As sure as winter turns to spring, this time of year sees the mailboxes (and email inboxes) of glass enthusiasts jammed to overflowing with summer catalogs from the major schools: Arrowmont, Bild-Werk Frauenau (Germany), Corning Studio, Glass Furnace (Turkey), Haystack, North Lands (Scotland), Oxbow, Penland, Pilchuck, Pittsburgh, and UrbanGlass. To help sort through the dizzying offerings, the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet offers our highly opinionated picks of some of the most exciting courses being offered. This is far from a complete list, and we are leaving out plenty of important classes. But we hope you will find inspiration in our efforts to shine the light on some of the more notable offerings for summer 2010 and do your own exploring of the links to the 11 summer programs we’ve provided above.
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