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Unleash your creativity and learn the art of glass blowing with a variety of classes offered in NYC. Discover mesmerizing techniques, create beautiful glass pieces, and gain a new skill that will leave you feeling accomplished and inspired.

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MIRRORWORLD: Imperfect Practices in Neon & Reflection

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the art of mirror-making and neon bending in this hands-on intensive. Unleash your creativity as you learn to coat glass with silver nitrate to create unique mirrors, and then shape neon into freeform designs. Explore the imperfect beauty of reflection and gain inspiration from contemporary and historic works of art.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
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$795

3 sessions

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Get Sticky with Grace Whiteside

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class is a 5 day glassblowing intensive, students will design and produce their own line of unique alternative glass products. We will work through initial sketches, efficient production strategies, and marketing/pricing concepts as we Get Sticky with all aspects of product development but with a conceptual twist… Students will get hands-on experience with prototyping sessions guided by Grace Whiteside and the Sticky Glass team and will work...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,150

5 sessions

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Form and Color: Intermediate Glassblowing

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the art of intermediate glassblowing as you explore the magic of form and color in this hands-on class at UrbanGlass. Learn essential techniques, such as blowing glass smoothly and efficiently, and master basic color applications. With a combination of demos and practice time, you'll gain the skills needed to create stunning glass pieces.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
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$825

6 sessions

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Intermediate Glassblowing - Intro to Goblets

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Take your glassblowing skills to the next level with UrbanGlass' hands-on course. Join us for a week of intensive practice as we explore techniques for efficiently blowing thin glass and creating stunning goblets. Previous experience required.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$825

36 sessions

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Let’s Focus: Shapes, Textures, Hollows, Metals

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Join instructor Sheila Checkoway in this hands-on workshop at UrbanGlass as she guides you through soft glass manipulation, including surface texture application, hollow glass bead making, and the use of copper and silver foils for unique finishes. Perfect for those with bead-making experience looking to enhance their skills and create stunning glass beads.

(54) Advanced 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$650

3 sessions

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Leveling Up: Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Bottle

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Perfect your glassblowing skills and create fundamental glass forms in this dynamic workshop. Join us as we dive deeper into shaping methods, temperature control, and working time. Take your skills to the next level with this intermediate-level class.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
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$875

6 sessions

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Principles of Borosilicate

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this weekend workshop, students with some experience at the torch will explore the vessel using borosilicate glass. Those new to hollow forms will start with simple bubbles and pulling points while more advanced students will work to refine their skills making footed cups and larger vessels. From proper bubble set-up to defining an order of operations, as a class we will take a close look at our process to maximize efficiency and ensure that...

(54) Beginner 18 and older
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$325

2 sessions

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Levels Up with Implosions

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Have you ever wondered how flowers get inside glass pendants and marbles? In this weekend class, we will explore implosions, one of the most fun and addictive of all flameworking techniques. The implosion process involves using heat, gravity and optics to transform a flat pattern into a three-dimensional one. Students will use glass stringers and frit to create gorgeous pendants, marbles, and miniature paperweights of their own designs. The design...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$335

2 sessions

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Simple Mold Making for Jewelry

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

It’s simple and easy to make your own molds for glass jewelry. Cuttlefish bones, such as the ones you see in birdcages, are soft and easy to carve. They are perfect for making small pendants, pieces for bracelets, necklaces, earrings and brooches. Molds can be filled with large and small glass  frit and powders, as well as small inclusions like fine gauge wire, millefiori and metal foil. Students should come prepared with simple drawings that...

(54) Beginner 18 and older
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$375

2 sessions

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Glass and Fiber: The Perfect Match

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the flexibility and whimsy of thread and fabric as the connective tissue in glass jewelry and sculptures. Through hands-on demos and classroom exercises, learn how the chain stitch, common to crochet and embroidery, can be a strong, alluring base or ne(s)t for glass beads and found objects. Master a vocabulary of embroidery stitches and techniques to manipulate fabric, glass beads and found objects into cohesive sculptures, including small...

