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Unleash your creativity and learn the art of glass blowing with a variety of classes offered in NYC. Discover mesmerizing techniques, create beautiful glass pieces, and gain a new skill that will leave you feeling accomplished and inspired.

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Glass 3: Puff and Pour

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Explore the combination of two glass-making methods: casting and blowing. Abandoning the limitations of  tradition, we will pour glass onto the marver, into sand, and directly onto and into blown glass.  We will also flip the tables and blow glass into and onto castings of various sorts.  Students will learn to marry these two processes together and through experimentation and unorthodox techniques begin to develop their own unique...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
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$780

6 sessions

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Glass Boot Camp: An Introduction to Glassblowing

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Get ready to sweat the small stuff in Glass Boot Camp. This introductory course in glass working will thoroughly train young students in the fundamentals of proper technique in both the hot shop and cold working processes.  A thorough, two-day regime will sharpen skills in tool dexterity, equipment usage and material prowess with professional demonstrations, hands-on practice and a healthy dose of teamwork. Instruction and exercises will provide...

(54) Beginner 13 and older
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$450

2 sessions

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Family Camp! Disco Inferno: Intro to Glassblowing

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will introduce students to the hot shop and glassblowing. Students will learn hot shop basics and work in teams to create several projects including paperweights, flowers, and bowls. Emphasis will be on hot shop safety, teamwork, and FUN!  The perfect class for anyone who wants to try out the material and have an unforgettable creative experience!

(54) Beginner 11 - 18 years old
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$450

2 sessions

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Vincent Van Blow

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This bi-weekly course is designed to improve and motivate your glass blowing practice. Over the course of this class, students will work closely with hand drawn designs and attempt to execute them on the blow pipe. All demos and techniques covered in class will be based on the drawings of the students.  Students will learn how to solve technical problems, while honing their glassblowing and design skills. How much perseverance and determination...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
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$800

11 sessions

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Layer Up: Glass Lamination

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Layers are not only the answer for cold seasons, they also have their merits in working with glass. Just like in fashion, when several layers of light clothing give us more options to face the elements and express our personal aesthetics, laminating layers of glass enriches one's artistic palette and expands technical vocabulary. This class will cover the technical steps of the process of glass lamination. As we explore how to design for a particular...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$400

2 sessions

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Glass and Flora

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this class we’ll explore the practical relationship between form and function as we fabricate vessels to showcase a variety of floral arrangements. This weekend workshop will devote the first day to work in the hot shop where we will focus on designing vases that will lend themselves well to displaying flower designs. After a brief intro into kinds and principals of floral design on Saturday, we will spend time Sunday learning basic flower preparation...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$500

2 sessions

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Workin’ for the Weekend

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

We know you work hard all week long and you deserve the best opportunity to get the most out of your weekend hot shop time! This class will focus on improving your glass-making skills, ability to work and lead a team, and help you further develop your own personal goals in glass-making. This intensive glassblowing class will encourage students to participate in helping each other make the best work we can, together!  Bring your sketchbook...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$550

4 sessions

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Holiday Stained Glass

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Create a small holiday-themed object to decorate your home or as a lovely gift. During this two-day class, students can take inspiration from templates of holiday symbols and shapes or bring their own ideas to class. Create a snowman, snowflake, star, tree, or a three-dimensional hanging object to brighten your world this holiday season.

(54) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$400

2 sessions

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Kung Fu Hue

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This introductory class focuses on experimental processes, using glass color in the hot shop. Before students begin experimenting and developing new and innovative color applications, they will first need a basic foundation of skills to work with. Once students have acquired these basic skills, they will begin to deconstruct traditional methods of applying glass color and begin to express themselves with entirely unique processes developed in class. ...

(54) Beginner 11 and older
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$460

2 sessions

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Hot Glass Color Experiments

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Designed for students of all ages, this introductory weekend glassblowing class focuses on experimental processes and using glass color in the hotshop. Class will start with basic hotshop skills, which students can use as a jumping off point to begin experimenting and developing new and innovative color applications. Students will be encouraged to deconstruct traditional methods of applying glass color and express themselves with entirely unique...

