This class is perfect for the advanced student or glass art­ist who prefers to work independently or alongside other advanced and experienced flame workers. Each partici­pant is requested to share a short presentation on any flameworking topic to their fellow classmates. For example a specific forming, shaping or color application technique, etc.  Participants are given a 27-hour pass in which they can use during any time that Open Studio or another Independent Flame slot if available. *Please Note- Enrollment in Independent Flame is limited to 8 (per slot/day). All Independent Flame participants must also be self-sufficient, provide their own materials and be able to properly use equipment, kilns, etc.

Fall Quarter: 9 weeks

Monday September 16, 10am-1pm 

Monday September 16, 7pm-10pm  

Friday September 20, 7pm-10pm

Tuition: $230 (Students must provide their own glass.) Interested students must contact Dale Marhanka to register: dalemarhanka@workhousearts.org.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Learn the ancient art of mosaic making using modern methods and materials.  Plan, design and create your own unique work using a variety of materials such as glass, ceramic, stone, and more. After an initial small project to learn the basics, students may choose from another class project or bring in a project of their choice with instructor’s approval. All skill levels are welcome, from beginner to expert. Tools will be available for student use.

Fall Quarter: 7 Weeks           
*** REGISTRATION EXTENDED ONE WEEK. 

NEW START DATES LISTED BELOW                                                                      

Tuesday September 24, 1:30pm-4:00pm

Tuesday September 24, 7:00pm-9:30pm

Tuition: $210

Materials: $15 (covers use of tools, equipment and any misc. program provided materials)

Additional Materials Fee: $75 payable to instructor by first day of class.

Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey & Julie Gutsch

Take your beadmaking skills to the next level. Explore the alchemy and ecstasy of achieving other worldly designs by applying reactive glass foils, silvered stringers, complex twisties, frit, latticino, and fuming! Pull, push, tweeze glass, add/subtract, mask, rake – we’ll explore every technique in the book, including etching, flat-lapping, and more. For intermediate and advanced level beadmakers only.

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks

Tuesday September 17, 10am-12:30pm (Lagassey)

Tuesday September 17, 7pm-9:30pm (Gutsch)*** REGISTRATION EXTENDED ONE WEEK. NEW START DATE IS SEPTEMBER 24.

Tuition: $210 

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Leah Powell

This is a traditional method of making windows, lamps, boxes and more by creating a pattern (or using a pre-made pattern), select­ing colored and textured glass to go in each piece of your pattern, cutting and fitting the glass to your pattern and joining the glass using copper foil and solder. A beginning student will come away with all the skills to create simple windows on their own and a finished project. Intermediate & Advanced also welcome.

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks                                      

Wednesday September 18, 7pm-9:30pm

Tuition: $210

Materials: $15 (covers use of tools, equipment and misc. program provided materials)

Additional Materials fees for individual projects are estimated to be $100-$300 depending upon project chosen.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Candi Durusu

Learn the fundamentals of Flameworking with Boro (hard) glass. This recurring weekly class will cover setting up a studio, studio safety, flame characteristics and purpose, gravity and hand positioning, and fundamentals of glass as applied to flameworking. Instructor will also cover creation of marbles, pendants, flowers, ornaments, sculpting and more.

Fall Quarter: 7 Weeks
Wednesday September 18, 7pm-10pm-Durusu** REGISTRATION EXTENDED ONE WEEK***NEW START DATE SEPT 25

Tuition: $230                                                    
Materials: $115, added at time of registration

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Julie Gutsch

This seven-week class is designed for the beginner and intermediate student with little or no experience. Using demonstrations, lecture and plenty of hands-on work students will learn the proper use of a propane/oxygen torch, how to shape and form beads from your basic shape to those more sculpted and intricate. Students will also be taught how to use the various tools provided to effectively create a variety of different shapes. Incorporating the use of various decorative elements will also be covered each week.

