Glassblowing | Intermediate

Scott Benefield

For intermediate level students who wish to broaden their technical vocabulary, working with cane by using traditional Italian techniques can challenge your sense of the material. Students will learn how to pull various straight and twisted canes, and how to use them in making vessels. Studio demonstrations and class instruction will take place in the morning session; this will be supplemented in afternoon sessions by slide lectures on the historical use of cane, contemporary work using cane and design issues pertaining to cane. No previous experience with cane is required, but good rudimentary glassblowing skills are highly recommended.

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Scott Benefield

Scott Benefield received his MFA from Ohio State University in 1990 following a year spent studying with Ann Wolff in Sweden on a Fulbright-Hayes grant. He was a founder of the New Orleans School of GlassWorks and served as its first Educational Director; he also was a founding partner in Studio Inferno, a glass production facility in New Orleans. In 1997 he founded his current studio, Isola Glass, on Camano Island, Washington. He exhibits his work at Vetri (Seattle) and has a one-person show scheduled there for August, 2007. Scott is a past president of the Glass Art Society's Board of Directors and still writes regularly for their bi-monthly newsletter as a contributing editor. In 2002 he was awarded a Fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, and in 2004 was an artist-in-residence at North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland. He has taught workshops in the contemporary application of cane techniques in glassblowing at Appalachian Center for Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. He has demonstrated canework as a visiting artist at several university-level glass programs both here and abroad.
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