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Embrace the Moment
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glass has the ability to be fluid in its molten state, and almost immediately become static as it cools. This unique characteristic offers artists the ability to capture momentum and freeze transitional forms. This class will explore the expressive potential and intensity of the hot glass by capturing this transformation through objects, sculpture, and pyrography. In the kilnforming studio, we will take a much more calculated approach to creating...
Bend and Wear
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students in Bend and Wear will learn neon tube bending basics while exploring wild methods of display. Students will learn to pattern, bend, and create wearable neon to become walking, performative, light sculptures that will be exhibited in the streets, in a mobile installation through New York City. Participants will become walking emitters of electromagnetic waves in a variety of visible wavelengths by utilizing the cutting edge of the 1980s...
A Moving Solid: Introduction to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will serve as a platform to engage with the counterintuitive characteristics of molten glass as it moves through different states of matter. Students will be introduced to the hot shop, learning safety in the studio, and beginning their journey with this unusual material. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly in the studio and shape the glass into solid and blown, sculptural and functional, objects. Learning will...
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Handmade Lenses and Alternative Photo Processes
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Combining flameworking with alternative photo processes, this experimental workshop aims to explore the relationship between object and image to achieve unexpected outcomes. We will explore optics and distortion while creating unique images, projections, videos, and objects by utilizing handmade, flame-worked lenses together with digital photography and photographic processes such as cyanotypes. Working in the flame studio and cold shop, we...
Designing Negative Space: Hot Glass & Moldmaking
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students will design experimental negative spaces in order to create unpredictable positive forms in glass. Using moldmaking as a starting point; students will sculpt, carve, and combine materials to create a hollow cavity to be blown into with molten glass. Working quickly, pursuing the unexpected and uninhibited, students will gain information and inspiration while finding the line between completed objects and their failed counterparts. The object...
Pencil to Panel
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
From Pencil to Panel is a week long workshop for beginner flat glass students interested in stained glass objects. We will work starting with paper and pencil, exploring shapes and lines to develop designs to make out of glass. Students will learn basic skills for working with flat glass like cutting, grinding, copper foil and solder. This class will also discuss simple stained glass design and be centered around making an object you want to have...
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...
Glass & Gas: Intro to Neon
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this 8-week, introductory workshop, students will learn to manipulate glass tubes to create their own, unique neon signs. Demonstrations on equipment safety, basic bends, and good technique will lead to more complex explorations dependent on student designs. Using the week in between each class to process what they’ve learned, students will learn to pattern for neon, plan out their signs, experiment, and add neon art to their tool kit as artists....
Designed To Be Arranged
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this class we’ll explore the practical relationship between form and function as we fabricate vessels to showcase a variety of floral arrangements. This weekend workshop will devote the first day to work in the hot shop where we will focus on designing vases that will lend themselves well to displaying flower designs. After a brief intro into kinds and principals of floral design on Saturday, we will spend time Sunday learning...
Boro Bootcamp: Push, Pull and Sculpt
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this fast paced flameworking class we will cover a variety of coloring processes and strategies for creating borosilicate jewelry. The techniques covered in this class will broaden the possibilities of wearables created with the flameworking process. In this 2-day class we will cover color layering and application, cane pulling, solid and hollow implosions, as well as sculpting. This class will be accessible to the beginner at the torch and...
Working with Gravity: Introduction to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glassblowing is a dance of physical forces. In this introductory class, students will learn the foundations of glassblowing, including safety in the studio, body movement, basic techniques, and finishing pieces. We will put special emphasis on gravity and centrifugal force, which are the most valuable tools in understanding the material. We will learn to utilize these forces to create unique forms, experimenting in the studio with lengthening,...
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...
Simple Goblets
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Simple Goblets is a six week introductory course designed for students with some glassblowing experience. We will be reviewing basic goblet making techniques, as well as introducing optic mold enhancements. Optic cups and feet will be demonstrated as well as avolio and morise connections. Goblet making is the holy grail of glassblowing, and this course will take you out of your comfort zone while bringing your skills to the next level.
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,...
Hot Glass American Summer
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Learn something new this summer in the hot glass studio. In this six week course we will cover all the basics of working with hot glass. Through a series of skill building drills and guided work time we will cover everything one needs to know to begin their relationship with hot glass. This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of the material and set them up to take the next steps becoming a glass maker.
Collage + Combine | Remix + Redux
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this experimental class, you will use multiple printmaking and painting processes with glass, mixed with glass cutting techniques to assemble layered imagery in glass. We will discuss the pros and cons of each technique and how to mix and match them to best realize your ideas. Individual experimentation will be encouraged through focused research and observation of process and material. The print processes covered are lithographic image...
Creative Working and Constructing with Glass
UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
The material for this workshop consists of ordinary pieces of float-glass in various sizes that can be cut further in any desired shape. In this practical and theoretical workshop, new and found glass pieces and broken fragments will be used creatively to construct any object possible. Students will also learn how to cut glass pieces to create these desired shapes. Cutting glass-pieces is similar to drawing and conducive to visualizing...
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