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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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Low Temp, Low Tech: Making Glass Drawings

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Translate your own drawings into sculptural glass pieces that retain the feeling of a hand drawn sketch. Learn to use flameworking torches to bend thin glass stringer into the lines of your personal drawings. Add color and glass “paper” using Bullseye Glass powders, stencils, and other analog powder printing techniques.  Students will make small sketches and color samples on day one, and spend day two translating a larger drawing...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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Waste Not, Want Not

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

No matter how hard one tries, most artists working with kilnforming techniques end up with an ever-increasing collection of glass scraps that are left over from previous projects. However, when looked at as a resource, they are small pieces of glass waiting to be given a second life. This class will look at a variety of ways of bringing new life to Bullseye scrap glass, including pot & mesh melts, pattern bars, and puddles, with and without...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$780

6 sessions

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Intro to Glow

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Learn the basics of bending glass tubing using commercial neon bending technology. We will use clear glass and a selection of noble gases to craft luminous sculptures in any linear shape!  Students can choose to stick to traditional flat signs, or jump off of the paper and create three dimensional glowing drawings. Expect to leave with a new way of thinking about light! No experience required. 

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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$565

2 sessions

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Plant Paradise: Introduction to Vessels and Terrariums

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Looking for a new home for your special plant? Somewhere exciting for those spring blossoms? Spend the weekend creating one! Enhance your space, flex your creativity, and learn a new skill.  Join us for a weekend of introductory glassmaking exploring the exciting properties of this material, while quickly building a basic skill-set ultimately put to use making vessels and terrariums to house your favorite plant pals.  No experience required...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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$500

2 sessions

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Bending Skills and Noble Fills

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this 8-week introductory workshop, students are encouraged to explore the brilliant and sculptural potentials of neon! The first four weeks of class will be split between demonstrations given by the instructor and guided personal exploration.  Demonstrations will include:  the fundamental techniques required to bend and weld hot glass tubing tips and tricks on how to make a bending pattern indoor installation and the process...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$1,000

8 sessions

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Color Chemistry 101

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Curious about making your own glass color? This class will cover the basics of glass chemistry and color making. Students will learn about a variety of glass colorants and the different mechanisms by which they create color, and participate in formulating and mixing three different colors from raw material.  The second half of the class will be spent working the glass directly out of the crucible kiln. Class will also cover methods for determining...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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Glass and Poetry

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will combine glassblowing and poetry writing, introducing students to the ways in which glass and text might reflect, inflect, distort, blur, blend, confuse, and “blow” into one another. Students will see how writing might generate glass forms, and how glass forms in turn, might generate writing.  Class will think about how both glass and text might equally display properties of transparency or opacity, solidity or liquidity,...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$800

5 sessions

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Neon & Phenomenology

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Directed towards some of the more rare and spectacular concepts, materials, and tools enmeshed in the process of making neon, this workshop gets inside the medium of neon through all of the backdoors, slides, and portals available. In this 5-day workshop, students will learn the basic bends that make up any neon work, as well as safety and methods of display, exploring glass, gas, electricity, and light.  Drawing parallels to observation and...

(53) All levels 18 and older
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$890

5 sessions

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Borosilicate Marbles: Tiny Worlds Within

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will focus on strengthening fundamentals, exploration and development of new skills for the creation of borosilicate marbles. Students will explore a variety of techniques such as surface application of color, dichroic glass, encasement, tubing implosion, and more. Depending upon the interests of students, other forms may also be covered, as many of the techniques covered may be used to create a variety of items.  A wide range of...

(53) All levels 11 and older
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$550

2 sessions

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Veggie Blow: Glassblowing Weekend

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you blew glass into a bell pepper? Can you imagine what the texture of a cored-out cabbage would look like!?   In this class we will blow glass into various vegetables. Along the way students will learn the basics of glass blowing and mold blowing. Not only do vegetables have tons of beautiful texture, but they are also easily carved and endlessly manipulable. The produce aisle will never look...

