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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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Levels Up with Implosions

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Have you ever wondered how flowers get inside glass pendants and marbles? In this weekend class, we will explore implosions, one of the most fun and addictive of all flameworking techniques. The implosion process involves using heat, gravity and optics to transform a flat pattern into a three-dimensional one. Students will use glass stringers and frit to create gorgeous pendants, marbles, and miniature paperweights of their own designs. The design...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$335

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Simple Mold Making for Jewelry

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

It’s simple and easy to make your own molds for glass jewelry. Cuttlefish bones, such as the ones you see in birdcages, are soft and easy to carve. They are perfect for making small pendants, pieces for bracelets, necklaces, earrings and brooches. Molds can be filled with large and small glass  frit and powders, as well as small inclusions like fine gauge wire, millefiori and metal foil. Students should come prepared with simple drawings that...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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$375

2 sessions

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Glass: Fundamentals of the Material

UrbanGlass

In this six week course, students will learn the process of object making with a strong focus on the fundamentals of the material. From solid sculpting to blown vessels/objects, by the end of the course the student will have proficient knowledge of the process of making glass objects as well as an entry point into understanding the nature of molten glass. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there are no makeups allowed....

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Photo Bomb: From Image to Object

UrbanGlass

For this class we’ll be collaborating with BKC in Dumbo to brainstorm and develop photographic ideas to translate into glass. The use of photographic decals fused to glass permits a new language, one influenced by light and the inherent properties of glass.  Optics, opacity, transparency and color become new tools for the photographer.   The workshop will start with two session at BKC where  instructors will first introduce the...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Freeform Neon Tubes to Plasma and Beyond

UrbanGlass

During this class, we will combine scientific and artistic flameworking techniques to create a variety of forms and then illuminate them, Using Geissler tubes and the early use of illumination in scientific glass for inspiration, students can explore a variety of traditional and experimental approaches to creating illuminated works. Some experience working with hollow borosilicate glass will be helpful. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Luminous Sculpture

UrbanGlass

Learn to manipulate and experiment with the luminous glass tube in this introductory workshop. Learning the history and evolution of neon, students will develop glass bending techniques both simple and complex. The pieces will then be illuminated using noble gases such as neon, argon, and krypton as well as a variety of phosphor coated tubes. Focusing the first half of the class on bending techniques with different burners, the second half will...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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There and Back Again: A Graal’s Tale

UrbanGlass

In this class we will use a traditional Swedish imagery technique called a graal as our jumping off spot.  As with traditional graals, the glass made in this class will take a long journey from the hot shop to the cold shop and back again, but we will bend, twist and push time tested techniques to their limits until we arrive at something completely innovative. We will leave no idea untested.   This class will cover some basic cold working...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Intro/Intermediate Glassblowing: The Skill of The Trade

UrbanGlass

The aim of this intro/intermediate workshop is to connect you with the fundamental techniques of the glassblowing  process. Proper tool use, ergonomics and movement economy will be encouraged allowing your creative energy to flow with the material. In the hot-shop we will work as a production team attempting to create a high output of pieces.  In each session we will design, blow and/or cold-work our very own glass product. The work produced...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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Take One Step Back to Take Five Steps Forward

UrbanGlass

Let's take the cold working knowledge you have, whether you're a novice or a proficient seasoned veteran, and allow me take you back to square one. We will be covering how to approach projects and how to use the machines to produce the effects I wish to achieve. Whether it is punty removal, sculpting, surface decoration, or one of the many many facets of working glass cold, we will explore my working styles, short cuts, ergonomics, and strategies...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Emotions in Cast Glass

UrbanGlass

Students will explore how to translate intimate objects or imagery into glass sculptures that convey emotion through the use of various techniques, found objects and the transparency of glass.  Multiple casting techniques will be demonstrated in order to obtain variety of lecture and volume.  Student will be taught how to construct a molds, understand and develop firing schedules as well as mold drying schedules. Q&A Q: Can I...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Cane Inspirations

