Intro to Beads

Stained Glass is one of the most unchanged crafts in the world. The process and techniques you will learn in this workshop are centuries old, but the design you create will be one-of-a-kind. It will live in your home as a monument to your creative super powers! This workshop is for anyone, from beginners to experienced artisans, who desires to dabble...

Step by step you will learn: Creating a resistant shape/Design pattern * How to design your own piece * Understanding the tension of the materials, its own weight and external exposure, such as light, wind or rain * Each piece of glass will have a designed template by the student Smoothing the edges/Use of the Glass Grinder * How to cut and sand...

Our most popular workshops is back: Glass Etching! Calling all lovahs and friends! This year, boycott the schmaltzy sentiment and spend your Valentine's week Friday date night with us, crafting up a set of custom-etched glasses! First you’ll plan your design using letters, shapes or simple graphic lines. Then, using a special etching cream, you’ll...

In this weekend workshop, glassblowers will get your first introduction to hot sculpting glass in the hot shop! Hot sculpting is the art of shaping hot glass into asymmetrical forms and recognizable shapes using tools, gravity, and heat. Solid glass can be shaped, added on, and cut to create texture and form. We will use hot-torches to spot-heat specific...

Discover what can happen when glass is used in a painterly manner. Students will create imagery and depth in a 4” x 6” glass “postcard” inspired by their own image, photo, or drawing, using a palette of clear and colored sheet glass together with glass powders. Basic coldworking techniques will be introduced to enhance and finish the postcards....

In this intermediate hot shop class we will explore the world of glass color. Using frit, bar and powders students will learn foundational color applications such as bar overlays and can expect to learn some wild and wacky color techniques as well. What to Expect: Students should have a foundational knowledge of blown glass and are expected to have...

Date Night: Make a Stained Glass Work of Art Each couple will make one piece of stained glass art together and get a pizza and a bottle of wine to share during the workshop. Click here if you want to book for the regular single attendee class instead. Learn the Timeless Art of Stained Glass Stained Glass is one of the most unchanged crafts...

This beginners flameworking workshop will explore the possibilities of sculpting molten glass rods at the torch to make colorful snakes! After covering safety protocol, we will move onto learning the techniques needed to create snakes in glass forms, including heat control and using different tools.  What to expect: Flameworking with soft glass...

In this class students will move between the kilns and cold shop to utilize fusing, slumping and coldworking techniques to carve through colorful layers of thin and regular Bullseye sheet glass to create a number of small scale projects such as tiles, bowls and/or platters. Hands on work will be complemented by demonstrations and a short presentation...

This class will focus on interior and exterior folds: a technique in which, in the process of blowing, the glass is strategically folded on itself to produce a ring. This ring can be on the inside or the outside of the vessel. Folds can have practical or aesthetic value and can be incorporated into a design in a variety of ways. They can be used to...

In this 3 hour workshop, get introduced to flameworking by making your own glass chain! We will cover cutting glass, using heat and gravity to our advantage in the shaping and formation of links, and creating connective loops to put it all together. Come ready to learn and have fun!  What to expect: Flameworking requires a little practice at...

Designed for students with an introductory foundation in the hotshop who are looking for a little more guidance, this class will offer the technical support you need to bring your ideas to life. We will focus on practicing skills through a series of demos and exercises that students can put into practice and improve their skills. Please bring sketches...

In this class students will learn how to make a variety of molds for kilncast glass projects. We will start with open faced casting from folded paper and we will move on to two part press molds, which allow us to explore multi-sided detail and thinner forms. We will discuss how heat and glass selection affects the final product.  What to expect...

In this one day workshop, we will cover all different types of glues for glass. This includes UV glues, epoxies, silicones, and a variety of other techniques for glue assembly and construction. There will be demos as well as hands on time to students to try out different glues in class. This class is aimed at broadening your knowledge of cold construction...

Create your very own Glass Bead Hair Ornaments! This beginner friendly workshop requires no experience and will focus on flameworking glass beads for hair accessories. Students will learn the general skills of glass beadmaking and walk away with decorative, one of a kind beads to adorn their hair and life with. This class will be split into two sections....

The goal of the class is to teach the students the fundamentals of stained glass painting. We will cover tools and supplies needed. We will discuss the different types of paint to use their application and kiln firing temperatures. Examples will be shown of historic and contemporary painting techniques and how those techniques can be used for the...

There are so many possibilities when working with borosilicate in the flameworking studio. In this class students will learn new ways of incorporating color and patterns into their glass, making eye-catching marbles, making their blown forms cleaner, and incorporating all the skills to create detailed, beautiful pieces.   What to Expect:...