Sessions & Instructors

Short Term Programs - 2003






Spring 2003






Session 1:
16 February - 1 March
Session 2:
9 March - 22 March





Summer 2003






Session 1:
25 May - 7 June
Session 2:
15 June - 28 June
Session 3:
Mixed Media / Jodi Salerno & Amy Rueffert »
Fusing / Rene Culler »

6 July - 19 July
Session 4:
Kiln Casting / Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock »
Mixed Media / Jean Paul Raymond »

27 July - 9 August
Session 5:
Kiln Casting / Angela Thwaites »

Beadmaking / Michaela Köppl »

17 August - 30 August
Session 6:
Mixed Media / John Drury »
7 September - 20 September
Session 7:
Lampworking&Beadmaking / Steffen Orlowski »
Sandcasting / Alain Vaidie »          05 October - 18 October
28 September - 11 October





Spring 2003 Course Descriptions






SESSION 1: 16 FEBRUARY - 1 MARCH, 2003
Application: FEBRUARY 7th
Arrival: FEBRUARY 15th
Departure: MARCH 2th



Glassblowing / Jean Pierre Umbdenstock


This beginners and intermediate course will emphasize on understanding viscosity; learning to deal with viscosity and gravity, therefore, managing to find a compromise between them to achieve one's goal.

This course doesn't aim to train glassmasters in two weeks but rather seeks to let the students and artists overview and dicover various possibilities and the limits of the material. This glass blowing course is designed to give students the theoretical and practical knowledge to enable them to design and conceive their work with efficiency in the future.

Besides blowing, we'll focus on the 'glass skin' and experiment enamelling and sandblasting.

Glass is not an ordinary material, but a very promising medium for visual artists. The course will approach glass in this respect.

Artists Resumé:

Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock (Born in Paris, 1950), began working with glass by making stained glass at Le Chevallier's studio (1974 - 1978). He started glassblowing at Sars-Poteries glass studio and at Claude Morin's (1979). He set up his own studio in 1980. He attended the Sars-Poteries First International Glass Symposium in 1982. He was awarded a grant: Bourse de Recherche et de Création by French Ministry of Culture in 1983 and studied at California College of Arts & Crafts (Oakland) under Marvin Lipofsky. Umbdenstock, co-founded with Louis Mériaux, the Sars-Poteries Summer School in 1985 where he taught & coordinated the programs until 1987. He leaded the glass workshop at the European World Craft Council conference in Marinha Grande (Portugal) 1987. He also set up feasibility work of the Verrerie de Phoenix - glass recycling - financed by Mauritius Breweries Ltd., and coordinated the Meisenthal Glass Center programs in 1992 & 1993.

Umbdenstock worked as a freelance designer at Royal Leerdam. (NL) Unica series 1995. Together with Véronique Lutgen & Robert Houri, he set up a new company in 1995 in Saint-Gobain on the historical site of the Manufacture royale des Glaces, founded by par Colbert in 1665. He worked as a consultant for the European program ECO-MED-VILLES to design unconventional ways of recycling glass waste in Mediterranean islands: Cyprus, Crete, Corsica & Lipari (1997-2000).

Umbdenstock has teaching experience in various institutions like: Atelier du verre de Sars-Poteries (1985 to 1987), Centre du verre de Meisenthal (1990 & 1991), École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (1986), École des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing(1987), École des Beaux Arts de Rouen (1987), Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (1992 to 1995) Germany, Glass Factory Stephens, Portugal and in various places like: Mauritius, Cyprus, Lipari, and The Glass Furnace( CAM OCAÐI, 2002). Umbdenstock will be Artist-in-residence at the " Musée-Atelier du Verre ", Sars-Poteries (France) from September to November 2002. He will be exhibiting his new work in the museum in April, 2003.

Artists Work:

FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : FEBRUARY 7th, 2003 (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: FEBRUARY 17th, 2003
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 2: 9 MARCH - 22 MARCH, 2003
Application: FEBRUARY 21th, 2003
Arrival: MARCH 8th
Departure: MARCH 23th



Glassblowing / Petr Novotny


This glassblowing course will give participants the chance of working with a master. Basic techniques of glassblowing and simple glass sculptures will be covered during the course. Students will have the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of blowing and manipulating hot glass. Students who have previous experience and who would like to improve their skills to a further level, can also participate in this course.

Various hot glass applications will be demonstrated and emphasis on 'Art & Design in glass' will be made through discussions, and lots of hands-on practice.

Artists Resumé:

Born in Ústí nad Orlicí in 1952. He studied a glass manufacture and a glass technology at Apprentice Glass Centre in Novy Bor and later on he continued in study at Secondary Industrial School in Novy Bor. He also taught blowing and hand-forming of glass at Apprentice Glass Centre in Novy Bor.

