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2010 Pre and Post-Conference Workshops BREAKING SYMMETRYInstructor: Slate GroveJune 4 - 8, 2010; 2 hour demo; 2 hours for each student Cost: $800 Class size: 8-9 students max Glassworks, 815 West Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)584-4510, info@louisvilleglassworks.com Click here to register This class is intended for those with some experience blowing glass to break out of the functional mode and start seeing glass in 3-dimensions. This class will deal with everything from closed forms and blow punties to inside sculpting with oxy/propane torches. Issues of heating, turning, carrying more glass and preparing the proper shaped bubble for the final outcome will be constant conversation throughout the class. A love for experimentation and some glass experience required. Slate Grove has exhibited work in Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; New York, NY; Cleveland, OH; and Louisville, KY and is currently the Glass Studio Coordinator at Penland School of Crafts. VESSELS AND FORM CONSCIOUSNESSInstructor: Matthew EskucheTuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm; lunch break; 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm; Open Studio: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cost: TBD Class size: 4 minimum, 6 maximum Glassworks, 815 West Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)584-4510, info@louisvilleglassworks.com Click here to register This class is designed to provide a solid base from which a student's work can progress. With points, jacks and diamond shears, students of all levels will experiment with borisilicate tubing. The main focus will be our approach to the material. Shape, scale and proportion will pass through a technical "strainer" in an effort to create work of varied scale and difficulty. Matt Eskuche teaches classes at many schools and studios around the country and exhibits his glass sculpture with Habatat Galleries in Chicago. His work can be found in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Racine Art Museum, and Museum of Arts and Design in New York. ILLUSTRATE YOUR LIFE IN GLASSInstructor: Scott DarlingtonPost Conference, June 13-17, 5 day class, demo in morning; lunch; afternoon; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Cost: $1000 ($200/day) Glassworks, 815 West Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)584-4510, info@louisvilleglassworks.com Click here to register In this intermediate to advanced class students will be encouraged to illustrate their lives in glass. We will draw from other interests and parts of our lives besides art and glass to influence our ideas and concepts. Technically, this class will explore the logic and physics of glassmaking. We will not be making vessels but we will use the bubble sculpturally. This class will also cover solid and core sculpting, bit work, common and special situation punties, and garage work. We will learn how to draw and dissect objects in order to be able to make parts and assemble pieces into the final objects. Glass can be anything and that is just what we will make. DEFINING NEW BOUNDARIESInstructor: Ben EdolsPost Conference, June 14-18 5 day class, Intermediate level Cost: $700, lunch included 6 students maximum Flame Run Hotshop, 828 East Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)584-5353, www.flamerun.com, brook@flamerun.com Australian Ben Edols is a highly accomplished glassblower and has worked with Dante Marioni and Lino Tagliapietra over the years. Ben's personal practice tries to marry his interest in nature with a 20 plus year fascination with process. Cane work such as filigrana, murrini, reticello and zanfirico continue to challenge and excite. Demonstrations will focus on this type of pattern making while at the same time always pushing to take them somewhere new. Students will have the afternoons to create and discover new boundaries for their work. |
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