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Fundamentals of Hollow Glass
$105.00Date and Time: 09/15/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate borosilicate glass tubing. Participants will learn to stretch, blow, and embellish tube glass.
Fundamentals of Borosilicate Glass
$120.00Date and Time: 05/19/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 3
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate solid borosilicate glass. Participants will make a variety of shapes that create glass skills of pushing, pulling, adding color, and making a bail. Shapes worked on in class include a pawn, basic marble, icicle pendant, and a mushroom pendant.
This class serves as the prerequisite for other Boro classes.
Next Steps in Boro Glass Work: Wings-n-Things
$105.00Date and Time: 11/10/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Intro to Boro on Nov. 3
Take your nexts steps in manipulating boro glass. Learn to shape, sculpt, and carve glass to make wings and things.
Next Steps in Boro: Marble Making
$98.00Date and Time: 04/09/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Intro to Boro on April 2 or demonstrated equivalent skill set
Use solid boro glass rods to create marbles. This is a “next steps” class that will give participants a deeper understanding of the techniques needed to be successful in marble making. Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower.
Take both Intro to Boro and Marble Making for double rewards points.
Swirl and Vortex Boro Marbles–this class is full, please call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 07/14/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 3
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: Any boro glass experience.
Use clear solid boro glass rods to create marbles. The first will be a swirl marble, to perfect the technique used in the intro class. Then move on to a vortex design. Participants will make multiple marbles.
Please call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When there are two people on the list, we will schedule another session of this class.
Registration is $120 and includes all materials, instruction, use of tools, and supplies.
Next Steps in Hollow Boro Glass: Blown Spheres
$105.00Date and Time: 03/15/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: UI Scientific Glass Blower Benjamin Revis
Prerequisites: Intro to Hollow Glass Work on March 1.
Learn to manipulate and blow hollow tubing to create a sphere. Then learn to make a bail (loop) so you can hang your spheres.
Next Steps in Hollow Glass: Implosion Pendant
$120.00Date and Time: 04/23/2022 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Intro to Hollow Glass Work on April 2 or equivalent.
Learn to manipulate and embellish hollow glass to make a floral implosion pendant.
Fundamentals of Borosilicate Glass Work
$98.00Date and Time: 09/10/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
Learn how to manipulate solid borosilicate glass. Participants will make a pawn, basic marble, and an icicle pendant.