In 1983 he was awarded a Master of glass fine arts and crafts.

As one of the first in the former Czecholovakia, he started own studio for manufacture of replicas of ancient glass.

He works for many world leading artists and designers, among others: Renè Roubicek, Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Edward Leibovitz, Willem Heesen and others.

He is attending a world significant glass conferences and symposiums. He is regularly teaching at summer glass sessions and workshops in Pilchuck in USA.

At the present he is together with Libor Fafala co-owning and heading Ajeto glassworks in Lindava in Czech Republic. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : FEBRUARY 21st, 2003 (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: FEBRUARY 28th, 2003
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.


Summer 2003 Course Descriptions






SESSION 1: 25 MAY - 7 JUNE, 2003
Application: APRIL 14th
Arrival: MAY 24th
Departure: JUNE 08th



Glass Blowing (Beginner to Intermediate) / Jack Wax


Glass is a transformational material and this class will be an exploration into its wide and deep "expressive range". It will focus specifically on hot glass manipulation working towards the production of "second and third generation parts" that will subsequently be utilized to construct complex forms. The students will create complexity from simplicity through the repetition of form, and from the density of the images created. There is pattern even in the most chaotic of systems. The class will search it out, break it apart, and reconfigure it to serve our own purposes. (One stone on a hill will not prove to be enough to build a wall nor does one word prove to be enough to make a poem).

Artists Resumé:

Jack Wax is an artist and an educator who has been working with glass for 30 years. In that time he has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, Ohio State University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Illinois State University and had spent five years teaching at the Toyama Institute of Glass in Toyama, Japan. At present, he is head of the Glass Program at Virginia Commonwealth University's prestigious School of the Arts. He has been awarded numerous grants over the years including two the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowships, and Individual State Council of the Arts Grants. His work is in numerous public collections, including The L.A. County Museum, The Corning Museum, The Toyama Museum, The Speed Museum of Art, The Huntington Museum of Art, and The Smithsonian Institute.

Jack has also lectured and given workshops at the Pilchuck School, Penland School, Haystack Mountain School, The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, The Bornholm School, and The Ausglass Conference-Melbourne. He presently also serves as Secretary on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Glass Arts Society.
FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 2:15 JUNE - 28 JUNE, 2003
Application: MAY 5th, 2003
Arrival: JUNE 14th
Departure: JUNE 29th



Glass Blowing / Jamex De La Torre


For both experienced glass artists and artists new to glass, this class will explore the use of hot-glass for the purpose of direct self expression in sculpture, mix-media and installation. Mix media assemblage techniques will be discussed, materials used will include silicone, fabric, and found objects brought by students and instructors.

Class discussions will explore creative ways for the application of content to form and vice verca. For the purpose of developing ideas, the class will include some drawing assignments. Assignments will be given for individual and collaborative projects.

Artists Resumé:

Jamex de la Torre is a studio artist producing individual and collaborative work with his brother Einar de la Torre in glass and mixed media. He is originally from Guadalajara, México. He attended Long Beach State University in California where he began blowing glass and received his BFA degree. The brothers maintain a studio in Baja California Mexico and San Diego, California. As a Mexican- American artist, he incorporates into his works cultural icons that express his bicultural experience and life in the border region. "The inmediate-and continuing -impression of the art of the de la Torre brothers, singly and collaboratively, is that of excess,and of risk, of pushing-the-envolope in daredevil flirtation with vulgarity and bombast." Dr Max Schultz, curator of the USC Fisher Gallery. His works has been recently exhibited at UrbanGlass (NY) and the Mexican Museum (IL) and is found in the collections of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (CA), the Kanazu Museum (Japan), and the Tucson Museum (AZ). FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : MAY 14th, 2003 (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: MAY 28th , 2003
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 3:6 JULY - 19 JULY, 2003
Arrival: JULY 5th
Departure: JULY 20th



Glass Blowing (Intermediate to Advanced) / Michael Rogers


"Objects of Enclosure"

In this two week workshop the class will concentrate on hot and cold glass techniques that will enable them to contain content, encapsulate passion and create visual narratives. The challenge will be to craft containers of curiosities that tell a story.

The course will begin by discussing ideas and then working in the hot shop to make forms that can be used as containers or objects of enclosure. These containers will then be assembled in the cold shop with other parts either made of glass or found objects using the Hxtal glue process.

