PHOTO GALLERY: Fall into Arts coordinator creates jewelry in her home studio

October 17, 2012 | 4:14 p.m. CDT

Farah Nieuwenhuizen, a former art teacher at Hickman High School, is now one of four coordinators of the Fall into Art festival, which is set for Saturday and Sunday at the Parkade Center.

Farah Nieuwenhuizen breaks large pieces of glass into smaller pieces that can be use to make pendants for necklaces in her home studio on Oct. 11. Nieuwenhuizen is an organizer for this weekend's Fall Into Art Festival.

Specialty drill bits sit on Farah Nieuwenhuizen's workbench in her home studio. Nieuwenhuizen is a former art educator and one of four coordinators for the Fall into Art festival. | Kile Brewer

Farah Nieuwenhuizen uses tweezers to place small pieces of glass on pendants before firing the jewelry pieces in her kiln in her home studio. Nieuwenhuizen will have pieces of jewelry and some of her other art on display at the Fall Into Art Festival this weekend. | Kile Brewer

Farah Nieuwenhuizen places her handmade glass pendants in the kiln in her home studio Thursday. The pendants feature sparkling or iridescent glass and will be used to make necklaces and earrings. | Kile Brewer