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Introduction to Kilnformed Glass Tuition $295 - Deposit $150 February 2 & 3, 2013 This two-day introductory workshop is designed with the beginner in mind and will guide you through an exploration of the possibilities of fused and slumped glass. We will demonstrate the basics of glass cutting, explain the various steps of a firing schedule and discuss the importance of glass compatibility and annealing. You will be able to experiment with design possibilities using a wide variety of frit, stringers, confetti, sheet glass and iridized glass in the Bullseye Glass palette. |
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Fun and Funky Hearts Tuition $150 February 2, 2013 This one-day workshop will introduce you to several methods of making heart-themed jewelry pieces just in time for a gift for your Valentine! Using both pre-fused glass blanks and sheet glass, you will create three heart-shaped pins or pendants, and a pair of heart-themed earrings (Think Red Hot Candies!). We will demonstrate simple techniques with dichroic glass to create different effects and enhance the heart shape. You will learn to use some basic coldworking techniques to shape your blanks, how to fire polish for a professional look, and have some wonderful jewelry pieces for yourself or for Valentine’s Day gifts! |
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Dichroic Glass Earrings Tuition $150 February 3, 2013 and again on February 9, 2013 In this one day workshop you will have the chance to explore different methods for making fused glass earrings – you’ll even learn how to make your own sterling silver ear wires using the new Easy Ear Wire tool! You will design and create several projects, and you’ll be introduced to tricks for making dangles and adding other beads to your work. You will have the opportunity to experiment with base metals as well as sterling and fine silver wires. Anne will show you tricks for connecting components and successfully attaching findings, and you’ll have several pairs of new earrings to wear! |
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This session is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $375 - Deposit $200 February 9 & 16, 2013 This two-day class will be held on two consecutive Saturdays to allow for the more involved firing that is required. Drop-formed vessels are made by slumping a piece of glass through a ring-shaped mold that is suspended in a kiln. This technique allows for the creation of deep bowls and vases with a decidedly soft and fluid form, characteristics more akin to blown glass than to kilnformed glass. You will have the opportunity to design and fabricate two drop forms during class, one large and one small. We will discuss various mold options and will have a wide variety of finished bowls and vases to inspire you. We will also have several drop-formed vessels in various stages of the slumping process so that you can observe the actual movement of the glass during the firing. During the second day of class, you will coldwork and finish the slumped forms created on the first day. |
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New session just opened. Tuition $375 - Deposit $200 February 10 & 17, 2013 This two-day class will be held on two consecutive Sundays to allow for the more involved firing that is required. Drop-formed vessels are made by slumping a piece of glass through a ring-shaped mold that is suspended in a kiln. This technique allows for the creation of deep bowls and vases with a decidedly soft and fluid form, characteristics more akin to blown glass than to kilnformed glass. You will have the opportunity to design and fabricate two drop forms during class, one large and one small. We will discuss various mold options and will have a wide variety of finished bowls and vases to inspire you. We will also have several drop-formed vessels in various stages of the slumping process so that you can observe the actual movement of the glass during the firing. During the second day of class, you will coldwork and finish the slumped forms created on the first day. |
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Kilnformed Glass II Tuition $325 - Deposit $175 February 23 & 24, 2013 Kilnformed Glass II is the ideal next step for the student who has completed Introduction to Kilnforming, either at Vitrum Studio or at another studio. It is also beneficial for those who jumped head-first into creating with glass on their own and now have questions about the process. This two-day workshop will strengthen your knowledge about the technical aspects of fusing glass, freeing you to express yourself artistically. |
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Fusing for Contemporary Glass Jewelry Tuition $295 - Deposit $150 March 2 & 3, 2013 Working in a professional glass studio, you will create fused pendants, earrings, and pins in this introductory workshop while learning to exploit the transparency, depth, and unique sparkle of glass. You will be introduced to the techniques of layering colored glass, using dichroic coatings, shaping blanks with saws and grinders, and using multiple firings to create a professional look on the finished pieces. On the second day you will also be introduced to basic wire wrapping and jewelry construction techniques. Discussions will include setting up a basic home studio for small scale jewelry fusing and coldworking. Tuition includes all materials and the use of basic tools for a variety of jewelry pieces. |
