We will use Pilchuck Glass School’s natural environment as a reference to create vitreograph plates to be sent through a press and printed on printmaking paper. Students will leave with a portfolio of Pacific Northwest- themed fine art prints - inked by hand and printed using an etching press - and a new way of thinking about glass as a matrix.

This workshop will cover basic glassmaking skills from gathering out of the furnace, shaping on the marver, to working with a team at the bench. Students can expect to learn how to use tools, equipment and safety to create solid shapes, bubbles, vessels, and many other basic glass techniques. This workshop will teach students how to work together.

Focusing on kiln-formed glass slumping, students will learn several prop-making techniques to achieve free-flowing sculptures in multiple firings. Encouraging inventive combinations, prop set-ups include slip-cast ceramic, hardened blanket, wire, and kiln furniture to guide glass into spontaneous, energetic forms. The course will also explore the art of installation by mixing glass with other materials and responding to the environment.

At a time when much of our built environment is mass-produced, an original work gives a space true character. This class will cover aspects of design, pricing, and installing your work as you create a challenging leaded glass project. Ted will illuminate technical aspects of creating larger panels along with the fine craft techniques that will set your work apart.

In this course students can expect to receive an introduction to the engraving lathe with a secondary focus on how wheel cutting can relate to flameworking processes. This will be a primarily technical class. Students can expect to improve their engraving hand-skills with proficiency-building exercises. Objects made on the torch will be engraved, then manipulated again in the flame.