2012 - 2013 Class Schedule

2012 Class Schedule

Hayley Tsang
Explore the Magic of Silver Glass with Hayely Tsang

Two - 2-day classes
DATE CHANGE:
Class 1: Thursday & Friday February 9-10, 2012
Class 2: Saturday & Sunday, February 11-12, 2012
(old dates: Thursday-Friday, January 26-27, 2012 OR Saturday-Sunday, January 28-29, 2012)

ASGB member price $275

In the two-day workshop, you will explore the many facets of working with silver glass. For reducing silver glass you will learn how to work with different reduction flames, varying length of reducing time, and changing placements and positions of the bead in the flame, to achieve various results. For striking silver glass you will learn how to achieve and recognize the “first strike”, thus enabling you to duplicate the striking sequence on your own.

Once the basic technique of working with silver glass is achieved, you will learn the different ways of using silver glass to expand your repertoire. Some of the techniques we will cover include encasing silver glass, surface decoration with silver glass, silver glass twisties, and using silver glass in gravity swirls. In addition to how to achieve the best results with this mysterious glass, special emphasis will be placed on design and perfect bead shaping.

With the exception of the initial instruction on how to strike and reduce spacer beads, you will be making large bicone/tubular shaped beads.

Students should be at an intermediate level and comfortable working on an oxygen/propane torch,

Kerri Fuhr - Wait List Only
2-Day Advanced Lampworking Classes

Two - 2-day classes
Class 1: Thursday-Friday, March 22-23, 2012
Class 2: Saturday-Sunday, March 24-25, 2012

New lower price: ASGB member price $250

The first day of my two-day workshop is devoted to stringer control using my Tapestry Scrollwork design as the teaching outline. This is a fun-filled class that will show students a variety of ways to achieve purposeful stringer design on their beads.

The second day is further work on surface embellishment using the dragonfly as the example. The class will learn a variety of techniques to help them create their own personal designs on their beads. One hour at the end of the class will be devoted to diagramming on the board their own design ideas so that they will have some concrete skills to take home to the torch!

This class is intended for Intermediate to advanced lampworkers.

Patti Cahill - Wait List Only
Beyond the 3/32nd Mandrel and I'm Melting

2-2-day class
Class 1: "Beyond the 3/32" mandrel", Thurs/Fri May 3rd & 4th, 2012
Class 2: "I'm Melting", Sat/Sun May 5th & 6th, 2012

ASGB member price $240

Beyond the 3/32” Mandrel 2-day class by Patti Cahill
In this class we will be exploring the possibilities of the various big-holed, shaped, and puffy mandrels. You will learn basic skills required for using the various mandrels, including but not limited to making rings, hoop earrings, endcaps, and hollow beads, as well as piercing, bending and embedding steel eyes and wire for connecting pieces, and some off-mandrel work. Students should bring their own big-holed mandrels, which should include 2 or 3 in a size most closely mating the student’s own finger size for rings, as well as a variety of other sizes, shapes, and puffy mandrels, for creating other projects throughout the day.

“I’m Melting! Beads and beyond……” 2-day class by Patti Cahill In this workshop we’re going to stretch the definition of “bead” and learn to create glass pieces with the end project in mind. We’ll consider techniques for creating glass components for specific types of projects from jewelry to mixed media and explore the structural possibilities of glass. Besides beads, techniques will include making rings, off-mandrel work, and working with the puffy mandrel. You will learn about making intricate and repeatable patterns and the relationship between a piece’s shape and its patterning possibilities, choosing advantageous colors for your own line of glass designs, and how to purposely combine both with consideration of how glass displaces when melted. Resources will be shared and ideas

Students should be at an intermediate level and comfortable working on an oxygen/propane torch,

New Class! Wayne Robbins Wait list only.
Understanding Sculptural Bead Forms in Soft Glass

2-Day Intermediate/Advanced Lampworking Classes
Saturday - Sunday, April 7th & 8th, 2012

ASGB member price $225

We will sculpt animal form beads, bodies, clothing and weird accessories. This class is to push the student beyond the normal round or smashed bead while having fun doing it! Various types of eye murrini will be discussed and made in this class as well.

