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March 3-Hour Tasters: Your Guide To A Weekend Of Making
By Cathy Niland | 2.26.2020
Spring is the season of reinvention and reimagination—what better time to stretch your creative muscles and try something new! On March 28 and 29 we’re hosting twenty-one different 3-Hour Taster classes, each a perfect opportunity to explore a new art form without the deeper commitment of a full course.
If you’re still in the testing phase of your creativity, you can take multiple classes in one weekend. Saturday and Sunday have 3-Hour Tasters running in the morning and afternoon so the most adventurous of you can try up to four different art forms in a single weekend.
If you are not learning, you are not growing. I took a welding class and it rocked! Best thing about taking these classes—getting to meet the sweetest individuals! Oh, and keeping the projects, too!
– Laura Sanchez
Mig Welding student
To help you track your time in the studio, we’ve put together a Your 3-Hour Taster Checklist—sort of like a personal scavenger hunt—so you can track your creative accomplishments and figure out which medium you’d like to explore more in the future. Download and print your own version before your weekend of making.
Tasters are already filling up so don’t wait to sign up!
I got to try my hand at Glass Flameworking yesterday…and it was awesome! I’ll definitely be back to The Crucible for another class.
Spend A Saturday With Us
March 28, 2020
3-Hour Taster: Enameling: 10am-1pm
3-Hour Taster: Foundry: 10am-1pm
3-Hour Taster: Enameling: 10am-1pm
- Introduction to enamel sifting and kiln-firing
- Making stencils
- Leave class with your own enamel pendant or keychain
3-Hour Taster: Foundry: 10am-1pm
- Learn how to design and create a sand mold
- Pour molten hot aluminum with the help of your instructor
- Leave class with your own aluminum tile or medalion
3-Hour Taster: Glass Fusing: 10am-1pm
- Introduction to melting and shaping borosilicate glass with an oxy-propane torch
- Create your own small glass marbles, mushrooms, or hearts to take home
3-Hour Taster: Glass Fusing: 10am-1pm
- Learn the basics of glass and heat interactions
- Explore glass cutting, combining colors, and annealing
- Design and create a glass mosaic tile
3-Hour Taster: Jewelry: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: Leather: 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: Jewelry: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Apply techniques like annealing, stamping, filing, sandings, polishing, and design
- Leave class with one-of-a-kind metal pendants or keychains
- Pro tip: Pet lovers, make your furry family member a customized collar tag!
3-Hour Taster: Leather: 2-5pm
- Start by cutting, folding and sewing a 6″ x 9″ personal leather journal
- Learn techniques like stamping and dyeing
- Add texture, color, and shine to make the journal your own
3-Hour Taster: MIG Welding: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: MIG Welding: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Get a basic introduction to metal inert gas (MIG) welding
- Learn techniques like plasma cutting and fabrication processes
- Create a small metal sculpture to take home
- Learn the fundamentals of pâte-de-verre, French for “paste of glass”
- This class covers techniques for color and application
- Leave class with your own one-of-a-kind shallow bowl
Get inspired ahead of your 3-Hour Taster: Leather
Check out this beautiful journal by student Vivek Ahuja
Spend A Sunday With Us
March 29, 2020
3-Hour Taster: Blacksmithing: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: Blacksmithing: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Get a basic introduction to forging steel and using blacksmithing tools
- Using a furnace and anvil, create your own steel hook to take home
- Sneak peek: Check out our step-by-step guide on making a hook
- Introduction to enamel sifting and kiln-firing
- Making stencils
- Leave class with your own enamel pendant or keychain
3-Hour Taster: Foundry: 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: Glass Flameworking: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
3-Hour Taster: Foundry: 2-5pm
- Learn how to design and create a sand mold
- Pour molten hot aluminum with the help of your instructor
- Leave class with your own aluminum tile or medalion
3-Hour Taster: Glass Flameworking: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Introduction to melting and shaping borosilicate glass with an oxy-propane torch
- Create your own small glass marbles, mushrooms, or hearts to take home
3-Hour Taster: MIG Welding: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Learn the basics of glass and heat interactions
- Explore glass cutting, combining colors, and annealing
- Design and create a glass mosaic tile
3-Hour Taster: MIG Welding: 10am-1pm or 2-5pm
- Get a basic introduction to metal inert gas (MIG) welding
- Learn techniques like plasma cutting and fabrication processes
- Create a small metal sculpture to take home
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