lampworking class
End of Day Lampwork Headpins
$88.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 07/27/2018 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any lampworking or scientific glass blowing experience.
Take glass scraps from your lampworking session and turn them into a glass headpin. Techniques for adding glass, ensuring the top of the headpin is well rounded, and pulling the glass will be emphasized.
Masking in Glass–a next steps class in lampworking
$98.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 02/16/2019 from 3:00PM to 6:00PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or equivalent skills.
Learn to “mask” with glass. This is a process where you layer glass in a way to create more intricate design elements. A great intermediate hot glass class.
Glass Owl Beads: What a Hoot!
$98.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 02/11/2018 from noon to 4PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Wendy Ford
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or equivalent. See class on Jan. 12.
This class is for the advanced beginner/intermediate lampworker. Expand your skills by learning embellishment techniques to add wing patterns, ears, eyes, and beak to a core barrel bead to make your personalized owl.
Flower Power: Glass Flower Disks–Only one seat left!
$88.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 09/22/2017 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Intro to Lampworking--see class on September 16, or equivalent skills.
Learn to make a disk with layers of colors. Spot heating will allow you to use tools to manipulate the glass into a flower. These beads are great for making pendants and earrings.
Take both Make Glass Beads and Flower Power and be awarded double points.
Make Glass Beads: Intro to Lampworking
$105.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 05/18/2019 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary.
Making glass beads is great fun and an opportunity to play with fire in a controlled and supportive environment. This class will teach you the art of lampworking, a technique of using a torch and melting Italian Effetre glass rods to create various shapes. Safety and appropriate equipment handling are emphasized. Your beads will need to stay in a kiln overnight to be annealed.
*NOTE:Participants must be at least 15 years old.*
Glass Owl Bead–What a Hoot!–2 seats left!
$105.00 Add to cartDate and Time: 04/16/2019 from 5:30PM to 9:00PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Wendy Ford
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or equivalent skills.
This class is for the advanced beginner/intermediate lampworker. Expand your skills by learning embellishment techniques to add wing patterns, ears, eyes, and beak to a core barrel bead to make your personalized owl.