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Make an elegant address sign for your home as you learn basic skills in working with glass and wood.

The first day, you will make the tiles in the Glass Arts Studio. You will learn safety procedures for working with glass, how to arrange colored pieces of glass scrap on a base of glass, and to anticipate how it will all melt together to form a tile. If you don't want to cut and nip glass, it would probably be possible to create the tiles using existing shapes of the colored glass.

The tiles will be fired between the class sessions so that on the following Monday, you can fame the tiles, giving you experience with hand saws, drills and finishing techniques. You will affix your tiles to marine plywood, using adhesive, then cut grooved cedar strips for a frame and attach it to the backing. You will sand the wood, apply clear finish to the cedar, and add a chain to the back so the sign is ready to hang — or wrap up as a gift — when you get home.

Details:

• To register your youth please enter in the NAME field your first name then in parenthesis put the youth's first and last name (if different than yours). 
  
• Please use parent/guardian email address when registering so that notifications will reach you.
  
• This is a beginning level class. No experience in working with glass or wood is necessary. This class is for current 7th and 8th graders.  
• Snacks will be provided at the beginning of each class. 
• Please complete and return this minor permission form.
• Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.  
• BARN reserves the right to cancel this class in the case of low enrollment and would notify families of this decision one week prior to the start of the class.  A full refund would be given.
• If you have any questions, email jessh@bainbridgebarn.org
• Wear closed-toe shoes and tie back long hair.