GLASS – SUMMER SESSION 6
July 28-August 9, 2024 (11 STUDIO DAYS)
Ché Rhodes
Reheated and Plated

This workshop will use the fundamental processes associated with pastorale plate and graal blank pickups as a starting point for developing traditional and experimental glass objects in the hotshop. Rather than focusing on working directly and immediately from the furnace, this workshop will be about preparing components and then heating or reheating them in the hotshop to create finished forms. We will first address traditional approaches to cane, murrine, and graal techniques and then move into the possibilities of working with experimental parts, flat glass, commercial and recycled glass, and even found glass objects in the hotshop. We will also consider what it might look like to work in the hotshop without immediate access to a furnace. All levels. Hot glass studio.

Associate professor and head of glass at University of Louisville; other teaching: Pilchuck (WA), The Studio at Corning (NY), UrbanGlass (NYC), Scuola del Vetro (Venice), Penland; demonstrator at three Glass Art Society conferences; James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award; Penland trustee; collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Speed Museum (Louisville).

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Oct 15 – Nov 15: Scholarship applications accepted
Jan 15 – Regular enrollment opens