Kilncasting & Hotcasting

Mitchell Gaudet | General

Session: 5aa / 31 July - 13 August, 2005

Want to make your sculptural idea in glass? Learn how to kilncast using the zircar mold material as well as casting hot glass from a furnace. This course will be very intensive and comprehensive in all aspects of hot glass casting. It will include discussions, and demonstrations as well. Emphasis will be placed on helping the students solve idea, design and fabrication problems. The classes will include, mold materials; sand, graphite, wood, paper, cloth, plaster, vegetation, color; surface, top bottom, cold, stencils and stamps, inclusions; metals, sulphides, drawings, off punty, zircar, a ceramic shell material used for both kiln and hot casting of glass and metals, as well as experimental casting explorations, cast glass production design and fabrication, large scale casting and architectural installations. No prior glass experience required, just come with ideas and be prepared to work hard.

     

Mitchell Gaudet was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. There he designs and produces cast glass in his own studio, Studio Inferno. He is also the studio coordinator for the Louisiana Artworks project. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University and his Master of Fine Arts from Tulane University, has taught at Pilchuck Glass School many times as well as, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Urban Glass, Red Deer College, Alberta College of Arts and Crafts, Alberta Canada, and Bild-Werk Glass School, Germany. He has received a NEA artists grant through the New Orleans Arts Council, was an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School and was also selected to design the Pilchuck auction pieces in 2000. He was recently the co-chair for 2004 Glass Arts Society Conference, in New Orleans. His work is exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented by galleries in Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Washington D.C, Memphis, New Orleans, Hawaii, and Miami.
www.studioinferno.com