(53) Beginner 10 and older
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$500

2 sessions

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8 Week Intermediate Neon

Brooklyn Glass @ 142 13th St, Brooklyn, NY

In this 8-week course, students will learn new skills and techniques, expanding on those learned in our Introductory Neon Courses. They will work on a project or pursue focused experimentation utilizing glass tubing. Instruction will focus on fine tuning student’s neon bending, working with various sizes of tubing, creating bending patterns, new approaches to fabrication, and instruction on mounting styles to accomplish their chosen aesthetic....

(369) Intermediate 18 and older
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$830

8 sessions

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Intro to Kilncasting: Press Molds

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this class students will learn how to make a variety of molds for kilncast glass projects. We will start with open faced casting from folded paper and we will move on to two part press molds, which allow us to explore multi-sided detail and thinner forms. We will discuss how heat and glass selection affects the final product.  What to expect: Students should expect to leave the class with 3 samples and 1 to 2 larger projects (under 8”...

(53) Beginner 14 and older
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$1,100

6 sessions

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Introduction to Glassblowing (Friday Nights)

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Students will continue to build on basic hand skills and a fundamental understanding of the way blown glass works as they explore on more complicated shapes and techniques and learn to control form. This class is a continuation of the introduction to glassblowing class. Color techniques such as overlays and wraps will be introduced and team work at the bench will be encouraged. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there...

(53) Beginner 18 and older
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$855

6 sessions

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Introduction to Boro

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This weekend course provides an introduction to flameworking with borosilicate glass. Students will learn to create small objects, apply color, and explore the worlds of solid sculptural forms. Through a mixture of technical exercises and creative projects, students will delve into the potential of this material. The goal of the course is for students to gain confidence in their ability and be able to create well-crafted objects. What to Expect...

(53) Beginner 12 and older
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$540

2 sessions

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Crossing Over: Blowing with Cast Parts

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Take the plunge and explore what can occur when glassblowing, kiln casting and coldworking are combined in the making process. Working collaboratively and merging kiln casting, coldworking and hot shop techniques, students will cast, blow, and cold work elements, such as handles, feet and stems, that will then be combined with blown glass in the hot shop making hybrid sculptural and/or functional works. Through experimental assemblage, kiln casting...

(53) All levels 14 and older
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$835

6 sessions

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The Fire Within

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Glass is a very unique material compared to other craft materials. You cannot touch the glass directly, the glass will respond better if you are consistently practicing, and it takes time to master the techniques. On the other hand, you can use your own original ideas, tools and processes to create unique work that is less reliant on standard processes.  Traditional techniques are necessary to begin to play with glass, so this class will include...

(53) All levels 14 and older
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$1,195

5 sessions

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Digital Methods for Glass Molds

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This week-long intensive will introduce students to digital design and fabrication tools for making glass molds, from the process of 3D modeling to CNC milling and mold-making. We will go over best practices for designing geometry for digital fabrication, and experience CNC-milling through one session at an off-site fabrication studio. At UrbanGlass, we’ll practice making plaster molds for casting and blown glass. What to Expect: We will prepare...

(53) All levels 14 and older
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$1,060

6 sessions

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Trying to Say More with Less

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this workshop students will focus on refining technical skills as a means to explore how simplification can broaden our creative outcomes. We will work through basic forms in clear glass while emphasizing efficient workflow and heat management. We will take a closer look at the blowing processes’ constituent parts (gathering, marvering, centering, body mechanics, etc) and strive to deepen our understanding of the working characteristics of...

(53) All levels 14 and older
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$790

3 sessions

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Memory Layers: Generating Images on Glass

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class is an invitation for illustrators, painters, designers, and anybody with an interest in the graphic image to experiment with the possibilities of the pictorial representation on glass. Participants will be challenged to delve into their own memory lane to work with the central images -photography, sketches, drawings, texts- that portray their narratives. Digital and analog approaches will be used to define the layers that build these...

(53) All levels 12 and older
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$1,350

5 sessions

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Kilncasting with Zircar Mold Mix 6

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this summer intensive students will get an introduction to kiln casting glass using Zircar Mold Mix 6 molds. Zircar Mold Mix 6 is a high temperature ceramic mold material used to make lightweight, strong, reusable mold for glass casting and blowing. What to Expect: During this workshop students will make several Zircar Mold Mix 6 molds based on original designs. These molds will be built up around hand carved panels of linoleum and can be...

(53) All levels 14 and older
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$920

5 sessions

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