Artists Resumé:

Michael Rogers is currently chair and associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology's School For American Crafts in upper state New York. Michael has returned to the United States from Japan where he was head of Aichi University of Education's glass department for the past eleven years. In 1997, Michael established Studio Shihokuso in Seto, Japan and in 1998 was co-chair of the Glass Art Society Conference in Japan. Michael's work is in the permanent collections of the Suntory Museum in Japan, First Contemporary Glass Museum in Spain, Museo del Vidrio in Mexico, National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine and the Huntington Museum in the United States. Recent exhibitions include "Glass America 2001" at Heller Gallery in New York, "Content" at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA, and SOFA Chicago with Morgan Gallery. Last year Michael was awarded a Japanese Ministry of Education Research Grant and spent the year at Ohio State University in Colombus, Ohio. Michael has been on the board of directors of the Glass Art Society since 1997, and is currently the president of G.A.S. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : JUNE 27th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: JULY 4th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 3:6 JULY - 19 JULY, 2003
Arrival: JULY 5th
Departure: JULY 20th

Lampworking (Beginner to Intermediate) / James Minson


This course will begin with the basics in flameworking solid borosilicate. A multiple of approaches will be explored so that students will be able to explore what is comfortable and suitable for their individual needs and expression. Blowing hollow forms, creating sculpture and coloring will be covered as the class progress. A wide range of techniques will be covered with particular emphasis placed on each student's area of focus. Slide shows will introduce contemporary trends as well as the history of flameworked glass.

Artists Resumé:

James Minson is a third generation glassworker. He has a degree from Sydney College of the Arts and Tama Art University in Tokyo. His work is represented in many collections and museums including the Australian National Glass Collection and the Corning Museum of Glass. He has taught at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, The Pittsburgh Glass Center and Urban Glass. His work can be viewed at http://www.jamesminsonglass.com FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : JUNE 27th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: JULY 4th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 3: 6 JULY - 19 JULY, 2003
Arrival: JULY 5th
Departure: JULY 20th

Mixed Media / Jodi Salerno & Amy Rueffert


During this course, Conceptual thought through glass and mixed media to create new ways of thinking and making will be emphasized. Using glass as the unifying factor among the two instructors will encourage students to break away from traditional methods and experiment with process and material. The participants will draw materials from resources around them, as well as their own personal collections, obsessions and belongings. A proportionate amount of hot shop time, cold shop time, class time and personal work time will be used as a foundation for productivity and gratifying art making! Since the focus of the class will be on mixed media/ concept/ personal artistic development, all levels of glass experience are welcome.

Artists Resumé:

Jodi Salerno received a B.F.A. with a concentration in glass from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. As a budding artist, she attended the Pilchuck School of Glass numerous times as a scholarship student and again on scholarship attended the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has worked with numerous artists in the glass field such as Dan Dailey, Ruth King and Therman Statom. She has received the Absolut au Kurant award at SOFA Chicago as well as a fellowship to Wheaton Village at the Creative Glass Center of America. Ms. Salerno has also been an instructor in the glass laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She has most recently been touring the country giving workshops at places such a San Jose State University and The Bay Area Glass Institute in California. The artist currently resides in Boston where she also works out of her studio.



Amy Rueffert earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. Since then she has persued independent studies at Ohio State University. She has also attended Pilchuck Glass School and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts numerous times as both a scholarship student and teaching assistant. In the summer of 2002, she was an instructor at the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Amy has been an artist in residence at Cleveland Institute of art and most recently at Public Glass in San Francisco. She has received travel grants that have allowed her to research contemporary glass in Sweden and Australia. Her work is included in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass.

FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : JUNE 27th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: JULY 4th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 3:6 JULY - 19 JULY, 2003
Arrival: JULY 5th
Departure: JULY 20th

Fusing (Intermediate to Advanced) / Rene Culler


"GLASS COLLAGE: The Colorful, Painterly Method "

The purpose of this course is to create several fused glass "collages" while utilizing a variety of glass techniques. A collage is a collection of interesting images that are "glued" together to create a unified composition. But unlike Picasso, we will use no glue or paper. We will incorporate imagery into glass through the use of enamels. Our "glue" is heat as we fuse our compositions, and learn to incorporate imagery into a glass casting. A technical lecture with extensive hand-out materials will answer all of the participants' questions about glass fusing and small scale casting. Techniques to be covered are enameling (high fire), fusing, slumping, pàtè de verre and mold making. Students should bring some imagery from their favorite paintings, (i.e Da Vinci's " Mona Lisa" or Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe") to use for their collage. The course promises to be good fun and very informative!

