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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Jewelry Design with Kilnformed Glass
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Appreciation of, and obsession with, handmade jewelry are the guiding factors in this class. Join Rachel, a handmade jewelry aficionado, to get geeky over techniques involved in using glass in the kiln and coldshop to create fun, wearable patterns and textures. Starting in the basics of kilnforming, students will use glass to create a brilliant palette and interesting shapes to feature in wearable forms. The glass will then be...
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Patterns + Textures
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Discover the beauty of engraved glass! This class will explore patterns and textures, using a variety of coldworking equipment and tools such as lathes, belt sanders, and flat grinders. In addition to acquiring glass engraving skills, students will also learn grinding and polishing techniques. Investigate the exciting medium of glass printing (Vitreography) with the patterns and textures we create. No glassworking experience is required. Advanced...
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Simple Goblets
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Simple Goblets is a six week introductory course designed for students with some glassblowing experience. We will be reviewing basic goblet making techniques, as well as introducing optic mold enhancements. Optic cups and feet will be demonstrated as well as avolio and morise connections. Goblet making is the holy grail of glassblowing, and this course will take you out of your comfort zone while bringing your skills to the next level.
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Pendants, Pairs, and Doublets: A Collaboration w/ BKMW
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Full Course Name Pendants, Pairs, and Doublets: A Collaboration with Brooklyn Metal Works Join Bianca and Erin for this eight week course in glass and metalworking for jewelry using both UrbanGlass and Brooklyn Metal Works’ studios. The class begins in the cold shop where we will explore different ways to manipulate pre-cut pieces of glass, or “blanks”, into carved and faceted segments. Students will learn to use the lathe, flat wheels, sanding...
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Hot Glass American Summer
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Learn something new this summer in the hot glass studio. In this six week course we will cover all the basics of working with hot glass. Through a series of skill building drills and guided work time we will cover everything one needs to know to begin their relationship with hot glass. This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of the material and set them up to take the next steps becoming a glass maker.
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Collage + Combine | Remix + Redux
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In this experimental class, you will use multiple printmaking and painting processes with glass, mixed with glass cutting techniques to assemble layered imagery in glass. We will discuss the pros and cons of each technique and how to mix and match them to best realize your ideas. Individual experimentation will be encouraged through focused research and observation of process and material. The print processes covered are lithographic image...
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Mold to Kiln and Back Again
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Many objects, forms, and materials can be translated into glass through the art of mold making. This two-day intensive workshop is packed with information about basic mold making for kiln casting. Students will be working with clay and wax to create positives to directly translate into glass. Students will then learn how to hand-build two high-fire refractory molds that can be used in the kiln to complete the process of melting glass into final...
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Introduction to Neon Letters
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
In this eight-week neon lettering class, learn the advanced skills required to bend letters and work from a pattern. We will focus on mastering the basics of tube bending techniques as well as layout preparation in order to create, wire, and display your own neon signs. By the end of the class, students will have the skills and confidence to work independently on advanced projects in our studio. This will be an intensive course, beginners and advanced...
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Dazzle Your Weekend: An Introduction to Neon
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Create your very own neon light in this two-day weekend intensive. Learn all of the steps to create in neon, starting with the basics of how to bend glass tubes using the heat of the torch, followed by pattern design and bending to achieve your own unique design. Each final design will be processed and filled with one of the noble gases – neon, argon, xenon - to become luminous! The final day of class will conclude with a wiring...
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Testing Texture: Introduction to Kilncasting
UrbanGlass See all classes by this school @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
This weekend workshop will explore the possibilities of an open-face kilncasting mold. This technique is perfect for capturing the texture of everyday objects both as impressions in clay, or as direct transfers to the mold material. Samples, materials, and textures in the studio will be available, or bring your own items to play with. Come with an open mind to learn the basics of this process and see the results of a kilncasting! No...
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Moving With Glass
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For this introduction to glassblowing course, we will focus on the properties of glass and how it moves in relation to our bodies and surroundings. Glassblowing is about reaching a greater understanding of the effects that temperature and gravity have on the viscosity of the material. If we quit turning the pipe, the glass will fall to the floor. If the glass gets cold, it will no longer be malleable. This course will cover the basics of glassblowing...
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Mold Meditation: Kilncasting Glass
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The art of mold making can be translated into many forms and materials. This workshop will focus on kilncasting glass using high fire refractory. Through this process, we will be covering a multitude of techniques, including conceptualizing the process, working with clay and wax, mold materials, and repetitive molds allowing us to create multiples. We will also discuss problem solving, equipment usage, and safety. The class will wrap up with basic...
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Crossing Over: Blowing with Cast Parts
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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...
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Middle School Camp: Intro to Glass Fusing
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Drawing characters and cartoons allows for our imagination to run wild, and invent the world we want to see through storytelling! Using enamel paints, powders, and opaque and translucent glass, students will design their own characters, and learn how to create a permanent 3D image in fused glass. Camp will cover how to cut shapes out of colorful sheet glass and make drawings with powders and paints, then use the heat of a kiln (oven) to bond it...
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The Fire Within
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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...
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Digital Methods for Glass Molds
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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...
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Mosaics: Imagined Histories
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In this class, stained glass mosaics are a vehicle for proposing imagined architectures from a past, present or future place that express participants’ identities. Students will create mosaic fragments, like those seen in museums or archives, that explore history as a contested field that both describes and echoes race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, and other aspects of who we are. This course covers glass cutting and mosaic...
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Trying to Say More with Less
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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...
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Memory Layers: Generating Images on Glass
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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...
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Pulling the Figure from Glass
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Get inspired by a favorite subject throughout art history - the human figure! This class will focus on sculpting the human figure in borosilicate glass. We will start with learning and discussing theories of human anatomy in conjunction with initial techniques in shaping and cutting glass rod. Each student will start by sketching out ideas, playing with body parts and poses, then translate these ideas into clear and color forms using the torch....
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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.
