Summer 2010 - Session 4: July 5 - 10
(one week)
- Form and Color
Nick Mount | Glassblowing
- Elements of Flower Construction
Margaret Neher | Flameworking
- Within the Walls
Martin Kremer | Kiln Working
- Enhance Your Glass: Intermediate Steps
Ed and Martha Biggar | Precious Metal Clay and Glass
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Form and Color
Nick Mount | Glassblowing
This class will concentrate on form and color. Students will work with traditional coloring techniques and the changing presence of a form with the variation of its color. Beginning with a form in clear glass, students will observe its changing nature with the application of color in variations of density, distribution, and pattern. Students will explore a wide range of coloring techniques, and will hone observation, communication, and team-working skills. One year of glassblowing experience is required.
Nick Mount is one of Australia's pre-eminent glass artists. In a career spanning three decades, his work has combined virtuoso technique, a keen instinct for design, and traditional Venetian decorative styles. He is recognized for his commissions, teaching, and exhibitions in Australia, Europe, the United States, and Japan, and his work is represented in many major public and private collections.
Elements of Flower Construction
Margaret Neher | Flameworking
This class will focus on flower making, progressing from simple to complex forms. Using borosilicate glass, students will explore floral structure, use of reference materials, special tools, and attention to realism using shade mixing, frits, and powders. They also will look at ways of adapting glass flowers to various applications, from jewelry to free-standing sculptures. As time permits, students also may explore flameworking techniques specific to making jewelry, including beads that don't require mandrels. Some flameworking experience is required.
Margaret Neher, of Ithaca, NY, began working with stained and etched glass in 1984, and spent several years making kaleidoscopes. She has been flameworking since 1991, inspired by the art found in nature. Eight-time NICHE Award finalist and two-time winner, she is best known for her detailed botanicals, sold in shops and galleries throughout the United States.
Within the Walls
Martin Kremer | Kiln Working
This technique-intensive workshop will focus on the potential for expression and discovery between the inside and outside of a vessel. Working with the bowl form, students will explore the intended and the unexpected in "windows" through the vessel wall. Students will learn how to make and use different types of pattern bars, torch-worked elements, and prepared glass (painted, fritted and powdered, and confetti-styled) as inclusions. Various surface techniques also will be explored. One year of glass fusing experience is required.
Martin Kremer has been working with glass for more than 30 years. His current work, which is featured in museums and galleries internationally, includes large sculptures and a wide range of glass bowls and platters. He has studied blown and fused glass at the Penland School of Crafts, UrbanGlass, and The Studio.
Enhance Your Glass: Intermediate Steps
Ed and Martha Biggar | Precious Metal Clay and Glass
This class will explore more advanced techniques in combining Precious Metal Clay (PMC) with glass to create wearable art. Students will work with new methods of kiln forming, as well as using silver and the new bronze and copper metal clays. Students will learn some traditional silversmith techniques such as riveting and doming, taking their metal clay skills to new levels. The class also will experiment with photo polymer plates, water etching, and carving dry clay. No experience is required.
Ed and Martha Biggar have more than 40 collective years of glassworking experience as well as more than 12 years working with metal clay. Ms. Biggar is certified by the PMC Guild and PMC Connection, and is a juried member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and the Artisan Center of Virginia. Mr. Biggar has created illuminated neon mixed-media works since the early 1990s.
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