In this class you will study with Stacy Lynn Smith, who developed and taught printing with powdered glass techniques for Bullseye Glass Company. This class is focused on screen and powder printing for kiln-glass. Here you will explore a variety of methods and take home a number of samples and finished pieces. You will learn the fundamentals of screen printing including basic image preparation (both digital and hand-drawn), screen coating and exposing, printing with enamels and powders, and firing schedule basics. Topics that will be covered include multiple firings, textured prints, wafers, image registration and thick blocks. It will be helpful if you have a laptop with full Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and have some working knowledge with computers and/or hand-drawn imagery. Free trials of this software are available through Adobe. Be prepared to learn, leap into creativity, and have lots of fun! All materials included in class fee.

Prerequisites: 1 years experience working with glass.

Stacy Lynn Smith was born in Vancouver, Washington. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 with a focus in printmaking and installation. From 2007 to 2015, Smith worked as an Instructor/Technician for Bullseye Glass Company in Portland, Oregon. She currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island where she is working toward her MFA in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. Smith’s work has been shown nationally including at SOFA Chicago and Art Santa Fe. She has taught short workshops in US studios such as Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, Vitrum Studio in Maryland and various Bullseye Glass Resource Centers. Smith has presented and held demonstrations for various universities and conferences including the California College of Arts, Portland State University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, the Southern Graphics Council International Conference and the Glass Art Society Conference.

While glass rods are commonly used at the torch for flameworking, they can also be used alone or in combination with other forms of glass to achieve dramatic results in the kiln. In this workshop, students will learn how taking a fresh, thoughtful approach to using the Vitrigraph kiln can create decorative rods called Cane, and ultimately their cross-sections call Murrine.  After an introduction students will work in teams to create custom cane and murrine, working hands on with the vitrigraph kiln. These components will then, immediately, be combined with standard Bullseye glass rods to expand the design possibilities within finished projects. Students will be handling and manipulating hot, molten glass.

Nathan Sandberg was born in Jamestown, New York, USA and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass and Ceramics from the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He has shown work in galleries across the US including, Portland Sate University’s Autzen Gallery and gallery One One in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been represented by Bullseye Gallery at art fairs including, SOFA: Chicago and Art Santa Fe. His work is included in private collections. he worked as an instructor in the Research and Education department at Bullseye Glass Co. for seven years. Since 2012, he has been an independent studio artist, continuing to to make work and teach workshops at private studios in North America and Europe. Please visit www.nathansandberg.com to view more of his work.

Prerequisites: basic glass cutting skills.

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Learn to incorporate imagery into your kiln formed glass using various printmaking processes such as lithographic image transfers, screen printing with glass powder and chine colle (collage). Photographs, drawing and text can be used to create components that are then combined into layered  projects. The master class also covers fusing basics, colour reactions, colour, composition and correct firing and annealing procedures for each process. No print making or glass experience necessary team collaboration app.  All materials are included in the workshop fee.

‘My current work incorporates both printmaking and glass…One of my fascinations with both mediums is their ability to retain a record of how the piece was created. I tend to approach both processes in an experimental way, letting the properties of the materials suggest and guide the content. Conceptually my work reflects this process of transition – objects in motion, imagery submerged just below the surface, the traces of an explosion. I am interested in examining how evidence is presented, how events are reconstructed.’

Carrie Iverson has brought her vast experience and knowledge of printmaking into the realm of kiln formed glass to create impressive multilayered installations. She has taught her unique printmaking for glass techniques across the world, including Bullseye Glass in Portland, Oregon, where she now lives as well as Scotland’s  North Lands, Creative Glass, GlasForum in Norway and Creative Glass in the UK and Switzerland. In 2014 Carrie will be teaching at Pilchuck in Seattle. Her work can be found in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as private collections and has be exhibited at the Bullseye Gallery (Portland) the Glasmuseum Hentrich (Dusseldorf Germany), Art Santa Fe, the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago), the Chicago Cultural Centre and SOFA ChicagoWatch movie online Get Out (2017)

For more information about Carrie and to see samples of her work, go to her website www.carrieiverson.net

Workshop Dates

Monday 16th -Friday 20th March 2015

Please call the studio on 9375 9810 or email info@artglassstudio.com.au for further information and to secure your place with a $100 deposit.

