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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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Fusing & Slumping Master Class
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is for dedicated artists who want to better understand and enhance their creative process in the glass studio, and its underlying needs and goals. Students will approach kilnforming with an open mind; experimenting, exploring, and embracing the unknown. You’ll practice thinking deeper and speaking more explicitly about your personal process, your creations, and your existential relationship to art. You will learn to strengthen...
Jewelry Design with Kilnformed Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Appreciation of, and obsession with, handmade jewelry are the guiding factors in this class. Join Rachel, a handmade jewelry aficionado, to get geeky over techniques involved in using glass in the kiln and coldshop to create fun, wearable patterns and textures. Starting in the basics of kilnforming, students will use glass to create a brilliant palette and interesting shapes to feature in wearable forms. The glass will then be...
Patterns + Textures
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the beauty of engraved glass! This class will explore patterns and textures, using a variety of coldworking equipment and tools such as lathes, belt sanders, and flat grinders. In addition to acquiring glass engraving skills, students will also learn grinding and polishing techniques. Investigate the exciting medium of glass printing (Vitreography) with the patterns and textures we create. No glassworking experience is required. Advanced...
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Pendants, Pairs, and Doublets: A Collaboration w/ BKMW
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Full Course Name Pendants, Pairs, and Doublets: A Collaboration with Brooklyn Metal Works Join Bianca and Erin for this eight week course in glass and metalworking for jewelry using both UrbanGlass and Brooklyn Metal Works’ studios. The class begins in the cold shop where we will explore different ways to manipulate pre-cut pieces of glass, or “blanks”, into carved and faceted segments. Students will learn to use the lathe, flat wheels, sanding...
Flat-ish Framework
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Working with solid borosilicate rod, students will be guided through constructing complex forms from flat drawings. Similar to raising a house, we will begin by building a two-dimensional framework from schematic illustrations. Students will learn to upend those parts and create three dimensional forms built from the ground up. Days will begin with small demonstrations and include personal instruction based on the concepts. Required Material: Come...
Fusing 101: Back to Basics
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this two-day intensive, students will create pieces using various flat glass techniques. Once cut and assembled, the glass will be joined together by heat and gravity. During this workshop students will also learn the process of grinding sheet glass and gain knowledge of multiple fusing styles, along with writing proper kiln schedules. Please Note: Preparation for Classes Students should bring notebooks to each class for sketching steps to techniques,...
Software to Glassware
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Come learn the basics of 3D modeling to explore the many ways this tool can be used in glassmaking. This course will focus on experiments in both 3D modeling and studio glass techniques. Once registered, students will receive information on downloading free 3D software and the steps to get started with the software. We will work with an outside organization to print designs, with one print (at a set scale/material) included in the price of the class....
Mold to Kiln and Back Again
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Many objects, forms, and materials can be translated into glass through the art of mold making. This two-day intensive workshop is packed with information about basic mold making for kiln casting. Students will be working with clay and wax to create positives to directly translate into glass. Students will then learn how to hand-build two high-fire refractory molds that can be used in the kiln to complete the process of melting glass into final...
Introduction to Pâte De Verre
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Pâte de verre is created by firing fine glass frit and/or powder, usually mixed with a binding agent, against the surface of a high fire refractory mold. A literal translation from the French: “paste of glass.” In this intensive weekend workshop, you will learn the basics of this ancient glass technique by creating a low relief, 3-dimensional form, along with sample test color tiles. Students will also take away a clear understanding...
Testing Texture: Introduction to Kilncasting
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This weekend workshop will explore the possibilities of an open-face kilncasting mold. This technique is perfect for capturing the texture of everyday objects both as impressions in clay, or as direct transfers to the mold material. Samples, materials, and textures in the studio will be available, or bring your own items to play with. Come with an open mind to learn the basics of this process and see the results of a kilncasting! No...
Casting the Body
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Alginate is a material that many of us may have encountered at the dentist - it’s the stuff they use to make molds of your teeth! But did you know you can also use this body-safe material to make castings and recreate fingers, toes, and more in glass? The body has long been a prevalent part of art making, and in this 5-week workshop we will utilize the body as a means for exploring the technique of kiln casting. Using alginate, we will make direct...
Double Trouble: Clay Meets Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Double Trouble: Clay Meets Glass a Collaboration with BKLYN CLAY This class will meet at both BKLYN Clay and UrbanGlass. At BKLYN Clay, students will learn how to carve, sculpt, and prepare ceramic molds to be used for glass pieces. Then, moving to UrbanGlass students will learn about cutting and assembling sheet glass to heat and melt together in the kiln through the process of fusing. Explorations will include colors, playing with opacity, translucency,...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Sculpting 101
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Immerse yourself into the world of solid, hot-sculpted glass in this 5-day intensive class! You will be working in the hot shop with a variety of torches and tools to create detailed artworks, and incorporating various ways to apply color and texture. This course will be a general overview on solid sculpting and assemblage. What to Expect: Students will focus on learning and improving sculpting techniques and color applications, rather than...
Pulling the Figure from Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Get inspired by a favorite subject throughout art history - the human figure! This class will focus on sculpting the human figure in borosilicate glass. We will start with learning and discussing theories of human anatomy in conjunction with initial techniques in shaping and cutting glass rod. Each student will start by sketching out ideas, playing with body parts and poses, then translate these ideas into clear and color forms using the torch....
Lighting Design
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
We encounter lighting in every space we enter - it sets the atmosphere of a room through intensity, color, and form. Moving quickly through experiments, we will mock up lighting ideas from day 1 onward by exploring the different effects of shape, material, and hardware. This fun and fast-paced class will cover: basic electrical wiring, hardware, assembly, making your own blown glass parts, as well as collecting found/miscellaneous parts to light...
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