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Unleash your creativity and learn the art of glass blowing with a variety of classes offered in NYC. Discover mesmerizing techniques, create beautiful glass pieces, and gain a new skill that will leave you feeling accomplished and inspired.

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Bending Skills and Noble Fills

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this 8-week introductory workshop, students are encouraged to explore the brilliant and sculptural potentials of neon! The first four weeks of class will be split between demonstrations given by the instructor and guided personal exploration.  Demonstrations will include:  the fundamental techniques required to bend and weld hot glass tubing tips and tricks on how to make a bending pattern indoor installation and the process...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$1,000

8 sessions

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Color Chemistry 101

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Curious about making your own glass color? This class will cover the basics of glass chemistry and color making. Students will learn about a variety of glass colorants and the different mechanisms by which they create color, and participate in formulating and mixing three different colors from raw material.  The second half of the class will be spent working the glass directly out of the crucible kiln. Class will also cover methods for determining...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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Glass and Poetry

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will combine glassblowing and poetry writing, introducing students to the ways in which glass and text might reflect, inflect, distort, blur, blend, confuse, and “blow” into one another. Students will see how writing might generate glass forms, and how glass forms in turn, might generate writing.  Class will think about how both glass and text might equally display properties of transparency or opacity, solidity or liquidity,...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$800

5 sessions

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Neon & Phenomenology

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Directed towards some of the more rare and spectacular concepts, materials, and tools enmeshed in the process of making neon, this workshop gets inside the medium of neon through all of the backdoors, slides, and portals available. In this 5-day workshop, students will learn the basic bends that make up any neon work, as well as safety and methods of display, exploring glass, gas, electricity, and light.  Drawing parallels to observation and...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$890

5 sessions

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Borosilicate Marbles: Tiny Worlds Within

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will focus on strengthening fundamentals, exploration and development of new skills for the creation of borosilicate marbles. Students will explore a variety of techniques such as surface application of color, dichroic glass, encasement, tubing implosion, and more. Depending upon the interests of students, other forms may also be covered, as many of the techniques covered may be used to create a variety of items.  A wide range of...

(54) All levels 11 and older
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$550

2 sessions

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Veggie Blow: Glassblowing Weekend

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you blew glass into a bell pepper? Can you imagine what the texture of a cored-out cabbage would look like!?   In this class we will blow glass into various vegetables. Along the way students will learn the basics of glass blowing and mold blowing. Not only do vegetables have tons of beautiful texture, but they are also easily carved and endlessly manipulable. The produce aisle will never look...

(54) Beginner 10 and older
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$500

2 sessions

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Intro to Kilncasting: Press Molds

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this class students will learn how to make a variety of molds for kilncast glass projects. We will start with open faced casting from folded paper and we will move on to two part press molds, which allow us to explore multi-sided detail and thinner forms. We will discuss how heat and glass selection affects the final product.  What to expect: Students should expect to leave the class with 3 samples and 1 to 2 larger projects (under 8”...

(54) Beginner 14 and older
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$1,100

6 sessions

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Introduction to Glassblowing (Friday Nights)

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Students will continue to build on basic hand skills and a fundamental understanding of the way blown glass works as they explore on more complicated shapes and techniques and learn to control form. This class is a continuation of the introduction to glassblowing class. Color techniques such as overlays and wraps will be introduced and team work at the bench will be encouraged. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there...

(54) Beginner 18 and older
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$855

6 sessions

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Introduction to Boro

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This weekend course provides an introduction to flameworking with borosilicate glass. Students will learn to create small objects, apply color, and explore the worlds of solid sculptural forms. Through a mixture of technical exercises and creative projects, students will delve into the potential of this material. The goal of the course is for students to gain confidence in their ability and be able to create well-crafted objects. What to Expect...

