Our Classes
Special Classes
Focused on exploring the fullness of UrbanGlass’s creative environment, these classes range widely in subject matter and are designed to add richness to both your studio practice and everyday life.
Glassblowing
Learn the tools and techniques that have been used to blow and sculpt glass for over two thousand years. Introductory classes start with the basics of safety, teamwork, and form, while advanced classes focus on specific techniques, best practices and innovations in the field.
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STOP IT! Blown Bottles and Stoppers with Jessi Moore
4 Sessions: October 14 — November 11
Saturday, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm -
Intro to Glassblowing: Putting the Fun in Funky with Alix DeFabbia-Kane
6 Sessions: October 15 — November 19
Sunday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm -
Advanced Beginner Glassblowing with Shuhei Fujii & Jessi Moore
6 Sessions: November 1 — December 13
Wednesday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm -
Intro to Glassblowing (Thursdays) with Lucas Kernan
6 Sessions: November 9 — December 21
Thursday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Coldworking Studio
The tools of the cold shop are used to carve, shape, polish, decorate and finish cold glass. Similar to a wood or metal shop, the cold shop contains saws, flat grinders, belt sanders, lathes, and a sandblaster specific for working with glass. Start with a focus on safety, and expand into exploring the many dynamic ways coldworking enhances and compliments glass work.
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STOP IT! Blown Bottles and Stoppers with Jessi Moore
4 Sessions: October 14 — November 11
Saturday, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Flameworking and Beadmaking
Flameworking (or lampworking) encompasses many different types of glasswork created with a torch. Artists use glass rods or tubes softened by the heat of the torch to create detailed sculptures, hollow forms, beads, and more. Learn the basics of beadmaking all the way through the subtleties of detailed glass sculpture.
Neon
Neon signs light up the city in all different shapes, words, and colors. From beginner to advanced classes, learn to bend glass tubes to be pumped with noble gasses and lit as sculptures or signage.
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Intermediate Neon: Block Lettering with Stephanie Sara Lifshutz
6 Sessions: October 18 — November 29
Wednesday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stained Glass & Creating Imagery on Glass
For thousands of years, artists have created decorative stained glass panels that cast colorful shadows and depict histories through image. Learn the basics of designing, cutting and piecing together unique stained glass creations. Explore glass painting and imagery processes to tell layered stories on glass.
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Intermediate Glass Painting for Stained Glass with Michael Davis
6 Sessions: November 14 — December 19
Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Kilnforming and Casting
Kilnforming refers to the spectrum of techniques that use the heat of the kiln to transform and shape glass. Fusing and slumping explore cutting flat glass to create shapes and patterns, the use of colorful crushed or powdered glass, and how these elements are transformed once inside the kiln. Kiln casting techniques include moldmaking, working with wax, and firing 3D forms in the kiln.
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Intro to Pâte de Verre with Aullar Mateo
6 Sessions: October 7 — November 18
Saturday, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm -
Bend, Slump, Drape with Jane Bruce
5 Sessions: November 11 — December 16
Saturday, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free Programs
Join a variety of free programming including lectures, professional development from our staff, and community still-life drawing sessions.
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Free Lectures & Demos
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There are no classes for this category and semester listed at this time. New classes are usually listed 2 months before the start of the semester.
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