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Unleash your creativity and learn the art of glass blowing with a variety of classes offered in NYC. Discover mesmerizing techniques, create beautiful glass pieces, and gain a new skill that will leave you feeling accomplished and inspired.
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Boro Bootcamp: Push, Pull and Sculpt
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this fast paced flameworking class we will cover a variety of coloring processes and strategies for creating borosilicate jewelry. The techniques covered in this class will broaden the possibilities of wearables created with the flameworking process. In this 2-day class we will cover color layering and application, cane pulling, solid and hollow implosions, as well as sculpting. This class will be accessible to the beginner at the torch and...
Working with Gravity: Introduction to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glassblowing is a dance of physical forces. In this introductory class, students will learn the foundations of glassblowing, including safety in the studio, body movement, basic techniques, and finishing pieces. We will put special emphasis on gravity and centrifugal force, which are the most valuable tools in understanding the material. We will learn to utilize these forces to create unique forms, experimenting in the studio with lengthening,...
Simple Goblets
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Simple Goblets is a six week introductory course designed for students with some glassblowing experience. We will be reviewing basic goblet making techniques, as well as introducing optic mold enhancements. Optic cups and feet will be demonstrated as well as avolio and morise connections. Goblet making is the holy grail of glassblowing, and this course will take you out of your comfort zone while bringing your skills to the next level.
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Hot Glass American Summer
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn something new this summer in the hot glass studio. In this six week course we will cover all the basics of working with hot glass. Through a series of skill building drills and guided work time we will cover everything one needs to know to begin their relationship with hot glass. This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of the material and set them up to take the next steps becoming a glass maker.
Collage + Combine | Remix + Redux
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this experimental class, you will use multiple printmaking and painting processes with glass, mixed with glass cutting techniques to assemble layered imagery in glass. We will discuss the pros and cons of each technique and how to mix and match them to best realize your ideas. Individual experimentation will be encouraged through focused research and observation of process and material. The print processes covered are lithographic image...
Creative Working and Constructing with Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The material for this workshop consists of ordinary pieces of float-glass in various sizes that can be cut further in any desired shape. In this practical and theoretical workshop, new and found glass pieces and broken fragments will be used creatively to construct any object possible. Students will also learn how to cut glass pieces to create these desired shapes. Cutting glass-pieces is similar to drawing and conducive to visualizing...
Introduction to Neon Letters
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this eight-week neon lettering class, learn the advanced skills required to bend letters and work from a pattern. We will focus on mastering the basics of tube bending techniques as well as layout preparation in order to create, wire, and display your own neon signs. By the end of the class, students will have the skills and confidence to work independently on advanced projects in our studio. This will be an intensive course, beginners and advanced...
Dazzle Your Weekend: An Introduction to Neon
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Create your very own neon light in this two-day weekend intensive. Learn all of the steps to create in neon, starting with the basics of how to bend glass tubes using the heat of the torch, followed by pattern design and bending to achieve your own unique design. Each final design will be processed and filled with one of the noble gases – neon, argon, xenon - to become luminous! The final day of class will conclude with a wiring...
Moving With Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
For this introduction to glassblowing course, we will focus on the properties of glass and how it moves in relation to our bodies and surroundings. Glassblowing is about reaching a greater understanding of the effects that temperature and gravity have on the viscosity of the material. If we quit turning the pipe, the glass will fall to the floor. If the glass gets cold, it will no longer be malleable. This course will cover the basics of glassblowing...
Mold Meditation: Kilncasting Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The art of mold making can be translated into many forms and materials. This workshop will focus on kilncasting glass using high fire refractory. Through this process, we will be covering a multitude of techniques, including conceptualizing the process, working with clay and wax, mold materials, and repetitive molds allowing us to create multiples. We will also discuss problem solving, equipment usage, and safety. The class will wrap up with basic...
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...
Hot Shop Projects
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Hot Shop Projects is designed for students who have a specific hot glass project or idea in mind. It is an opportunity to receive technical guidance, access to the hot shop, and the support of a diverse team to explore and accomplish said idea(s) on a weekly basis over a period of 6 weeks. The scope of the projects can be very diverse. Students can work with traditional blowing techniques, solid work and sculpting, hot assembly, various color...
Low Temp, Low Tech: Making Glass Drawings
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Translate your own drawings into sculptural glass pieces that retain the feeling of a hand drawn sketch. Learn to use flameworking torches to bend thin glass stringer into the lines of your personal drawings. Add color and glass “paper” using Bullseye Glass powders, stencils, and other analog powder printing techniques. Students will make small sketches and color samples on day one, and spend day two translating a larger drawing...
Waste Not, Want Not
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
No matter how hard one tries, most artists working with kilnforming techniques end up with an ever-increasing collection of glass scraps that are left over from previous projects. However, when looked at as a resource, they are small pieces of glass waiting to be given a second life. This class will look at a variety of ways of bringing new life to Bullseye scrap glass, including pot & mesh melts, pattern bars, and puddles, with and without...
Intro to Glow
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn the basics of bending glass tubing using commercial neon bending technology. We will use clear glass and a selection of noble gases to craft luminous sculptures in any linear shape! Students can choose to stick to traditional flat signs, or jump off of the paper and create three dimensional glowing drawings. Expect to leave with a new way of thinking about light! No experience required.
Plant Paradise: Introduction to Vessels and Terrariums
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Looking for a new home for your special plant? Somewhere exciting for those spring blossoms? Spend the weekend creating one! Enhance your space, flex your creativity, and learn a new skill. Join us for a weekend of introductory glassmaking exploring the exciting properties of this material, while quickly building a basic skill-set ultimately put to use making vessels and terrariums to house your favorite plant pals. No experience required...
Bending Skills and Noble Fills
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this 8-week introductory workshop, students are encouraged to explore the brilliant and sculptural potentials of neon! The first four weeks of class will be split between demonstrations given by the instructor and guided personal exploration. Demonstrations will include: the fundamental techniques required to bend and weld hot glass tubing tips and tricks on how to make a bending pattern indoor installation and the process...
Color Chemistry 101
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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 be spent working the glass directly out of the crucible kiln. Class will also cover methods for determining...
Glass and Poetry
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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 glass and text might equally display properties of transparency or opacity, solidity or liquidity,...
Neon & Phenomenology
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
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 of display, exploring glass, gas, electricity, and light. Drawing parallels to observation and...
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