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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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Glassblowing I: An Introduction to the Material
In this 4 week course students will become familiar with the basics of glassblowing, working with molten glass. The class will focus equally on the making of basic forms, and the bio-mechanics and physics involved in working with molten glass. Important Thing to Note: No experience is necessary; this class is designed for the absolute beginner to start learning the process of glassblowing in a fun and engaging workshop. Q&A Q: Can I make...
Glassblowing I: Temperature & Movement of Glass
In this class, students will engage in a series of exciting drills and exercises to gain a profound understanding of the movement and working time of hot glass in relation to its temperature. Class time will be focused on analyzing how our actions generate a visible response within molten glass and understanding why that just happened. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly with the material while gathering and shaping it into unique...
Creativity Unleashed!
This is a class designed to encourage individual creativity with hot glass. There is no hot glass experience necessary but an experimental mindset is essential. During the class we will cover 4 different processes which can be customized, mixed, matched, and twisted to the vision of the artist. The topics covered will be: Building and sculpting with bits Exploring the world of alternative blow molds Creating and using...
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Cups!
Demonstrations focused on tumblers and goblets will expose students to a variety of glassmaking techniques. Topics will include general goblet anatomy and assembly: cups, stems, feet, avolios; design elements: optic molds, stem and bowl styles, handles; and the finer details that may be observed but not necessarily put into words. Bring sketchbooks of ideas and be prepared to learn through observation. Demonstrations will be supplemented...
Rock and Roll Glass Band
Have you ever wanted to be in a band? Let’s explore unique sounds together by creating one-of-a-kind glass instruments. Students will be able to experiment in a variety of glass techniques to design their flutes, drums, horns and lutes. As we learn more about glass, new sounds—loud, strange, faint, wobbly and playful—will come blurting out of our creations. In the end of the workshop, we will come together to form a rocking and raucous...
Roll Baby Roll: Roll Ups
This design and technique oriented class is a fast track to creating visually strong, colorful narratives in 3D form using the Roll-up technique. Each student will design and fuse a tile reflecting their own artistic language, learn how to get the tile ready for the roll-up process, and finally work in groups to roll and blow it to create a vessel or sculptural form. No prior experience is needed but a strong interest in kilnforming techniques is...
Glass: Fundamentals of the Material
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....
Photo Bomb: From Image to Object
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...
Freeform Neon Tubes to Plasma and Beyond
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...
Luminous Sculpture
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...
There and Back Again: A Graal’s Tale
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...
Intro/Intermediate Glassblowing: The Skill of The Trade
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...
Take One Step Back to Take Five Steps Forward
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...
Emotions in Cast Glass
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...
Cane Inspirations
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...
Introduction to Borosilicate Flameworking
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...
The Hot Glass Challenge
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...
Iconoplasticity
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. ...
Creativity Poured Out: Hotcasting Weekend
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...
Line, Plane, Gravity: Kilnformed Glass
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....
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