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks

Thursday September 19, 7pm-9:30pm ** REGISTRATION EXTENDED ONE WEEK***NEW START DATE SEPT 26

Tuition: $230

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels, Young Adults and Adults
Instructor: Sandi Martina

Create artworks from layering glass then firing in a kiln to a full, tack or slump fuse. Beginning / Intermediate classes are great for students who have no previous glass experience or want a refresher on basic skills. Learn the art of kilnforming glass including basic principles of compatibility, scoring, cutting, fusing, shaping and coldworking. We will use sheet glass, frit, stringers and dichroic glass, while learning how to use glass tools. Students will learn design concepts and how to choose which glass technique will best accomplish their goal. Focus will be on process and exploring all the possibilities that can be achieved with glass. Intermediate / Advanced classes are great for students who already possess basic knowledge of fusing glass and use of tools. Students will explore more detailed and complex fusing concepts, i.e. making your own sheet glass and components, reactives, kiln-carving, image transfers and bottle slumping. This class is designed for students to perfect their sense of craftsmanship and development of a personal style. Experimentation and thinking outside the box is strongly encouraged.

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks

Thursday September 26, 1pm-4pm (Martina)

Tuition: $230

Materials: $145, added at time of registration.

All Skill Levels: Young Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Express your own unique style with wearable art.  Create jewelry pieces using glass, shells, stones, crystals and more from around the world.  Micro ceramic tiles from Morocco, millefiori from Italy, crystal rhinestones from Vienna and the Czech Republic, recycled sintered glass from Turkey, paua abalone from New Zealand and more.

Fall Quarter: One day

Saturday September 21, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $145

Materials Fee: $75- payable to Instructor-Plus $5 (covers use of tools, equipment and any misc. program provided materials) added at registration

Location: W-7, Rm.716

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: STAFF

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks

Sunday September 22, 3pm-6:00pm

Tuition: $230

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate / Advanced classes are great for students who already possess basic knowledge of fusing glass and use of tools. Students will explore more detailed and complex fusing concepts, i.e. making your own sheet glass and components, reactives, kiln-carving, image transfers and bottle slumping. This class is designed for students to perfect their sense of craftsmanship and development of a personal style. Experimentation and thinking outside the box is strongly encouraged.

Fall Quarter: 7 weeks
Sunday September 22, 1pm-4pm

Tuition: $230

Materials: $145, added at time of registration.

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Explore the world of shapes. Learn how to make different geometric shapes such as donuts, discs, balls, nuggets, cones, bicones and barrels with and without tools, Learn the basics of creating animals, birds, monsters, and creatures of all sorts. Let your creativity run amok!

Fall Quarter: One Day;

Saturday September 28, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults, no experience necessary
Instructors: Staff

On the fence, as to whether you want to take a weekly bead-making class? Then ponder no further....take a Try Me! Class focused on use of soft glass for beadmaking and see if it whets your appetite. Our Instructor is an experienced professional artist and can give you a better sense as to what is involved in this technique and medium. Students will be contacted when artwork is ready for pick-up.

Fall Quarter: One day        

Saturday October 5, 10am-12pm (Staff)

Saturday November 2, 10am-12pm (Staff)

Saturday December 21, 10am-12pm (Staff)

Tuition: $65 materials included

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults, no experience necessary
Instructor: Staff
On the fence as to whether you want to take a weekly boro glass class? Then ponder no further.... take a Try Me! Class focused on flameworking with Boro glass and see if it whets your appetite. Our Instructor is an experienced flameworking artist and can give you a better sense as to what is involved in this technique and medium. Students will be contacted when artwork is ready for pick-up.

Fall Quarter: One day                          

Saturday October 5, 1pm-3pm (Staff)

Saturday November 2, 1pm-3pm (Staff)

Saturday December 21, 1pm-3pm (Staff)

Tuition: $65 materials included

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Everything starts with a dot! Immerse yourself into the wild and wonderful world of dots! Starting from basic layering of dots, to masking, twisting, stacking and manipulating dots, you will be amazed at the sheer variety of looks you can achieve.

