Workshop Dates for 2025:

This workshop is hosted over two days, with one day each week.

MAY 17th and 24th
9am - 4:30pm

Take your newly acquired skills in Contemporary Kiln Formed Glass to the next level in this dynamic two-day Intermediate Workshop

Designed to be taken after our Beginner Workshop, this exciting Intermediate-level course will equip students with new and more complex kiln-forming skills, whilst fostering each individual’s artistic direction in glass.

Students will be encouraged to draw on their own creative ideas, interests, and fused glass techniques already under their belt to undertake a 10-layer block fusing project. The 2-day course will require students to consider colour, pattern, form, and composition as they create designs on Bullseye sheet glass, which will be fused in a stack to form an artwork featuring layers and depth.

Following block fusing, students will be introduced to cold-working glass techniques to grind, polish, linish, and engrave their finished block. These coldworking techniques and processes will be taught and executed on day two of the course.

Core Techniques:

• Block Fusings

• Working with high-fire glass enamels, and metallic paints

• Introduction to basic ‘cold working’ processes 

• Kiln Firing Schedules

• Health and safety

Materials provided:

• All tools (glass cutters, pliers, rulers, etc)

• All safety equipment (safety glasses, masks, gloves, etc)

• Artistic materials (enamel, a select range of glass frit and powders, sheet glass, glass glue, drawing materials for planning, etc)

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this two-day workshop, each student will have the skills to:

• Create a layered block of glass (up to 10 sheets thick)

• Linish, engrave, hand-lap, and polish their glasswork and operate a range of glass coldworking machinery

• Integrate high-fire enamels

• Operate a kiln and program firing schedules

• Implement appropriate health and safety procedures