About

Class was postponed on 3/11 by Nancy A. via email.~tt

This class is designed for those who have basic safety and torch experience and are ready to focus on making shapes and stringers for use in fused pieces.  You will learn about commonly available tools for torch work and specifically for working 'off mandrel'. 

You will practice the following skills after watching a brief demo by the instructor:

• Heat control and how to ‘read’ glass to create desired shapes by mashing, pulling, etc.
• How to keep pulled pieces from cracking, if not annealing prior to fusing
• How to pull stringer from sheet glass (or rods)
• Shapes/ideas to practice: leaves, vines/branches, petals, hearts, tentacles, ?ames….

The fused shapes made in class can be added to a piece of sheet glass and fired, or shapes can be annealed overnight.  Pieces will be available for pick up the following Tuesday. 

Materials:  Tools, rod, scrap glass, sheet glass, and gas for the class are provided. 

Instructor:  Janet Crosby has been working with beads as an art form since 1987, and began in 2003 making them in glass in order to have ‘one-of-a-kind’ focal beads.  Her love for animals and nature has led her to creating small works of art like fish, bugs, chickens, dog bones and faces.  Janet strives to find ways to stay unique and creative and has recently started combining her lampworked art into fused glass pieces.  She has taught lampworking in the Spokane area and after visiting BARN during Refract, was interested in extending her teaching skills to the west side of the State.  Janet’s work can be found locally at Seattle Glassblowing Studio, at Lodestar gallery in Astoria, Oregon and on her website JanetCrosby.com.

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Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply. 

Remember to wear close-toed shoes & long pants in the Glass Studio at all times! This is a strictly enforced safety policy. Thank you.