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Intro to Boro Hollow Glass
$128.00Date and Time: 01/26/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate borosilicate glass tubing. Participants will learn to stretch, blow, and embellish tube glass.
Must be at least 15 years old to participate.
Note: This class serves as a prerequisite for the Blown Sphere scheduled on Feb. 16.
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.
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.
Blown Spheres
$128.00Date and Time: 02/16/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: Intro to Borrow Hollow Glass on Jan. 26 or equivalent skills.
For those with basic hollow glass skills, this class hones your skills with blowing boro hollow tube glass with decorative elements. The result is a blown glass sphere with a bail for hanging. Get ready to go into the studio to make friends and family holiday ornaments, yard art, or very large earrings!
Must be at least 15 years old to participate.