Fall Quarter: One Day;

Saturday October 19, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sarah Wicks

During this class you will learn several ways to create unique internal details within your marbles that will mesmerize!   Using borosilicate glass, you will start with small clear marbles and work your way up to complex designs.  For added sparkle, you will learn safe ways to include some dichroic glass into the center of your marbles.   If time allows, we will also work on external designs, to create beautiful backgrounds on your marbles.  No prior flameworking experience required. A one-hour lunch break has been incorporated into the length of this workshop.

Fall Quarter: One day

Saturday October 12, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $170

Materials: $75, added at time of registration.

Location:  W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate to Advanced, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Leah Powell

This class will explore how to use what is normally a hard-edged medium to achieve softer edges.  We’ll work with a variety of thicknesses of sheet glass, as well as fine, medium and coarse frits to create tons of samples, as well as a finished display piece.  This is an individualized class – you can choose your image from florals, landscapes/seascapes or abstracts.  Bring your own photo or work from samples in class.  Color theory and a primer on how to expand your palette of glass colors will provide a basis for incorporating these techniques into your own work. 

Fall Quarter: Two days

Saturday October 19 + Saturday Oct 26 (10am-4pm)  

Tuition: $265

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Beginner, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: David Barnes

An initial two-day exposure to kiln-formed fused art glass. This workshop will include lecture, demonstration and student application of the basic principles in fusing glass including the creation of a simple 6” square geometric glass project. The class will cover basic concepts of glass design, color, glass types, and glass behavior in the kiln, kiln firing processes, glass cutting and cold working, assembly, slumping and safety. Please bring a bag lunch to class.

Fall Quarter: Two days                        

Saturdays November 2 + 9, 12pm-4pm

Tuition: $180

Materials: $85, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate- Advanced Skill Levels

Young Adults & Adults

Want to create thick glass panels that have great dimension and depth? 

In this 4-day class, students will learn how to apply enamel to glass layers, and then stack and fuse these layers into solid panels.  Topics covered include design and image selection, layout, discussion of enamels and how they respond to fusing temperatures, painting medium, how to mix and apply enamels, fusing schedules, bubble control, kiln loading instructions, and finishing techniques. 

The emphasis of this workshop is the processes involved in creating thick panels that include great dimension.  It is not primarily a painting workshop; however, many painting tips and techniques are also provided.  Although drawing and painting experience is helpful, it is not required. Prior kiln-work/fusing experience is required, however.

Students will complete several initial exercises, and 2 additional projects during this class, and are encouraged to choose and bring to the class printed images for compositions they would like to use for these projects.  Important image selection guidelines will be provided prior to the workshop. Please bring a bag lunch and sketchbook. (Meets in W-7, Rm. 716)

November 15-18, 2019: Four days

10am-5pm each day

Tuition: $1000 per person

Materials: materials included.

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Explore the weird and whacky world of twisties (Latticino), canes and murrini. Begin by twisting two colors together, then three, and more?? Add twisties to the outer edge of a bead, and learn new ways to add twisties in different places to make fascinating decorations to your beads and vessels. Learn to layer glass in simple to complicated patterns, resulting in amazing shape and color combinations. Wrap a twisty around a mandrel and make a DNA bead, and more!!

Fall Quarter: One Day;

Saturday November 16, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate Skill Level, Young Adults & Adults: Ages 15 and Up
Instructor: Julie Bahun

Take your basic fine silver fusing skills to the next level.  This class will focus on building various chain styles. Bring beads to use in creating your own necklace, bracelet, or earring design. Although we will review basic fine silver fusing knowledge and tools; basic knowledge of these techniques are required to be successful in chain making and project completion.  Each student will complete a pair of earrings and bracelet during class. Participants are asked to bring their own beads. 

