Additional and Custom Class Offerings

Pumpkin Workshop (3 Hours)

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Just in time for the fall, learn how to make your very own glass pumpkin. You could stick to the 'traditional pumpkin' or create something a bit more, errr, contemporary. Who says that pumpkins can't be green, purple and white?

Fun With Glass (1 Day - $220)

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This will be a hands-on learning experience in which you will make a number of glass objects while getting a good sense of what is involved in handworking molten glass. Typically participants will make a colorful paperweight, ornament, a small casting, and a blown object or two - such as a cup, bowl, flower vase, or the like. This class is a great way to get a feel for the material before committing to a multi week class or workshop.

Two Day Intensive (2 Days)

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Most of the material covered in the Introductory Glassblowing class compressed into two days of intensive learning.

Teen Camp

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East Falls Glassworks is offering a fun filled immersion into the world of glassblowing, designed specifically for artists in their teens. Broken into two sessions, the first week will be a exploration into many different ways that art can be made with glass. On different days, students will learn hands-on techniques including sandcasting, cutting and fusing glass a mosaic, sandblasting designs into glass, and of course, actually blowing molten glass. The second week will focus primarily on hotworking glass. Each day will be spent "at the bench" working with basic forms and techniques to make paperweights, ornaments, glasses, bowls and sculptural objects. No prior experience with glass required.

Session 1: June 20-24, 9 am-2 pm, $550
Session 2: June 27-July 1, 9 am-2 pm, $650
Sessions start at 9:00AM and end at 2:00PM.
* Enroll in each session individually or together for a discount of $70.

Paperweights and Ornaments (3 Hours)

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Designed for the total beginner, we provide the tools, supplies and instruction needed to create both a solid sculpted paperweight and a blown ornament. These classes are a great way to get a feel for the way glass moves at 2000 degrees and have a fun and exciting afternoon at the same time. Each student will have the option of making at least one of each. Make a couple beautiful glass objects for the same price you would pay in a store!

Introductory Glassblowing (6 Weeks)

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If you'd like to try working with hot glass for the first time or would like a refresher course, this is the class for you. We start with an introduction to glassblowing tools and equipment as well as basic techniques. Every week, a different form will be taught. Lots of exercises and hands-on time is provided to build a solid foundation of glass blowing skills.

Glassblowing II (6 Weeks)

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This class begins where the Introductory I class leaves off. After concluding this class, students should have enough confidence and glass working skill to rent time and work with a partner. More advanced forms will be taught as well as some basic color techniques.

Advancing Your Technique (4 Weeks)

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Advancing Your Technique is a workshop which will focus on improving your glassblowing technique; you will learn how to better work with the heat and blowing out of the vessel. The result will be pieces with more precise wall thickness and controlled proportions. There will be plenty of opportunity to work on hand skills and refining forms. Although this is a four week class, the cost is the same as the 6 week workshops because it is a longer format (4.5 hours vs. 3 hours).

Mold-Blowing Extravaganza with Phil Vinson

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Students in this class should have some glassblowing experience. This is a two day workshop where students will get the chance to use many unique molds made by Phil and create molds of their own which will produce never-before-seen objects. The first day will include a slide show/session covering materials and techniques. There will be demonstrations, and then student will begin creating their own blow-molds. There will be plenty of time to produce objects from the molds created by the instructor and the students.

Working with Cane and Murrini (4 Week)

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This class will cover the basics of pulling cane and making murrini from the cane as well as some of the techniques for using the cane and murrini in vessels. There is an additional $50 lab fee for the extensive amount of color needed for this technique. Students will make plenty of cane/murrini to take home and incorporate into their own projects.

Casting Workshop (6 Weeks)

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This class will explore in depth the technique of casting glass into plaster molds. Glassblowing skills are not required, but glassblowers will benefit from the class as well. Super-detailed molds will be made out of plaster-silica mixture and participants will be able to immortalize their design in glass. All materials will be provided.

Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz teach Tumblers and Bowls (2 Days)

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Refine your skills and increase your confidence by focusing on the tumbler and bowl. These two deceptively simple forms contain a wealth of skill building information. Discover how to form the glass by utilizing your heat effectively. Working efficiently, creating thinner pieces and building confidence will be the goals of the course, as instruction is personalized and detailed to your level of experience.

Boyd Suguki and Lisa Zerkowitz are glassblowers whose work speaks for itself. As founders and operators of Two Tone Studios they are responsible for a line of functional work that is both strait forwardly utilitarian and also possessing of a undeniable elegance of design. In their personal work their interest develop along different lines, but with a solid commitment to aesthetic principles as a basic tenet. This class will focus on the fundamental skills that allow them to make what they make.

This class runs on Thursday and Friday, April 12th and 13th from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. Depending on student interest, the following Saturday (April 14th, 10:00AM-5:00PM) is reserved as an optional practice day, to work on and reinforce the skills learned in class. Cost for the class is $350, the practise day is an additional $90.

Please visit their websites:
Two Tone Studios
Boyd Suguki
Lisa Zerkowitz