Two exciting opportunities for winter 2025!
"TUMBLERS, CYLINDERS, BOWLS, AND BOTTLES"
w/ Lisa Zerkowitz and Boyd Sugiki
4 DAY INTENSIVE
MARCH 1st - MARCH 4th 2025
9am-5pm
COST: $750
In this class the objectives will be to build a solid foundation, refine skills, work more efficiently, and establish an understanding of how working on a small scale can translate into larger works. You will work in clear glass, focusing on basic forms such as the tumbler, cylinder, bowl and bottle moving methodically from one shape to the next. Instruction will be personalized to build on individual skills, and one-on-one time will be given to help find simple solutions to common struggles.
w/ Lisa Zerkowitz and Boyd Sugiki
4 DAY INTENSIVE
MARCH 1st - MARCH 4th 2025
9am-5pm
COST: $750
In this class the objectives will be to build a solid foundation, refine skills, work more efficiently, and establish an understanding of how working on a small scale can translate into larger works. You will work in clear glass, focusing on basic forms such as the tumbler, cylinder, bowl and bottle moving methodically from one shape to the next. Instruction will be personalized to build on individual skills, and one-on-one time will be given to help find simple solutions to common struggles.
ABOUT LISA AND BOYD: Boyd Sugiki and Lisa Zerkowitz began blowing glass together at Rhode Island School of Design in 1995, where Sugiki earned his MFA in Glass and Zerkowitz her MA in Art Education. Sugiki was first introduced to glass at Punahou High School in Honolulu, HI and went on to earn a BFA from California College of the Arts. Zerkowitz earned a BA in Studio Art from University of California, Santa Barbara. Together they own a studio in Seattle where they design and produce a line of studio glass collaboratively under the name Two Tone Studios. They have taught workshops and completed residencies at institutions such as The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. They have lectured and demonstrated at Universities throughout the US and Japan, as well as in Korea, Australia, Ireland, Turkey, and Finland. In 2020 they relocated to Toyama, Japan, where Sugiki took on a 4-year temporary contract of Associate Professor of Hot Glass at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art.
"STAMPS MADE BY GLASS ARTISTS, FOR GLASS ARTISTS"
w/ Sam Meketon
3 DAY INTENSIVE
JANUARY 20th - JANUARY 22nd 2025
9am-5pm
COST: $550
In this class students will have the unique opportunity to learn the basics of designing and crafting stamps and prunts to use in their blown work. Starting with graphite stamps for quick results, students will advance to brass stamps by the second day of class. Throughout the workshop, students will alternate between our digital fabrication studio and the hot shop, where you'll experience the excitement of glassblowing with stamps of your own creation.
No digital fabrication experience necessary – come with ideas!
~this class is now full~
w/ Sam Meketon
3 DAY INTENSIVE
JANUARY 20th - JANUARY 22nd 2025
9am-5pm
COST: $550
In this class students will have the unique opportunity to learn the basics of designing and crafting stamps and prunts to use in their blown work. Starting with graphite stamps for quick results, students will advance to brass stamps by the second day of class. Throughout the workshop, students will alternate between our digital fabrication studio and the hot shop, where you'll experience the excitement of glassblowing with stamps of your own creation.
No digital fabrication experience necessary – come with ideas!
~this class is now full~
ABOUT SAM MEKETON:
Sam founded Protostamps after realizing that stamps made for glass art needed to have the material and application considered in the creation of the stamp itself. Understanding the nature of glass as a material enables Sam to identify the strengths and weaknesses of protruded, or extruded stamps. This informs whether any stamp design will register well onto the glass when applied. The transparency of the material alone allows for the viewer to see through the glass and onto the surface itself. Through conversation about the type of glass and use of the stamps, Protostamps designs are always made to fit your needs.
Sam founded Protostamps after realizing that stamps made for glass art needed to have the material and application considered in the creation of the stamp itself. Understanding the nature of glass as a material enables Sam to identify the strengths and weaknesses of protruded, or extruded stamps. This informs whether any stamp design will register well onto the glass when applied. The transparency of the material alone allows for the viewer to see through the glass and onto the surface itself. Through conversation about the type of glass and use of the stamps, Protostamps designs are always made to fit your needs.
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3 DAY INTENSIVE
W/ BOYD SUGIKI & LISA ZERKOWITZ
MARCH 2025
DETAILS COMING SOON!