Check out the classes from the last Stained Glass Art Intensive.
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Sticks and Stones |
3/24/2008 |
| Combine non-traditional glass objects to fabricate ultra-contemporary panels. Learn to work with Kokomo rondels, found items or head glass. Simple tips on fabrication platforms allow you to combine items of irregular thickness into panels of unlimited size. Use luxurious add-ons to create "upholstered glass." Use common materials to produce "bronze" reinforcement that allows open-ended design and dramatic dimension. After this class, you may never make a flat glass panel again! This is not your mother's idea of stained glass!
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME |
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Wall Jewelry |
3/25/2008 |
| NO WINDOWS-JUST GLASS! Complete contemporary work designed to imitate gems, polished stone, or fossils with textured jewelry-like metal trim. No need for windows with dazzling glass designs that are completely light independent and showcase them with feet to stand away from the wall. Learn to engineer work with graceful curved perimeters, multi level construction and "found items". Select glass for its unique markings and texture rather than its color. Create with glass, custom designed Kokomo rondels, glass globs or other unique elements.
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME
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Hidden Images |
3/26/2008 |
| COPPER FOIL OVERLAY AS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT!
New process! Developed to produce amazing detail not possible with traditionally cut stained glass. Once thought of as incidental decoration, learn how to make copper foil overlay the main focus of your work. Execute large areas of solder as well as very fine detail and add solder "sculpture" to imitate feathers, muscle and 3-D shaping found in nature.
Students work additional areas on the back of the glass, resulting in surprise "hidden images" when backlit. Featured in numerous publications, signature works are executed on "head glass" and are displayed in fine art galleries and private collections across the globe. This class will dispel every rule about working directly on the glass, heat fracture, design mass, adhesion and more! Work a stained glass panel without cutting glass!
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME
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Floating Rondells |
3/27/2008 |
| Learn to create a high profile "solder field" with decorative, sculptured solder on which to design a contemporary work featuring rondels that appear to float above the surface. Begin with a dramatically shaped base: explore hanging apparatus, surface preparation, full solder coverage and reinforcing techniques. Design rondel arrangement according to thickness and proximity of other rondels. Add peripheral glass decoration directly to solder surface.
Discuss and execute engineering principals and weight support system to allow rondels to float above or attach to each other. Add further drama with patina techniques that highlight the unexpected juxtaposition of richly textured solder and smooth glistening glass.
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME |
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Glass-Straight Up! |
3/28/2008 |
| Free form, freestanding sculpture.
Forget about window space. It's time to take glass into your living space! Opulent free form glass joins with graceful metal shapes to create sculptural works of art.
You will work with one of a kind elements as well as flat sheet glass to create contemporary multidimensional designs with the capabilities to reflect multi-glass color light play.
Special attention will be paid to the engineering aspects of support and color options as well as building a customized platform system. Non-traditional surface decoration might involve fused elements, pewter attachments, and clever camouflage of soldered seams.
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME |
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