Fusing and Kilncasting

ETSUKO NISHI

In this course, students will create delicate, luminous, and lacy Pate de Verre Sculptures, using a unique mould process which is soft ceramic fiber. The course provides instruction on making moulds, adding color to the glass paste, lading ovens, firing and annealing. Designs which have been previously difficult to make, such as double or triple-layered work, can now be produced by new way of material and production technique. Discussions and images presentations will present the history, technique, and many artistic application of Pate de Verre.

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Etsuko Nishi

Etsuko Nishi holds B.A. from Mukogawa University of Japan, graduate degree form the Canberra School of Art in Australia and the Royal College of Art in England. She has taught at Urban Glass and Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center ,Takushoku University, and currently is a lecturer in Osaka Art University in Japan. She is a successful independent artist exhibiting internationally and her works are in much museum collection around the world including the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Coburg Museum in Germany, the Smalands museum in Sweden, Muses des Rts Dcoratifs in France, and the Corning Museum in the US. She is also one of the ex GAS Guest Demonstrating Artists. She started using glass in the early 1980s, and made square and planar objects. In the beginning, African textiles and traditional American quilts influenced her work. The qualities, which she wanted to translate from fabric into glass, were softness and tenderness. Later on, she created translucent three-dimensional objects, which allowed the transmission of faint and soft light, movement, and an impression of gentleness. The second source of inspiration for her was a diatretum, a Roman cage cup dating from the 4th century, in which the inner shell was made of transparent glass enclosed by a free-standing outer cage of interlocking rings of colored glass, creating an amazing effect as if the inner bowl is floating in the air.

* An additional €20 registration fee is charged during application
** The amount of deposit to be paid is €300
*** The accommodation is full board and the fee is € 40 euro per person/per night in room for 3-4 people. Single and double rooms are limited.
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