We are now offering Flameworking classes! This style of glassmaking utilizes different equipment, movements and even glass formulas but its origins date back even further than glassblowing with the earliest intentional glass creations being solid beads made in this style. In this studio you will be working on bench top torches to manipulate either Borosilicate glass or soft soda lime glass. Whether you’ve never melted glass before or have years behind the torch, we have a class for you! This is a space to learn fundamentals, grow your skills or iron out the kinks and breath new life into your practice. Prepare to blow bubbles, construct complex hollow and solid forms, work with color manipulation and learn new prep skills, make soft glass components for your hot shop practice, or hit the mandrel and make some unique beads. Our team has a wide range of skills and experience and can offer something for everyone.
♦ Taste of Flameworking: Any and all welcome, no experience necessary! Bring yourself and/or friends, family or partners and enjoy a group class learning experience with borosilicate glass. This class is 1 hour long and includes hands-on time with a glass working torch and molten glass following a demonstration by a professional instructor with more than a decade experience working with glass.
Each scheduled class will be focused on one object and will be listed on our the Taste of Flameworking calendar of glass objects. Click here to sign up for our Taste of Flameworking Class!
♦ Bead Basics: Curious about the art of flameworking? This beginner-friendly class will introduce you to the foundations of glass bead making—no prior experience needed. Using a torch, you’ll learn how to melt and shape glass onto a mandrel (steel rod), practice creating basic bead forms, and explore simple decoration techniques to add patterns and texture.
We’ll also cover a demo on essential skills like proper annealing (controlled cooling), safely removing beads from the mandrel, and finishing your creations. By the end of class, you’ll leave with the confidence to continue exploring this exciting craft on your own! Since beads must cool overnight in the kiln, your instructor will take care of the finishing process for you, and your completed glass beads will be ready for pickup the following business day. Click here to sign up for our Bead Basics class!
♦ Hot Cafecito! Espresso Cup Workshop: Hot Cafecito! is a workshop in which each participant will craft their own small espresso style cup from borosilicate glass (aka Pyrex, heat resistant glass). this workshop is open to any and all, no experience necessary, though be aware that this process is a bit more intensive and challenging than our Taste of Flameworking offering. Bring yourself and however many friends, fam, partners we have spots open for! Click here to sign up for our Hot Cafecito Workshop!
♦ Pipe Workshop: Craft in borosilicate (Pyrex) glass your very own smoking pipe! Choose from a variety of colored glass options and experience the wonder, difficulty and satisfaction of shaping in the torch flame a one of a kind vessel for your favorite, legally defined, herb or leaf! Click here to sign up for our Pipe Workshop!
♦ Flameshop Private Lessons: Want to learn advanced flameworking techniques, or learn the basics in a one-on-one format? Then try out our flameshop private lessons! Click here to learn more and sign up for private lessons!