UrbanGlass

This week long concentration is perfect for those searching to add to their toolbox of hot glass surface and design tricks. With applications for both vessel and sculptural work, this class will focus on traditional and non-conventional patterned techniques with an emphasis on cane work and its ability to add further expression and dimension to blown glass. Demonstrations will include techniques such as reticello, filigree, and incalmo. We will then...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Borosilicate Flameworking

UrbanGlass

This course is open to all levels who are interested in exploring and / or reviewing the basics of flameworking borosilicate glass. Classroom time will be dedicated to promoting safe work habits while becoming familiar with tools, equipment, and technique. There will be an emphasis on finding each student's individual voice with the material concurrent to learning through repetition to advance hand skills.  Students will walk away with whatever...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Kilnforming Weekend Workshop

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this fun two-day class, you will learn the skills to make items like plates, coasters, wall sconces, and jewelry elements; this and more is possible when working with kilnformed glass. The workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of kilnforming – glass cutting, fusing and slumping. Students will work with flat glass, crushed glass, stringers and rods, as well as metal inclusions, to make finished pieces. Experimentation is highly...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$350

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The Hot Glass Challenge

UrbanGlass

This introduction to glassblowing intensive will provide hands-on experience in working with molten glass from an non-traditional perspective. Students' creativity, participation and critical thinking will be fueled through drills, exercises, demonstrations and challenges such as blowing glass left-handed and using non-glassblowing tools to shape hot glass. We will have a playful approach and will not exert any rules or material boundaries to allow...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Iconoplasticity

UrbanGlass

What are the visual images and symbols that you use in your work?  Lady Guadalupe, geometric tessellations, Scandinavian cut glass? One finds inspiration in the figure, the abstract or the function; the art, the craft, or the design.  The roles that these methods play in our aesthetics are at the core of our process.  The physical plasticity of glass allows us to blur the line between these roles: crafting the design is an art.  ...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Creativity Poured Out: Hotcasting Weekend

UrbanGlass

Hot casting is one of the most direct and approachable forms of expression in glass. In this class, students will learn the basic techniques of composing relief impressions from found and created objects in sand molds and hot casting into them. Once we have conquered the basic techniques of ladeling hot glass we will exercise our creativity by creating alternative molds from a wide variety of materials and filling them with molten glass. Q&A...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Line, Plane, Gravity: Kilnformed Glass

UrbanGlass

In this mixed level kilnforming class, beginning students will explore what happens when glass in sheet, powder, and/or cane form is fused and bent in a kiln.  More experienced students will be encouraged to approach basic glass forming techniques with a fresh eye to create new and unexpected results that will help expand current work or push it forward into new directions. Basic cold working techniques will be introduced to finish projects....

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Neon Lighting: How Do You Bend Red “A” in the Window?

UrbanGlass

Technological advancements and the rise of LED lighting have pushed neon from its once prominent position in the world of signs and advertising to a smaller, more artistically driven market. Once dubbed “the scarlet whore of the advertising industry,” neon has been making its way from the glowing windows and storefronts of questionable repute to the substantially more posh gallery and art fair settings.  We invite you to join this six-week...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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Pattern and Process: Advanced Cane Applications

UrbanGlass

This workshop will begin where an introductory cane workshop leaves off, exploring non-traditional uses of cane techniques that include warm, cold, and hot shop processes. By introducing more intermediary steps between pulling and picking up basic canes, we create room to explore other means of generating regular and irregular patterns.  The goal of the workshop will be to investigate as many permutations as possible and arrive at a point where...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Molten Material

UrbanGlass

Introduce or reinforce various technical and aesthetic aspects of glass as a material and glassblowing as a process in this 6-week course. Through a series of hands-on projects, demonstrations and critiques you will explore beyond the fundamentals of glass blowing. Hot sculpting, color and surface patterns, optic-molds and basic cold working techniques are at the core of the class.  The students will be introduced to standard safety procedures...

(53) All levels 11 and older
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