Artists Resumé:

Rene Culler has researched and worked in glass for over 25 years. She is passionate about the material, and its possibilities for expression through the use of color in fused and cast glass. Culler creates her "Grail Variations", formed through her unique technique of fusing blown glass components into formalist compositions. Rene Culler also creates painterly fused compositions at Icon Studio Arts, which she co-founded in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Culler has presented a paper on her work in Barcelona, Spain, and has written articles and reviews on glass in various publications. Rene Culler's kiln-transformed sculpture has been included in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery, the American Museum of Art of the Smithsonian Institution. She holds degrees in Glass; BFA -1992, Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA-1994, Kent State University, where she served as Acting Head of Glass. She has received numerous grants from the Ohio Arts Council. Culler continues to teach workshops at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Fundacio Centre del Vidre de Barcelona, Spain. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : JUNE 27th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: JULY 4th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 4:27 JULY - 9 AUGUST, 2003
Arrival: JULY 26th
Departure: AUGUST 10th



Glass Blowing (Beginner to Intermediate) / Giampaolo Amoruso


This course is mainly for beginners and students who wish to perfect blowing glass on the pipe.

The intension will be to communicate in a simple way - to go into details, the different techniques to realize an object in blown glass. The students will learn to familiarize with tools, and get used to gathering glass. And then they will be able to shape and make a little object, sculpture: glass or vase. They will look at the different techniques of adding decoration and color during the course.

The class will also be talking about the artist's way of using the materials which is different from most other contemporary glass artists.

Artists Resumé:

Giampaolo Amoruso was born in Boussu, May 9th, 1961. He entered in the 'Cristalleries de Boussu' in 1977 and followed a formation with the artist - designer Claude Laurent in the Art school in Mons. In 1992 he started his own glass studio in Boussu and searched his own forms with blown glass. In 1996, he started his new studio in Deerlijk.

Amoruso worked in different studios in Europe and collaborated with various international artists in 1990 - '91. He has had many exhibitions since '90's, and his pieces are in lots of famous galleries around Europe, Africa and America .

Some of his pieces are in Glass Museum, Sars- Poteries (France) and various private collections in Belgium, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy and the USA in recent years.

Figurative sculptures and searching for expressions are the artist's principal objectives. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Remainder Balance: JULY 11th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 4:27 JULY - 9 AUGUST, 2003
Arrival: JULY 26th
Departure: AUGUST 10th

Kiln Casting (Beginner) / Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock


1500 years before the invention of glassblowing, men produced marvellous objects : containers, jewels and small sculptures, using so called "kiln forming techniques".

Today, these techniques are used by numerous artists and craft studios all over the world to produce either large monumental sculptures or small original objects. These many different approaches of glass forming are actually variations on the same fundamental process based on understanding and controlling viscosity.

This beginners session will consist of an overview of these "kilnforming techniques" i. e. Fusing, slumping, kiln casting and an approach of "pâte-de-verre"(lost wax technique)

The class will focus on intensive hands on experiences but also on theoretical aspects and basic rules necessary to understand how to "deal with glass" and achieve individual projects. Besides, an overview on glass history and contemporary aspects of glass art through illustrated slide shows will be covered.

Glass is not an ordinary material, but a very promising medium for visual artists. The course will approach glass in this respect.

Artists Resumé:

J. P. Umbdenstock was born in Paris in 1950. He began working with glass by making stained glass at Le Chevallier's studio (1974 - 1978). He started glassblowing at Sars-Poteries glass studio and at Claude Morin's (1979). He set up his own studio in 1980. He attended the Sars-Poteries First International Glass Symposium in 1982. He was awarded a grant: Bourse de Recherche et de Création by French Ministry of Culture in 1983 and studied at California College of Arts & Crafts (Oakland) under Marvin Lipofsky. Umbdenstock, co-founded with Louis Mériaux, the Sars-Poteries Summer School in 1985 where he taught & coordinated the programs until 1987. He leaded the glass workshop at the European World Craft Council conference in Marinha Grande (Portugal) 1987. He also set up feasibility work of the Verrerie de Phoenix - glass recycling - financed by Mauritius Breweries Ltd., and coordinated the Meisenthal Glass Center programs in 1992 & 1993.

Umbdenstock worked as a freelance designer at Royal Leerdam. (NL) Unica series1995. Together with Véronique Lutgen & Robert Houri, he set up a new company in 1995 in Saint-Gobain on the historical site of the Manufacture royale des Glaces, founded by par Colbert in 1665. He worked as a consultant for the European program ECO-MED-VILLES to design unconventional ways of recycling glass waste in Mediterranean islands: Cyprus, Crete, Corsica & Lipari (1997-2000).

Umbdenstock has teaching experience in various institutions like: Atelier du verre de Sars-Poteries (1985 to 1987), Centre du verre de Meisenthal (1990 & 1991), École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (1986), École des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing(1987), École des Beaux Arts de Rouen (1987), Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (1992 to 1995) Germany, Glass Factory Stephens, Portugal and in various places like: Mauritius, Cyprus, Lipari, and The Glass Furnace( CAM OCAÐI, 2002). Umbdenstock was an Artist-in-residence at the " Musée-Atelier du Verre ", Sars-Poteries (France) from September to November 2002. He exhibited his new work in the museum in April, 2003. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Remainder Balance: JULY 11th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 4: 27 JULY - 9 AUGUST, 2003
Arrival: JULY 26th
Departure: AUGUST 10th

Mixed Media / Jean Paul Raymond


In sign of Francois 1st, King of France and Kanuni Sultan Süleyman.