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The Sampling Series: Tuition $175 March 2, 2013 and again on March 3, 2013 Join us for this fantastic class and take home a strip-cut 8” x 8” plate that you designed! This is a wonderful opportunity to sample the strip-cutting process while you make a finished piece for yourself or for a special gift. We’ll have pre-cut strips in a subtle palette of 9 gorgeous tints, White, French Vanilla and Clear Bullseye glass. You’ll create your design (geometric or random lengths) under the instructor’s guidance, learn to dam it properly, then we will fire it and cold work the edges for a professional finish, and slump it into a mold. Tuition of $175 includes all material, firings, coldworking of the edges and use of all needed tools for a finished glass piece. |
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March 8, 9 ,10 & 11, 2013 Working with the techniques Martha Pfanschmidt has developed for creating her colorful abstract works, the students will use colored powders and glasses to construct multi-layered, thick glass pieces that have a complex and yet clear visual language. From patterned and colored parts that the students create they will develop larger compositions by cutting and re-assembling the parts into final “collaged” pieces. |
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Martha Pfanschmidt has taught printmaking at Marylhurst and Portland State Universities while also operating the Portland-based group print workshop Atelier Mars with Tom Prochaska. She was introduced to glass through a workshop led by Tom Prochaska and Ted Sawyer in 2003, followed by a two-week Artist/Factory Exchange Project at Bullseye later that year titled “Found In Translation.” Pfanschmidt has since gone on to make commissioned works in glass for high-profile building projects and private clients, and to participate in another Artist/Factory Exchange Project called “Printmakers Fired.” “Making art is speaking in a visual language. Glass and paintings are merely dialects of the same language. Color, tone, line and shape are some of the words that make up that language. In my work these elements are the expression of the sensual life made visible.” – Martha Pfanschmidt See more of Martha’s works at:www.pfanschmidt.com |
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Classic Crescent Collar Tuition $295 - Deposit $150 March 9 & 10, 2013 In this informative workshop, you will create two finished pieces using this elegant and ancient shape. You will learn how to cut the crescent, and how to apply these methods to other, more free-form shapes. Using Bullseye glass, stringers, rods and dichroic glass, you’ll be shown the tricks of building the pieces in such a way that very little cold working is necessary. Differing ways to attach and use these crescent shapes will be demonstrated. Tuition includes all materials and the use of basic tools. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $350 - Deposit $175 March 16 & 23, 2013 This class will convene on two consecutive Saturdays to allow for the extended firing times required for the bars made on the first day of class. Pattern bars are thick fused slabs, generally built out of multiple layers of colored sheet glass. These bars are most often cut into thin cross sections, exposing repeating patterns that can be used as design elements in fused glass panels and bowls. We will use several traditional methods to construct basic pattern bars, and then these bars will be the raw material for the primary focus of the class: exploring new and intriguing ways of using them. The bars will be sliced, diced, cubed and arranged in non-traditional ways that exploit glass’s ability to flow. This class is equally valuable to the kiln former completely new to the construction techniques of pattern bars, since basic techniques will be demonstrated and explored, and will also be of great interest to more experienced fusers who are seeking new ways of using pattern bars in their own work. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $350 - Deposit $175 March 17 & 24, 2013
This class will convene on two consecutive Sundays to allow for the extended firing times required by the complex bars made on the first day of class. Pattern bars have long been one of the basic techniques in kilnformed glass, and they still prove to be a great way to introduce visual texture and complex pattern into your kilnformed work. Several different techniques for constructing pattern bars will be demonstrated, and a variety of studio-exclusive pattern bar molds will be demonstrated. You will have the opportunity to create numerous projects of your own design over the course of the class. Good design, attention to detail, and quality craftsmanship will be emphasized. We will take advantage of the cold shop to give our pieces a finished, professional look, and will encourage you to make thoughtful projects that are carefully considered from beginning to end. