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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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Solo-blowing: Glassblowing without Friends
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn to work on your own in this class designed for advanced beginners and intermediate students who wish to become independent in the hot shop. Demonstrations and exercises will focus on strategies to blow simple forms efficiently, drills to practice hand and body coordination, and challenges to speed up the learning process. The use of a blow hose will be introduced and students will leave with a new set of skills that will enable them to come...
Intermediate Neon: Block Lettering
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Master the art of bending block letters and create your own neon signs in this six-week class at UrbanGlass. Learn advanced techniques and gain the confidence to work independently on advanced projects. Ages 14 and up with previous neon bending experience are welcome.
MIRRORWORLD: Imperfect Practices in Neon & Reflection
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the art of mirror-making and neon bending in this hands-on intensive. Unleash your creativity as you learn to coat glass with silver nitrate to create unique mirrors, and then shape neon into freeform designs. Explore the imperfect beauty of reflection and gain inspiration from contemporary and historic works of art.
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Get Sticky with Grace Whiteside
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is a 5 day glassblowing intensive, students will design and produce their own line of unique alternative glass products. We will work through initial sketches, efficient production strategies, and marketing/pricing concepts as we Get Sticky with all aspects of product development but with a conceptual twist… Students will get hands-on experience with prototyping sessions guided by Grace Whiteside and the Sticky Glass team and will work...
Form and Color: Intermediate Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the art of intermediate glassblowing as you explore the magic of form and color in this hands-on class at UrbanGlass. Learn essential techniques, such as blowing glass smoothly and efficiently, and master basic color applications. With a combination of demos and practice time, you'll gain the skills needed to create stunning glass pieces.
Intermediate Glassblowing - Intro to Goblets
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Take your glassblowing skills to the next level with UrbanGlass' hands-on course. Join us for a week of intensive practice as we explore techniques for efficiently blowing thin glass and creating stunning goblets. Previous experience required.
Let’s Focus: Shapes, Textures, Hollows, Metals
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Join instructor Sheila Checkoway in this hands-on workshop at UrbanGlass as she guides you through soft glass manipulation, including surface texture application, hollow glass bead making, and the use of copper and silver foils for unique finishes. Perfect for those with bead-making experience looking to enhance their skills and create stunning glass beads.
Leveling Up: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Bottle
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Perfect your glassblowing skills and create fundamental glass forms in this dynamic workshop. Join us as we dive deeper into shaping methods, temperature control, and working time. Take your skills to the next level with this intermediate-level class.
Intermediate Boro: Marbles, Patterns, and Clean Shapes
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn new techniques in incorporating color and patterns into your glasswork, creating eye-catching marbles and clean shapes. Join us at UrbanGlass for a hands-on flameworking class that will help you gain confidence and skill in the studio. Open to ages 14 and up.
Advanced Kiln casting and Fabrication
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Take your glass fabrication skills to the next level with a hands-on class at UrbanGlass. Learn advanced techniques and problem-solving strategies while creating a unique glass project from start to finish. Get messy and get creative in a collaborative and supportive environment.
Principles of Borosilicate
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this weekend workshop, students with some experience at the torch will explore the vessel using borosilicate glass. Those new to hollow forms will start with simple bubbles and pulling points while more advanced students will work to refine their skills making footed cups and larger vessels. From proper bubble set-up to defining an order of operations, as a class we will take a close look at our process to maximize efficiency and ensure that...
Levels Up with Implosions
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Have you ever wondered how flowers get inside glass pendants and marbles? In this weekend class, we will explore implosions, one of the most fun and addictive of all flameworking techniques. The implosion process involves using heat, gravity and optics to transform a flat pattern into a three-dimensional one. Students will use glass stringers and frit to create gorgeous pendants, marbles, and miniature paperweights of their own designs. The design...
Simple Mold Making for Jewelry
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
It’s simple and easy to make your own molds for glass jewelry. Cuttlefish bones, such as the ones you see in birdcages, are soft and easy to carve. They are perfect for making small pendants, pieces for bracelets, necklaces, earrings and brooches. Molds can be filled with large and small glass frit and powders, as well as small inclusions like fine gauge wire, millefiori and metal foil. Students should come prepared with simple drawings that...
Introduction to Kilnforming Weekend Workshop
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this fun two-day class, you will learn the skills to make items like plates, coasters, wall sconces, and jewelry elements; this and more is possible when working with kilnformed glass. The workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of kilnforming – glass cutting, fusing and slumping. Students will work with flat glass, crushed glass, stringers and rods, as well as metal inclusions, to make finished pieces. Experimentation is highly...
Chop Shop: Making Cold Creations Using Simple Bubbles
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The cold shop is often considered a place to remove punties and straighten vases, but it can be a place where a basic object can be cut apart and reassembled to make entirely new creations. It is a place where we can create sharp crisp facets and various textures that can change both the look and feel of a piece of glass. During this class we will be looking at alternate ways to make work out of multiple pieces of glass by using just cold techniques. ...
Trash to Treasure: Upcycling Techniques in Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this workshop we will use basic glass techniques to rethinking and redesign common glass into new possibilities. Each of the four sessions will rotate to a different studio method to find experimental and utilitarian solutions to our recycling. We will explore the cold shop to learn simple ways of cutting glass and adding pattern and texture. As well as the kiln and flame studio to re-melt found glass and collage imagery with drawing. We...
Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bead
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for a weekend workshop creating beads that are all about spring! Make flower inspired beads, bumble beads, and more! In this course, students will learn the key fundamentals of flameworking soft glass beads. Starting with basic safety and glass knowledge, students will learn how to heat and form glass around steel mandrels to create their very own glass beads. Open to all ages 11 and up, 9 with guardian, all skill levels welcome....
Father's Day Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Come experiment with hot molten glass in this one day Father’s Day workshop! Students will work in teams to learn beginning glassblowing techniques and help each other create handmade objects to take home. Sign up on your own, or with dad for a special shared experience! Open to all ages 11 and up, 10 with parent/caregiver.
$300
Sandcasting
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this one day workshop students will get an introduction to hot casting glass using Zircar Mold Mix molds. Pouring hot glass into molds in the hot shop allows artists to create unique solid glass objects. Zircar Mold Mix 6 is a high temperature ceramic mold material used to make light-weight, strong, reusable mold for glass casting and blowing. During this workshop students will make several reusable molds using Zircar Mold Mix 6. These molds...
$335
Intro to Glassblowing with Charlie Golonkiewicz
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn the introductory skills of glassblowing in this dynamic one-day workshop at UrbanGlass. Discover how to manipulate molten glass and create colorful glassware, such as paperweights and cups. No previous experience is required, open to ages 14 and up.
$375
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