Both had a dream, both had a vision. It was the age of Renaissance in Europe: hope, openness, curiosity, discovery of new worlds in domains of science, art, and discovery of neighbouring nations. Both sovereigns were young and ambitious for their own kingdoms. Artists like Gentile Bellini went to the ancient Byzance, also Leonardo da Vinci stayed probably in Istanbul. Leonardo, who died in Amboise at the court of Francois 1st. Fontainebleau, Chambord, the Loire Valley, approached the coasts of Bosphorus, the Golden Horn and "la sublime Porte".

Is it possible to try to built a bridge between past and modernity? During the workshop the class will try to connect and mix elements from that age and our present. Sensuality, oriental ornaments, Ottoman architectural mentions, architecture of the Loire Valley and "ècole de Fontainebleau" represents a rich and varied field of inspiration for artistic creations.

Within the scope of a combination of techniques, which are not always the usual and traditional way to work with glass, it is possible to realize such a project.

We hope, the workshop participants will enjoy taking part in the project, and ideas and concepts that can be realized in glass.

Artists Resumé:

Jean-Paul Raymond, lives and works in Cologne, Germany, since 1993. He was born in Briva,France, 1948. Raymond had his first contact with glass at Walter Couffini and built his first studio near Angoulemestudio in Montcaret near Bordeaux in 1977. He taught glass in Frauenau in 1991 and participated in Glass Symposiums Lauscha, Marinha Grande, Portugal and Novy Bor in 1997.

Raymond's works can be seen at public collections such as Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Musée du verre, Sars Poteries, Museé National de la Céramique Sévres in France, Glasmuseum Immenhausen, Glasmuseum Frauenau, Glasmuseum Lauscha, Glassammlung Veste Coburg, Glasmuseum Rheinbach in Germany, Museo del Vidrio Madrid, Spain and Collection of Irvin Borowsky, Philadelphia, USA.

Jean Paul Raymond has recently exhibited his work in Galerie Place des Arts, Montpellier, France and Galerie Roter Turm, Sommerhausen, Germany 1998, Galerie Eclat du Verre, Paris, France, and UK Galerie, Köln, Germany 1999, Glasmuseum Rheinbach, Germany 2000, Passagen, Galerie Uta Klotz, Köln, Germany 2001, Westerwaldmuseum, Höhrgrenzhausen, Germany and MAVA Museo del Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon Madrid, Spain 2003.

Among the publications that his art have been featured in the most recent years are; "Auf der Suche nach dem Licht der Welt", Glasmalerei Peters, Paderborn, 1997, Catalogue du salon de la sculpture, Eclat de verre" château de Delle 1998, Jean-Paul Raymond, Galerie Èclat du Verre & Galerie Uta Klotz, 1999, " 15 " Galerie MR Angoulême, 1999, Glas 2000, Glasmuseum Immenhausen, 2000, Catalogue museo del vidrio Alcorcón Madrid, 2003 Jean-Paul Raymond works as a designer since 1998. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Remainder Balance: JULY 11th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 5:17 AUGUST - 30 AUGUST, 2003
Application: JULY 31st
Arrival: AUGUST 16th
Departure: AUGUST 31st



Glass Blowing (All Levels) / Thor Bueno


This course will emphasize basic glassblowing techniques and their relationship to the art making process. Students will experience all glass furnace working possibilities. These will include offhand blowing, inclusions, mold blowing, solid sculpting and basic color techniques (including Paradise paints). Contemporary art making practices and philosophies, as included in performance, installation and the object as sculpture, will be addressed. Collaborative class projects, as well as individual assignments, will be both presented and critiqued. Students will be asked to bring an open mind, an empty notebook and to be prepared for hard work and creative fun.

Artists Resumé:

Thor Bueno began blowing glass in 1979, since then he has blown glass in 10 countries and over 30 public institutions as a visiting artists. As a founding member of the "B team", a New York the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the multifaceted glass artist Thor's work ranges from the technical challenge of the Swedish painted graal, to conceptual installations, as well as flamboyant decorative pieces. He has studied and worked at Pilchuck Glass School almost every summer as a scholarship student, teaching assistant, and staff member. Thor graduated from University of California at San Diego with a BFA in art and is currently a MFA candidate at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Thor's work has been exhibited internationally and is in many public and private collections. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : AUGUST 1st (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: AUGUST 15th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.