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $325 - Deposit $175 March 29 & 30, 2013 Understanding how to use glass powders effectively allows you to think about glass and glass design in a completely new way. You can break out of the limits of sheet glass as you become more painterly in your work, using soft lines and shading rather than the harder lines of cut glass pieces. You can mix and overlay powders to create new colors and subtle hues. We will demonstrate how to make powder wafers to create realistic details in your work and you will create both a floral study and a landscape as you explore these techniques. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $525 - Deposit $250 April 5, 6 & 7, 2013 This is an intensive introduction to working with glass colors that chemically react with each other during the fusing or flame working process. Vitrum Studio’s staff members and many of its visiting instructors have long used these color reactions to great effect in their own personal work, and now we’ve brought together the information we have learned into a comprehensive course on this fascinating aspect of kilnforming. Students will begin by creating sample charts of the reactive glasses as a reference for their home studios. They will also create samples exploring the potential of these reactive glass combinations and finally will complete a larger kilnformed composition that incorporates color reactions as a part of the design. We will have access to Bullseye Glass’ already large palette of reactive glass colors, stringers and rods (including the luster rods), silver foil, as well as their recently developed Reactive Cloud White and Reactive Clear Ice during the workshop. |
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Dichroic Link Bracelets II Tuition $295 - Deposit $150 April 6 & 7, 2013 In this two-day workshop you will make two different styles of glass bracelets while you learn the techniques of making fused glass blanks, jump rings, and clasps. We’ll show you how to make a lightweight , easy-to-wear bracelet that uses sterling silver filled wire to create links between the fused glass pieces and adds jump rings in coordinating colors to decorate the links and create movement and texture to the design. You’ll also make a second, heavier-weight bracelet with more complex glass pieces. You’ll learn to insert jump rings in the blanks so that they fire in neatly and securely, and how to use multiple colored jump rings to connect the links. Anne will show you how to make your own jump rings and an easy bracelet clasp with sterling silver-filled wire. All materials and the use of all tools are included in the tuition. Come join the fun! |
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Taking a Leap: Grab Your Powders! Tuition $995 - Deposit $500 April 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16, 2013 As toddlers, we were fearless mark makers. We knew nothing about self-consciousness and expectations. As adults, we tend to forget that the simplest of marks, when done with intelligence and commitment, can be powerful indeed. So, let's bridge this gap! The focus of this breakaway course is toward developing and refining a skilled, intuitive and uniquely individual approach to using powders and sheet glass. Nothing compares to the joy of making personally resonant work. All it requires is a bit of risk taking. We'll begin with elementary drawing exercises and move quickly into powder work. Simple black and white single layer powder studies encourage increasingly individual and sophisticated work and culminate in independent multi-layered monochromatic and color projects. Particular attention will be given to developing form two dimensionally and within layered work. Relevant experimentation with materials and strategies for invention will be encouraged and the creative process of moving from idea to concept sketches toward final resolution will be stressed. |
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Catharine Newell, recognized for her distinctive figurative work using glass powders, exhibits her unique approach to kiln working internationally. An ardent educator, Newell’s teaching history includes Master classes at Pilchuck Glass School, North Lands Glass and Corning, as well as venues across Europe and the UK, Australia, China, and Norway. Juried four times into Corning Museum’s New Glass Review, her work has been acquired for the permanent collections of Swedish Hospital, Hotel Murano, Bullseye Glass Company, Hunter Museum of American Art, University of Miami Lowe Museum and Tsinghua University Museum in Beijing. Newell maintains a private studio in Portland, Oregon. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Anne Paynter-Hill, Vitrum Studio Instructor and Independent Artist Tuition $145 April 13, 2013 This one-day workshop will introduce you to unique ways of creating glass earrings that have a clean, new, contemporary look. Using specific firing temperatures, cold lamination and a bit of silver smithing, you’ll create three pair of elegant sterling silver and glass earrings. We’ll also teach you how to use the new Easy Ear Wire tool that allows you to make an elegant ear wires from a straight piece of wire in seconds. All materials and the use of tools are included in the tuition. |
