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Pre & Post GAS Conference Workshops
Breaking Symmetry
Instructor: Slate Grove
7 days of class; 2 hour demo; 2 hours for each student
Cost: $800. Class size: 8-9 students max
Glassworks, 815 West Market St, Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 584-4510, info@LouisvilleGlassworks.com
This class is intended for those with some experience
blowing glass to break out of the functional mode and start
seeing glass in 3-dimensions. This class will deal with
everything from closed forms and blow punties to inside
sculpting with oxy/propane torches. Issues of heating, turning,
carrying more glass and preparing the proper shaped
bubble for the final outcome will be constant conversation
throughout the class. A love for experimentation and some
glass experience required. Slate Grove has exhibited work in
Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; New York,
NY; Cleveland, OH; and Louisville, KY and is currently the
Glass Studio Coordinator at Penland School of Crafts.
Vessels and Form Consciousness
Instructor: Matthew Eskuche
Wed. June 8 & Thursday, June 9. 9 am - Noon;
lunch break; 1:30 - 5 pm; Open Studio: 6 - 9 pm
Cost: TBD. Class size: min 4, max 6
Glassworks, 815 West Market St, Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 584-4510, info@LouisvilleGlassworks.com
This class is designed to provide a solid base from
which a students work can progress. With points, jacks, and
diamond shears, students of all levels will experiment with
borsilicate tubing. The main focus will be our approach to the
material. shape, scale, and proportion will pass through a
technical “strainer” in an effort to create work of varied scale
and difficulty. Matt Eskuche teaches classes at many schools
and studios around the country and exhibits his glass
sculpture with Habatat Galleries in Chicago. His work can be
found in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
the Racine Art Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design
in New York.
Illustrate Your Life in Glass
Instructor: Scott Darlington
Post conference, June 13 - 17. 5 day class,
demo in morning, lunch, afternoon 9-5
Cost: $1000 ($200/day).
Glassworks, 815 West Market St, Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 584-4510, info@LouisvilleGlassworks.com
In this intermediate to advanced class students will be
encouraged to illustrate their lives in glass. We will draw
from other interests and parts of our lives besides art and
glass to influence our ideas and concepts. Technically, this
class will explore the logic and physics of glassmaking.
We will not be making vessels but we will use the bubble
sculpturally. This class will also cover solid and core
sculpting, bit work, common and special situation punties,
and garage work. We will learn how to draw and dissect
objects in order to be able to make parts and assemble
pieces into the final object. Glass can be anything and that
is just what we will make.
Defining New Boundaries
Instructor: Ben Edols
Post conference, June 14 - 18.
5 day class, Intermediate Level
Cost: $700, Lunch included - 6 students max
Flame Run Hotshop, 828 E. Market St., Louisville, KY (502)
584-5353. www.flamerun.com
brook@flamerun.com
Australian Benjamin Edols is a highly accomplished
glassblower and has worked with Dante Marioni and Lino
Tagliapietra over the years. Ben’s personal practice tries
to marry his interest in nature with a 20 plus year fascination
with process. Cane work such as filigrana, murrini,
reticello and zanfirico continue to challenge and excite.
Demonstrations will focus on this type of pattern making
while at the same time always pushing to take them
somewhere new. Students will have the afternoons to
create and discover new boundaries for their work.
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