SESSION 5:17 AUGUST - 30 AUGUST, 2003
Application: JULY 31st, 2003
Arrival: AUGUST 16th
Departure: AUGUST 31st

Kiln Casting (Beginner to Intermediate) / Angela Thwaites


This course is for participants of varying experience. It comprises practical projects, group discussions and demonstrations and technical talks to take place in the working studio. Slide lectures will be scheduled covering both aesthetic and technical aspects of kiln formed glass.

Students with little or no prior experience in glass or in art and design can talk about their reason for joining the course, and what they would like to achieve through doing it. Students will be guided through developing their ideas from their chosen starting point through to making and finishing a piece of cast glass.

Students will be encouraged to bring a new and original idea to work on during the course. This can take the form of a sketch or drawing, an image, an object, or a short piece of text to be used as a starting point.

Artists Resumé:

Angela Thwaites graduated from West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey, (now SIAD) in 1982, with a degree in ceramics and glass. In 1983 she received British Council funding to study at MA level at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, under Professor Stanislav Libensky, one of the world's greatest exponents of kiln cast glass. This experience consolidated her commitment to working with glass as an expressive, sculptural medium. Returning to the UK in 1985, Thwaites set up her own studio in Hampshire, initially working with very basic equipment, but producing work which was exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Since moving to London in 1988, Thwaites has continued to make and exhibit a wide range of work and has been teaching regularly in London, lecturing at universities and speaking at conferences in the UK and Europe.

For the last 3 years Thwaites has co-led a major research project at London's Royal College of Art on kiln casting glass techniques. This project forms the most comprehensive survey of contemporary practice yet compiled and will be published on CDRom this summer under the title 'Mixing with the Best'.

Thwaites is an active member of 'New London Glass' - a diverse group of London based artists dedicated to broadening the audience for contemporary glass through exhibitions in unusual and challenging locations including Gloucester Road underground station. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : AUGUST 1st (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: AUGUST 15th
930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application




SESSION 5:17 AUGUST - 30 AUGUST, 2003
Application: JULY 31st
Arrival: AUGUST 16th
Departure: AUGUST 31st

Beadmaking (Beginner) / Michaela Köppl


Working with molten glass is a very old skill of human beings and in this course the students will learn how to make glass beads, how to melt the glass with the torch and to shape the soft glass with tools. These are the basics to realize own ideas, but the students will also play with the material and try to go individual ways to discover new possibilities for working with the hot, molten glass. So it's not only the finished jewelry or object, but also the experimentation that the class will be looking for. The class will also have the possibility to compose their works or to combine and integrate other techniques or materials in their work under Michaela's guidance.

Artists Resumé:

Michaela Köppl works in her own studio. She had her first contacts with making glass-beads at the Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz, the only school in Germany where bead making is a traditional part of training. There, she studied three years to become a goldsmith. Since then, glass has become a fascinating part of her life, especially to play with colors.

In 1998 she opened her gallery for glass-beads in Landsberg. Several travels to the Czech Republic and India served her research in beads. To preserve the knowledge of manufacturing the traditional bohemian glass-bead torch and to give people the possibility to work with it in future, she decided to take over the production from an old company. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : AUGUST 1st (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: AUGUST 15th
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application






SESSION 6:7 SEPTEMBER - 20 SEPTEMBER, 2003
Application: AUGUST 6th
Arrival: SEPTEMBER 6th
Departure: SEPTEMBER 21st

Mixed-Media / John Drury


Conceptual Practices in Glass: An investigation into the increasing use of glass as a mixed media sculptural component in contemporary art practices.

This class will include the presentation of work by artists largely from outside the studio glass movement, both contemporary and historical, who use glass in a non-traditional manner (including the Baltimore Glassman, Watt's Towers and CUD, a collaborative effort in which the class instructor is a participant). An ongoing discussion and exploration of working methods will fuel impetus for creation. Hands on technical experimentation with glass will include fundamental glass blowing, sand casting, mosaic technique and surface treatment (including low and high-fired enamels, adhesives, etc.). Students will look to personal experience and their own environment for conceptual basis to their work; with an eye to recycled and / or "found" glass. While no prior experience with glass is necessary, students with a foundation in sculpture and painting will find this class most beneficial and challenging.

Artists Resumé:

John Drury earned a BFA from the (CCAD) Columbus College of Arts and Design in 1983 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture including a minor in painting, from the Ohio State University in 1985. In 1994, he earned the Pernod Liquid Arts Award. Drury was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for the Visual Arts and was included in the Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review 18 in 1997.

