Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts

Tuesday July 20, 2021 – 10am – 4pm $295.00 Max 6 Students.

This is an intermediate class. Soft Glass Marbles.
Prerequisite: Beginning Beads or approval by the instructor.
Move off the mandrel and learn how to make marbles with soft glass. We will be pulling stringers, making ‘twisties’, putting flowers inside glass marbles, and making old school cats-eye style marbles while having fun melting and shaping glass in marbles! This class uses the same techniques used in borosilicate but with the added benefit of better color selection and less heat needed to create these beautiful round masterpieces.

Supplies (supplied by Student): Favorite glass tools, marble mold/s. Materials provided by Cascadia Arts Center.: Complete Flameworking studio, annealing kilns, glass for class only.

Bring a lunch to eat at the studio, or restaurants located in the village. Full refrigerator and kitchen, bathroom at Raven Studio.
If you cannot be present the next day for marble pick up … arrangements can be made to mail them to you.

Bronwen Heilman is a full-time studio artist, flame-work glass instructor and the Director of the flameworking studio at Sonoran Glass School in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has been exhibited and received awards in numerous juried exhibitions. She is a recipient of the International Glass Bead Society Presidents Award, first place in soft marble competition, and others. Her work is published in 1000 Glass Beads, 500 Beaded Objects, Contemporary Lampworking, Glass Bead Masters, Bronwen Heilman: Vitreous Painting Techniques for Glass Beadmaking among others. Her most recent exhibition was “Lifeforms: The 2nd Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka Glass Biological Model Exhibition” in Corning, New York.

Sunday August 22, 2021 – Sunday August 29, 2021. Arrive by 5pm – Class 9:30am – 6:30pm each day. $2000.00. Max 10 Students

Students will leave with: 2 completed landscape projects, a combing, yard art and a number of elements.

The experienced and versatile group of instructors will lead you through 6 1/2 days of a creative, immersive experience. The instructors have a variety of skills and years of working successfully as instructors together.

A variety of techniques will be framed by problem solving in your second landscape project. The techniques you learn will translate to future projects that you complete at home. Expect this process to change the way you approach your glass work.

This class will be a mixture of direct instruction, individual mentorship and open individual creative studio time. Day and night opportunities…even evening open studio time is available. The classroom is a well stocked and equipped learning environment.

Lunches, coffee, tea and snacks will be provided.

Saturday August 14, 2021 – 10am – 4pm $220.00 Max 6 Students.

Learn some blacksmithing fundamentals from Joe Vachon, the Season 6, Episode 27, Forged In Fire Champion, in this 1 day, hands on coarse. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.  Students will start out practicing the basics with the forging of a few decorative hooks for the first half of the class.  After lunch, folks are welcome to create something of their choosing with their new found skill-set, such as (but not limited to) a fire poker, meat turner, bottle opener, letter opener, necklace pendent, or an experimental piece. One hour lunch break.

Note about what to wear – Wear cotton pants and shirt (synthetics are flammable!).  Make sure your pants fit over the tops of your boots so nothing hot can fall in.  Safety glasses and ear plugs are available, or bring your own.  Bringing your own leather gloves can be a good idea.  Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated.