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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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Neon Lighting: How Do You Bend Red “A” in the Window?
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...
Pattern and Process: Advanced Cane Applications
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...
Introduction to Molten Material
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...
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Surface Texture: Make a Mark
Experiment with pattern and surface texture in this weekend intensive. We will make stamps to press into the surface of glass and will experiment with other forms of surface texture and mark making. Various methods of solid construction and connections will be demonstrated and students will learn how to join their textured pieces to make larger more complex sculptures. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there...
Hot Glass Weekend: A Whole New World
If you have always been curious to learn to blow glass, now is the time to try! In this class we will learn how to gather molten glass and begin to create different forms. We'll start with basic solid forms and progress towards blown vessels with color. We'll be making objects such as paperweights, flowers and small vessels. We will also explore the many possibilities of hot glass so we can better understand its potential. The art of blowing...
One Day of Flame Working
In this 5 hour workshop, students will have the abiilty to learn the basics of working with torches and borosilicate glass. Learn to make pendants, marbles, and more. Classes will begin with a demonstration of techniques and safety procedures, and will move into hands on practice with the aide of the instructors. Join us today! All levels welcome, no experience necessary.
High School Camp: Intro to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Discover the mesmerizing art of glassblowing at UrbanGlass High School Camp. Learn how to shape molten glass into unique works of art, gaining confidence and skills in a professional studio environment. No experience is required for this vibrant and exciting experience.
High School Camp: Intro to Flameworking: Drawing with Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Unleash your creativity and bring your drawings to life through the captivating art of flameworking at UrbanGlass. Learn how to shape and sculpt borosilicate glass into stunning 3D sculptures using the flame of a torch. Discover the ancient techniques of networking and solid sculpting to create unique glass structures and forms.
From Cup to Goblet w/ Adam Holtzinger
This class is intended for the mid to advanced student looking to broaden their horizons and improve hand skills by exploring the traditional Venetian goblet form. With a focus on teamwork, form and function, timing and garage work, students will leave the class with a better understanding of the material and how to assemble simple, as well as complex goblets. Starting with the foundation of joining two bubbles together to make simple footed goblets,...
From Process to Design - Intermediate to Advanced
This class will focus on clean design with function in mind: proportion and ergonomics with an eye towards simplicity. Students will be shown how to refine their process and develop problem solving techniques that will serve them well beyond the class. Color application techniques will focus on color overlays, from even distribution to color fades. Clear and colored bit techniques will also be covered and include wrap and handle applications. This...
Printing From and With Glass
This class will experiment with cold shop processes and techniques such as wheel-engraving, carving, sandblasting and photographic transfer to create surface images and/or textures from which to print. Unique or repeated prints can be made from flat or curved glass surfaces. Students will be encouraged to develop their own narrative using imagery which is appropriate for the different techniques. Suitable for any skill level, these direct printing...
Hot Shop Survey
This class is designed to give you a taste of many different glass working techniques to better inform your personal process. This four-week class will cover a variety of ways to utilize the hot glass studio including solid sculpting, glass blowing, mold blowing and sand casting. Come with questions and ideas in mind!
Eat with your Eyes: Youth Intro to Glassblowing
This course is about exploring glassmaking and the display and eating of food. While learning foundational glass blowing techniques, each student will have the opportunity to create a place setting of basic forms, that is expressive of oneself. Projects will be inspired by a weekly snack session to fuel exploration of utilitarian glass objects made in the hot shop. The emphasis in this class will be on teamwork, beginning glassblowing techniques,...
Glassblowing 1: Hot Plasticine for Adults
Experience glass in its purest, viscous form with this introduction to the basics of hot glass. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly with the material, gather molten glass out of the furnace, add color and manipulate it using heat, gravity and glassblowing tools. The basics of sculpting and blowing will be covered and students will leave with a significant understanding of how the material behaves and their own hand-crafted...
Advanced Topics in Glassblowing
The visual and physical properties of optic molded blown glass will be the focus of this course. Hot glass demonstrations will cover straight, twisted, and partially rigid processes. Instruction will focus on pre-mold setups of shape, heat and timing to establish and maintain optic ridges. Students will work hands on in teams to practice and cultivate their technique and realize their own aesthetic in either functional or sculptural blown forms....
Glassblowing 2: Traditional Techniques & Basic Shapes
This workshop will build on a basic understanding of the movement and temperature of glass and apply this empirical knowledge to the making of intentional blown glass vessels. Through drawings, group discussions and demonstrations students will be able to observe and recognize how to control and direct the inherent and natural behavior of glass. Students will learn traditional glassblowing techniques by making basic shapes such as the cylinder, bowl,...
Glass 5: The Shape of Light
Taking advantage of the thriving lighting design industry contained within the New York glass community, this class will use this unique environment to develop new decorative lighting pieces. This intermediate glassblowing course is meant to give students a comprehensive insight into glass lighting, covering every step of the process from resolving designs, to choosing hardware, to blowing and coldworking the glass elements, and finally to wiring...
Glassblowing in Number
This intermediate workshop will focus on understanding glassblowing from a time/cost/efficiency perspective. Each week, we will focus on different set-up shapes and techniques to minimize working time in the hot shop. From a technical perspective, students will gain experience working hotter and at a faster, more efficient pace. Through drills, repetition and timed exercises we will push ourselves to become better glassmakers. The second component...
Slump and Fuse Weekend
In this fun two-day introductory workshop, students 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...
Youth Hot Glass Weekend: Fundamentals
In this two day workshop designed as an introductory experience to the material, students will focus on beginner skills! This experience will cover a wide array of foundational glass blowing skills and techniques needed to create basic shapes and forms. Inspiration will be derived from one’s imagination in addition to a variety of methods. By the end of the weekend, students will have a sense of working within a glassblowing facility, of teamwork,...
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