John Drury taught at various institutions as The Glass Furnace (2002, istanbul) The University of Hawaii (visiting artist, 2002) The Pilchuck Glass School (2001, 1999 and 1996) Urban Glass (2000 and 1998) and The Rhode Island School of Design (visiting artist, 1998).

The artist's work have been exhibited in Holly Solomon (NYC) Exit Art (NYC) Bronwyn Keenan (NYC) Willoughby Sharp (NYC) Velan; per l'arte contemporanea (Italy) , La Panaderia (Mexico City).

John Drury has been featured in the books Art Glass: 2003 and Glass Art From UrbanGlass (2000), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 1997 Awards, Corning New Glass Review 18 (1997) , Glass magazine (2002, 2000, 1995), Sculpture magazine (1999), Paper magazine (1995, 1994 and 1993). FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : AUGUST 15th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: AUGUST 25th
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.





SESSION 6:7 SEPTEMBER - 20 SEPTEMBER, 2003
Application: AUGUST 6th
Arrival: SEPTEMBER 6th
Departure: SEPTEMBER 21st

Fusing / Frank Van Den Ham


The idea of the workshop is to give each student a personal approach. It will be a workshop for those beginning in the technique of fusing and for those more advanced. Each student will make his/her own projects and get all the help and advice needed from technical as well as artistic point of view. Further , there will be lectures of each about three hours during the workshop on all technical aspects of fusing and slumping. Lectures on compatibility, firing cycles, forming, annealing, inclusions, paints, etc. etc. as well as some discussions on the possibilities of fusing for the production of small series and artistic considerations. This is mainly a "hands on" workshop but it is definitely an aim to send all the students home with enough technical knowledge as well so that working in his/her own studio will be possible.

Artists Resumé:

Frank van den Ham, born in the Netherlands in 1952, is involved in fusing since about twenty years. First fascinated by glass because of his experiments in the engraving of glass, he soon became interested in fusing. The use of colour and form combined and the possibility to make exact choices in the patterns and designs go very well with the ideas that he wants to express. During the last 15 years Frank has been working as an independent artist and had shows all over Europe, in the USA, Indonesia and Japan. He is a well known expert in the field of fusing and lectured many workshops through the years as well in many countries. Frank lives partly in Europe and partly in Indonesia where he has a studio as well. Recently he is working again on series of work that combine fused glass with other media, used by local craftsmen in Indonesia. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

DEADLINES:
Deposit : AUGUST 15th (320 US$)
Remainder Balance: AUGUST 25th
930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 7:28 SEPTEMBER - 11 OCTOBER, 2003
Arrival: SEPTEMBER 27th
Departure: OCTOBER 12th



Glass Blowing (Advanced) / Petr Novotny


This glassblowing course will give participants the opportunity to work with a master. Students will explore manipulation of hot glass in glarious practices. Working with Petr Novotny, further techniques of glassblowing will be covered. Various hot glass applications will be made through discussions, and lots of hands-on practice.

Artists Resumé:

PETR NOVOTNY was born in Ústí nad Orlicí in 1952. He studied glass manufacturing and glass technology at Apprentice Glass Centre in Novy Bor and later on he continued to study at Secondary Industrial School in Novy Bor. He also taught blowing and hand-forming of glass at Apprentice Glass Centre in Novy Bor. In 1983 he was awarded a Master of Glass in fine arts and crafts. As one of the first in the former Czechoslovakia, he started own studio for manufacturing of replicas of ancient glass.

He works for many world leading artists and designers, among others: Renè Roubicek, Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Edward Leibovitz, Willem Heesen and others. He is attending world significant glass conferences and symposiums. He is regularly teaching at summer glass sessions and workshops in Pilchuck in USA. At the present he is together with Libor Fafala, co-owning and heading Ajeto glassworks in Lindava in Czech Republic. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

930 US$ (Accommodation Included), 580 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.




SESSION 7:28 SEPTEMBER - 11 OCTOBER, 2003
Arrival:SEPTEMBER 27th
Departure: OCTOBER 12th

Lampworking&Beadmaking (All Levels) / Steffen Orlowski


Form in space out of the fire:

This class will be suitable to all those interested in the realm of hot glass, particularly the heat forming of glass with the lamp (gas-oxygen burner), and the creative process. It will be open to young and old, to beginners or professionals, looking for new impulses for their work. Creative ability, the feeling for form, space and associations, as well as manual skills and imagination will be honed and developed in the course. Anyone taking this class should expect to have fun and learn a lot about themselves, glass and the art process. Collaboration and group activity will be encouraged.

There need not be any technical, material or local boundaries. The main thrust of the course lays in an innovative development and expressive conversion of ideas rather then their perfect realizations. So the medium becomes secondary importance. The class will work from a contemporary view of sculpture.