Fall Quarter: One day

Saturday November 23, 10am-2pm

Tuition: $90

Materials: $65, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner-Advanced Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Gayla Lee

In this class we will learn to make open faced molds for casting glass. Students will try several techniques, firing temperatures, and methods of color application so that they can experience the possibilities for color, form, and texture in cast glass. No glass working experience is required; advanced students also are welcome. 

Fall Quarter: Two days

Saturday November 23 + Sunday Nov 24, 10am-4pm ea. day

Tuition: $265

Materials: $135, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Create your own beautiful tapestry style mosaic using the direct method setting bed technique.  Materials include specialty materials from around the world including plenty of bling. You may bring any beads, jewelry pieces or findings that you have collected for inclusion to personalize your work. 

Fall Quarter: Two Days

Saturday December 7 & 8 (10am-4pm each day) 

Tuition: $250

Materials Fee: $85-payable to Instructor at beginning of workshop. Plus $5 (covers use of tools, equipment and any misc. program provided materials) added at registration

Location: W-7, Rm.716

Beginners- Young  Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sandi Martina

Make your tree sparkle, and your relatives and neighbors envious with your very own handmade fused glass ornaments! This three-hour workshop gives a quick introduction to kiln formed glass including cutting, grinding and fusing. Create gifts for you AND a friend! Participants will be able to pick up ornaments within 5-6 days of workshop.

Fall Quarter: One day

Saturday December 14, 1pm -4pm

Tuition: $80

Materials: $45, added at time of registration.

Intermediate-Advanced Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Cheryl Peasley

Are you ready to expand your skills beyond the “normal” size mandrels and learn how to make large hole beads? Let’s get out of our safety zone and advance to large hole beads while experimenting with design patterns. Using combination of raking, masking, twisting, and encasing, your beads will be able to develop interesting patterns on the disk’s top rim and sides.  Accompanying smaller beads can also be made and incorporated into the final design to enhance the large hole beads into wearable artwork.  ***Please bring at least 2 large hole 7/16” mandrels and 2 large hole 5/16” mandrels. If you do not have these mandrels or similar sizes, you can purchase them on the following website:
https://arrowsprings.com/html/mandrels_tubes.html
Emiko's Big Mandrels, from Milliron Tools 7/16” and 5/16” or similar sizes.

Fall Quarter: One day                                      

Saturday December 14, 10am-3pm

Tuition: $120

Materials: $70, added at time of registration

Beginner-Advanced- Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Get ready for the holidays!  In this intensive one-day workshop learn to make solid and blown glass classic ornament shapes like icicles, teardrops and other ornament designs. You will also learn off mandrel skills with borosilicate glass. 

Fall Quarter: One Day          

Saturday December 7, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $70, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

This class is perfect for the advanced student or glass art­ist who prefers to work independently or alongside other advanced and experienced flame workers. Each partici­pant is requested to share a short presentation on any flameworking topic to their fellow classmates. For example a specific forming, shaping or color application technique, etc.  Participants are given a 27-hour pass in which they can use during any time that Open Studio or another Independent Flame slot if available. (Meets in W-7, Rm. 711) *Please Note- Enrollment in Independent Flame is limited to 8 (per slot/day). All Independent Flame participants must also be self-sufficient, provide their own materials and be able to properly use equipment, kilns, etc.

Winter Quarter: 9 Weeks

Monday January 6, 10am-1pm

Monday January 6, 7pm-10pm

Thursday January 9, 10am-1pm

Friday January 10, 7pm-10pm

Tuition: $230 (Students must provide their own glass.) Interested students must contact Dale Marhanka to register: dalemarhanka@workhousearts.org.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: TBD

In this class, 3D objects are created in glass by making a mold of an object (either one you bring or one you create from clay) that you will melt glass into, creating a glass replica of the original. Many glass artists prefer this method as it allows them the ability to create a sculpture in glass and add other materials to the glass to realize their design. A beginning student will experience sev­eral techniques used to make the mold and create pieces using these techniques.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Monday January 6, 7pm-10pm

Tuition: $230

Materials: $210 added at time of registration*.                

