WARM GLASS
Duration 15 hours (5 X 3 hour sessions)
Cost $220 (includes all materials)
Prerequisites Glass Cutting skills
This course provides students with the basic knowledge and skills to work with warm glass. Over the 5 weeks, students complete 7 projects:
- Simple slumped glass item
- Complex slumped glass item
- Simple fused glass item
- Complex fused glass item
- Poured glass item/jewellery
- Cast glass item
- Pate de verre item
Building upon the essential safety issues associated with warm glass techniques, the student is exposed to glass cutting and shaping; critical warm glass concepts such as compatibility, annealing and devitrification; glass behaviour during firing cycles; preparation of kiln shelves; the use of kilns; and the use and preparation of molds and ceramic materials.
Students work with glass powders, frits and stringers and are exposed to the use of inclusions such as aluminium, copper and gold leaf.
Discussion of completed projects and "failed" pieces will assist students to understand not only how to make properly finished pieces, but also to solve problems and prevent failures in the future. On completion of the course, students are able to access a fully equipped studio - including a firing service - to permit continued creative activity without incurring set up costs.
INTENSIVE WEEKEND COURSE
Duration 2 days
Cost $250 (includes materials)
Prerequisites Nil
Get ready for a big weekend. This intensive course runs all day Saturday and all day Sunday – and they are long days. You will receive all of the content of the six weeks of the Glass Art introduction and the Warm Glass courses. We believe that this is not as good a learning process as the slower, more personalised regularly weekly sessions but is ideal for visitors from out of town or the time poor who want to immerse themselves in an activity.
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