Artists Resumé:

Steffen Orlowski, a freelance artist originally from Thuringia/ Germany, works for nearly 20 years with glass, but he is not a glass artist in the conventional sense. His interest in nature and the human condition, he expresses not only through objects, often he develops installations also with performance character. This use naturally speaks about change through processes, movement and transitory. It is an orientation by the origin, creativity as a fundamental need and again glass, as a mediator in a present culture that tears human beings apart.

Steffen Orlowski, born in 1966 belongs to a young generation of artists working with glass in a way that is critical of the present but all the same international successful. After several educations in hot glass and design, he studied and passed the Bachelor of Arts with honours of the first class at the Edinburgh College of Art. In the last 10 years he achieved much artistic and international recommendations and prices, like one award by the Jutta Cuny Frantz-Foundation 1998.

The last two summers he taught at BILD-WERK FRAUENAU, Germany. Now he works and teaches hot glass at the ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS MUNICH. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accommodation Included), 900 US$ (Accommodation Excluded)

930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.





SESSION 7: 05 OCTOBER - 18 OCTOBER, 2003
Arrival: SEPTEMBER 27th
Departure: OCTOBER 12th

Sandcasting / Alain Vaidie


Technical workshop

The course will start with demonstrations of a range of sand casting techniques combined with other techniques. The idea of this workshop will be to make the participants understand all the potential and restrictions of sand casting techniques and how to use them wisely. At a second level and without imposing a theme, the trainees will be invited, through experimentation's, to set themselves artistic and technical targets. The instructor's objective will be to ensure that each participant will seize his/her own expectations while taking into account the group's dynamism The class will be guided personally in their journey for meeting their own objectives. This journey will provide the student with an open mind and spirit while familiarizing him/her with various sand casting techniques.

Artists Resumé:

Alain Vaidie studied in the visual arts and sculpture at Université Du Québec À Montréal and Concordia Uuniversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1982 to 1986 . He received College diploma on Glass techniques from Centre des Métiers du Verre du Québec, Montreal, Quebec in 1995.

Vaidie has worked as a creative artist and glass craftsman in Atelier V, Quebec, from 1996 to 2000. He gave introductory and development training on sand-casting at numerous institutions and events such as Centre des Métiers du Verre du Québec, Montréal, Québec 2000, Centre Européen de Recherches et de Formation aux Arts Verriers CERFAV, and Glass University Sars-Poteries, France 2002 and was the 'Visiting artist' at Glassworks Daum for 3rd Symposium des Arts et du Verre, France2002.

Alain Vaidie has recently participated in several group exhibitions at Château de Lunéville, France 2002, American Craft Museum, New York1998, Galerie 55 Prince, Montreal, Quebec 1995, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario 1995.

Alain Vaidie has been working as glass-maker, artist and educator since 2000. FEES: 1250 US$ (Accomodation Included), 900 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

930 US$ (Accomodation Included), 580 US$ (Accomodation Excluded)

20 US$ of registration fee is charged during application.


Language
English is the language of instruction in all classes taught by foreign teachers. Therefore, students should have enough language skills to benefit from classes and campus activities. Please contact our education department if you need any assistance on this matter.



Class Sizes
Class sizes are determined seperately for each course to maximize productivity, and vary between 6 and 10 students.



Class Schedules
Short term courses are scheduled between 8 a.m to 6 p.m. everyday. However, each course has its own program set by the instructor. The class schedules are given to the students upon their arrival. As for the long term courses, each course is planned seperately and the schedule is given together with the course description.



Studios
The hot shop is available for students between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.



Activities
A hands-on approach is practiced in every class. This approach can be seen in all of the courses, extending to activities like discussions, presentations, slide shows, exhibitions and performance shows. The students get to know various aspects of glass and share the instructors' experiences gained in world-renowned studios and reflected in their artworks.

Artists' presentations are among the various activities that take place in the evenings. Students are also encouraged to share their experiences or to make presentations to enhance life at the Glass Furnace.



Supplies
The essential tools and supplies that the students might need depend on the techniques that are involvedused in each course. Most basic supplies needed for introduction, experimentation, or presentationin classes are provided by the Glass Furnace. Some specific tools and basic materials for painting and drawing, flat glass, glass plates for printing, clay etc. could either be purchased from the Glass Furnace or the students can bring their own. In some courses it may be necessary to charge a flat rate for materials. A list concerning this matter is sent together with the information leaflet.



Teaching Assistants
Teaching Assistants gain valuable experience while developing their professional skills as teachers or technicians. Assistants must have studio experience in at least one discipline of the fine arts and an interest in collaboration. During the first years, the Glass Furnace will be accepting assistants of Turkish nationality to further its mission of 'redeveloping Turkish glass art'. Please contact the school at apply@glassfurnace.org for further information.