Hot Shop
Hot Shop
Hot Shop Classes
The Hot Shop runs three types of programming: two 10-week semester glass blowing courses, on-demand glassblowing classes, and make your own experiences.
Gain the skills needed to craft, shape, color, and design various artistic projects including bowls, vases, cylinders, and paperweights. You will begin by taking the Introduction Series classes and then take courses from our Novice Series classes. After taking a minimum of two Novice classes, you will move on to more complex techniques taught in our Intermediate Series classes. Students receive personalized attention and can work at their own pace. Our instructors are adept at customizing lessons to best serve the student.
Introduction to Glass Blowing
Intro I: Gathering & Making Paper Weights
Intro II: Making a Bubble & a Basic Shape
Start with an overview of equipment, shop movement, shop safety, and shop etiquette. Learn the properties of hot glass, how to gather out of the 2,000 degree furnace and how to blow bubbles into hot glass. Also, learn to be a good partner/assistant which is an integral skill for working successfully in a hot shop.
Novice Glass Blowing (Requires completion of Intro I & II or instructor permission)
NS: Brilliant Bowls
NS: Bubbles in Paper Weights
NS: Cones, Vases & Gravity
NS: Creative Cups
NS: Optic Mold Paper Weights
NS: Original Ornaments
NS: Picking Up Cane for Paper Weights
NS: Solid Sculpture
NS: Soulful Cylinders
Intermediate Glass Blowing (Requires completion of at least two novice classes or instructor permission)
IS: Cane Pulling
IS: Color Bar Trails & Optic Molds
IS: Figure Sculpture
IS: Goblets
IS: Using Color Bar
Advanced Glass Blowing (Click Here for more information)
Color is not included but available for purchase.
Wear closed toe shoes and non-synthetic clothing.
Must be 16+ years old to take glassblowing series classes.
Hot Shop Equipment
Our Hot Shop features a 400 pound Hub furnace, four glory holes of varying sizes, three large kilns, a roll up kiln, a Paragon color box, and three work benches. This studio is available for rental.