Silvia Levenson believes her work is an expression of her soul. She uses glass not for its natural beauty, but for its potential as a narrative medium.  Born in Argentina, Silvia has been living in Italy since 1981.  She received the Rakow Commission Award from The Corning Museum of Glass in 2004 and in 2008 she was a shortlisted nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Prize.   Her work has been exhibited around the world and is a part of the collections of The Corning Museum of Glass (United States); New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fè); Fine Art Museum of Houston; Museo Rigaulleau, (Argentina); Musee Atelier de Verre de Sars Poteries (France) and Glas Museum Fraueneau (Germany).

Silvia presents a dark and comic vision of modern life in her kiln-glass sculptures.

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In 1994, when she mounted her first solo gallery show, the reception to the work was immediate and favorable.   Many viewers, familiar with glass only through the Muranese blowing tradition, had never seen kilncast work before. More than a few of them asked Levenson if she had invented the technique.  Looking back, the artist says she believes she happened into her art career at an opportune time, when the art and craft worlds were conspicuously straddling a divide between materiality and conceptualism.  At the time she was—as she continues to be—interested in exploring themes for one- to two-year periods, developing her ideas exhaustively, then moving on to new, but related, topics.

Throughout her explorations she has remained fascinated by the ambiguity of glass: its familiarity among the accoutrements of daily life—mirrors, windows, spectacles, stemware—and simultaneously its sharpness and ability to harm. With an irony that manages to feel more empathetic than smug, she has built a style around an uncanny ability to suggest the danger in beautiful things and the beauty in dangerous things.

The aim of this workshop is experimentation in cast glass, incorporating screen printing and decals as part of a “bigger” project in kiln forming. Students will be lead in making their own images and combining them with open faced moulds in order to experiment mixing forms, textures, images and texts. In five days we will have a survey about how to combine these different techniques. The workshop is oriented to develop new approaches in seeing our own work by exploring innovative ideas and concepts. During the workshop the focus will be on:

• analysing the work of other artists who use transfer images
• transferring images (screen printing, decals at high and low temperature)
• mould making
• casting glass using the open face casting method of production
• firing schedules

Students will make 3 final pieces of work including: one billet cast object incorporating text; one object reproducing textures (examples, baby clothing or leaves) and one solid block using sheet glass and images. All materials are included in the workshop fee.

By taking a thoughtful approach to using the Vitrigraph kiln we can create cane and murrini that rival those created in a hot shop. Capitalisising on the ways glass can be arranged in and flows from a crucible, students in this innovative workshop will learn to create reproducible decorative cans and intricate murrini using he Vitrigraph kiln cloud collaboration. These elements can then, immediately, be used in other kiln-glass projects. Students will need to be able to confidently cut approximately 30 small circles in 3mm glass. Glass cutting is introduced in this workshop but they need to have some experience prior to class.  All materials are provided in this workshop.

Nathan Sandberg was born in Jamestown, New York, USA and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass and Ceramics from the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He has shown work in galleries across the US including, Portland Sate University’s Autzen Gallery and gallery One One in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been represented by Bullseye Gallery at art fairs including, SOFA: Chicago and Art Santa Fe. His work is included in private collections. he worked as an instructor in the Research and Education department at Bullseye Glass Co. for seven years. Since 2012, he has been an independent studio artist, continuing to to make work and teach workshops at private studios in North America and Europe. Please visit www.nathansanberg.com to view more of his work.

The images above are examples of Nathan’s work using this technique and are not necessarily what you will make in the workshop

Workshop Dates

Workshop 1 – Saturday 25th October 2014 – Monday 27th October 2014 

Workshop 2 – Tuesday 28th October 2014 – Thursday 30th October 2014 

Please call the studio on 9375 9810 or email info@artglassstudio.com.au for further information and to secure your place.

In this workshop that focuses on a relatively unexplored form within kiln glass, you will learn to make lidded glass boxes using an assembled mould system. Basic principles of kilncasting in assembled moulds, volume calculation, coldworking and firepolishing will be covered. In the workshop each student will make two kilncast boxes, one with a lid. Due to the unique firing conditions there will be limits to project sizes and thicknesses.

Glass cutting experience necessary, all materials are included in workshop fee.

The images above show samples of the techniques that will be discussed.

Workshop Dates

Monday 20th October 2014 – Thursday 23rd October 2014 

Please call the studio on 9375 9810 or email info@artglassstudio.com.au for further information or to secure your place on this amazing workshop.