>Some great classes are coming up – old and new favorites!
Roll-up = Fused and blown glass
Up first is the Bullseye Roll-up. In this class you get to fuse and blow glass! This process allows the detail and care that you can get in a fused piece can be transferred to the hotshop and blown into a dimensional piece. If you are a fuser – a great introduction to the world of blown glass. If you are a blower – imaging the detail you can get!
Nancy Donnelly’s Green Eggs & Ham fused glass panel.
Blowing at DC Glassworks studio.
The finished work.
Class 1007 – The Great Bullseye Roll-up
If you’ve ever been interested in making your fused glass panels into blown vessels- then this is the class for you! Come experience one of the most exciting trends in glass – where you get the best of both worlds. One class will be spent fusing Bullseye Glass into a panel at the
Instructors: Dave D’Orio & Michael Janis
Dates: Saturday, February 27 & March 6, 1:30 to 5:00 pm each day
Tuition: $350
Also coming up everyone’s favorite way to work with photos – emulsion transfer! This fun class gets the photographer in you working! Your photo images (taken during class or from your slides) are transferred via polaroid-style film to glass, paper, whatever. A great way to get imagery in your art!
Class 1008 – Photographic Image Transfers On Glass
The photo-emulsion transfer process did not die with Polaroid. Learn how to make your images, manipulate them and put them onto almost any surface using
Instructors: Pete & Alison Duvall
Dates: Sunday, February 28, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Tuition: $150 (+ $20 lab fee)
and – don’t forget:
Class 1009 – Introduction to Rubber Mold Making
In this weekend class you will tackle the basics of making rubber molds. These molds can be used for the production of parts that can be dupicated in wax – the first step in the Lost Wax Process for casting glass, bronze or aluminum. (Hint: Debra’s amazing Lost Wax Casting class will be offered next semester – plan ahead!) Students will bring in their own pieces to review and explore mold production, undercuts, multipart mold-making, and casting of wax. Students will learn about a variety of materials and which to use in different situations. Students will be asked to bring a minimum of 3 small objects (not more than 1.5″ in any direction).
Instructor: Debra Ruzinsky
Dates: Sat/Sun, March 6 & 7, 9:30am to 1:30 pm
Tuition: $300
Imagery In Glass Class
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Instructor Michael Janis explains how imagery can be fused into glass.
Class 1005 – Imagery in Glass was alot of fun this weekend, a great way to celebrate the end of the blizzard weather the DC metro area has been suffering thru. The class dove right in learning how to use glass frit powder, high temperature enamels, stencils, glass paints and fused glass photo-imagery.
Michael Janis outlines the sgraffito technique
Michael is assisted by artists Chris Shea and Dave Pearcy.
Hands on practice is the best way to learn any new process.
all photos by Tracy Lee
Happy Valentines Day!
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Blizzard of 2010 Shuts Glass School
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Snowpocalypse! Snowmageddon! Snowgasm! Whatever you call this record breaking snow dump, it spells yet another day of heavy snow and blizzards in the capital of the free world as Washington, DC comes to a standstill. Congress and federal government offices are closed as is the Washington Glass School.
The weight of the snow is bringing down trees all over. DC’s department of transport is telling drivers to stay off the roads except for emergencies. Washington just broke its record of 54.4 inches of snow for a season (138.2 centimetres), set way back in 1898-99.
Michael Janis Awarded Saxe Fellowship
>This weekend was the annual auction at California’s Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI – a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and educating glass artists, students and the community).
Lots of beautiful and provocative works of art were auctioned, raising over $110,000 to benefit the school.
Michael Janis / Meridians
Glass, Fused glass powder imagery, steel 12.5″ x 12.5″ photo: anything photographic
Congratulations to Michael and all the artists!
A Farewell to Butterstick
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Bling-Bling, the panda made of glass Photo by Anything Photographic
The giant panda Tai Shan was sent off to China from the National Zoo here in Washington, DC.
Our good-byes include the memories of the Washington’s DC Commission on the Arts public art project: Pandamania .
The Washington Glass School’s entry was Bling-Bling – a glass covered panda. Glass school students and resident artists cast unusual elements for the artwork, including a cub scout cap, a mouse whispering into the ear, a heart tattoo, a fish, and faces are among the over 7,000 pieces of recycled glass.
l-r Lisa Frieda, Justine Light and Kay Janis work on the panda.
The panda is ready to roll to its location in front of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Erwin Timmers & Kerri Sheehan celebrate the panda’s delivery.
Covered in cast recycled float glass and sporting dichroic glass jewelry.
The Capitol Hill newspaper Voice of the Hill called the panda a “dazzling concoction of shimmering glass”
Bling-Bling situated at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2004
photo: Anything Photographic
