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Glass Blowing Classes NYC

Unleash your creativity and learn the art of glass blowing with a variety of classes offered in NYC. Discover mesmerizing techniques, create beautiful glass pieces, and gain a new skill that will leave you feeling accomplished and inspired.

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Marvelous Marbles and Pendants

Brooklyn Glass @ 142 13th St, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for this 5 hour workshop focused on making flame worked marbles of various sizes and wearable pendants. Learn implosions, color application, and more. Work with borosilicate glass and torches to create one of a kind pieces of art. Start your own collection today! All levels welcome, absolutely no experience necessary.

(369) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$220
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Next Steps: Folding Fun

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

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 produce a rim for a lid, or reinforce the lip of a vessel by doubling it over. Some historians refer...

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$560

2 sessions

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Next Steps: Stuff Cups

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

The “cup” shape is much more than the container we think it is. It is also one of the building blocks for many color processes. Spend a weekend brushing up on stuffed cups, incalmo technique, and supios.  Over two days we will look at color overlays and color efficiency, how to use the garage, and how to stack, stuff, and split cups.  Previous glassblowing experience required.

(53) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$560

2 sessions

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Back to the Drawing Board

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

As craftspeople, whether the intention is to be a studio artist, production glass maker, or fabricating your own design objects, the skills of communication and bringing 2D concepts into the 3rd dimension are integral to success. This class will cover design basics and the tools necessary to illustrate ideas, making them clear to both yourself and your potential “client”. Hand drawing, simple schematics, scale drawings, and the use of calipers...

(53) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$890

5 sessions

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Intermediate Glassblowing : A Cup of Many Colors

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

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 made basic blown forms in the past. This class is a color class and will ONLY use the cylinder form...

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$815

6 sessions

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Upcycled Beads

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This workshop will teach students how to recycle glass using basic flameworking skills, and transform it into their own upcycled glass beads for jewelry and crafts. We will use collected glass - from recycling to thrifted pieces - and transform the found glass into cane (rods) to use as our main material. We will then use those rods to create beads. Join in for this fun and transformative process! What to Expect: The class will start with an introduction...

(53) All levels 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$415

2 sessions

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Solo-blowing: Glassblowing without Friends

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Learn to work on your own in this class designed for advanced beginners and intermediate students who wish to become independent in the hot shop. Demonstrations and exercises will focus on strategies to blow simple forms efficiently, drills to practice hand and body coordination, and challenges to speed up the learning process. The use of a blow hose will be introduced and students will leave with a new set of skills that will enable them to come...

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$575

2 sessions

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Intermediate Neon: Block Lettering

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Master the art of bending block letters and create your own neon signs in this six-week class at UrbanGlass. Learn advanced techniques and gain the confidence to work independently on advanced projects. Ages 14 and up with previous neon bending experience are welcome.

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$810

7 sessions

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MIRRORWORLD: Imperfect Practices in Neon & Reflection

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the art of mirror-making and neon bending in this hands-on intensive. Unleash your creativity as you learn to coat glass with silver nitrate to create unique mirrors, and then shape neon into freeform designs. Explore the imperfect beauty of reflection and gain inspiration from contemporary and historic works of art.

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$795

3 sessions

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Get Sticky with Grace Whiteside

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class is a 5 day glassblowing intensive, students will design and produce their own line of unique alternative glass products. We will work through initial sketches, efficient production strategies, and marketing/pricing concepts as we Get Sticky with all aspects of product development but with a conceptual twist… Students will get hands-on experience with prototyping sessions guided by Grace Whiteside and the Sticky Glass team and will work...

(53) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$1,150

5 sessions

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Form and Color: Intermediate Glassblowing

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the art of intermediate glassblowing as you explore the magic of form and color in this hands-on class at UrbanGlass. Learn essential techniques, such as blowing glass smoothly and efficiently, and master basic color applications. With a combination of demos and practice time, you'll gain the skills needed to create stunning glass pieces.

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$825

6 sessions

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Intermediate Glassblowing - Intro to Goblets

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Take your glassblowing skills to the next level with UrbanGlass' hands-on course. Join us for a week of intensive practice as we explore techniques for efficiently blowing thin glass and creating stunning goblets. Previous experience required.

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$825

36 sessions

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Let’s Focus: Shapes, Textures, Hollows, Metals

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Join instructor Sheila Checkoway in this hands-on workshop at UrbanGlass as she guides you through soft glass manipulation, including surface texture application, hollow glass bead making, and the use of copper and silver foils for unique finishes. Perfect for those with bead-making experience looking to enhance their skills and create stunning glass beads.

(53) Advanced 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$650

3 sessions

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Leveling Up: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Bottle

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Perfect your glassblowing skills and create fundamental glass forms in this dynamic workshop. Join us as we dive deeper into shaping methods, temperature control, and working time. Take your skills to the next level with this intermediate-level class.

(53) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$875

6 sessions

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Pattern Unlimited

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Mosaic cane is a generic term for a bar of glass that has an image or a design in its cross section. The creation of these canes is one of the earliest glass making techniques known and many objects made this way date back to Egyptian times. In the first part of the class students will learn to create a mosaic pattern bar from sheet glass that contains their own unique design.  Students will then cut up, coldwork and reassemble their mosaic...

(53) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$375

2 sessions

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Glassblowing: The Vocab

UrbanGlass

Hot glassworking basics will be covered in this one week all levels class. Gathering, bit making, serving and application as well as blowing and sculpting fundamentals will be the foundation to creating an artist’s vocabulary in glass. Students will benefit from daily demonstrations and practice at the bench to create a hot shop strategy to realize their ideas quickly and efficiently in glass. Design and drawing out ideas before working at the...

(53) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Principles of Borosilicate

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this weekend workshop, students with some experience at the torch will explore the vessel using borosilicate glass. Those new to hollow forms will start with simple bubbles and pulling points while more advanced students will work to refine their skills making footed cups and larger vessels. From proper bubble set-up to defining an order of operations, as a class we will take a close look at our process to maximize efficiency and ensure that...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

2 sessions

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Bohemian Rhapsody: Czech Cold Working

UrbanGlass

By learning the tools to cut, carve, grind, and polish cold glass students will open the door to new textures, surfaces and creative possibilities within their studio practice. Starting from sketches of imagined sculptures, students will learn how to safely and effectively operate in the cold working studio. A range of appropriate glass adhesives will be covered to further expand the student’s potential for repair construction and fabrication....

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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Color Applications: Introduction to Glassblowing II

UrbanGlass

This class will explore a variety of techniques at an introductory level concerned with hot, cold, and graphic applications to glass. The decision making of form and surface design will be emphasised taking into account how design evolves and changes the artwork. Cold shop techniques will be encouraged to increase possibilities in surface design that cannot be achieved in the hotshop. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: ...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Mold Making and Casting

UrbanGlass

This workshop is perfect for the student looking to turn non-glass items into glass and a variety of other materials such as clay, resin, plaster, crayons, jell-o, ect. We will use the lost wax cast process for glass, and will cover many mold making techniques including silicone, rubber, plaster and mother molds.  Important Thing to Note: Please bring a multitude of objects to cast and be ready to have fun. Q&A Q: Can I make up...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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