BOROSILICATE GLASS FLAME WORKING Weekdays 3 - 8 pm
Weekends (when available) noon - 5 pm
private lessons: $350 two student sessions: $300/per person
sessions to be scheduled thru fall two days (back to back), five hours each, you choose the dates
Learn the basics or take your skills to the next level. Students will take home at least five finished projects. Classes held at my local (Wausau) studio.
fall 2008 beginner student
about lalaland glass In April 2000 after reading Cindy Jenkins book "Making Glass Beads" I book-taught myself how to make glass beads on a Hot Head and began my adventures in glass.
My first real close up look of other peoples lampworked beads wasn't until June of 2001 at the Bead & Button show in Milwaukee. I was completely blown away!
In September of 2002 (and again in 2003) I attended The Art Glass Invitational (AGI) in PA got to try out alot of oxy/propane torches, take a color class with Glass Alchemy's Henry Grimmet and met an amazing group of ground breaking flameworkers. Up until then I had been using a Hot Head torch and moretti soft glass but after playing with borosilicate glass I knew I had to invest in a new torch and studio setup. I purchased a lynx and 2 oxygen concentrators a month later. This was an awesome idea and I worked on the GTT Lynx until May of 2004 when I made the next jump in torch size to a GTT Phantom. This required obtaining large liquid oxygen tanks. In 2006 I met Paul Stankard (the best and nicest flameworker in the world) at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI. I was invited to attend his International Flameworking Conference in Salem that same year.