*Please note that an additional materials fee may apply depending on project chosen.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey & Julie Gutsch

Take your beadmaking skills to the next level. Explore the alchemy and ecstasy of achieving other worldly designs by applying reactive glass foils, silvered stringers, complex twisties, frit, latticino, and fuming! Pull, push, tweeze glass, add/subtract, mask, rake – we’ll explore every technique in the book, including etching, flat-lapping, and more. For intermediate and advanced level beadmakers only.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks                                              

Tuesday January 7, 10am-12:30pm (Lagassey)

Tuesday January 7, 7pm-9:30pm (Gutsch)

Tuition: $210    

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Leah Powell

This is a traditional method of making windows, lamps, boxes and more by creating a pattern (or using a pre-made pattern), select­ing colored and textured glass to go in each piece of your pattern, cutting and fitting the glass to your pattern and joining the glass using copper foil and solder. A beginning student will come away with all the skills to create simple windows on their own and a finished project. Intermediate & Advanced also welcome.

Winter Quarter:7 weeks

Wednesday January 8, 10am-12:30pm  

Tuition: $210

Materials: $15 (covers use of tools, equipment and misc. program provided materials)

Additional Materials fees for individual projects are estimated to be $100-$300 depending upon project chosen.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Would you like to learn basic flameworking and to give it a try before taking a more in-depth class? Don’t know if you’d like to learn bead making or sculptural work? Don’t know what flameworking, soft glass or boro glass means? This may be the class for you. We will explore the very basics and get you started on the flameworking torch with an introduction to both main types of flameworking glasses. Learn how to safely operate a torch and annealing kiln. Learn the difference between soft and hard glass. How to make basic beads and some basic shapes in Borosilicate glass work. Students will make a variety of objects that will gain them knowledge in glass types, glass terms, and starter techniques. This class is intended for complete beginners who have never been on a torch or taken a flameworking class.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Wednesday January 8, 10am-12:30pm      

Tuition: $230    

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Candi Durusu

Learn the fundamentals of Flameworking with Boro (hard) glass. This recurring weekly class will cover setting up a studio, studio safety, flame characteristics and purpose, gravity and hand positioning, and fundamentals of glass as applied to flameworking. Instructor will also cover creation of marbles, pendants, flowers, ornaments, sculpting and more.  

Winter Quarter: 7 Weeks
Wednesday January 8, 7pm-10pm-Durusu

All skill levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Julie Gutsch

This seven-week class is designed for the beginner and intermediate student with little or no experience. Using demonstrations, lecture and plenty of hands-on work students will learn the proper use of a propane/oxygen torch, how to shape and form beads from your basic shape to those more sculpted and intricate. Students will also be taught how to use the various tools provided to effectively create a variety of different shapes. Incorporating the use of various decorative elements will also be covered each week.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Thursday January 9, 7pm-9:30pm 

Tuition: $230

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner-Advanced Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sandi Martina and TBD

Create artworks from layering glass then firing in a kiln to full, tack or slump fuse temperatures. Beginning / Intermediate classes are great for students who have no previous glass experience or want a refresher on basic skills. Discover the art of kiln-forming including types of glass and basic principles of compatibility. Learn the hand tools and equipment for scoring, cutting, coldworking, etching and shaping glass. Choose from opal, transparent, iridized and streaky sheet glass, frit (crushed glass) and glass stringers. Students will learn design concepts and how to choose which technique will best accomplish their goal. Focus will be on process and exploring possibilities that can be achieved with glass. Intermediate / Advanced classes are for students who already possess a basic knowledge of fusing glass and use of tools. Students will explore more detailed and complex fusing concepts. Make your own sheet glass; create components; build pattern bars; experiment with strip cutting; pull vitrigraph cane. Experience reactives, kiln carving, image transfers, bottle slumping and much more. This class is designed for students to perfect their sense of craftsmanship and development of a personal style. Experimentation and thinking outside the box is strongly encouraged.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Thursday January 9, 1pm-4pm (Martina)            

