Summer 2010 - Session 7: July 26 - 31
(one week)
- Hot Glass, What a Blast!
Laura Donefer | Glassblowing
- Flameworking Cocktail
Karina Guévin and Cédric Ginart | Flameworking
- Personal Expression in Kiln-shaped Glass
Jaqueline Cooley and Jo Newman | Kiln Working
- The Art of Cameo Engraving
Helen Millard | Cameo Engraving
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Hot Glass, What a Blast!
Laura Donefer | Glassblowing
Students with basic glassblowing skills who would like to take a non-traditional approach to glassmaking while having fun will enjoy this class. In a relaxed atmosphere, they will develop their skills while learning about bit work, hot hand-building, the use of color, and various surface textures. The course will feature daily demonstrations, glass games, and slide presentations. Some glassblowing experience is required.
Laura Donefer has championed glass as a vehicle for expression for the past 25 years, giving workshops and lectures at glass schools and other institutions worldwide. Ms. Donefer pushes the envelope with her eclectic mixed-media glass installations, which can be seen in various private and public collections around the world. She is a former Glass Art Society board member and is currently on the Pilchuck International Council. Ms. Donefer was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award by the Glass Art Association of Canada in 2006, and with an Honorary Lifetime Membership award by the Glass Art Society in 2008.
Flameworking Cocktail
Karina Guévin and Cédric Ginart | Flameworking
This class will provide beginners with a solid foundation in basic technical skills. Students will be introduced to various techniques using both soft (soda lime) and hard (borosilicate) glass. Working with colored rods and tubing, students will learn a wide variety of techniques, from beadmaking to glassblowing, and will learn how to add flair to these basic techniques with unusual twists. Students' inherent creativity will be stimulated by individual projects designed to help them develop a personal language of color and shape. No glassworking experience is required.
Karina Guévin fell in love with glass while studying at Québec University, where she started making mixed-media sculptures, including glass. She currently works as a Flameworking teacher at Espace Verre and the Red Deer College in Alberta, and has received grants from the Canadian Consul for the Art, La SODEC and the Gilles Verville grant in visual art. She exhibits glass sculptures and jewelry in Canada, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
Cédric Ginart, a native of France, has been working as a scientific glassblower for the past 15 years. He currently works at Montreal University as a scientific glassblower, and teaches artistic flameworking as a faculty member of Espace Verre. He also runs his own flameworking studio in Québec.
Personal Expression in Kiln-shaped Glass
Jaqueline Cooley and Jo Newman | Kiln Working
In this exciting, fast-paced class students will use architecture for inspiration and explore a variety of techniques and materials for creating unique, individual forms in the kiln. Students will learn how to make their own slumping molds, using traditional ceramic mold-making techniques with a contemporary glassmaking twist. They will explore ways to sledge, cut, and recombine slumping molds, applying these processes at a range of scales. The class will address everything from firing schedules to finishing. No glassworking experience is required.
Jo Newman's recent series of drawings and prints aim to capture the rhythm and spirit of a landscape, or the fragility of a feather. This has led her to a fresh approach to working with glass, which is more spontaneous, and less constrained by lengthy glassmaking processes. Working with layers of fine colored-glass powders, she builds up subtle glass surfaces that are enhanced by the inherent luminosity of the glass.
Jaqueline Cooley has been working with kiln-formed glass for more than 20 years. She divides her time between studio work, public art commissions, and arts development work. At present, she is coordinating Making Moves (a UK touring contemporary crafts exhibition). She was jointly responsible for organizing the exhibition Same Difference at the 2009 GAS Conference in Corning. She was winner of a second place award in Bullseye Co.'s Emerge 2006.
The Art of Cameo Engraving
Helen Millard | Cameo Engraving
This course is an introduction to the art of cameo engraving. Using predominantly sandblasting and flexible-drive diamond tool engraving techniques, and drawing on nature as inspiration, students will experiment with depth and subtle shades of color to reveal the three-dimensional beauty of cameo carving. No glassworking experience is required.
Helen Millard is one of Britain's finest contemporary cameo glass engravers. She is deeply influenced by historical glassmaking and engraving techniques, yet has developed her own style, using stunning color combinations to depict her love of nature, ranging from the delicacy of an insect wing to the power of a polar bear. Ms. Millard also produces a range of tableware, from stemware glasses to large bowls, many of which have become collectors' pieces.
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