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FLAMEWORKING STUDIO CLASS SCHEDULE
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down for Beginning, Continuation, On-Demand, and Intermediate/Advanced
class scheules:
(updated 08/26/09)
Beginning Classes:
Introduction to
Glass Beadmaking
Instructor: Sharon Peters
No experience necessary
$99 each class, no kit
fee
Wednesday
Evenings, 6pm-10pm:
Sept. 16;
Oct. 14; Nov.
18; Dec. 9,
2009
Additional classes can be scheduled on demand, 3 students
minimum
These are 4-hour ’Give it a Try’ stand-alone classes, to
see if you like melting glass. If you *do* become Wildly Addicted
to Flameworking and want to continue, you could plug into one of our
4-week Beginning Classes starting with session 2. Just wanted to
let you know...
Learn to make flameworked glass beads on a torch! You’ll learn
safety, tool usage, and the fundamentals of working with flame and
glass. You’ll learn a variety of basic bead shapes and decorative
techniques to make your own wearable creations. It’s fun, give it a
try! Torches, kiln, protective eyewear, tools, and glass are provided.
Please wear natural fiber clothing and close-toe shoes.
Beginning Glass
Beadmaking - 4 wk series Instructor: Sharon
Peters
No experience necessary. Each
class is 4 hours, and we can do afternoon or evening. Cost: four
sessions (16 hours of instruction) - $300 If you’d like to take just the first two, $175.
We need 3
students minimum to form a class. Contact us if you’re
interested!
Flameworked glass beads are an ancient art form, and in
this introductory hands-on class you will learn everything you need to
know to make your own beads and small wearable sculptures. This is fun
stuff, you have to try it! Harlan will cover safety, tool usage, and
the fundamentals of working with flame and glass. He’ll teach a variety
of basic bead shapes and decorative techniques, and you will go home
with your own wearable creations! Students who
complete 16 hours of class time and/or receive teacher sign-off may
participate in open torch events and rent Flameworking Studio torch
time.
Continuation & On-Demand Classes:
Students should have completed the 4-week
Beginning class or have some beadmaking experience, be able to control
glass, make basic bead shapes with good ends in a reasonable amount of
time and handle basic decorative techniques.
Spooky Stuff
Instructor: Sharon Peters
Beginning/Intermediate
$175
Sunday
October 11, 9am - 5pm
Special Holiday Class! It’s time to play all day
with Goblin Faces, Black Cats, Pumpkins, Ghosts and other spooky
stuff! We’ll cover basic sculptural techniques, making faces with
expression, cat faces/bodies, and make some incredibly cute beads for
your holiday necklaces.
Fishy
Business Instructor: Sharon Peters
Beginning/Intermediate Level
$175 Class Dates TBD 9am–5pm Turn your wonky
beads into a fabulous school of fish! We’ll cover a bunch of fish-body
decorative techniques, how to work with heat and gravity to shape your
beads, eye & mouth expression, and cool tools to use for patterns
and fins. You’ll learn new techniques, improve your heat control, make
a bunch of fish in class, and never throw away another bead you could
turn into a fish! Plan to stay late — we’ll have a Beatles Bead Toss
after dinner, too much fun!
Easter
Bunnies, Eggs & Peeps Instructor: Sharon Peters Beginning/Intermediate
Level $99 Class Dates TBD 6 - 10 pm
Special Holiday Class – learn to make bunnies, colored eggs and
peeps, just in time for Easter! We’ll cover basic sculptural
techniques, then get to work making incredibly cute beads for your
holiday necklaces. Mark your calendar – we’re planning to do
Halloween and Christmas classes, too!
Special Topics +
Supervised Torch Time
Continuation/Intermediate
Prereq: Beadmaking 1
Scheduled
on demand, 3 students minimum
3
hours of instruction plus 2 hours supervised torch time $99
Subject matter determined by student level. Continuing
Students will learn exciting new intermediate level shaping and
decorative techniques. The instructor will be winging these classes
topics and techniques to be determined by his imagination and your
needs! You?l receive 3 hours of instruction and 2 additional hours of
supervised practice time
Special Topics
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Continuation/Intermediate
Prereq: Beadmaking 1
Scheduled
on demand, 3 students minimum
2-5
pm and 6-10 pm. $99 each, or $175 for both.
Continuing Students who have learned the basics will learn
exciting new intermediate level shaping and decorative techniques. The
instructor will be winging these classes topics and techniques to be
determined by his imagination and your needs!
Intermediate/Advanced
Classes:
Students should be experienced beadmakers, able to
control glass, make basic bead shapes with good ends in a reasonable
amount of time and handle basic decorative techniques.
