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Intro to Boro Pendants: Feathers

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Intro to Boro Pendants: Feathers

Intro to Boro Pendants: Feathers

Join us for this 24 hours Event Every year we invite our community, partners and end-users to come and meet us! It's the ideal event to get together and present new features, roadm

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Learn to take your torchworking skills from the spherical to flat sculpted objects in this class where you'll focus on making feathers. 

If you've taken an introductory bead or marbles class and would like to know how to manipulate your glass in non-spherical forms, this is a great introduction to making and manipulating flat shapes. You’ll work with borosilicate glass and learn ways to add low-relief surface detail, how to transition between more than one color for an ombre effect, and practice adding bails if you’d like to be able to hang your feathers.

You'll make a handful of plumage that you can use in jewelry or as ornaments and learn skills that are transferable to sculpting other flat objects like leaves without specialty mashers.

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Skill level: This is a beginner friendly course (more advanced students are welcome, too) but you need to have some experience melting and forming soft glass or borosilicate at the torch. See "Prerequisites" below.

Details

A $25 materials fee, included in the price of the class, covers everything you need.

Prerequisites

An introductory course like Beadmaking Experience or Introduction to Torchwork: Borosilicate Marbles are ideal preparation for this class.

Class Policies

  • Ages 14 and up are welcome.
  • Wear long-sleeve shirts and long pants of natural fibers. Wear closed-toe shoes (preferably leather or cotton). Stretch fabrics are prohibited.
Instructor
Laura Arns

Although she's a computer scientist by day, Laura Arns has been working with glass in various ways for more than 20 years during her free time. As a lampworker, she is somewhat unusual because she hasn't specialized but instead works with both borosilicate and soft glass to create beads, marbles, blown ornaments, sculptures, goblets, and more. She particularly enjoys collaborative projects with artists and artisans who work in other mediums. Over the years, she's had the opportunity to learn from numerous well-known lampworkers. A former college professor, she's looking forward to more teaching in BARN's Glass Arts Studio.

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