Thursday January 9, 7pm-10pm (TBD)  

Tuition: $230                                                                

Materials: $145, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Beginning Skill Level Only: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: TBD

Create artworks from layering glass then firing in a kiln to full, tack or slump fuse temperatures. Beginning / Intermediate classes are great for students who have no previous glass experience or want a refresher on basic skills. Discover the art of kiln-forming including types of glass and basic principles of compatibility. Learn the hand tools and equipment for scoring, cutting, coldworking, etching and shaping glass. Choose from opal, transparent, iridized and streaky sheet glass, frit (crushed glass) and glass stringers. Students will learn design concepts and how to choose which technique will best accomplish their goal. Focus will be on process and exploring possibilities that can be achieved with glass.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Friday January 10, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $230                                                                

Materials: $145, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Explore the many different ways to encase your beads, and the reasons for each technique. Watch how your designs are magnified with a thick encasing, and learn how to stop colors from bleeding into each other. With encasing, your bead can look like it holds an underwater scene! The world is your oyster using these methods!

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday January 11, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Linda Condray

Would you like to learn basic flameworking and to give it a try before taking a more in-depth class? Don’t know if you’d like to learn bead making or sculptural work? Don’t know what flameworking, soft glass or boro glass means? This may be the class for you. We will explore the very basics and get you started on the flameworking torch with an introduction to both main types of flameworking glasses. Learn how to safely operate a torch and annealing kiln. Learn the difference between soft and hard glass. How to make basic beads and some basic shapes in Borosilicate glass work. Students will make a variety of objects that will gain them knowledge in glass types, glass terms, and starter techniques. This class is intended for complete beginners who have never been on a torch or taken a flameworking class.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Sunday January 12, 3pm-6:00pm

Tuition: $230                                                                

Materials: $100 added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate/Advanced Skill Level Only! Young Adults & Adults

Students must have taken at least 3 classes prior to enrolling in this class.

Instructor: Sandi Martina

Beginning / Intermediate classes are great for students who have no previous glass experience or want a refresher on basic skills. Discover the art of kiln-forming including types of glass and basic principles of compatibility. Learn the hand tools and equipment for scoring, cutting, coldworking, etching and shaping glass. Choose from opal, transparent, iridized and streaky sheet glass, frit (crushed glass) and glass stringers. Students will learn design concepts and how to choose which technique will best accomplish their goal. Focus will be on process and exploring possibilities that can be achieved with glass.  Intermediate / Advanced classes are for students who already possess a basic knowledge of fusing glass and use of tools. Students will explore more detailed and complex fusing concepts. Make your own sheet glass; create components; build pattern bars; experiment with strip cutting; pull vitrigraph cane. Experience reactives, kiln carving, image transfers, bottle slumping and much more. This class is designed for students to perfect their sense of craftsmanship and development of a personal style. Experimentation and thinking outside the box is strongly encouraged.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Sunday January 12,1pm-4pm (Martina)  

Tuition: $230                                                                

Materials: $145, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults, no experience necessary
Instructors: Staff

On the fence, as to whether you want to take a weekly bead-making class? Then ponder no further....take a Try Me! Class focused on use of soft glass for beadmaking and see if it whets your appetite. Our Instructor is an experienced professional artist and can give you a better sense as to what is involved in this technique and medium. Students will be contacted when artwork is ready for pick-up.