(54) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$395
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Introduction to Kilnforming Weekend Workshop

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this fun two-day class, you will learn the skills to make items like plates, coasters, wall sconces, and jewelry elements; this and more is possible when working with kilnformed glass. The workshop will introduce students to the fundamentals of kilnforming – glass cutting, fusing and slumping. Students will work with flat glass, crushed glass, stringers and rods, as well as metal inclusions, to make finished pieces. Experimentation is highly...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$350

2 sessions

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Chop Shop: Making Cold Creations Using Simple Bubbles

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

The cold shop is often considered a place to remove punties and straighten vases, but it can be a place where a basic object can be cut apart and reassembled to make entirely new creations. It is a place where we can create sharp crisp facets and various textures that can change both the look and feel of a piece of glass. During this class we will be looking at alternate ways to make work out of multiple pieces of glass by using just cold techniques. ...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$350

2 sessions

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Trash to Treasure: Upcycling Techniques in Glass

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this workshop we will use basic glass techniques to rethinking and redesign common glass into new possibilities. Each of the four sessions will rotate to a different studio method to find experimental and utilitarian solutions to our recycling.  We will explore the cold shop to learn simple ways of cutting glass and adding pattern and texture. As well as the kiln and flame studio to re-melt found glass and collage imagery with drawing. We...

(54) All levels 13 and older
No upcoming schedules
$300

4 sessions

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Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bead

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for a weekend workshop creating beads that are all about spring! Make flower inspired beads, bumble beads, and more!  In this course, students will learn the key fundamentals of flameworking soft glass beads. Starting with basic safety and glass knowledge, students will learn how to heat and form glass around steel mandrels to create their very own glass beads.  Open to all ages 11 and up, 9 with guardian, all skill levels welcome....

(54) Beginner 9 and older
No upcoming schedules
$395

2 sessions

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Father's Day Glassblowing

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Come experiment with hot molten glass in this one day Father’s Day workshop! Students will work in teams to learn beginning glassblowing techniques and help each other create handmade objects to take home.  Sign up on your own, or with dad for a special shared experience!  Open to all ages 11 and up, 10 with parent/caregiver.

(54) All levels 10 and older
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$300
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Sandcasting

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this one day workshop students will get an introduction to hot casting glass using Zircar Mold Mix molds. Pouring hot glass into molds in the hot shop allows artists to create unique solid glass objects. Zircar Mold Mix 6 is a high temperature ceramic mold material used to make light-weight, strong, reusable mold for glass casting and blowing. During this workshop students will make several reusable molds using Zircar Mold Mix 6. These molds...

(54) All levels 14 and older
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$335
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Trash sMash-Up

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Jump into this fun packed weekend of making and recycling with your loved one. This class is designed for all ages.  Everyone is encouraged to bring in glass trash to be transformed into anything from unique pieces of jewelry, wind chime, drinking glass, cheese tray or container for your plants and herbs.  During this workshop, students will learn how to enamel, drill holes, cut and melt glass. Use your imagination and repurpose waste to...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$250

2 sessions

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Production Cold Working

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

An overview of production coldworking techniques. This class will give students the foundations to tackle multiples in the cold shop with an eye towards efficiency. We will cover the gamut in the cold shop from torch pop to final polish and drilling holes. All experience levels are welcome.  Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, there are no makeups allowed. Q: Is a certificate of completion available to me...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$395

4 sessions

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The Nature of Glass

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Experience glass in its purest, viscous form with this introduction to the basics of glassblowing. Students will learn hand and body skills to move fluidly with the material, gather molten glass out of the furnace and shape it using heat, gravity and glassblowing tools.  This workshop will focus on paying close attention to the movement of hot glass to be able to understand the nuances of the material. We will work on setting up the right environment...

(54) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$295
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Glass and Fiber: Webs, Nests, Interconnections

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this 2-session intensive, learn how textile techniques (chain stitch embroidery; single stitch and chain stitch crochet) can compliment glass beads structurally and aesthetically. Play with color, form and texture through these seemingly disparate yet well paired media.  Learn how to combine these materials seamlessly, adding to your existing jewelry, sculpture or design projects and vocabulary. No prior experience with glass or textiles...

(54) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$295

2 sessions

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