Glass Flameworking
Entry-level class
Create beautiful glass ornaments, globes, perfume bottles, pendants, tube beads, marbles, and more! In flameworking, you’ll use an oxy-propane torch to melt glass so that you can shape it. This class will introduce you to the tools, equipment, and fundamentals of flameworking, and will cover a variety of techniques including color pulling and applying, color pattern application, cane-making, frit application, and marble making.

Continuing Techniques in Glass Flameworking
Previous experience required
Prerequisite: Glass Flameworking
After learning the fundamentals in Glass flameworking, come take on more involved projects and designs in this intermediate course. Working with larger torches this continuation class explores techniques of borosilicate glass blowing. You will learn to shape blown glass, create hollow seals and start to learn how to create blown glass bottles. Color applications to blown glass pieces will also be discussed.

Advanced Techniques in Flameworking
Previous experience required
Prerequisite: Instructor Approval
This advanced class builds upon the techniques learned in Glass Flameworking and Continuing Techniques in Glass Flameworking.  Advanced projects working with the human figure as well as discussions on the business of glass flameworking including maketing, production, design, goal setting, sales, galleries, museums, and art shows.

Lab: Glass Flameworking
Taking a lab is a great way to practice and perfect the skills you learn in class. In labs, you can work on class assignments or your own projects. Lab time is supervised but does not include instruction or materials.

Glass Beads
Entry-level class
Learn how to make colorful glass beads from Effettre glass rods (a soft glass), using an oxy-propane torch. This class will teach you how to make a variety of bead shapes, to form and alter surface patterns, and to make stringers and twisters.

Continuing Techniques in Glass Beads
Previous experience required
Prerequisite: Glass Beads
Improve your bead making skills!  This weekend class explores the many uses of individual techniques, such as dots, lines, twisters, raking, and encasing.  We will choose up to four areas of concentration and devote two to three hours to each topic.

Advanced Marble Making Techniques
Previous experience required.
Prerequisite: Glass Flameworking
Do you want to take the skills you learned in glass flameworking farther into marble making? This class explores advanced techniques such as multicolored latticino, Honeycomb technique, galaxy marbles and implosion marbles.

Core Vessel Forming
Entry-level class
Learn the traditional ancient Egyptian art of core vessel forming. Building around a core we will duplicate measures used thousands of years ago to create the first bottles in ancient Egypt.

Duplicating Nature in Glass
Previous experience required.
Prerequisite: Glass Flameworking
Learn techniques in twisting and manipulating glass to create flowers, branches, and insects. Looking closely at organic earthly elements this class will explore ways to create in glass what grows in your garden naturally.

Glass Fusing & Slumping I
Entry-level class
This entry-level class is a great way to enter the world of art glass. The techniques of fusing and slumping offer almost limitless possibilities for creating with color and form. You’ll learn the basics of glass/heat interaction, glass cutting, fusing (combining colors), and slumping (shaping glass into or over molds to create flat and dimensional forms). The class will cover mold materials as well as firing and annealing procedures. Each week you’ll have the chance to explore a new process and complete a small project that will be kiln-fired.

Glass Fusing & Slumping II: An Investigation In Moldmaking
Previous experience required
Prerequisite: Glass Fusing & Slumping I
This class is a great way to to continue your investigation into slumping and Fusing. Using different materials such as clay, fiber and fire bricks you will design and create your own slumping molds. We will also discuss glass chemistry and more advanced fusing and sluping processes.

Kiln-Cast Glass
Entry-level class
With kiln casting, you make a mold and cast glass into the shape you desire. This class teaches the ancient art of lost wax casting, in which a wax sculpture is used to make a mold. You’ll learn about wax-working techniques, plaster/ silica moldmaking procedures, and the kiln firing process. You’ll be able to complete four to five finished projects. Come to class with drawings or ideas for projects or use ours.

Reverse Relief Kiln-Cast Glass
Entry-level class
Capture the light in your sculpture! Learn about the magical world of reverse relief in glass. Some knowledge about kiln-cast glass is helpful, but beginners are welcome too. You will make a relief in clay, then make a wax relief from your clay model. Your final project will be a solid block of glass, with the reverse relief in the back. Viewing it through the smooth, glassy front, you will see the positive image of your relief.

Continuing Techniques in Kiln-Fired Glass: Working Deep
Previous experience required
Prerequisite: Kiln-Fired Glass-Fusing & Slumping I & II
This class offers an advanced technique that makes use of skills learned in the introductory kiln-fired glass class. In this class you will fuse multiple pieces of glass together to create a design embedded within the layers. You will explore the use of frits (crushed glass) and powdered glass to create a piece that captures imagery in great depth.

Continuing Techniques in Kiln-Fired Glass: Canes & Murrinis
Previous experience required
Prerequisite:Kiln-Fired Glass-Fusing & Slumping I & II
This class builds on skills learned in the introductory class on kiln-fired glass, offering more advanced techniques and projects. The class focuses manipulating glass using hot and cold methods. You’ll learn pattern bar and cane construction, cane pulling in the glory hole and sawing murrini, all techniques that let you create intricate patterns in glass. Using elements that you make in the glory hole, you’ll complete a glass plate.

Lab: Glass Fusing
Taking a glass lab is a great way to practice and perfect the skills you learn in class. In labs, you have time to work on class assignments or your own projects. Lab time is supervised but does not include instruction or materials.

Stained Glass Sculpture
Entry-level class
Stained glass or glass fusing experience is helpful but not required.
In this class, you’ll use a combine fusing and stained glass fabrication techniques to make three-dimensional forms in glass. You will combine colors of glass and shape the resulting pieces in the kiln. Then you will use copper foiling and soldering to join individual pieces to make a three-dimensional creation. The class will explore different mold materials and fastening methods.

Architectural Applications of Plate Glass:
Using Recycled Glass
Entry-level class
This fast-paced, five-week class explores techniques for using broken window glass and post-consumer bottle glass to form sculptural pieces, tableware, and architectural elements. Each week’s session introduces a different approach to using the glass, combining colors by fusing glass in the kiln, changing the shape of resulting pieces using molds, using the glory hole to reform recycled bottles, and working with the cold glass.  Glass chemistry, coloration, and firing temperatures will be explained for each particular application. 

Cold Working Glass
Entry-level class
In The Crucible’s expanded cold working area, you can learn to grind and polish glass. Using glass blanks, you will experiment with techniques of cutting, drilling, carving, and sandblasting glass. Lathe working will be introduced. You will have the opportunity to complete at least two ground and polished glass objects.

Glory Hole Glass Forming
Entry-level class
You can melt and reform glass using the glory hole, an opening in a furnace that keeps glass hot and workable. Many techniques for working with hot glass will be demonstrated including cane pulling, cane cups, “rollups,” reblowing bottles.  Students will work in teams to form the hot glass. Be prepared for very hot work.

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