Making Beach Glass Jewelry with Marla Cohen
October 29, 2025
Whether you call it Beach Glass or Sea Glass, everyone loves it! Beautiful pieces of man-made glass lost in the ocean and have been tumbled and shaped by waves, weathered by the sun, and worn by salt and other elements in sea water that wash up on the shore for the taking.
Join us for this special program where you will learn how to work with beach glass and walk out with a new piece of jewelry! Marla Cohen is a professional artist whose beach glass work is currently on exhibition at the Chafee Art Center in Rutland, Vermont. Since it’s dinner time, please bring a potluck dish – homemade or purchased – to share with the group.
To register for the workshop: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/MEL5CTEEB3ATU
About Marla
Marla Cohen currently lives in Rutland, Vermont. She works in in-home healthcare and makes jewelry on the side. Marla is a distance runner who turned to walking after an injury. In 2016, she moved to Palm Beach, Florida to be with her mother in her final days. Long walks on dirt roads became long walks on beaches.
Always observant, she noticed her first piece of sea glass after a hurricane. From there, the hunt was on. Marla spent nearly 4 years walking private beaches on Palm Beach Island collecting sea glass. She learned to read tide charts and shorelines to discover where and when glass collects on the shore.
Marla worked as a floral designer in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Her employer asked her if she would teach jewelry classes to adults and children. She learned the basics of component jewelry making and went on to teach for the remainder of her time in Florida.
Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with Mononucleosis. With no energy to do anything she hunkered down and learned more advanced wiring and design techniques. While threading beads it occurred to her that she could use sea glass if it had a hole in it. And from there she was off. Marla took advanced courses in pearl knotting and Dremel technique. Marla tied art and technique together… wiring technique and found objects. And she has never looked back.