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday January 18, 10am-12pm (Staff)

Saturday February 22, 10am-12pm (Staff)

Tuition: $65 materials included

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults, no experience necessary
Instructor: Staff
On the fence as to whether you want to take a weekly boro glass class? Then ponder no further.... take a Try Me! Class focused on flameworking with Boro glass and see if it whets your appetite. Our Instructor is an experienced flameworking artist and can give you a better sense as to what is involved in this technique and medium. Students will be contacted when artwork is ready for pick-up.

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday January 18, 1pm-3pm (Staff)

Saturday February 22, 1pm-3pm (Staff)

Tuition: $65 materials included
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All skill levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sandi Martina

Create your own photo keepsakes! Choose your favorite photo, design a glass frame and fire image onto glass. On first day, students will make glass blanks to fire images onto choosing from one 8x10 and one 3x3 magnet; two 5x7s and one 3x3 magnet or five 3x3 magnets. Digital files required, please bring jpeg images on a flash drive or your laptop. Files can also be emailed after the first class. Images can be photos of any subject — portraits, pets, landscapes; poems and quotes; or original drawings and paintings. Images will be sized depending on design. On day two, we will print images onto the decal paper then transfer images to your glass blanks. Additional glass components can be added at this stage. When complete, pieces will be loaded for final firing. 

*Please note that once fired, images become sepia toned. 

Winter Quarter: Two days

Saturdays January 18 + 25, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $145

Materials: $65, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Learn the secrets of success for introducing amazing sparkle and glitter into your beads using different materials, from silver wire to mesh to copper to leaf and foil to goldstone and dichroic glass! If you're attracted to the shiny and glittery this class is for you!

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday January 25, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults-Ages 15 and Up

Instructor: Julie Bahun

Take your basic fine silver fusing skills to the next level.  This class will focus on building various chain styles.  Bring beads to use in creating your own necklace, bracelet, or earring design. Although we will review basic fine silver fusing knowledge and tools; basic knowledge of these techniques are required to be successful in chain making and project completion.  Each student will complete a pair of earrings and bracelet during class. Participants are asked to bring their own beads.

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday February 1, 10am-2pm

Tuition: $90

Materials: $65, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Have you ever wanted to try mosaics?  In this introductory class, you will learn some of the basics of mosaic art and create your own glass mosaic artwork using beautiful hand cut glass pieces.  Grouting and Finishing workshop on Feb 8 is a recommended follow up. $15 materials fee payable to instructor.

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday February 1, 1pm-3pm

Tuition: $50

Materials Fee: $15- payable to instructor.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

All Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Grouting and finishing can enhance the beauty of your mosaic art projects and help to ensure that they hold up to the environmental conditions you have planned for them.  Learn about the types of grout, additives, and finishing products available, and when to use them.  Bring your piece from your Try Me! Mosaic Art - Design and Build class, bring a project from home or another class to grout, or finish a piece that the instructor has created for you (instructor needs three days’ notice for this option)-anitadamron@gmail.com

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday February 8, 1pm-3pm

Tuition: $50

Materials Fee: $15- payable to instructor.

Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Have no idea what colors to put together? The difference between primary, secondary and tertiary colors? Kathryn will guide you through the weird and wonderful world of color theory. You will learn the difference between complementary colors, warm vs. cool colors, and achromatic colors. This mysterious world will confuse one no more! You will be able to put together colors and shades like a pro! We’ll also discover why we like (and buy) certain colors combinations more than others. This class is a must for the emerging glass artist.

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday February 15, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

All Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Create unique pendants, earrings and more using glass and other materials from Italy, Morocco, Turkey, Austria, China and more. Planning and design, use of tools and materials will be discussed.

Winter Quarter: (One day workshop)

Saturday February 15, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $145

Materials Fee: $75- payable to Instructor- Plus $5 (covers use of tools, equipment and any misc. program provided materials) added at registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Explore the versatile world of hollows! You will learn several different methods of achieving the hollow form, transforming them into amazing beads and objects. Various decorating and shaping techniques will be covered. Hollows are no longer the round, basic bead anymore! 

