Do the Shimmer Nighttime Edition – Adding Irids to Your Glass

May 14, 15 & 16 – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday – 6:30pm to 9:30pm – FULL

Ready to try something new with your glass? Blastit, carvit, cracklit, flipit, contourit, checkerboardit, capit and more. Those are just some of the techniques you’ll learn in this workshop with iridized glasses. You’ll make 9 different and unique 6″x6″ irid glass lay-ups and a 9" bowl that you will also slump to use as both reference and functional pieces. See the DETAILS.

Double – Double Spring Time Vitrigraph
2 Vitrigraph Kilns – 2 Toned Colors in Each Pot at the Same Time!

May 18, 2013 – Saturday – 10am to 5pm – A FEAT NEVER DONE BEFORE IN A WORKSHOP!

We are firing up two Vitrigraph kilns – one full of two different Spring Greens and the other full of two different Turquoise Blues of Bullseye Glass making two toned glass stringers. After pulling all sorts of stringer shapes including springs and curlicue’s, you’ll spend the rest of the day building three different cool soft edged Spring Time platters using the glass you just pulled. See the DETAILS.

EZ-DO Drops
all the Beauty without the Fuss or He-man Equipment

May 22, 23 & 24 – Wed, Thu & Fri – 10am to 3pm – FULL

We are going to teach you how to make 2 uniquely beautiful and awesome Kiln Formed Glass drop vessels WITHOUT ALL THE USUAL STUDLY EQUIPMENT required. We’ll show you how to use an off the shelf drop ring and also how to create your own drop ring from readily available materials. So just using a kiln and at most a sanding pad, you will learn how to create some stunning visual as well as functional pieces. You will also receive two stands to take home to display your fine works.  See the DETAILS.

en Relief
Large Scale Kiln Carving in Irids

May 29 & 31 – Wed & Fri – 10am to 5pm – ANOTHER 1ST TIME EVER AT HOT GLASS HOUSTON

Kiln carving, the use of ceramic fiber under glass with heat, creates detailed bas relief textures. Do this on an iridized glass surface and the lights sparkle across the textures with even more boldness. You’ll create a series of test tiles using several kiln carving techniques before creating a larger scale art piece. You will also learn a simple and affordable technique to wall mount larger pieces with readily available materials See the DETAILS.

CASTING FABRIC in GLASS with Lisa Becker

Bullseye Glass Featured Award Winning Artist

June 28, 29 & 30, 2013 – Fri thru Sun – 10am to 5pm daily - ONLY ONE SPOT STILL OPEN

Join us with Bullseye Glass featured award winning artist, Lisa Becker, who will guide you through the unique and creative processes of permanently preserving articles of clothing & fabrics by casting them in glass. You will create two cast pieces in the workshop – a positive casting of fabric & a fragment study in relief casting. Check out page 29 of the Bullseye Glass Catalog to learn more about Lisa & her creative works. See the DETAILS.

Mark Your Calendar – Call or Stay Tuned for More Details

The Imperfect Vessel – Coming very soon!
Limited to only 4 students, you will have access to Bullseye glasses in all forms in which experimentation will be the means to achieve your own unique piece. In this multi-day workshop, students will explore design considerations from class examples and fire pieces 6 or more times to achieve a deeply slumped vessel made possible by Bullseye’s newly available step molds. Focus is on the appeal of the organic flow of your glass where both you and the glass decide on the final planned or surprising outcome. Due to the unique experimental and personally customized focus of this workshop, students will start out together but most likely complete their projects at different end dates. This should be both a challenging and exciting experience for an adventuresome few.

Visualizations in Glass with Guest Artist Michael Janis
July 12, 13 & 14, 2013
See Michael’s work in the ART ALLIANCE FOR CONTEMPORARY GLASS

The Imagery of Light on Glass – Printing & Images on Glass with Tony Glander
August 10, 11 & 12, 2013
See Tony’s works at Fitzpatrick Glass Studios

Kiln Casting with Silva Levenson
September 26, 27, 28 & 29, 2013
See Silvia’s works at http://www.silvialevenson.com/

Vitrigraph Cane & Murrini
with Nathan Sandberg
October 5, 6, 7 & 8, 2013
See Nathan’s works at http://www.nathansandberg.com/

Layered Assemblage with Martha Pfanschmidt
November 1, 2, 3 & 4, 2013
See Martha’s works at http://www.pfanschmidt.com/

The Vessel – Pate de Verre with Deborah Horrell
November 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15, 2013
See Deborah’s works at http://www.deborahhorrell.com/

Realism to Abstraction: Breaking Down and Zooming In with Kari Minnick
December 6, 7, 8 & 9, 2013
See Kari’s works at http://www.kariminnick.com/