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Stained Glass and 3D Sculptures
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Using wire and metal sheets, students will create armatures and form architectural structures to support 3-dimensional stained glass pieces. By integrating a metal framework within glass sculptures, students will be able to create new and inventive works, playing with scale, shape, and pushing into new territories in stained glass. We will learn how to cut glass, and assemble pieces using traditional copper foil and soldering method. This workshop...
Piece It Together: Stained Glass Design
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Flat glass design is a workshop for beginner students interested in stained glass objects. Students will learn basic skills for working with flat glass like cutting, grinding, copper foil and solder. This class will also discuss simple stained glass design and be centered around making an object you want to have displayed in your home. Never worked in glass before? Join us in making your first ever stained glass object.
Scientific Flameworking: Basic Techniques
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This is a hands on class concentrating on scientific glass techniques and how they are beneficial to artistic endeavors. Bends, side seals, pulling points, ring seals, wrapping coils, colored glass use and freehand blowing as well as use of a blow hose will be practiced. The final class will focus on flame worked goblets. Some completed goblet feet and cups will be provided to allow participant’s to let creativity flow. Q&A Q: ...
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Intro to Stained Glass-Color Theory
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn to use color with purpose! This workshop will introduce you to planning color palettes that are harmonious and expressive. Come investigate the many dimensions of color: hue, value, and saturation in a series of hands-on exercises in color design. Working with stained glass, we’ll explore harmonies, contrasts, textures, and opacity. This class will cover the fundamentals of stained glass design, glass cutting, and the copper foil construction...
Title Neon 101: Light As Sculpture
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the art of creating stunning neon signs and sculptures in this hands-on workshop. Learn the entire process, from design to installation, and leave with your very own neon piece. Perfect for beginners and those looking to refine their skills.
Neon Weekend Deluxe Edition
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Unleash your creativity and learn the art of neon tube bending in this introductory course at UrbanGlass. Discover how to create simplified illustrative patterns inspired by your imagination, while also exploring the conceptual weight of neon as a material. Perfect for beginners and those looking to level up their techniques, this class offers the opportunity to create a small neon project and gain the knowledge to easily install it indoors.
Experimental Stained Glass Sculpture
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore color, light and form through the creation of abstract, 3-dimensional stained glass sculptures using the Tiffany method. The class is open to beginners or intermediate students and will cover basic glass cutting, cold working with grinders and dremel, copper foil, soldering, and final assemblage of the sculpture. In addition, you will learn some stained glass history, along with a bit of color theory. The goal of this class...
Large and in Charge
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn to use the material properties of borosilicate glass to create large scale sculptures and objects. Starting from a plan or drawing, components will be made and then formed together using annealing and kiln-manipulation techniques. Students will gain confidence in constructing complex forms and intricate shapes. This class is aimed at flameworkers with prior experience at the torch, who wish to gain a better understanding...
$275
Holiday Ornaments (All Ages)
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Come spend the day out of the cold and cozy up to our furnace! In this one day workshop, we will learn to gather hot glass, apply color and make your very own unique, decorative ornaments to liven up your home this holiday season! Open to all, ages 10 and up!
$250
One Billet Wonder
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This short, but intensive class is a great introduction to the process of open-face casting. Starting with developing a 5” x 10” sculptural design in clay, students will then create an open-face mold into which a clear or colored billet (slab) of glass will be placed and heated in a kiln to create a 3-dimensional form. Hands-on work will be complimented by a presentation on kilnformed glass. No experience required, however, this class is also...
Glass Exploration For Beg : Intro to Glassblowing I
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this class we will explore all the basic skills needed to shape, form, and blow glass. We will also take time out to digress and have some fun with colorful paperweights, flowers, and some abstract sculptural forms. This class will be a well-rounded introduction to anyone interested in this enticing material. Important Thing to Note: No experience necessary. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there are...
Illuminated Manuscript: Intro to Neon
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In our brand new neon studio, this class will introduce students to the techniques of bending and illuminating gas filled glass tubes and discuss their application to concepts and design. Introduced to the US in 1923, neon signage radically transformed our urban landscape for the next 70 years. As neon has faded from prominence in the signage industry it has increasing found a home in the fine art world. Important Thing to Note: No experience...
Beginning Glassblowing Intensive: Full Immersion
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This week long intensive will focus on creating a solid foundation of beginning glassblowing skills that can be built on from one day to the next. Get fully immersed in glassblowing and maximize your potential! From sculpting solid forms to blowing hollow vessels, this class will provide students with an opportunity to take creative license and make pieces that are distinctly their own. Important Thing to Note: No experience necessary. Q&A...
Flametastic Voyage on the Borosilicate Sea
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
During this class we will explore non-traditional and traditional techniques of hollow and solid sculpting, including component construction, bit work, stringer drawing, frit and color application. Borosilicate glassblowing is an incredibly versatile and accesible medium. With a focus on easy application of complicated techniques, students will learn about the endless possibilities of flameworking. Discussions on how to set up an efficient and...
Introduction to Coldworking: Design and Execution
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Cold working is used to finish blown and kilnformed pieces, but can also be the means of sculpting glass from start to finish. In this course, students will learn basic glass cold working techniques such as drilling, cutting, grinding, shaping and polishing using machinery, gluing techniques will also be covered. Individual projects will support support group learning about the technical scope of coldworking. Design will be emphasised, students are...
Breaking Through Basics: Glass Fundamentals For Youth
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students will learn the basic fundamentals of these processes and will have the opportunity to investigate the possibilities of crossing over techniques between the studios. Come explore the many techniques of making glass in this six week course. This workshop covers 3 major areas of glass making, and much more. Students will try flame-working, making beads and other glass art on a table top bench torch, blowing glass in the hot shop and making...
Put it on the Glass: Perverse Stained Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
“Put It on the Glass” transfers contemporary imagery and issues onto flat glass surfaces using stained glass painting, etching, and joining processes. Focusing on the power of juxtaposition and controversy, this course employs traditional stained glass techniques to re-contextualize our current interests and experiences through an archival art form. The class will begin with a short slide presentation that binds past and present, spanning 13th...
Cane Camp - Getting down to Brass Tacks
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this intensive glassblowing class, cane is the name of the game. By reducing the color pallet and scale, students will focus on the fundamentals of using cane as a decorative technique. Demos and projects will start off with simple exercises and increase in complexity as students build a solid foundation of understanding. Subjects covered will include simple and complex cane pulls, collar and bubble pick ups, prep work and various approaches to...
Pre-College Camp: Portfolio Polish
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This intensive one-week pre college session is perfect for creative students looking to broaden their knowledge of sculptural mediums and further their art education. Through carving, gluing and casting students will transform their sketches and ideas into three-dimensional pieces of glass art. As well as an amazing introduction to our studio and to a wide variety of glass making techniques, young artists will leave this workshop with unique works...
Creative Concepts in Kilnforming
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Madison creates work in glass and other media that is informed by his love of drawing and inspired by place- the colors, materials and forms that comprise the man-made and natural environments around us. His interest in these elements stems from their ability to tell us about the character of a place as well as to tell us something about ourselves. This class will explore the process and techniques Morgan uses to achieve the distinct linear...
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