UrbanGlass, founded in 1977, is the largest artist-access glass center in the United States, offering a comprehensive education program at every skill level. With a faculty of renowned artists and designers, UrbanGlass provides inspiration and resources to artists from around the world.
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UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this collaborative course with Brooklyn Metal Works we will work with the lost wax technique to kiln cast small pâte de verre jewels. These glass pieces will be designed as either brooches or pendants and will be made wearable using metalsmithing techniques. Beginning at the UrbanGlass studios, we will create wax models using soft waxes from both the jewelry and sculpture worlds. Combining these materials and techniques will yield a more detailed...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Rather than focus on one specific glass technique, process or material, we will work through a series of class exercises and projects which start with an idea, investigate ways of developing that idea, explore processes and technical options along the way and then survey results. This class will explore the whole making process that we as artists engage in. Demonstrations and class discussions will be part of the workshop alongside kiln...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This exciting all ages beginners class will introduce students to the hot shop and glass blowing. Students will work in teams to create several intro projects including marbles, paperweights and colorful leaves or flowers. The two-day class will culminate in learning to blow a bubble into molten glass and a large group sculpture. Emphasis will be on hot shop safety, teamwork, and #FUN! There will be plenty of photo-ops for posting on Instagram and...
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UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is intended for the mid to advanced student looking to broaden their horizons and improve hand skills by way of the traditional Venetian goblet. With focus on teamwork, form and function, timing and garage work, students will leave the class with a better understanding of the material and how to assemble simple, as well as complex goblets. Starting with the foundation of joining two bubbles together to make simple footed goblets, students...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Take your flameworking skills to the next level! During the course of this class, we will explore a range of flameworking techniques through hollow bead and pendant forms. Techniques covered include color application and patterning, graal and carving, and hollow sculptural pendants. Important Thing to Note: No experience is necessary for this class. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there are no makeups...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for our first collaborative class with one of Brooklyn's most dynamic spaces for transdisciplinary creativity. This workshop will introduce students to the process of rapid prototyping and its translation and applications to glass casting. In the first two sessions, students will learn the basics of 3D modeling with Rhinoceros. A small prototype will be initially printed after the first class and reviewed the following week. During the second...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Clear glass has the quality of seeming both present and absent at the same time. Like a ghost crossing between worlds, it can hold light and have a skin-like biological feel. In this beginner class we will learn basic hot and cold shop techniques while exploring these spooky qualities and their sculptural potential. Students will be expected to keep a sketchbook and be ready to discuss ideas they would like to pursue in class. There will be...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is the perfect opportunity to combine two very different methods of creating with glass. Crossing over techniques from both the Hot Shop and the Flame Studio, students will get a fully rounded introduction into working with fire! In the hotshop we will learn how to stretch, sculpt, and blow glass. In the flame studio we will work with torches to melt glass rods and play with color and form. In both shops students will learn the...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will focus on making kiln-formed inclusions to use in students’ jewelry designs. We will investigate different warm glass techniques including murrini making and fusing sheet glass together to create elaborately patterned glass. We will also use cold-working techniques including carving, sawing and drilling to finish pieces. Through lectures and class discussions, we will look at the history of glass jewelry from ancient times to contemporary....
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Do you find yourself drawn to neon signs? Are you an artist looking to bring a new luminescent element to your work? The brightness, colors, and seemingly endless possibilities of linear design make neon lighting one of the most alluring mediums. Whether you are a total novice or at the beginner level, this class will either kickstart your skills to bend and weld your own one-of-a-kind neon sign, or provide you with more detailed insight to execute...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
How can sculpture actively respond to the body or the environment? What can be discovered by making light sculpture mobile? During this course, we will explore the possibilities of using flame worked glass in conjunction with neon, plasma, and LEDs. We will use a small scale battery controlled microprocessor (Arduino) to control and change these light sculptures in response to sound, temperature, ambient light, heartbeat, movement, etc. via stress...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this workshop, students will learn step by step how to screen-print photo-based images on glass using enamels. Everything will be covered from the selection and production of your original imagery to its translation into a screen and then onto a glass surface. From there, we will discuss kiln strategies and methods for firing enamels onto the surface to create a beautiful and durable finish. Tomas will present both widely known techniques and...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this one-week intensive evening course, students will concentrate on developing a safe and effective practice of working with borosilicate glass (aka Pyrex). This course is open to all skill levels and provides a strong foundation upon which to build each individual’s voice with the material. Classroom time will be fully dedicated to the fundamentals of connecting two pieces of glass and corresponding exercises will guide students through the...
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...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Mold making for glass can be frustrating, but only if you gloss over the minutiae. Learn some of the finer points of mold construction for both fused and hot casting that will extend your skill set. Rather than a series of limitations, we will approach the process as a refinement of control and an opportunity to expand our visual language through the versatility of the materials. To that end, we will cover some tricks of the trade used to form the...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Complete course title: Down to the Wire: Experimental Glassblowing with Cages, Molds, and More This class will explore the amazing ability glass has to take on beautiful and unexpected forms. Using experimental tools and methods, while expanding on fundamental glassblowing techniques, students will explore a world of new shapes. Utilizing the compatibility between copper and furnace glass, students will blow and cast into structures made...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glass has the ability to be fluid in its molten state, and almost immediately become static as it cools. This unique characteristic offers artists the ability to capture momentum and freeze transitional forms. This class will explore the expressive potential and intensity of the hot glass by capturing this transformation through objects, sculpture, and pyrography. In the kilnforming studio, we will take a much more calculated approach to creating...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students in Bend and Wear will learn neon tube bending basics while exploring wild methods of display. Students will learn to pattern, bend, and create wearable neon to become walking, performative, light sculptures that will be exhibited in the streets, in a mobile installation through New York City. Participants will become walking emitters of electromagnetic waves in a variety of visible wavelengths by utilizing the cutting edge of the 1980s...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will serve as a platform to engage with the counterintuitive characteristics of molten glass as it moves through different states of matter. Students will be introduced to the hot shop, learning safety in the studio, and beginning their journey with this unusual material. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly in the studio and shape the glass into solid and blown, sculptural and functional, objects. Learning will...
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Make your very own neon light! In this private introductory lesson, students will learn all of the steps to transform hollow glass tubes into stunning illuminated neon. Starting with the basics of glass tube bending using the heat of a torch, students will then learn about following patterns to make a specific sign. Students will complete one simple neon sign. Once their piece is ready, students will observe as their piece is pumped – or filled...
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