Glass Fusing and Slumping: Heart & Stand
1 Day Workshop | Available
Students will explore the key properties of glass, and how it melts and changes during fusing and slumping. In this 6-hour introductory workshop, students will create a thick fused glass heart and a fused and slumped glass stand on which to display it. Using a stainless steel heart-shaped mold, students will suspend colours and shapes inside a clear glass matrix. The fully fused glass base will be slumped over a right angle mold, making its finished shape sympathetic to the suspended heart.
Base Tuition: $140 + Material Fee: $55 = Total $195
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- What You Will Learn:
- How to cut and shape glass to build your design
- Key properties of glass such as transparency, translucency and opacity and how they impact your design
- How to prepare a metal mold for fusing, including the use of ceramic fibre paper
- How to control the size and shape of fully fused glass objects
- Kiln preparation and firing schedules
- - Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper for notes and sketching- Medium point black permanent magic marker (Sharpie)
All other materials will be supplied as part of the Material Fee.
Kathryn Irwin
Kathryn is a Toronto-based glass artist with over 35 years of experience. Until 2020, she collaborated with her sister, Jane Irwin, creating custom stained glass windows under the name Art Zone. Introduced to glass slumping and fusing in the early 1980's, Kathryn was captivated by the medium's candy-like quality and was instantly hooked. Self-taught and endlessly curious, she honed her art through trial and error and meticulous record-keeping. Over the years, the inclusion of fused glass became a signature of Art Zone designs. Today, Kathryn continues to explore the expressive potential of fused and slumped glass. She shares her passion through teaching, guiding students past the pitfalls so that they can enjoy early success in realizing their artistic visions.