Beginning Glass Fusing Class – Tuesday

$325.00

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Description

Beginning Glass Fusing

 January 17 – February 7, Tuesday evenings 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Fusing for folks with little or no experience.  This is a four week class that explores fusing with recycled glass for 2 weeks, and fusing with fusible art glass for 2 weeks.  Designed to give students a solid background in glass fusing science and theory, no matter what type of glass they choose to specialize in later.  Class is limited to 6 students.

Hosted at Glass With a Past Studio, 82 W. Louise Avenue

TO REGISTER:  Add class to cart and check out, DOWNLOAD the information PDF from your receipt for complete instructions, location, materials, etc.

Course Outline:

Beginning class curriculum and projects, all materials and firings included.

Date – project

Concepts

Processes

January 17 – Bottle Glass Lanterns and Flowers

Safety

Studio Rules

Fusing with Recycled Glass

Cutting Flat Glass

Cutting Bottles using Thermal Shock

Designing and Cutting a project

Fusible decals and mica

January 24 – Recycled Float Glass Jewelry and Tapestry project

Fusing with Float (window) glass

Finding the Tin Side

Devit and what to do about it

Intro to Firing Schedules

Tack Fused Clear Tapestry Project

Additions to Float Glass for Interest

Cutting and assembling project

January 31 – Fusible Art Glass – Florals

Fusible Art Glass

How Firing Schedules change

CoE and what it means to you

Fused Glass artworks

Designing a small multi part project

 

February 7 – Final Project – Glass Lanterns

Multi part project

 

Project planning

After checkout, please download the information file from your receipt.  If you have any questions, please reach out and let me know through the contact page.