GLASS

GLASSBLOWING

with Yashodhar Reddy & Will Hutchinson

SCULPTURE | 681 001 | 3 CREDITS $350 LAB FEE | JUNE 11 - 24

This course will cover the fundamentals of glassblowing and is designed to develop a student’s foundational knowledge and skill upon which more advanced ideas can be built. Students will learn to gather hot glass out of the furnace and how to manipulate it with a variety of tools and techniques in both the hot shop and the cold shop. Productive practices including working as a team, timing and choreography, and using natural elements to execute ideas will be demonstrated. This course may include readings from Ed Schmidt’s Beginning Glassblowing and a screening of Glassmakers of Herat. We will investigate glassblowing from a historical approach and look at objects from different periods in history, including works made by Pino Signoretto, Bill Gudenrath, and Karen Willinbrink-Johnsen. Assignments will range from functional cup making, executing complex abstractions, and methods for coloring and patterning. This course will culminate in the completion of a student designed sculpture or installation to be exhibited in the hot shop.

STRIPES: INTRODUCTION TO CANE MAKING

with Matt Urban

SCULPTURE | 679 001 | 3 CREDITS $175 LAB FEE | JUNE 25 - JULY 1

In addition to being one of the most stunning techniques for working with color, cane production is a useful tool in understanding the natural properties of glass in a molten state. In this course, students will learn the cane making process in the hot shop and explore how this visual element operates between geometry and elegance. We will start with basic techniques of pulling long ropes of multi-colored cane and build towards elaborate compositions. As a group, we will discuss our successes and failures in service on a deeper understanding of the medium and will study historical examples. Demonstrations will lead students through helpful methods for keeping their cane making on track, and how to apply it to their glass projects. Students will maintain a sketchbook for their ideas and this course will culminate in an exciting display of finished pieces.

FLAMEWORKING: FINDING FORM IN TRANSLATION

with Carmen Lozar

SCULPTURE | 649 001 | 3 CREDITS $175 LAB FEE | JUNE 25 - JULY 1

This class is an introduction to working and thinking with glass. Focused on contextualizing flameworking within contemporary sculpture, this workshop is ideal for artists crossing over from other disciplines who would like to translate their ideas into glass. The goal of the class is to complete two finished sculptures, which are both structurally sound and conceptually tight. Blending traditional and unconventional flameworking techniques, students are encouraged to explore the material and expand their artistic vocabulary. We will consider the material qualities of glass in the context of drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance. Students can use glass as an opportunity to connect materiality to related disciplines such as literature, psychology, optics, poetry, and architecture. The coursework will include a combination of technical exercises designed to improve hand skills, contextual presentations, and group critique.

(clockwise from top left) 1. Yashodhar Reddy, Pink Vases and Cups, 2021, glass, 3 x 12 in. (tallest), 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (widest); 2. Liesl Schubel, The Moon Grounded (Patti), 2018, glass and rooster wings, 6 in. round; 3. Carmen Lozar, Oil Spill, 2018, glass and mixed media, 5 3/4 x 13 x 15 in.; 4. Matthew Urban, Fancy cups, 2022, glass, 20 in. tall; 5. Will Hutchinson, jar, 2022, blown glass

QUEER METHODS IN GLASS & PRINT

with H. Schenck & Liesl Schubel

SCULPTURE & PRINT | 680 001 3 CREDITS | $350 LAB FEE JULY 10 - 22

This cross-disciplinary course will be hosted in both the print studio and glassblowing studio and encourages experimental making processes that blur image, language, and sculpture. Taking inspiration from printmaking’s origins in published activism, and glassblowing’s inherent denial of binaries as an amorphous solid, students will self-innovate the basic principles of each process, dissolving the boundary between media, to create a collection of objects and images with glass. Students will learn the process of vitreography, a technique for fixing an image within a sheet of float glass to create an impression on paper. In the glass studio, foundational glassblowing skills will lead to more complex shapes, including rondels and cylinders for custom flat glass, and more flowing, unusual forms. We will consider artists who generate language and instigate play, including Anna Mlasowsky, Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez, and Elizabeth Atterbury, while reading “Daybook” by Anne Truit and “Learning to Love You More” by Miranda July. We will also host/ discuss screenings about Jes Fan and Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. To maximize cross-studio collaboration, students enrolled in this course will alternate back and forth between the printmaking and glass spaces. In addition to vitreography exercises, assignments will include pyrographic drawings and glass capsules and the course will culminate with salonstyle installations of created and found objects.

MULTI-LEVEL GLASSBLOWING

with Minhi England & Bri Chesler

SCULPTURE | 641 001 | 1.5 CREDITS $175 LAB FEE | JULY 23 - 29

A hands-on studio workshop for those with some glassblowing experience. Students will learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, demonstrations, videos, and critiques will augment studio instruction.

THE DINNER PARTY

with Corey Pemberton

SCULPTURE | 676 001 | 3 CREDITS $350 LAB FEE | JULY 30 - AUGUST 12

There’s nothing more satisfying than eating and drinking from handmade wares with friends. This course, open to students of all levels, will focus on establishing a strong foundation in form and function in service of manipulating molten glass into items for a communal table setting. We will learn the processes involved in making objects including drinkware, pitchers, serving bowls, plates, and candlesticks and consider the works of Judy Chicago, Beth Lipman, and Joe Cariati. Underscoring the social nature of the glassblowing process in the studio, our objective will be to create a tablescape to use for a social mixer at the end of the class, bringing everyone together to celebrate one another’s hard work and individuality. Students need only bring a good attitude, an open mind, and a hunger to learn!

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From The Studio to the Table a story about Corey Pemberton's first-time teaching at Ox-Bow.

LIGHT(NING) IN A BOTTLE

with Lucy Gillis

SCULPTURE | 682 001 | 3 CREDITS $350 LAB FEE | AUGUST 13 - 26

In this course we will observe an experimental approach to glass making and emphasize its singular, magical effects on natural and artificial light as well as its uses in photography. We will make solid and hollow forms in the hot shop, including basic lenses and spheres or marbles, considering how the finished objects will interact with light. Further manipulation of these objects in the studio through cold processes such as low tech “mirroring,” cutting, and layering will also be explored. We will take inspiration from artists working with striking light and color glassworks including Hank Adams, Mark Dion, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Yayoi Kusama. Using our glass objects, along with other translucent and foraged items, we will create unique cyanotypes. While this course will be grounded by the ephemeral existence of light, we will conclude with a collection and presentation of glass objects and unique cyanotypes, as well as an expanded understanding of glass and its power in art.