ALL EVENTS
By Category: Drawing ✿ Fiber ✿ Glass ✿ Mosaic ✿ Multimedia ✿ Painting ✿ Upcycling ✿ Open Studios ✿ Guest Artists
Cool Copper Inclusions in Glass
Can you include metals in glass art? Yes, you can! Copper works very well. In this class, you'll cut copper sheet using templates and slip them between sheets of glass to be kiln-fired. You can also build in a copper post, and create a “pot-sticker” for your plants!
• All tools, materials, and heat (One kiln-firing included) are provided.
The Many Faces of Fused Glass with Mitch
Cut, assemble and fire traditional fused glass but utilizing a variety of non-glass materials and techniques. Using wire and sheet copper embedded in fused glass, we will create an opportunity to collage a variety of materials to glass. The objects created can be, but is not limited, to making a mask.
Screen Printing With Glass Powders Session 1
In this class you will learn a simple way of making your own silk screens. You will use your silk screen to make an 8-inch wall-hanging or plate.
Screen Printing With Glass Powders Session 2
In this class you will learn a simple way of making your own silk screens. You will use your silk screen to make an 8-inch wall-hanging or plate.
Extra Fancy Funky Fused Flowers with Linda Session 1
We are going to create gorgeous glass garden flowers on stakes - we will design our flowers and then fuse them flat. A second firing in a mold will give them shape. Then you collect them and attach them to your stakes and admire!
Extra Fancy Funky Fused Flowers with Linda Session 2
We are going to create gorgeous glass garden flowers on stakes - we will design our flowers and then fuse them flat. A second firing in a mold will give them shape. Then you collect them and attach them to your stakes and admire!
Sgraffito on Glass with Karen
Prepared 6x6 full fused glass provided with an additional glass enamel layer on top. Scratch into the surface with bbq sticks to make designs by using stencils, free hand, doodles or zentangles. Fired and hung or set in a stand.
Freeze & Fuse Glass Garden Party! Session 1
Using powder glass and the power of the kitchen freezer, you'll mold glass elements (blossoms, leaves, and stems one day and during the second session you'll compose them onto a base sheet of glass for a second firing. Hang it in a window or frame it on a wall.
• All tools, materials, and heat (Two-kiln-firings included) provided.
Freeze & Fuse Glass Garden Party! Session 1 2
Using powder glass and the power of the kitchen freezer, you'll mold glass elements (blossoms, leaves, and stems one day and during the second session you'll compose them onto a base sheet of glass for a second firing. Hang it in a window or frame it on a wall.
• All tools, materials, and heat (Two-kiln-firings included) provided.
Fused Mandala Flowers w/ Karen
Design a mandala using a stencil, pattern or your own design. Placing glass powder onto base glass with small straw or designated tool to create pattern to cover the glass. Fire to full fused.
Bright Bowl-Overs!
These little fused glass bowls trap light and color. You'll make two 6” x 6” bowl overs. So fun to compose the colored shards on a clear base sheet. They'll be fired twice: fused and then draped in the kiln.
• All tools, materials, and heat (Two-kiln-firings included) provided.
Glass Geology with Karen Shatar
Build a vertical frame, attach to base glass and the pour frit in thin layers to simulate a geological formulation. Then layer silver foil and course on top to create reactions. Fire to full fuse schedule. (Provided). Handouts to take home provided.
Optical Illusions: Funky Fusing w/ Delfie
The optic dish uses volume control displacement to distort a pattern of stringers into a repeatable shape giving the dish an optical illusion. Each student will make an 8 inch optic dish. Dishes will be fused fired and slumped for you. Dishes can be picked up 3 days after class. All materials and 2 firings included.
Funky Art on a Pole: Welding & Fusing with Mitch - session 2
The first session will take place at Mitch Berg’s south valley Fuego studio, selecting, designing and welding metal scrap to form a sculptural base for your work. Session 2 takes place at The Groove, where we’ll fuse glass to fit your sculptural vision!