Jari Ann Sheese - Wait List Only
Blown Hollow Bead, Off-Mandrel Buttons & Ornaments

Two - 2-day Advanced Lampworking Classes
Class 1: Thursday-Friday, Sept. 27 & 28, 2012
Class 2: Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 29 & 30, 2012

ASGB member price $240

Techniques learned in the class: 

Hollow Blown Beads - How to prepare and care for "Puffy" mandrels; importance of making arching discs; laying down the footprint; spacing of the discs in relation to the blow hole; arching of the discs in relation to the blow hole; how to unite the two sides; when to blow and how hard to blow; inflating and deflating; how to create an even walled bead; how to avoid getting sharp edged holes or inverted holes; how to keep it all warm enough to embellish; how to heal cracks and fix lopsided, uneven beads; stringer control and application; and dividing the bead for geometrical designs, lots of straight lines and intersecting lines.

Off-Mandrel Buttons - Controlling gathers; piercing glass with the tungsten probe; working with tiny punties; twistie construction and application; encasing for paperweight buttons; creating a glass shank; and other off-mandrel applications - pendants, cabachons and twistie drop earrings.

Ornaments / Barrel Clasps - This class is really a combination of techniques learned in the previous off-mandrel and hollow blown beads. In addition you would learn how to create finials for tops of ornaments; how to create the bottom decorative pieces such as twisties and other elements; how to work in spacers and sizing for all the individual pieces; how to assemble and attach the pieces together using the armature needed; and how to make miniature ornaments for earrings.

Cynthia Tilker - Wait List Only

2-Day Advanced Lampworking Class
Saturday-Sunday, October 6 & 7, 2012

ASGB member price $250

Cynthia will be teaching how to make many different types of cane for the use and application in large focal beads. How to create and apply leaf, branch, goldstone and flower cane to a bead under thick encasements. Cynthia will show how to create depth as well as well as perfecting the basic bead shape and making perfect ends. Many different shapes of beads will be taught with the applications of Dichroic glasses, placement of flowers both encased and raised, pleated backgrounds, frogs, mushrooms and many, many ways to create floral beads and all of their elements and components. She will also be teaching some sculptural work. Her signature “Keeper of the Thicket” bead will be demonstrated and taught, which will cover many aspects of using heat control to form your glass into a wonderful sculptured focal bead.

She will also be open to any demonstration that might be requested or anything that is of interest to the class to learn or just watch.
Students should be intermediate level, comfortable working on a propane/oxygen mix torch, and have good working control of their glass.

2013 Class Schedule

Loren Stump - Wait List Only
Loren 1

Two - 5-day classes Advanced Lampworking Classes
Class 1: February 6-10, 2013
Class 2: February 13-17, 2013

ASGB member price $950 plus materials

This course will be divided into three parts: Murrini, Sculptural Techniques and Encasement.

Murrini will result in a Franchini-style shaded face and your signature cane. You will start with color mixing and blending which will be used to make shaded colors for a face. Eyes, nose and mouth cane will be built in the flame and then pulled down to a smaller size for component parts to construct the final face. In a like manner, letter canes will be assembled to create signature canes.

Sculptural techniques will examine several different methods for achieving human body and animal sculptural forms. The techniques include cold assembly, hot sculpture, detail overlay, temperature control, tool use, drilling holes with hot tungsten pick, and the correct application of murrini.

Encasement will produce a small floral paperweight. Floral set-up techniques include using blended colors, ribbed cane and overlays as components for creating leaf stock, stems, buds, ball flowers, petals and stamen. You will then assemble and arrange the floral components into a “set-up” with a quick lesson in frit making to use as a background. A Stumpsucker will be used to vacuum encase a sculptural or floral set-up in Schott crystal.
 
Each class is limited to only 8 students.