UrbanGlass
Classes in Brooklyn
UrbanGlass, founded in 1977, is the largest artist-access glass center in the United States, offering a comprehensive education program at every skill level. With a faculty of renowned artists and designers, UrbanGlass provides inspiration and resources to artists from around the world.
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Borosilicate Beads and Pendants
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Take your flameworking skills to the next level! During the course of this class, we will explore a range of flameworking techniques through hollow bead and pendant forms. Techniques covered include color application and patterning, graal and carving, and hollow sculptural pendants. Important Thing to Note: No experience is necessary for this class. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there are no makeups...
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Controlled Failure: Goblet Weekend
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This class is intended for the mid to advanced student looking to broaden their horizons and improve hand skills by way of the traditional Venetian goblet. With focus on teamwork, form and function, timing and garage work, students will leave the class with a better understanding of the material and how to assemble simple, as well as complex goblets. Starting with the foundation of joining two bubbles together to make simple footed goblets, students...
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Fire Effects
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class is the perfect opportunity to combine two very different methods of creating with glass. Crossing over techniques from both the Hot Shop and the Flame Studio, students will get a fully rounded introduction into working with fire! In the hotshop we will learn how to stretch, sculpt, and blow glass. In the flame studio we will work with torches to melt glass rods and play with color and form. In both shops students will learn the...
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Wearable Pattern: Kilnforming and Coldworking Jewelry
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will focus on making kiln-formed inclusions to use in students’ jewelry designs. We will investigate different warm glass techniques including murrini making and fusing sheet glass together to create elaborately patterned glass. We will also use cold-working techniques including carving, sawing and drilling to finish pieces. Through lectures and class discussions, we will look at the history of glass jewelry from ancient times to contemporary....
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It’s Always Sunny in the Neon Studio
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Do you find yourself drawn to neon signs? Are you an artist looking to bring a new luminescent element to your work? The brightness, colors, and seemingly endless possibilities of linear design make neon lighting one of the most alluring mediums. Whether you are a total novice or at the beginner level, this class will either kickstart your skills to bend and weld your own one-of-a-kind neon sign, or provide you with more detailed insight to execute...
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Portable Light
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
How can sculpture actively respond to the body or the environment? What can be discovered by making light sculpture mobile? During this course, we will explore the possibilities of using flame worked glass in conjunction with neon, plasma, and LEDs. We will use a small scale battery controlled microprocessor (Arduino) to control and change these light sculptures in response to sound, temperature, ambient light, heartbeat, movement, etc. via stress...
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Introduction to Boro
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 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...
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Scandinavian Screen-Printing on Glass
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this workshop, students will learn step by step how to screen-print photo-based images on glass using enamels. Everything will be covered from the selection and production of your original imagery to its translation into a screen and then onto a glass surface. From there, we will discuss kiln strategies and methods for firing enamels onto the surface to create a beautiful and durable finish. Tomas will present both widely known techniques and...
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Concentrating on Connections: Intro to Borosilicate
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this one-week intensive evening course, students will concentrate on developing a safe and effective practice of working with borosilicate glass (aka Pyrex). This course is open to all skill levels and provides a strong foundation upon which to build each individual’s voice with the material. Classroom time will be fully dedicated to the fundamentals of connecting two pieces of glass and corresponding exercises will guide students through the...
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Pattern in All Dimensions: Fusing & Glassblowing
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This 2 week workshop will have students working in all dimensions, creating colorful, pattern-filled glass as both 2-D fusings and 3-D blown glass forms.Week one will focus in the flat shop, introducing students to cutting and melting layers of sheet glass to explore color combinations, repetition, pattern making, and composition.In week two, students will move to the hot shop to explore the ways those same colors and patterns can be applied to glass...
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Devil in the Details: Problem Solving for Moldmakers
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Mold making for glass can be frustrating, but only if you gloss over the minutiae. Learn some of the finer points of mold construction for both fused and hot casting that will extend your skill set. Rather than a series of limitations, we will approach the process as a refinement of control and an opportunity to expand our visual language through the versatility of the materials. To that end, we will cover some tricks of the trade used to form the...
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Embrace the Moment
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Glass has the ability to be fluid in its molten state, and almost immediately become static as it cools. This unique characteristic offers artists the ability to capture momentum and freeze transitional forms. This class will explore the expressive potential and intensity of the hot glass by capturing this transformation through objects, sculpture, and pyrography. In the kilnforming studio, we will take a much more calculated approach to creating...
