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
This introductory glassblowing class will provide students with a solid foundation on which to build their skills. In a fun filled environment, students will learn basic techniques through demonstrations, drills, projects and lots of hands on time to help improve their skills and efficiency. With practice, students will leave class with improved hand skills and a thorough understanding of how to make a variety of basic shapes. Q&A Q: ...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Anyone, aged 8 to 80, can enjoy completing a colorful work in glass mosaic. From the earliest examples dating to the 3rd millennium BC, all peoples have contributed to the rich history of mosaic. The beauty in the process is its project-friendly simplicity. This course is the perfect introduction to glass for those interested in turning their experience in drawing and painting into three-dimensional works of glass art. Instructor lectures presenting...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this collaborative course with Brooklyn Metal Works we will work with the lost wax technique to kiln cast small pâte de verre jewels. These glass pieces will be designed as either brooches or pendants and will be made wearable using metalsmithing techniques. Beginning at the UrbanGlass studios, we will create wax models using soft waxes from both the jewelry and sculpture worlds. Combining these materials and techniques will yield a more detailed...
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Rather than focus on one specific glass technique, process or material, we will work through a series of class exercises and projects which start with an idea, investigate ways of developing that idea, explore processes and technical options along the way and then survey results. This class will explore the whole making process that we as artists engage in. Demonstrations and class discussions will be part of the workshop alongside kiln...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This exciting all ages beginners class will introduce students to the hot shop and glass blowing. Students will work in teams to create several intro projects including marbles, paperweights and colorful leaves or flowers. The two-day class will culminate in learning to blow a bubble into molten glass and a large group sculpture. Emphasis will be on hot shop safety, teamwork, and #FUN! There will be plenty of photo-ops for posting on Instagram and...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is intended for the mid to advanced student looking to broaden their horizons and improve hand skills by way of the traditional Venetian goblet. With 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, students...
UrbanGlass @ 159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for our first collaborative class with one of Brooklyn's most dynamic spaces for transdisciplinary creativity. This workshop will introduce students to the process of rapid prototyping and its translation and applications to glass casting. In the first two sessions, students will learn the basics of 3D modeling with Rhinoceros. A small prototype will be initially printed after the first class and reviewed the following week. During the second...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is the perfect opportunity to combine two very different methods of creating with glass. Crossing over techniques from both the Hot Shop and the Flame Studio, students will get a fully rounded introduction into working with fire! In the hotshop we will learn how to stretch, sculpt, and blow glass. In the flame studio we will work with torches to melt glass rods and play with color and form. In both shops students will learn the...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will focus on making kiln-formed inclusions to use in students’ jewelry designs. We will investigate different warm glass techniques including murrini making and fusing sheet glass together to create elaborately patterned glass. We will also use cold-working techniques including carving, sawing and drilling to finish pieces. Through lectures and class discussions, we will look at the history of glass jewelry from ancient times to contemporary....
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
How can sculpture actively respond to the body or the environment? What can be discovered by making light sculpture mobile? During this course, we will explore the possibilities of using flame worked glass in conjunction with neon, plasma, and LEDs. We will use a small scale battery controlled microprocessor (Arduino) to control and change these light sculptures in response to sound, temperature, ambient light, heartbeat, movement, etc. via stress...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this workshop, students will learn step by step how to screen-print photo-based images on glass using enamels. Everything will be covered from the selection and production of your original imagery to its translation into a screen and then onto a glass surface. From there, we will discuss kiln strategies and methods for firing enamels onto the surface to create a beautiful and durable finish. Tomas will present both widely known techniques and...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this one-week intensive evening course, students will concentrate on developing a safe and effective practice of working with borosilicate glass (aka Pyrex). This course is open to all skill levels and provides a strong foundation upon which to build each individual’s voice with the material. Classroom time will be fully dedicated to the fundamentals of connecting two pieces of glass and corresponding exercises will guide students through the...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This 2 week workshop will have students working in all dimensions, creating colorful, pattern-filled glass as both 2-D fusings and 3-D blown glass forms.Week one will focus in the flat shop, introducing students to cutting and melting layers of sheet glass to explore color combinations, repetition, pattern making, and composition.In week two, students will move to the hot shop to explore the ways those same colors and patterns can be applied to glass...
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...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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
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...
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