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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UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Complete course title: Down to the Wire: Experimental Glassblowing with Cages, Molds, and More This class will explore the amazing ability glass has to take on beautiful and unexpected forms. Using experimental tools and methods, while expanding on fundamental glassblowing techniques, students will explore a world of new shapes. Utilizing the compatibility between copper and furnace glass, students will blow and cast into structures made...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glass has the ability to be fluid in its molten state, and almost immediately become static as it cools. This unique characteristic offers artists the ability to capture momentum and freeze transitional forms. This class will explore the expressive potential and intensity of the hot glass by capturing this transformation through objects, sculpture, and pyrography. In the kilnforming studio, we will take a much more calculated approach to creating...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students in Bend and Wear will learn neon tube bending basics while exploring wild methods of display. Students will learn to pattern, bend, and create wearable neon to become walking, performative, light sculptures that will be exhibited in the streets, in a mobile installation through New York City. Participants will become walking emitters of electromagnetic waves in a variety of visible wavelengths by utilizing the cutting edge of the 1980s...
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This class will serve as a platform to engage with the counterintuitive characteristics of molten glass as it moves through different states of matter. Students will be introduced to the hot shop, learning safety in the studio, and beginning their journey with this unusual material. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly in the studio and shape the glass into solid and blown, sculptural and functional, objects. Learning will...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Make your very own neon light! In this private introductory lesson, students will learn all of the steps to transform hollow glass tubes into stunning illuminated neon. Starting with the basics of glass tube bending using the heat of a torch, students will then learn about following patterns to make a specific sign. Students will complete one simple neon sign. Once their piece is ready, students will observe as their piece is pumped – or filled...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Combining flameworking with alternative photo processes, this experimental workshop aims to explore the relationship between object and image to achieve unexpected outcomes. We will explore optics and distortion while creating unique images, projections, videos, and objects by utilizing handmade, flame-worked lenses together with digital photography and photographic processes such as cyanotypes. Working in the flame studio and cold shop, we...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this 8-week, introductory workshop, students will learn to manipulate glass tubes to create their own, unique neon signs. Demonstrations on equipment safety, basic bends, and good technique will lead to more complex explorations dependent on student designs. Using the week in between each class to process what they’ve learned, students will learn to pattern for neon, plan out their signs, experiment, and add neon art to their tool kit as artists....
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this class we’ll explore the practical relationship between form and function as we fabricate vessels to showcase a variety of floral arrangements. This weekend workshop will devote the first day to work in the hot shop where we will focus on designing vases that will lend themselves well to displaying flower designs. After a brief intro into kinds and principals of floral design on Saturday, we will spend time Sunday learning...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this fast paced flameworking class we will cover a variety of coloring processes and strategies for creating borosilicate jewelry. The techniques covered in this class will broaden the possibilities of wearables created with the flameworking process. In this 2-day class we will cover color layering and application, cane pulling, solid and hollow implosions, as well as sculpting. This class will be accessible to the beginner at the torch and...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glassblowing is a dance of physical forces. In this introductory class, students will learn the foundations of glassblowing, including safety in the studio, body movement, basic techniques, and finishing pieces. We will put special emphasis on gravity and centrifugal force, which are the most valuable tools in understanding the material. We will learn to utilize these forces to create unique forms, experimenting in the studio with lengthening,...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Simple Goblets is a six week introductory course designed for students with some glassblowing experience. We will be reviewing basic goblet making techniques, as well as introducing optic mold enhancements. Optic cups and feet will be demonstrated as well as avolio and morise connections. Goblet making is the holy grail of glassblowing, and this course will take you out of your comfort zone while bringing your skills to the next level.
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn something new this summer in the hot glass studio. In this six week course we will cover all the basics of working with hot glass. Through a series of skill building drills and guided work time we will cover everything one needs to know to begin their relationship with hot glass. This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of the material and set them up to take the next steps becoming a glass maker.
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this experimental class, you will use multiple printmaking and painting processes with glass, mixed with glass cutting techniques to assemble layered imagery in glass. We will discuss the pros and cons of each technique and how to mix and match them to best realize your ideas. Individual experimentation will be encouraged through focused research and observation of process and material. The print processes covered are lithographic image...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The material for this workshop consists of ordinary pieces of float-glass in various sizes that can be cut further in any desired shape. In this practical and theoretical workshop, new and found glass pieces and broken fragments will be used creatively to construct any object possible. Students will also learn how to cut glass pieces to create these desired shapes. Cutting glass-pieces is similar to drawing and conducive to visualizing...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this eight-week neon lettering class, learn the advanced skills required to bend letters and work from a pattern. We will focus on mastering the basics of tube bending techniques as well as layout preparation in order to create, wire, and display your own neon signs. By the end of the class, students will have the skills and confidence to work independently on advanced projects in our studio. This will be an intensive course, beginners and advanced...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Create your very own neon light in this two-day weekend intensive. Learn all of the steps to create in neon, starting with the basics of how to bend glass tubes using the heat of the torch, followed by pattern design and bending to achieve your own unique design. Each final design will be processed and filled with one of the noble gases – neon, argon, xenon - to become luminous! The final day of class will conclude with a wiring...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
For this introduction to glassblowing course, we will focus on the properties of glass and how it moves in relation to our bodies and surroundings. Glassblowing is about reaching a greater understanding of the effects that temperature and gravity have on the viscosity of the material. If we quit turning the pipe, the glass will fall to the floor. If the glass gets cold, it will no longer be malleable. This course will cover the basics of glassblowing...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The art of mold making can be translated into many forms and materials. This workshop will focus on kilncasting glass using high fire refractory. Through this process, we will be covering a multitude of techniques, including conceptualizing the process, working with clay and wax, mold materials, and repetitive molds allowing us to create multiples. We will also discuss problem solving, equipment usage, and safety. The class will wrap up with basic...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Designed for students of all ages, this introductory glassblowing class focuses on playing with color in the hot shop. Starting with a basic foundation of skills, students will learn about safety, tools, equipment, and start to work with the material. We will then begin deconstructing traditional methods of applying glass color and invent entirely unique processes of our own. We will tap into the genius of your own creativity, which has not...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Hot Shop Projects is designed for students who have a specific hot glass project or idea in mind. It is an opportunity to receive technical guidance, access to the hot shop, and the support of a diverse team to explore and accomplish said idea(s) on a weekly basis over a period of 6 weeks. The scope of the projects can be very diverse. Students can work with traditional blowing techniques, solid work and sculpting, hot assembly, various color...
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