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Wire Findings Tuition $145 April 14, 2013 Learn to make your own findings in order to make your jewelry entirely your own. We’ll work with a variety of appropriate gauges of copper wire, but these same techniques can be used with almost any wire. Once you are comfortable with the techniques, you can move into sterling silver wire for these findings.(You are welcome to bring some sterling wire with you to class if you’d like to create under Anne’s guidance.) Anne will show you how to create unique bails for your fused glass pendants and make your own French ear wires quickly, easily and inexpensively. She’ll show you how to make the elegant “Swan hook and eye” that can be varied in a number of ways to work with any jewelry design, and a “Double Spiral” hook and eye connector that is easy to make to just exactly the size you need. She’ll also teach you two variations on the classic toggle clasp that are easy and fashionable. |
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Mapping the Surface: Tuition $325 - Deposit $175 April 20 & 21, 2013 In this two-day workshop, we will explore various surface treatments and cold working techniques that can elevate the ordinary glass object to the extraordinary. We’ll teach you how to improve your cold working skills and learn to successfully use the glass lathe, diamond lap wheel, wet belt sander, diamond saw and sandblaster. Each student will have an opportunity to use every tool demonstrated in class to create a complex sampler of surface treatments. Students will also take an ordinary clear kilnformed glass bowl and transform it into an elegant cold worked object. Note: You must complete this course in order to rent time on our diamond lap wheels or glass engraving equipment. |
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Metal Inclusions in Jewelry Tuition $325 - Deposit $175 April 20 & 21, 2013 Are you looking for a way to make your jewelry stand out from the crowd? We will show you new techniques to create unique kilnformed glass pendants, earrings and pins incorporating a variety of both fine and base metals. We will use silver, copper and gold in several forms – leaf, foil, mesh and wire - in a wide range of new and interesting techniques. We will demonstrate methods of designing with these metals to cause reactions in the glass, and how to incorporate hammered metals and clear frits into your jewelry. Simple coldworking methods for jewelry will be covered, as well as fire-polishing techniques for a professional look. Basic glass jewelry experience is preferred. |
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The Fabric of Glass Tuition $725 - Deposit $375 This class is full, but a wait list is available. and again on, NEW SESSION JUST ADDED! Permanently preserve an article of clothing or fabric by making a casting of it with glass. This class will guide you through all the processes from preparing the fabric, creating the mold, firing and annealing considerations, and un-casting of the dimensional piece. You will create one positive casting of fabric as well as one smaller fragment study relief casting. We will discuss various mold materials for this process and how they can be adapted to processes outside of fabric. This technique is great for small clothing such as baby clothes or clothing that has been cut to size, or anything that can lay flat such as fabric purses. Note: The clothing article needs to be no larger than 12” x 14” and you can find suitable items at many second hand stores. (Baby clothes are ideal - look for sizes up to 6 months) Keep in mind that this method can damage the clothing so please take this into consideration when choosing your item to cast. |
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Lisa Becker is a full time artist and owner of Art Glass Array in St. Charles, MO. Beginning in stained glass and moving to kiln forming, Becker has taught various glass techniques at AGSA trade shows, for local Universities and glass studios since 1997. The Fabric of Glass castings were born out of a desire to jury into in a regional biennial fiber exhibit held in St. Louis. Since then, the castings have been featured in Bullseye Glass Company’s 2012 catalog as well as Glass Art Magazine. For more information on Becker or her work, visit www.artglassarray.com or www.lisabeckerdesign.com. |
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This class is full, but a wait list is available. Tuition $595 - Deposit $300 May 4, 5 & 6, 2013 We are delighted to host Tony Glander of Fitzpatrick Studio for an expanded three day workshop that focuses on the techniques involved in preparing images for screen printing and firing them permanently them onto glass. Tony will show you how to capture, manipulate and prepare your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements – a powerful and inexpensive image manipulation software. He’ll guide you through the steps involved in transforming images, photographs and hand drawings onto a screen for printing. You’ll then learn how to screen print those images to the glass surface using paints specifically designed for kilnforming. The workshop will also cover how to print multiple copies of your image on decals that can then be fired on glass to create complex imagery. Tony will cover all aspects of preparing and reclaiming screens, and he’ll show you how to make a simple and inexpensive setup to create screens to continue this technique at home. You will have the opportunity to print several images on glass that will be fired for permanency. |
