Owl Vessels

Use hand-building techniques to make a one of a kind owl vessel that may be used a variety of ways. Participants will use a form to build their vessels and learn how to add details and texture to bring character to their creation.

Projects will be bisque and glazed fired and ready for pickup appropriately 2 weeks after the class.

Ages 15 and up

March 1st 12:00- 2:00

Be Part of a Future Exhibit at the Pop-Up Holocaust Museum

Broadsheets (poster-sized prints) have a long history of use to inform an audience and express the printer’s concerns. You have a chance to join this tradition by printing a thematic broadsheet that will be exhibited at a traveling Holocaust Museum when it comes to Adrian’s Gallery of Shops in March and April. New and experienced printers are welcome.

March 1 (Sunday), 2 – 4 pm

Fused/mosaic Landscape Linda Jacobs, instructor

4 Mondays, March 2, 9, 16, 23,  9-12am

Discover how to combine a fused and slumped landscape, seascape, or cityscape with a scenic mosaic underlying scene. What you end up with is a 3-dimensional beauty to hang on your wall.

$60 materials, provided

Ages 17-up

Beginning Glass Bead Making (three sessions)

Mondays March 2,  9  and 16th. 6-9 pm

Ages: 16 and up

This is a three session class. Make your own glass beads. Basic bead making using a surface mix torch and soda-lime glass rods will be the focus of the class including larger plain beads and creating various bead shapes. Basic design techniques for decorating beads including frit, dots and stringer will be explored. Torch and studio safety will be reviewed. The class will be taught as an open studio that explores topics and techniques based upon the students’ interests with the guidance of the instructor as needed.IMPORTANT: Students taking glass courses must wear natural fiber clothing (i.e., cotton shirt and denim jeans), closed toe shoes and hair tied back and out of the way. Loose clothing that will be in the way of the torch is strongly discouraged.

Materials: $35 included 

Create a keychain or pendent of a cherished logo: sports team, organization, meaningful symbol on a 1.25 inch disk. You will learn beginning jewelry skills (disc cutter, patina, rolling mill, drilling, filing, and sanding) to create beautiful wearable art. Additionally you will be determing emboss or conclave paper art design. 

Tuesday, March 3rd

6 pm to 8 pm 

Ages 13+ 

MOLDED/CAST JEWELRY Linda Jacobs, instructor

2 Thursday in March 5 & 12,  10-1am

Love jewelry? Like to wear it or give it to someone special?  Get stunning results using scrap glass, frit, inclusions, and trim.  Put it all in a mold, fuse it, add a bail and a chain, wire or satin cord, and you are a jeweler! Fun and easy! 

$40 materials included 

Ages 17-up

Marbles Workshop

Sat Mar 7 • 12–3 PM

Description:

Discover the mesmerizing art of marble making! Learn to shape and design colorful marbles using soft glass rods in a creative, relaxing environment. A perfect introduction to one of flameworking’s most magical forms.

Mono-print Plates

Create your very own decorative plate using a reverse painting technique called mono-print. Participants will use colored slips to reverse paint a design that will be transferred onto a plate that you will throw on the wheel. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.

Projects will be bisque and glazed fired and ready for pickup appropriately 2 weeks after the class.

Ages 18 and up

March 7, 12:00-2:00