinuous weft faced weaving, typically pictorial, much like creating the canvas as you paint; each thread, a brush stroke, building up and in the final picture.