(54) Beginner 12 and older
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$540

2 sessions

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Crossing Over: Blowing with Cast Parts

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Take the plunge and explore what can occur when glassblowing, kiln casting and coldworking are combined in the making process. Working collaboratively and merging kiln casting, coldworking and hot shop techniques, students will cast, blow, and cold work elements, such as handles, feet and stems, that will then be combined with blown glass in the hot shop making hybrid sculptural and/or functional works. Through experimental assemblage, kiln casting...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$835

6 sessions

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The Fire Within

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Glass is a very unique material compared to other craft materials. You cannot touch the glass directly, the glass will respond better if you are consistently practicing, and it takes time to master the techniques. On the other hand, you can use your own original ideas, tools and processes to create unique work that is less reliant on standard processes.  Traditional techniques are necessary to begin to play with glass, so this class will include...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$1,195

5 sessions

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Digital Methods for Glass Molds

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This week-long intensive will introduce students to digital design and fabrication tools for making glass molds, from the process of 3D modeling to CNC milling and mold-making. We will go over best practices for designing geometry for digital fabrication, and experience CNC-milling through one session at an off-site fabrication studio. At UrbanGlass, we’ll practice making plaster molds for casting and blown glass. What to Expect: We will prepare...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$1,060

6 sessions

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Trying to Say More with Less

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this workshop students will focus on refining technical skills as a means to explore how simplification can broaden our creative outcomes. We will work through basic forms in clear glass while emphasizing efficient workflow and heat management. We will take a closer look at the blowing processes’ constituent parts (gathering, marvering, centering, body mechanics, etc) and strive to deepen our understanding of the working characteristics of...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$790

3 sessions

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Memory Layers: Generating Images on Glass

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class is an invitation for illustrators, painters, designers, and anybody with an interest in the graphic image to experiment with the possibilities of the pictorial representation on glass. Participants will be challenged to delve into their own memory lane to work with the central images -photography, sketches, drawings, texts- that portray their narratives. Digital and analog approaches will be used to define the layers that build these...

(54) All levels 12 and older
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$1,350

5 sessions

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Kilncasting with Zircar Mold Mix 6

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this summer intensive students will get an introduction to kiln casting glass using Zircar Mold Mix 6 molds. Zircar Mold Mix 6 is a high temperature ceramic mold material used to make lightweight, strong, reusable mold for glass casting and blowing. What to Expect: During this workshop students will make several Zircar Mold Mix 6 molds based on original designs. These molds will be built up around hand carved panels of linoleum and can be...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$920

5 sessions

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Glass Can Talk

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This workshop delves into the classic glass practice of Murrine. From the ancient Mesopotamia to Venice to new contemporary takes, we will look at the history and techniques of creating original Murrines. Students will use methods discussed and demonstrated (20% demonstration/80% in studio practice) in class to flamework their own design with a focus on creating letters. We will break down each step in the process and there will be some one on one...

(54) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$1,010

5 sessions

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Intro to Glassblowing Weekend Workshop

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this two-day workshop students will learn the introductory skills of glassblowing, such as: how to take a gather of molten glass out of the furnace and how to work in small teams in the glass studio! While focusing on building these new handskills, students will learn how to make colorful glassware in beginner forms such as cups and bowls.  What to Expect: Over the weekend class, students will learn how to gather and manipulate molten glass....

(54) Beginner 14 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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A Crash Course in American-Venetian Techniques

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

The workshops of the Venetian lagoon, particularly those of the 16th century, have produced some of the finest blown glass objects the world has ever known. Come and explore the basics of this style of working, as understood from an American studio perspective. In this workshop you will learn the first steps in blowing thin footed vessels, as difficult to produce as they are beautiful to look at. By the end of this course you will have a solid foundation...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$1,275

5 sessions

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Beyond the Basics: Shards, Hollows, Metals, & More!

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Class will start with decorating beads with glass shards and with metals including fine silver wire, foils and leaf: silver, copper, gold. We’ll move on to making hollow glass beads with the disc method, and learning to use reduction glass techniques. Weekend days include a one hour-lunch break and stretch breaks. After demonstrations, expect to make between 6 - 10 successful objects in this class, and a couple failures, while gaining confidence...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$595

3 sessions

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Merging Glass with Metal

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this class, students will integrate the lessons of the flame shop and the jeweler’s bench. We’ll begin at Urban Glass, learning to create glass beads and components, including surface details and coldworked finishes. At Brooklyn Metal Works, we’ll learn metalsmithing skills and fabrication techniques. Throughout the course we’ll discuss design principles and explore our creativity, finishing the session with wearable art that expresses...

(54) Beginner 14 and older
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$700

8 sessions

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