In this class, students will develop hot glass sculptures reflecting their personal identity by tapping into family history, cultural heritage, and significant life events. Using a variety of methods – cane, murrine and roll-ups, color application, mold-blowing, and printing - students will learn to create a visual narrative using a personal iconography, that draws inspiration from mythology and folk traditions.

Our point of departure is the interface between analogue and digital making in glass. We will consider different ways we can take glass from the 2D image to the 3D form and vice versa. It will be a quick sprint through elements of screen printing, kiln-forming. water jet cutting, and glassblowing! We hope to discover what is possible in the crossovers.

This Workshop will work with glass as a unique sculptural material. We will consider the relationship to the body, site specific space and touch on the material connections between glass, metal, wood and landscape. The outcome will be objects and site-specific installations. We will use drawing and all technical facilities to develop new approaches to one's work.

Leaning into oneself and how one creates a place, students will be led through a series of exercises to explore what it means to create and hold space. From these mini exercises, students will develop works in glass using lost wax casting and pate de verre. In addition to these techniques, demos will include silicone mold making, the use of enamels on flat and cast surfaces, and the benefits of reinvesting. Students should expect to take away fully finished work, a series of tests, and many ideas.

“Time passes, and the glass is very fragile- but eternal; reuniting 30 years later but with the same enthusiasm and spirit (as it began).” This team first worked together at Pilchuck 30 years ago. Led by Brian and Ed, with assistance from Lucio, this workshop will explore numerous ways of combining flame and furnace expressions.