(54) Beginner 12 and older
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$460

2 sessions

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True Grit: Harness Your Coldworking Skills

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Open up new possibilities in glassworking or refine the skills needed to finish existing glass pieces in this four-week introductory coldworking course.  Classes will cover carving, cutting, sandblasting, and polishing glass, and provide insight into the equipment and processes of the cold shop. Students can incorporate these techniques into their own artistic practices in a myriad of ways, from removing the punty on a blown piece, to carving...

(54) All levels 18 and older
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$400

4 sessions

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Making Museums Accessible to All

The Jewish Museum @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Learn about ways that the Jewish Museum welcomes students with learning differences through partnerships with special education schools and programs designed for students with a range of disabilities. Included is a visit to the Museum’s galleries and hands-on art activities in the art studio, where Jewish Museum educators will model techniques for engaging special education students. Price includes light refreshments

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Next Steps: Folding Fun

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will focus on interior and exterior folds: a technique in which, in the process of blowing, the glass is strategically folded on itself to produce a ring. This ring can be on the inside or the outside of the vessel. Folds can have practical or aesthetic value and can be incorporated into a design in a variety of ways. They can be used to produce a rim for a lid, or reinforce the lip of a vessel by doubling it over. Some historians refer...

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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Next Steps: Stuff Cups

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

The “cup” shape is much more than the container we think it is. It is also one of the building blocks for many color processes. Spend a weekend brushing up on stuffed cups, incalmo technique, and supios.  Over two days we will look at color overlays and color efficiency, how to use the garage, and how to stack, stuff, and split cups.  Previous glassblowing experience required.

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
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$560

2 sessions

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Back to the Drawing Board

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

As craftspeople, whether the intention is to be a studio artist, production glass maker, or fabricating your own design objects, the skills of communication and bringing 2D concepts into the 3rd dimension are integral to success. This class will cover design basics and the tools necessary to illustrate ideas, making them clear to both yourself and your potential “client”. Hand drawing, simple schematics, scale drawings, and the use of calipers...

(54) Intermediate 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$890

5 sessions

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Intermediate Glassblowing : A Cup of Many Colors

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

In this intermediate hot shop class we will explore the world of glass color. Using frit, bar and powders students will learn foundational color applications such as bar overlays and can expect to learn some wild and wacky color techniques as well. What to Expect: Students should have a foundational knowledge of blown glass and are expected to have made basic blown forms in the past. This class is a color class and will ONLY use the cylinder form...

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$815

6 sessions

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Upcycled Beads

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

This workshop will teach students how to recycle glass using basic flameworking skills, and transform it into their own upcycled glass beads for jewelry and crafts. We will use collected glass - from recycling to thrifted pieces - and transform the found glass into cane (rods) to use as our main material. We will then use those rods to create beads. Join in for this fun and transformative process! What to Expect: The class will start with an introduction...

(54) All levels 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$415

2 sessions

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Solo-blowing: Glassblowing without Friends

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Learn to work on your own in this class designed for advanced beginners and intermediate students who wish to become independent in the hot shop. Demonstrations and exercises will focus on strategies to blow simple forms efficiently, drills to practice hand and body coordination, and challenges to speed up the learning process. The use of a blow hose will be introduced and students will leave with a new set of skills that will enable them to come...

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
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$575

2 sessions

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Intermediate Neon: Block Lettering

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Master the art of bending block letters and create your own neon signs in this six-week class at UrbanGlass. Learn advanced techniques and gain the confidence to work independently on advanced projects. Ages 14 and up with previous neon bending experience are welcome.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$810

7 sessions

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MIRRORWORLD: Imperfect Practices in Neon & Reflection

UrbanGlass @ 647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the art of mirror-making and neon bending in this hands-on intensive. Unleash your creativity as you learn to coat glass with silver nitrate to create unique mirrors, and then shape neon into freeform designs. Explore the imperfect beauty of reflection and gain inspiration from contemporary and historic works of art.

(54) Intermediate 14 and older
No upcoming schedules
$795

3 sessions

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