Check out the joys of fusing glass in BAGI's Fusing Survey class. It's a non-technical survey class that is designed to give you a general idea of what it takes to create beautiful fused glass art. You will choose your colors, cut your glass and design your own 8" plate... all in one day!

This course will introduce a hot, third dimension to kiln-formed work. The class will work in the Australian Roll-Up technique. A technique in which pre-fused glass tiles are picked up on a blowpipe and blown, or manipulated, into vessels and/or sculptural forms. Students will be introduced to both kiln working & furnace working in BAGI's studio. The class is interactive. Students will design, create, and either assists the instructor in blowing their piece or if the student is a glassblower, they will blow their own piece. The first day of class will be spent creating the kiln worked panels that will be fused and ready for  glassblowing on days 2 & 3 of the class. With the skills learned, kiln working students will have the knowledge, and the experience, to work with a gaffer to create their designs in a hot shop. Students who blow glass themselves will have learned a remarkable new technique that they malaise in the hot shop. 

See what happens to fusing glass when it is super heated in the kiln. We will spend our first day building up our tiles for high fires -- prepping the shelves and building up a safe and effective dam system to hold the molten glass, and we will  set up ceramic pots for aperture pour ‘pot melts’.  Our focus will be on design and depth, color combining, as we fill our reservoir moulds with glass for melting, kiln safety for this sort of work will be addressed. The next day will focus on coldworking and how best to utilize these pieces for secondary firings.

A weekend will be spent exploring all the aspects of strip construction. This technique, where designs are built up by placing strips of glass on edge, is a wonderful process for arranging designs in an even and orderly manner. We will cover methods for uniform strip cutting, blocking patterns, windows, stripes, and geometrics.