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Glass 1: Things you Need to Know to Blow
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: ...
Pattern in All Dimensions: Fusing & Glassblowing
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...
Glassblowing 101: Weekend in Color
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...
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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...
Youth Camp - Bubble Up: Intro to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Often times our artistic visions are loftier than our ability to produce them. This is especially true with a difficult process like glassblowing. By breaking down large complex sculptures into simpler, more manageable parts and assembling them cold, artists are able to fulfill their vision without having to compromise because of their skill level. In this week-long camp students will use this strategy to design and execute one large, ambitious...
Glass 2: From Pencil to Punti
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this intermediate glassblowing class, students will advance their glass blowing skills by drafting technical drawings and executing them on the plow pipe or punti. All drawings should be linear and have specific measurements. Students will learn how to solve technical problems, how to create a variety of shapes and practice their drafting skills. Often, when executing commissions or creating parts for a larger sculpture it...
Glass 3: Puff and Pour
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the combination of two glass-making methods: casting and blowing. Abandoning the limitations of tradition, we will pour glass onto the marver, into sand, and directly onto and into blown glass. We will also flip the tables and blow glass into and onto castings of various sorts. Students will learn to marry these two processes together and through experimentation and unorthodox techniques begin to develop their own unique...
Vincent Van Blow
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This bi-weekly course is designed to improve and motivate your glass blowing practice. Over the course of this class, students will work closely with hand drawn designs and attempt to execute them on the blow pipe. All demos and techniques covered in class will be based on the drawings of the students. Students will learn how to solve technical problems, while honing their glassblowing and design skills. How much perseverance and determination...
Kung Fu Hue
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This introductory class focuses on experimental processes, using glass color in the hot shop. Before students begin experimenting and developing new and innovative color applications, they will first need a basic foundation of skills to work with. Once students have acquired these basic skills, they will begin to deconstruct traditional methods of applying glass color and begin to express themselves with entirely unique processes developed in class. ...
Hot Glass Color Experiments
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Designed for students of all ages, this introductory weekend glassblowing class focuses on experimental processes and using glass color in the hotshop. Class will start with basic hotshop skills, which students can use as a jumping off point to begin experimenting and developing new and innovative color applications. Students will be encouraged to deconstruct traditional methods of applying glass color and express themselves with entirely unique...
Creativity Unleashed!
This is a class designed to encourage individual creativity with hot glass. There is no hot glass experience necessary but an experimental mindset is essential. During the class we will cover 4 different processes which can be customized, mixed, matched, and twisted to the vision of the artist. The topics covered will be: Building and sculpting with bits Exploring the world of alternative blow molds Creating and using...
There and Back Again: A Graal’s Tale
In this class we will use a traditional Swedish imagery technique called a graal as our jumping off spot. As with traditional graals, the glass made in this class will take a long journey from the hot shop to the cold shop and back again, but we will bend, twist and push time tested techniques to their limits until we arrive at something completely innovative. We will leave no idea untested. This class will cover some basic cold working...
Creativity Poured Out: Hotcasting Weekend
Hot casting is one of the most direct and approachable forms of expression in glass. In this class, students will learn the basic techniques of composing relief impressions from found and created objects in sand molds and hot casting into them. Once we have conquered the basic techniques of ladeling hot glass we will exercise our creativity by creating alternative molds from a wide variety of materials and filling them with molten glass. Q&A...
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...
Hot Glass Weekend
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Spend your weekend learning how to blow glass! In this class we will learn how to gather molten glass and begin to create different forms. We'll start with basic solid forms and progress towards blown vessels with color and other decorative methods. We will also explore the many possibilities of hot glass so we can better understand its potential. You'll finish the weekend with a whole new way of looking at glass as well as the many forms you'll...
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