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NEW!The Sampling Series: Tuition $175 May 4, 2013 Join us for this fantastic class and take home a strip-cut 8” x 8” plate that you designed yourself! This is a wonderful opportunity to sample the strip-cutting process while you make a finished piece for yourself or for a special gift. We’ll have pre-cut strips in a restful summer palette of blues and greens, White, French Vanilla and Clear Bullseye glass. You’ll create your design (geometric or random lengths) under the instructor’s guidance, learn to dam it properly, then we will fire it and cold work the edges for a professional finish, and slump it into a mold. Tuition of $175 includes all material, firings, coldworking of the edge and use of all needed tools for a finished glass piece. |
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The English Cottage Garden in Glass Tuition $575 - Deposit $300 May 10, 11 & 12, 2013 Judith often teaches A Sense of Place when she teaches in Europe. Over the past few years the students have put their own unique stamp on the projects. Their influences as well as that of the local environs are the inspiration for this special class at Vitrum Studio. This three-day workshop will consist of a multi-faceted approach to kiln forming that is well suited to combining hard lines of architectural images with the soft flowing lines of the organic, natural world. You’ll design and construct two projects while experimenting with the technical aspects of designing with both sheet glass and glass frit in a single composition. This technique can be both rewarding and challenging. During the course you will be shown a variety of methods for creating imagery in glass and you will complete two pieces - one based perhaps on a neighbor’s view of an English cottage and garden, and one based on a closer view of a window, gate or doorway enhanced by the abundance of summer annuals and perennials. We will be using the full range of the Bullseye palette – frits, powders, stringers and sheet glass - to achieve the desired imagery. Returning students are welcome to attend and work on their own landscape designs. If you’ve enjoyed taking Sense of Place, then you’ll love this class. |
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Kilnformed Landscapes in Miniature: Tuition $595 - Deposit $300 May 17,18 & 19, 2013 In this three-day class, the first in a series of workshops that will focus on the landscape represented in miniature, we will attempt to capture the beauty of the landscape around us in diminutive kilnformed panels. The small size of our projects will ensure that students will have the opportunity to complete several pieces during the class. We will demonstrate how to use glass frits and powders to create a variety of miniature landscapes in a Pate de Verre style. We’ve eliminated the complicated and messy mold making process typical of Pate de Verre, but have kept the subtlety of line and color that makes traditional pate de verre so appealing. This class will also emphasize attention to detail and the importance of good design and craftsmanship in the execution of the final projects. |
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Introduction to Kilnformed Glass Tuition $295 - Deposit $150 June 1 & 2, 2013 This two-day introductory workshop is designed with the beginner in mind and will guide you through an exploration of the possibilities of fused and slumped glass. We will demonstrate the basics of glass cutting, explain the various steps of a firing schedule and discuss the importance of glass compatibility and annealing. You will be able to experiment with design possibilities using a wide variety of frit, stringers, confetti, sheet glass and iridized glass in the Bullseye Glass palette. During the class you will create a set of example tiles and two fused and slumped bowls. Our goal is to introduce you to both the technical and artistic side of the medium of kilnformed glass. Tuition includes all materials and the use of basic tools. |
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Glass Tiles
Ursula Marcum, Vitrum Studio Instructor and Independent Artist Tuition $325 - Deposit $175 June 8 & 9, 2013 This two-day workshop is designed to introduce you to the techniques involved in creating one-of-a-kind accent tiles. You will explore various glass tile making techniques that are designed to give consistent results whether you are making one tile or a hundred. We will discuss methods of maintaining a consistent size and footprint in your tiles, and how to manage the contour of the design using heat control. Among the topics to be discussed and illustrated are:
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Tuition $695 - Deposit $350
