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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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A Sculptural Take on Scientific Flameworking
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will cover artistic and scientific techniques using borosilicate glass. Sculpture, murrini, and glass chains are among the many possibilities. Some of the scientific techniques include side, ring, and blind seals. With lots of individual attention, students are encouraged to bring sketches and ideas. Emphasis will be on exploration, spontaneity, investigation and fun. Open to all skill levels.
Pendants, Chains, and Sculptural Wearables
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will focus on creating jewelry elements in flameworked glass. Starting with the basics of safety and technique, students will delve into the possibilities of adorning themselves with beautiful glass wearables. From traditional jewelry elements to more sculptural pieces, students will gain skill and complexity over the six week course. This class will focus mainly on borosilicate glass, with some exploration of soft glass bead techniques. ...
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...
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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,...
The Skin of Objects
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between what’s hidden inside and what we experience on the outside. By reproducing objects in kiln cast glass, this course will expand creativity but also explore several techniques in order to develop unique “voices” in the pieces. Skin is also a unique interface of the human body. It protects us from the outside world, while...
Baroque Not Broke: Sculpting at the Torch
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This course will explore the many ways to heat and melt a variety of glass types at the torch. Class will cover the basics of borosilicate, soft, and recycled glass, and will focus on the ways to properly sculpt and shape the correct material for the project at hand. Discussions will also cover thinking about working bigger by utilizing components. Open to all skill levels. Please Note: Preparation for Classes Students should bring notebooks...
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...
Fuse it, Carve it, Wear it: Jewelry Design
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Fuse it, Carve it, Wear it: Jewelry Design with Kilnformed Glass Starting with the basics of kiln forming, students will use glass to create a brilliant palate and interesting shapes to feature in wearable forms. The glass will then be brought to the cold shop to explore different surface treatments by carving the fused glass forms. Demonstrations will also include a basic introduction to jewelry design using metal findings. No experience in either...
Borosilicate Marbles: Tiny Worlds Within
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will focus on strengthening fundamentals, exploration and development of new skills for the creation of borosilicate marbles. Students will explore a variety of techniques such as surface application of color, dichroic glass, encasement, tubing implosion, and more. Depending upon the interests of students, other forms may also be covered, as many of the techniques covered may be used to create a variety of items. A wide range of...
Youth Camp - Summer Skills: Intro to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Spend your summer learning something new and exciting! In this week long summer camp we will learn the in’s and out’s of the hot glass studio. We will go over all of the basics and spend the week working in teams to create a myriad of glass objects. Come learn some new skills and make some new friends this summer! Please Note: Preparation for Classes Students should bring notebooks to each class for sketching steps to techniques, recording...
Youth Camp - Text Destroyers: Intro to Neon (Age 11-18)
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Take a break from your summer reading list! Let's look at how to make neon text and get sidetracked along the way. By focusing on the sequences of bends used to make letters in light, students will write in alien languages, craft artisan light bulbs, create luminous messes and cook up some alphabet soup. We will take a rigorous look at signage industry basics before jumping to unconventional solutions and arriving at otherworldly outcomes. Come...
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...
Youth Camp - Shine Bright: Introduction to Neon
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This workshop offers young artists an opportunity to learn and apply neon-bending skills with an emphasis on experimentation and spontaneity. We will focus on creating playful lighting sculptures that draw from the geometric and organic qualities of working with neon tubing. This workshop will safely introduce students to basic technical and aesthetic aspects of neon. At the end of the class, everyone will take home an assembled neon sign that’s...
Youth Camp! Bright Matter: Intro to Neon
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This workshop offers young artists an opportunity to learn and apply neon-bending skills with an emphasis on experimentation and spontaneity. We will focus on creating playful lighting sculptures that draw from the geometric and organic qualities of bending neon tubing. This workshop will safely introduce students to basic technical and aesthetic aspects of neon. At the end of the class students will take home an assembled neon sign ready...
Youth Camp! On Repeat: Intro to Mold Blowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is tailored to young artists looking to learn how to create multiples in the hot shop by blowing into molds. Some glass experience is ideal but not a requirement; we will adapt to your experience and abilities! In synthesis, we will create molds of existing objects that will ultimately be translated into blown glass in the hotshop. This workshop opens up the door to creative thinking and problem solving. Join us on the quest...
From Hot to Cold and Back Again
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this class students will move between the kilns and cold shop to utilize fusing, slumping and coldworking techniques to carve through colorful layers of thin and regular Bullseye sheet glass to create a number of small scale projects such as tiles, bowls and/or platters. Hands on work will be complemented by demonstrations and a short presentation on historical and contemporary kiln and cold worked glass. What to expect: Students will...
Intro to Kilncasting: Press Molds
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this class students will learn how to make a variety of molds for kilncast glass projects. We will start with open faced casting from folded paper and we will move on to two part press molds, which allow us to explore multi-sided detail and thinner forms. We will discuss how heat and glass selection affects the final product. What to expect: Students should expect to leave the class with 3 samples and 1 to 2 larger projects (under 8”...
Casting the Void
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Get a look inside the world of negative space casting in this introspective class! Capitalizing on the transparent quality of glass, we’ll create unique sculptural objects that you can look inside of to see a negative shape. We will create cast hollow core blocks with interior voids that when viewed through the outside of the sculpture appear as a ghostly remnant of an object. This class will cover the hollow core casting process, writing kiln...
Multiplying Pattern: Hot & Cold Murrini
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This cross-studio course will focus on creating graphic and intricately patterned murrini and bars from sheet glass that cannot be achievable through furnace working alone. We will combine hot, warm and cold glassmaking techniques to create components to incorporate into 2D and 3D sculptural and functional works according to the direction that each student will want to take. We will also cover some cold working techniques to find solutions for finishing...
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