Glassblowing

EDDIE BERNARD & PAMINA TRAYLOR | Intermediate to Advanced

Hot glass sculpting students' technical repertoire will expand greatly during this exciting and challenging session of hot glass manipulation. The class will start with a few days of technical exercises for blowing and sculpting, then move to full-on exploration of teamwork and assembly using colors, garage, and oxy-propane torch. In demos, the students will see color overlays, powdering, bitwork, torchwork, incalmo, hot assembly, hole poking and more. Newly learned skills will prepare students to create expressive sculptural works during this class and in years to come.

Eddie Bernard

Eddie Bernard is an artist and an expert glass studio technician, proprietor of Wet Dog Glass, LLC in New Orleans, LA. Bernard has been working with glass since 1988, and earned a BFA in Glass at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996. He has taught and assisted in intensive workshops at The Glass Furnace, Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and has instructed in glass at Tulane University. His company, Wet Dog Glass, LLC has designed and built glassblowing equipment for studios across the U.S., including California College of Arts, Tacoma Museum of Glass, and Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2002, Eddie and his wife Angela founded Conti Glass, LLC, a glass studio where local artists can learn the art of glassmaking, rent studio time, and produce a small production glass line. After Hurricane Katrina, they founded New Orleans Creative Glass Institute to help revive the glass art community of New Orleans. www.ebernard.com

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Pamina Traylor

Pamina Traylor is an artist and educator, currently Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts where she was Chair of the Glass Program 1999-2000. She received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and her BA from Bryn Mawr College, with additional studies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, and San Francisco State University. The Creative Glass Center of America awarded her a fellowship in both 2003 and 1995 and she received a CCAC Faculty Development Grant in 1998. She has lectured and demonstrated at schools in Australia and Japan and has taught workshops throughout the world, including the Glass Furnace, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, and UrbanGlass. Her work is exhibited internationally. She is in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Glass, NJ; Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taiwan; and The Glass Furnace, Istanbul. www.paminatraylor.com

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* An additional US$20 registration fee is charged during application

** The amount of deposit to be paid is US$320