Livermore Laboratory Retirees Association

Join us at our June luncheon for a talk by Jim and Peggy Kervin, builders of fascinating and beautiful glass art.  Jim* is emphatic in saying that he has not always been a creative sort of guy, but once he was bitten by the glass-art bug, Jim became deeply involved in the craft.  Jim and Peggy will share their prolific experience in everything from fusing, casting and lapidary work to beadmaking, painting, scribing and etching glass.

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Jim was also deeply involved in the International Society of Glass Beadmakers, serving  on its board of directors, and became the organization’s first inductee into its “Hall of Flame.”  He was also the director of the Livermore Art Association (LAA) Gallery from which he recently retired.  He also became internationally known for 16 published books he wrote and co-wrote, which sold 60,000 copies.

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His glass education came from classes with other fused-glass and stained-glass artists, as well as private lessons from various masters of the form.   Jim has Parkinson disease- this is what led to his official retirement from the LAA and its gallery.

Jim and Peggy both worked at Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLNL). Jim graduated with mechanical engineering and biomedical degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to the Lab.  He retired in 2018 after a long career in support of the Lab’s national security mission.  Peggy earned a PhD in Material Science at the Univ. of Virginia and came to LLNL in 1987.  She retired as a project engineer at the National Ignition Facility, in 2016.   

*Factual information extracted from The Independent article by Christina Cavallaro, dated Feb. 2025.