This intensive flameworking workshop is designed for moderate to advanced students interested in pushing both technique and creative storytelling through highly functional pipe-making. From advanced color preparation to fully realized functional builds, students will explore the relationship between character development and optimal function. The workshop will cover a wide range of techniques like ring seals, multiple styles of color preparation, murrine-making, hollow and solid sculpting, coldworking techniques and introductory latheworking fundamentals. Emphasis will be placed on developing clean construction methods and intentional design choices. A central focus of the workshop is collaborative sculpting and creative problem solving. Students should arrive prepared with a blowhose assembly, sculpting tools and sketchbooks for concept development and design planning. Prior experience with hollow work and functional construction is strongly recommended.

With an emphasis on personal expression, this workshop will encourage students to build the relationship between pattern and form in the hotshop. This workshop will focus on a range of ways to make and apply repeated glass elements and colour additions onto blown forms. We will explore changing the bubble by creating asymmetrical, flattened and sculptural forms. We will draw from the natural surroundings of Pilchuck to create a library of patterns, texture, color combinations and shapes for inspiration. We will use the cold shop to look at how surface treatments like sandblasting and pumicing can integrate layers, soften textures and bring greater emphasis to rhythm and pattern. Idea development and experimentation are a key focus. Students will leave with lots of new ideas and techniques for their future work.

This kiln-formed glass workshop explores sgraffito as a way of drawing with glass powder and depth. Working entirely through fused-glass processes, students will layer frits, powders and enamels, manipulating materials to reveal light, contrast and form. Through a sequence of focused technical exercises, students will develop a working vocabulary of painterly approaches for tonal shading, texture and spatial illusion. Emphasis will be placed on how marks evolve through firing, how imagery shifts optically across layered glass, and how enamels applied at different stages can alter perception. While grounded in process and material exploration, the workshop also introduces narrative as a compositional framework. Students will begin with small technical studies and progress toward a resolved fused composition, integrating layered sgraffito imagery with color, depth and light. The final project will result in a kiln-formed work that functions simultaneously as drawing and glass object, balancing technical precision with expressive mark-making.

This workshop invites students to explore the creative possibilities at the intersection of stone and glass. Through an aesthetic investigation of form and material, the workshop encourages experimentation and pushes the boundaries of combining these two distinct mediums. We will guide students in developing individual project ideas while providing technical support in both disciplines. Students will learn the fundamentals of contemporary stone carving, using angle grinders, progressing from initial material removal to surface finishing and polishing. In the hot shop, they will receive hands-on coaching to develop their glassmaking skills. Bringing stone and glass together will involve creative problem-solving, with participants exploring both hot and cold assembly techniques, depending on the needs of their projects.

Join Guest Artist Ben Beres for an experimental deep dive into printmaking, paper and pattern. Expanding beyond traditional print processes, this workshop explores vitreography, using glass plates alongside natural paper dyeing techniques, Turkish Ebru marbling and Japanese Suminagashi ink marbling. Students will experiment with paper preparation, repetition and chance through processes, including sandblasting, mechanical etching, blind embossing, natural pigments, floating inks and layered paper treatments. From bold graphic pulls to fluid marbled forms, students will create richly textured works while exploring the intersection of printmaking, craft and contemporary art practice. Open to all experience levels, this workshop encourages curiosity, play and material experimentation.