Visting Artists
The Sweet Spot – Cedric Mitchell
June 21st – 25th
This is an intermediate Hotshop class designed to sharpen your focus and skill sets on the road towards mastery. We will start by transforming a simple bubble into compound shapes by experimenting with forms and taking notes on our observations. We will talk about color application and processes such as incalmo and overlays that will deepen our understanding of what forms are possible. Throughout the class, we will cover the fundamentals of glass such as gathering technique, heat management, and the manipulation of the material. At the end of this class you will have a better understanding of glass and how to use less effort to reach a desired result.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Visiting Artist Demonstration
Friday June 23rd from 7pm-9pm
The Bay Area Glass Institute will be hosting an event celebrating Cedric Mitchell’s work. There will be a gallery reception with Mitchell’s artworks for sale with a brief artist talk, followed by a demonstration in the hotshop. All are welcome to attend this free community event at Bay Area Glass Institute.
X-Section – Helen Lee
February 1-5, 2023
Bi-lateral, axio-symmetrical, asymmetrical, multiple, singular—this course will explore making forms and cutting them in cross-section. This simple gesture of slicing will inform our hot processes, from experimental solid forms, to technical challenges, to conceptual applications. Emphasis will be placed on the trajectory from two-dimensional drawings to hot, three-dimensional forms, to the cold planar cut as a critical facet of reveal, insight, and light-transmission.
Amy Lemaire – Flameworking Borosilicate
October 26th – October 30th, 2022
This class is an introduction to working and thinking with glass. Focused on contextualizing flameworking within contemporary sculpture, students will learn to create small objects, apply color, and explore solid and hollow sculptural forms during the course. Through a mixture of technical exercises and creative projects, the goal of the course is for students to gain confidence in their ability and be able to create well-crafted objects. This class will also discuss annealing, equipment safety, and set-up, and look at both historical and contemporary examples of flameworked glass for reference. Whether you’re an artist working in another medium, new to flameworking, or experienced with glass, makers of all levels are welcome.
Ché Rhodes – “Glasstrophysics”
June 22nd 2022
Now that you have a basic understanding of the hotshop, how do you refine your approach and your process? This class will delve into the fundamentals of hotworking to help each student evolve their understanding of glass as a substance and material. Students in this class will work on developing their comprehension of how glass behaves in order to become more adept at knowing when and how to utilize conventional glassblowing techniques and processes as well as when and how to invent their own. Come prepared with creative projects and technical problems to solve.
Austin Stern- Blown Sculpture
March 2nd 2022
Sam Meketon – Stamp Making
January 27th 2022
Sam is known within his communities for the projects that he has brought to fruition. Protostamps was developed around Sam’s need for himself and other glass artists to be able to brand their work. Being a glass artist, he understands the different factors that go into designing stamps for glass art. Sam also spends his time designing unique glasswork. He shows his work at a variety of galleries while also managing a curated craft show. Known as the Taos Shakedown, Sam Hosts a weekly craft fair that also travels far and wide to showcase a variety of arts and goods.
Protostamps – 107 Peacock Lane, Taos, NM 87571 Phone: 215 760 9331 Email: Samwichglassworks@gmail.com
2020
Penelope Rakov
January 28th -February 2nd
Penelope Rakov is an internationally renowned glass artist, best known for obsessive murrine work that she transforms into jewelry and objects. She is the recipient of a Fleischer Wind Challenge Exhibition, and was an Artist in Residence at The Studio at Corning Museum of Glass in Fall, 2018. She has taught in the US and abroad, including at the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge, England; Pilchuck Glass School; Urban Glass in Brooklyn NY, Pittsburgh glass center, Tyler School of Art; and Salem County Community College, to name just a few.
Penny’s visit included a 5 day class, public demonstration, slide presentation and exhibition of work.
2019
Claire Kelly
June 12-16
Devin Burgess
March 21-24
Andrew Pollack
September 20th
2018
Davide Penso
October 12
2015
Museum of Glass Hot Shop Team – Kids Blow Glass™
Glassblowing
Karina Guèvin & Cèdric Ginart
Flameworking
John de Wit
Flameworking
Alexander Abajian & Jerry Lin-Hsien Kung
Glassblowing
Ryan “Buck” Harris
Flameworking
Jay Musler
Flameworking
Bob Snodgrass
Flameworking
Demetra Theofanous & Beau Tsi
Flameworking
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