Kissy Lips and Goblins Instructor: Sharon Peters
Intermediate
Level $225 Class Dates TBD 9am—5pm
Have a hankering to make a Thing That Goes Bump In The
Night? Learn it here! We’ll cover a lot eyes, noses mouths both closed
and screaming, kissylips, big floppy ears, hair, and even hats, if you
want em. You’ll learn to make faces with expression, both human and
-Non, and have a heck of a time doing it, and learn to play with the
techniques to create your own designs. Plan to stay late — we’ll have a
Beatles Bead Toss after dinner, too much fun!
Creative Sculptural
Beadmaking #1: Bringing Your Sillystuff to Life
Instructor: Sharon Peters Intermediate Level
$450
Two day class
with Bead Toss
Class Dates TBD
Get it all here! You’ll learn to visualize and design
sculptural beads from the inside out, how to diagram your designs, and
how to create the design by working from largest to smallest detail.
You’ll learn how to turn wonky beads into great fish, where to go for
inspiration and design ideas, and how to find your own creative voice.
You’ll practice new techniques while making an assortment of strange
creatures! You’ll learn to control the flame while making dessert!
You’ll experience the amazing Beatles Bead Toss, and you’ll survive the
Dreaded Poopypants Creativity Exercise! Fun & learning guaranteed!
Plan to stay late the first night — we’ll have a Beatles Bead Toss
after dinner, too much fun!
In the Octopus Garden Instructor: Sharon Peters Intermediate Level $225 Class Dates TBD 9am—5pm
Welcome to the Ocean! This class will cover landscape,
mural, encasing, and surface sculpture techniques. We’ll make cased
goldstone, latticino and seaweed cane, and practice our octopie ( yum!) to get the technique
down. Then you’ll learn how to make a pretty fabulous aquarium bead
with sand, seaweed, ocean currents, millefiori barnacles, and a big
octopus wrapped around the surface. You’ll learn a lot of great
techniques that you can apply to your own individual designs, and have
a fabulous time trying to find a place to put
that…last…stinkin…tentacle! Plan to stay late — we’ll have a Beatles
Bead Toss after dinner, too much fun!
Critter Bonanza
Instructor: Sharon Peters
Intermediate
Level $225 Class Dates TBD 9am—5pm
It’s raining
cats & mice in this one - it ain’t easy bein’ Cheesey! We’ll cover basic sculptural
techniques and cartoon design, important if you want to morph a critter
into something else! We’ll
wrap a cute little mouse around a fabulous cylinder bead, and maybe put
one on a cat’s head, mess with cats a bit, then go on to Classic
Cartoon Creatures and if there’s time, we’ll make some cheese!
Monkey Shines
Instructor: Sharon Peters
Intermediate
level $225 Class Dates TBD 9am—5pm
We’ll cover basic sculptural techniques, cartoon design,
and facial expressions (your monkey HAS to have expressions, ya know?),
and then we’ll make some Monkey Faces! Then we’ll cover leaf, branch
and vine cane, and design and make a Monkey In The Jungle mural bead
swingers welcome, bananas optional! Oh, and that ‘Shines’ We’ll make a
sun, too. Plan to stay late — we’ll have a Beatles Bead Toss after
dinner, too much fun!
All
class supplies (glass, tools, Nortel Mega Minor torches, didymium
glasses, dipped mandrels and kilns) are provided for each
student's use, and lunch is provided for full-day classes.
Bio: Sharon
Peters
Sharon Peters has an art degree from UC Irvine, where she
focused on design, leaded glass and printmaking. She first melted glass
on the torch in April 1996, was burned, delighted and hooked, and has
been happily working with hot glass ever since. Her sculptural glass
beads are made using Italian Effetre glass, and many of her designs
date back to childhood. Sharon's work has been exhibited in the U.S.,
Europe, Scandinavia and Japan, and has appeared in numerous books and
magazines, including: Bead&Button, Bead Unique, Profitable Glass
Quarterly, The Flow, Beads of Glass, 1,000 Glass Beads, and The
Masters: Glass Beads. She's been teaching classes across the U.S.
since 1999, and makes sure all the students have a great time. They get
lots of personal attention and learn how to apply the new techniques to
their own personal styles, survive Beatles Bead Tosses, and make
S’Mores on the torch.
Her website: www.smartassglass.com
Bio:
Harlan Simon
Harlan Simon has been professionally making and exhibiting
glass beads and glass bead jewelry for ten years. He regularly teaches
at various Northern California art centers, including Studio One,
Oakland’s public art studio, and is known for his warmth, humor,
technical expertise and teaching skill. Harlan has appeared on public
radio, cable TV, and the how-to internet site www.expertvillage.com . His
work has also been featured in Lark Book? 1,000 Glass Beads, and
The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking. Previously, Harlan worked
as a trial lawyer.
His website: www.harlanbeads.com
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