Winter Session Five | February 1-6 (one week)
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Freeze Your Breath
Edward Schmid | Glassblowing
Fun and fact-filled, this multi-level course will focus on developing the skills necessary to express oneself through the medium of molten glass. Students will create designs and explore blowing and sculpting methods. The intended result is for students to be able to “freeze their breath” in unique glass objects. Hot shop experience is helpful but not required.
Edward Schmid has been working with hot glass since 1984. He received his B.F.A. in glass from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana in 1987, and his M.F.A. in glass from Ohio State University in 1990. He is the author of Beginning Glassblowing Advanced Glassworking Techniques. Mr. Schmid teaches glassblowing at universities, colleges, and private studios across the globe.
Intermediate Marbles with Borosilicate Glass
Christopher Rice | Flameworking
Working with borosilicate glass, students will learn advanced marble-making techniques and how to create floral implosions, vortexes, butterflies, and surface designs. The class will explore the range of available borosilicate colors, determining which ones work well together in different applications. Crayon colors will be used for flowers and surface decorations. Students will be shown how to make implosion marbles with solid rods, and how to approach larger-sized spheres. One year of flameworking experience is required.
Christopher Rice has been flameworking since 1999, and has studied with Robert Mickelsen, Milon Townsend, and Eric Goldschmidt. He currently operates C.N.Y. Glass Studio in Boonville, NY, with his wife, Jacquelyn.
Lost and Found
Debra Ruzinsky | Kiln Casting
This class will explore glass casting using found objects as the jumping off point for making constructed sculptural forms. Students will make a variety of molds and will use the lost wax process to translate these forms into kiln-cast glass. Some glassworking experience is helpful but not required.
Debra Ruzinsky received her B.A. in design from the University of California at Los Angeles, and her M.F.A. in glass sculpture from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She has taught glass at RIT, the University of Oregon, and O AT KA Glass Studio. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Seto City Museum in Japan, and the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark. She was included in the 2009 M.F.A. Exhibition at UrbanGlass.
Graphic and Color Systems in Glass
Mark Matthews | Glassblowing
Using colored rods, powders, frits, and techniques such as color overlaying and canemaking, students will create their own combinations of graphic patterns and will experiment with color schemes. These patterns will then be used to produce marbles. The instructor will demonstrate his color theory, and students will have the opportunity to apply these color schemes in their own work. Although some color will be provided, participants should bring an ample supply of color bars, frit, and powder. One year of glassblowing experience is required.
Mark Matthews is one of America’s premier makers of collectable marbles and other spherical decorative glass objects. His sophisticated color systems and complex graphic designs in glass have earned him widespread critical acclaim. His work has been published in New Glass Review, Glass Magazine, and Greenberg’s Guide to Marbles.
Advanced Cold Construction
Martin Rosol | Cold Working
Using solid blocks of glass, students will experiment with aspects of advanced cold working: grinding, polishing, the use of horizontal mill wheels and vertical lathes, and cutting with stone and diamond to create constructions from glass. Students also will learn the HXTAL gluing process to join glass elements. Some cold working experience is required.
Martin Rosol attended the School for Arts and Crafts in Prague and received further training in Czechoslovakia as a cold worker. In 1986, Mr. Rosol came to the United States to pursue a career as a sculptor. He lives in Massachusetts, where he maintains a glass studio. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe.
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