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Bend and Wear
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Students in Bend and Wear will learn neon tube bending basics while exploring wild methods of display. Students will learn to pattern, bend, and create wearable neon to become walking, performative, light sculptures that will be exhibited in the streets, in a mobile installation through New York City. Participants will become walking emitters of electromagnetic waves in a variety of visible wavelengths by utilizing the cutting edge of the 1980s...
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A Moving Solid: Introduction to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This class will serve as a platform to engage with the counterintuitive characteristics of molten glass as it moves through different states of matter. Students will be introduced to the hot shop, learning safety in the studio, and beginning their journey with this unusual material. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly in the studio and shape the glass into solid and blown, sculptural and functional, objects. Learning will...
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Handmade Lenses and Alternative Photo Processes
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Combining flameworking with alternative photo processes, this experimental workshop aims to explore the relationship between object and image to achieve unexpected outcomes. We will explore optics and distortion while creating unique images, projections, videos, and objects by utilizing handmade, flame-worked lenses together with digital photography and photographic processes such as cyanotypes. Working in the flame studio and cold shop, we...
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Designing Negative Space: Hot Glass & Moldmaking
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Students will design experimental negative spaces in order to create unpredictable positive forms in glass. Using moldmaking as a starting point; students will sculpt, carve, and combine materials to create a hollow cavity to be blown into with molten glass. Working quickly, pursuing the unexpected and uninhibited, students will gain information and inspiration while finding the line between completed objects and their failed counterparts. The object...
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Pencil to Panel
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From Pencil to Panel is a week long workshop for beginner flat glass students interested in stained glass objects. We will work starting with paper and pencil, exploring shapes and lines to develop designs to make out of glass. Students will learn basic skills for working with flat glass like cutting, grinding, copper foil and solder. This class will also discuss simple stained glass design and be centered around making an object you want to have...
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Glass & Gas: Intro to Neon
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In this 8-week, introductory workshop, students will learn to manipulate glass tubes to create their own, unique neon signs. Demonstrations on equipment safety, basic bends, and good technique will lead to more complex explorations dependent on student designs. Using the week in between each class to process what they’ve learned, students will learn to pattern for neon, plan out their signs, experiment, and add neon art to their tool kit as artists....
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Boro Bootcamp: Push, Pull and Sculpt
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this fast paced flameworking class we will cover a variety of coloring processes and strategies for creating borosilicate jewelry. The techniques covered in this class will broaden the possibilities of wearables created with the flameworking process. In this 2-day class we will cover color layering and application, cane pulling, solid and hollow implosions, as well as sculpting. This class will be accessible to the beginner at the torch and...
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Working with Gravity: Introduction to Glassblowing
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Glassblowing is a dance of physical forces. In this introductory class, students will learn the foundations of glassblowing, including safety in the studio, body movement, basic techniques, and finishing pieces. We will put special emphasis on gravity and centrifugal force, which are the most valuable tools in understanding the material. We will learn to utilize these forces to create unique forms, experimenting in the studio with lengthening,...
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Reviews of UrbanGlass
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Mirror Party
I enjoyed the class and learned a lot. However, I do feel like I did not fully understand the chemical reaction so I would like it to be explained a bit more. After we completed the project, it was not clear when we were able to pick up our product and how to add the finishing touches. I felt I had to keep following up to figure out how to get my belongings completed. -
Intro to Fusing- Coasters
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Paperweight Glass Blowing Party
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Paperweight Glass Blowing Party
This was a great experience- urban glass was well set up to accommodate the class size and very organized. The staff was amazing and very talented. I recommend this class very highly to anyone wanting to explore glass -
Stained Glass 101
Great instructors, great pace, great facility! -
Intro to Sparkly Beads: Metal, Foil, Leaf, & Aventurine
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Neon 101
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Intro to Stained Glass
I went in expecting to learn how to make stained glass, and I learned how to make stained glass! I actually made more pieces than I expected. -
One Day Mosaics
The teacher was wonderful. Supplies were plentiful. We got a great tour of Urban Glass so I need to decide what to try next. I think everyone was very pleased with their projects. Please note that the projects are 10x10 inches. It was a pleasant surprise that they were larger than a coaster. -
One Day Mosaics
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Glassblowing 101
I had a great experience and learned a lot! -
Paperweight Glass Blowing Party
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Paperweight Glass Blowing Party
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Neon 101
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Neon 101
Amazing class. Teaching staff was very knowledgeable and patient, I learned a lot and highly recommend anyone interested in neon to go for this class! -
Intro to Beads
exactly what we wanted -
One Day Mosaics
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Intro to Beadmaking
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One Day Mosaics
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Intro to Stained Glass-Color Theory
I didn’t feel very well so I left early day one and couldn’t attend day 2.
