UrbanGlass Classes, New York

This workshop will explore how glass lamination can enrich one's artistic palette and expand technical vocabulary, layering sheets of glass, inclusions, and adhesive for dynamic effects. Students will learn how to design for a particular desired outcome and to use transparency, translucency/opacity, and textural variety of glass as a palette. Blocking,...

The “cup” shape is much more than the container we think it is. It is also one of the building blocks for many color processes. Spend a weekend brushing up on stuffed cups, incalmo technique, and supios.  Over two days we will look at color overlays and color efficiency, how to use the garage, and how to stack, stuff, and split...

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...

Create your very own glass beads and hair ornaments! In this course, students will learn the key fundamentals of flameworking custom glass beads. Starting with basic safety and glass knowledge, students will learn how to heat and form glass around steel mandrels to create their very own glass beads.  This class will place special focus on crafting...

Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between what’s hidden inside and what we experience on the outside. By reproducing objects  in kiln cast glass, this course will expand creativity but also explore several techniques in order to develop unique “voices” in the pieces....

This course will explore the many ways to heat and melt a variety of glass types at the torch. Class will cover the basics of borosilicate, soft, and recycled glass, and will focus on the ways to properly sculpt and shape the correct material for the project at hand. Discussions will also cover thinking about working bigger by utilizing components....

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...

In this class, students will learn how to create inventive artworks, playing with scale, shape, textures, patterns, and color to explore new territories in stained glass. Class will explore how to integrate small non-glass objects within stained glass compositions. Demonstrations will also cover methods of reinforcing stained glass surfaces and ways...

This intermediate class is designed to provide an overview of adding surface effects on glass by using metal blow molds. This class will cover the basic skills of using optic molds to put rigid patterns on the surface of your glass, unlock the mysteries of the twisty cup as well as the secrets behind fancier pattern work such as mezzo stampo and nypt-diamond-wies....

Students will learn to create experimental imagery on glass using kilnforming techniques and the wet plate collodion (ambrotype) process. The first part of the course will be held at UrbanGlass and led by Dorie Guthrie. While at UrbanGlass, students will learn kilnforming and coldworking techniques to make glass plates with color, texture, distortion,...

Come experiment with hot molten glass in this one day Father’s Day workshop! Students will work in teams to learn beginning glassblowing techniques and help each other create handmade objects to take home.  Sign up on your own, or with dad for a special shared experience!  Open to all ages 11 and up, 10 with parent/caregiver.

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...

As craftspeople, whether the intention is to be a studio artist, production glass maker, or fabricating your own design objects, the skills of communication and bringing 2D concepts into the 3rd dimension are integral to success. This class will cover design basics and the tools necessary to illustrate ideas, making them clear to both yourself and...

Fuse it, Carve it, Wear it: Jewelry Design with Kilnformed Glass Starting with the basics of kiln forming, students will use glass to create a brilliant palate and interesting shapes to feature in wearable forms. The glass will then be brought to the cold shop to explore different surface treatments by carving the fused glass forms. Demonstrations...

In this weekend workshop, students will explore color and form through the creation of a glass sculpture that holds objects. Our process uses the Tiffany stained glass method. Each pupil will learn basic glass cutting, coldworking with grinders, copper foiling, soldering, and finally the assemblage of said sculpture.  In addition, we will cover...