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday February 29, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sandi Martina

Make your windows twinkle with handmade fused glass suncatchers! This three-hour workshop gives a quick introduction to kiln-formed glass including scoring, nipping, grinding and fusing. Create three suncatchers. They make great gifts! Pieces will be ready for pick up 2-3 days after workshop.

Winter Quarter: One day

February 29, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $80

Materials: $45, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Anita Damron

Create your own micro mosaic artwork.  No cutting or grouting necessary.  Work with hand cut mini pieces of glass if you prefer, or micro tiles of recycled sintered glass and ceramics (tiles measure about 1/5” square.

Winter Quarter: One Day

Saturday March 7, 10am – 4pm each day

Tuition: $145

Materials Fee: $50-payable to Instructor at beginning of workshop. Plus $5 (covers use of tools, equipment and any misc. program provided materials) added at registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Using a variety of specialized glass, explore the world of reducing and striking glass. From raku to a variety of silver crystal glasses, you will be amazed at the variety and breathtaking colors you can achieve. Learn to achieve gorgeous metallics, and shimmering opalescent colors and more! 

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday March 14, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Beginner-Advanced Skill Level: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Gayla Lee

Experiment with color and geometry as you learn techniques for building patterns in cross section with fused glass pattern bars. Students will make several styles of pattern bars and will work to produce 1-2 finished projects. Students can expect to have left over stock to use in future work. No glass working experience is required; advanced students also are welcome.

Winter Quarter: Two days                                

Saturday March 14 + Saturday Mar 21, 10am-4pm ea. day

Tuition: $265

Materials: $120, added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

All Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sarah Wicks

During this class you will learn several ways to create unique internal details within your marbles that will mesmerize!   Using borosilicate glass, you will start with small clear marbles and work your way up to complex designs.  For added sparkle, you will learn safe ways to include some dichroic glass into the center of your marbles.   If time allows, we will also work on external designs, to create beautiful backgrounds on your marbles.  No prior flameworking experience required. A one-hour lunch break has been incorporated into the length of this workshop.

Winter Quarter: One day

Saturday March 21, 10am-5pm  

Tuition: $150

Materials: $75, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Intermediate to Advanced, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: David Barnes

A follow-on workshop that builds upon the topics and experiences covered in the Fused Art Glass 101 workshop.  In this workshop, one will learn details in nonlinear design, fusing techniques, glass cutting, assembly, embellishment, kiln firing and slumping and problem solving. The class will include lecture, demonstration and student application of additional techniques in glass cutting and cold-working. Students will make an 8” square piece to be draped and a circle piece which will be slumped. Please bring a bag lunch to class.

Winter Quarter: Two days

Sundays March 22 + 29, 12pm-4pm

Tuition: $180

Materials: $85 added at time of registration.
Location: W-7, Rm. 716

Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Kathryn Lagassey

Make awesome soft glass pendants and marbles by applying color to the outside of glass and and then imploding it. Create amazing patterns, forms and flowers under a lens of clear glass!

Winter Quarter: One Day                                             

Saturday March 28, 10am-5pm

Tuition: $150

Materials: $80, added at time of registration.

Location: W-7, Rm. 711

Advanced Beginner-Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Sarah Wicks

In this class we will create on and off-mandrel creatures in both soft and borosilicate glass.  We will start with sculpting on mandrel with soft glass, and then graduate to using Italian techniques to create off mandrel soft glass creatures.  We will then apply these same classical techniques to borosilicate glass to sculpt even larger creatures, incorporating some hollow components if time allows. Students will start with structured curriculum and will be encouraged to create their own fantasy or realistic designs with the instructor's assistance by the end of the class. Some flameworking experience required. Students should bring a notebook and images or objects that can be used for inspiration in making your own design. 

Winter Quarter: 5 weeks Only!                        

Sunday January 12, 11am-2pm

Tuition: $200

Materials: $85, added at time of registration

Location: W-7, Rm. 711