ALL EVENTS
By Category: Drawing ✿ Fiber ✿ Glass ✿ Mosaic ✿ Multimedia ✿ Painting ✿ Upcycling ✿ Open Studios ✿ Guest Artists
Bangin' Bike Wheel Spinners Session #1
Convert a recycled bicycle wheel into a gorgeous, colorful stained glass spinner for your yard. You will cut stained glass scrap, learn to foil and solder. All materials provided.
Bangin' Bike Wheel Spinners Session #2
Convert a recycled bicycle wheel into a gorgeous, colorful stained glass spinner for your yard. You will cut stained glass scrap, learn to foil and solder. All materials provided.
Cookie Cutter Glass HEARTS Casting
Back by popular demand! Learn to cast glass into solid shapes. You'll fill heart-shaped casting molds with sheet glass, crushed glass, frits, noodles, and stringers. You'll learn to layer the colors with clear and dichroic glasses to get brilliant combinations. These castings can be hung on a provided hook, used as paper weights, or just displayed.
All tools, materials, and heat (kiln-firing) provided!
Cookie Cutter Glass HEARTS Casting
Back by popular demand! Learn to cast glass into solid shapes. You'll fill heart-shaped casting molds with sheet glass, crushed glass, frits, noodles, and stringers. You'll learn to layer the colors with clear and dichroic glasses to get brilliant combinations. These castings can be hung on a provided hook, used as paper weights, or just displayed.
All tools, materials, and heat (kiln-firing) 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.
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.
Funky Art on a Pole: Welding & Fusing with Mitch - session 1
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!
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!
Fused Glass Mosaics with Lavae
• Title of Class: Fused Glass Mosaics
• Brief Description: Mosaics that look like stained glass without the caming and soldering. We'll compose pieces of colored glass onto a glass backer sheet and then “grout” them with powdered glass to define and give depth. You might choose to paint an icon or pattern onto the glass with high temperature paint. It all gets fused in the kiln to created a solid piece of art that's suitable for a plate or light catcher in your window.
• All tools, materials, and heat (One kiln-firing included) provided.
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.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 1
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 2
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Intro to Glass Painting and Enameling
Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 3
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 4
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
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!
Intro to Glass Painting and Enameling
Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.
Fused Crackle Glass w/ Delfie Session #1
This is a technique that Bob Leatherbarrow introduced where glass powders and water are used to make textured crackles on glass. We will be making an eight inch round or square glass piece that will be slumped into plate or bowl.
Fused Crackle Glass w/ Delfie Session #2
This is a technique that Bob Leatherbarrow introduced where glass powders and water are used to make textured crackles on glass. We will be making an eight inch round or square glass piece that will be slumped into plate or bowl.
Intro to Glass Painting and Enameling
Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.
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.
Intro to Glass Blowing
Doug Ostroff will introduce you to his mobile glass studio and will demonstrate the basic process of glass blowing and sculpting of this wonderful material that will be around 2100 F degrees. Students will have the opportunity to make a cup and a chile pepper with an instructor. All materials are included with the class. Doug has 25 years of glass blowing experience and has been teaching glass blowing for 10 years to kids 12 to 85 years old.
2-Day Glass Blowing Deep Dive
Doug Ostroff will introduce you to his mobile glass studio and will demonstrate the basic process of glass blowing and sculpting of this wonderful material that will be around 2100 F degrees. Students will have the opportunity to make a cup and a chile pepper with an instructor. All materials are included with the class. Doug has 25 years of glass blowing experience and has been teaching glass blowing for 10 years to kids 12 to 85 years old.
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.
FAB Stained Glass Kaleidoscope: Day 1
With precise cutting, assembly and soldering, you will learn to make and decorate a kaliedascope. You will learn to make your color slides to create your beautiful, unique, colorful design.
FAB Stained Glass Kaleidoscope: Day 2
With precise cutting, assembly and soldering, you will learn to make and decorate a kaliedascope. You will learn to make your color slides to create your beautiful, unique, colorful design.
Glass on Glass Mosaic Session #2
The Glass-on-Glass Mosaic (using stained glass on flat glass OR gorgeous glass blocks, for indoors or outdoors) class is appropriate for everyone, including beginners, who wants to experiment with glass and learn how to make something beautiful. The classes will be small enough for both group and individual instruction.
Day 1 is a five-hour block, when we introduce techniques and talk about design, and then give everyone time to work on and (hopefully) complete their project. You can continue your project at home if you wish. Day 2 is a three-ish hour block when we will clean our pieces, grout and and then do final cleaning. You will then be ready to tackle much bigger projects, like glass-on-glass mosaic tables, for example. All tools and materials included.
Glass on Glass Mosaic Session #1
The Glass-on-Glass Mosaic (using stained glass on flat glass OR gorgeous glass blocks, for indoors or outdoors) class is appropriate for everyone, including beginners, who wants to experiment with glass and learn how to make something beautiful. The classes will be small enough for both group and individual instruction.
Day 1 is a five-hour block, when we introduce techniques and talk about design, and then give everyone time to work on and (hopefully) complete their project. You can continue your project at home if you wish. Day 2 is a three-ish hour block when we will clean our pieces, grout and and then do final cleaning. You will then be ready to tackle much bigger projects, like glass-on-glass mosaic tables, for example. All tools and materials included.
Glass Painting, Enameling & FABrication with Joseph Cavalieri
Renowned New York visiting artist Joseph Cavalieri is excited to teach a five-day class encompassing all aspects of making a stained glass panel, from design to production. Many samples will be made in class. Techniques covered include painting, pen-and-ink drawing, air-brushing, atomizing, and silk screening with silkscreens Joseph will provide. You don’t need to be an expert painter, as we will be tracing images in the class.
We work with non-toxic enamels that are kiln fired onto the glass surface. Copper foiling and soldering techniques, lighting and framing will be learned as well. The choice of imagery is totally up to the students’ imagination. Perfect for beginners and students that have some experience working with glass and want to expand their knowledge further.
Cavalieri will help with your design choice, share samples of his work, share a framing and lighting system which he developed, as well as present lectures on ‘Art Residencies’ and ‘Marketing for Artists.’
Beginning Stained Glass Session #2
In the beginning stained glass class, you will make a roughly 6x8 inch piece of art, using any glass and beginner-level pattern that you choose! We will teach you how to cut and grind glass, how to apply copper foil, and how to solder and frame your piece. This is a two day class starting at 10:00 and ending at 3:30, with a lunch break.
All glass and materials you use are included in the cost of the class.
Beginning Stained Glass Session #1
In the beginning stained glass class, you will make a roughly 6x8 inch piece of art, using any glass and beginner-level pattern that you choose! We will teach you how to cut and grind glass, how to apply copper foil, and how to solder and frame your piece. This is a two day class starting at 10:00 and ending at 3:30, with a lunch break.
All glass and materials you use are included in the cost of the class.
Fused Glass Poinsettas
Hang them on your holiday tree or in a window. You can hang them around your neck as a pendant. Fused glass poinsettias make great holiday gifts.
• In this class, we'll cut glass and compose the ornaments. They get fused in the kiln to create two dazzling pieces which you'll retrieve in 48 hours.
• All tools, materials, and heat (one kiln-firing) provided.
