In this 1-day class, you’ll get a taste of making donut-shaped beads with simple decoration. It’s a completely hands-on experience. Enjoy four hours of learning the very basics of torchworking glass. All of your work will be done on mandrels so that you can incorporate them into jewelry.
Note: The Survey class does not meet BAGI's rental requirements. If your goal is to rent time in BAGI's hot-shop... you will need to take a Beadworking 1, Small Solid Sculpture or equivalent, in order to do so.

Fee: $110
Pre-requisite: None
Max. # of students: 6

Learn how to make glass beads with a torch!  This series is designed to teach students how to create well-centered donut and round glass beads, learning how to control the heat to achieve the desired shape. Students will also learn several decorative techniques using glass stringers to create various patterns on their beads based on lines and dots.  Come join us for 4 hours of challenge and fun each week over the course of four weeks!

Fee: $370
Pre-requisite: None
Max. # of students: 6

Beadmaking 2  expands on the basics! This series is designed to teach students how to create beads of different shapes: barrels, cylinders, and bicones. Students will also learn various techniques to encase beads in transparent glass, make twisted and striped cane, and create beads with applied floral motifs.

Night 1:  Making Long Beads
Want to expand on your bead making skills with some new shapes?  In this class, we'll start with round beads and morph them into barrels, cylinders, and bicones.

Night 2:  Encasing Your Beads
Add depth to your beads by learning how to encase them in transparent glass.  You will learn 3 different techniques for encasing, as well as when and why to use each technique.

Night 3:  Making Decorative Cane
Stringers... with a twist!  Learn how to make striped cane and twisted cane, as well as how to apply them to your beads.  And if you signed up for the Encasing class, you can combine the two techniques for some real magic!

Night 4:  Floral Beads
In this class, you will learn to make cane that you will then use to add flowers and leaves to the surface of your beads.
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Fee: $370
Pre-requisite: Beadmaking 1a or equivalent.
Max. # of Students: 6

Fee: $130
Pre-requisite: Beadmaking 1a or equivalent.
Max. # of students: 6

Learn about borosilicate glass and off-mandrel Lampworking techniques in this introductory class.  Color application and encasement will be covered while sculpting and decorating fish from glass punty rods.  Also, explore blowing glass on the torch using a glass blowtube to make hollow blown vessels.

Fee: $300
Pre-Requisite: None
Max. # of students: 6

Learn how to shape a round borosilicate
glass sphere using graphite marble molds. Clear encasement and surface designs will be covered including twisties and implosions. Master the punty transfer while making marbles that are approximately 1" diameter.

Fee: $225
Pre-Requisite: Beginning Boro or equivalent recommended
Max # of students: 6

Take the next step with borosilicate tubing.  Use the torch to construct, and blow, a shapely vessel then fuse on a separate blown coil pot foot.  Finish your perfume bottle with a custom designed solid color dropper.

Fee: $225
Pre-Requisite: Beginning Boro or
equivalent recommended
Max # of students: 6

Fee: $100
Pre-requisite: None
Max. # of students: 6
Min # of students : 2

This class is for fusers who want to expand their horizons by creating components in the torch which can be used in their kiln work.  We’ll use Bullseye glass to create squiggles, twisties polka dots and more. Note that we’ll not be fusing in this class, but you’ll leave with many components to use on your next project, plus lots of inspiration.

Fee : $120
Pre-requisite : No flameworking experience needed.
Max # of students : 5
Min # of students : 2

*This class will occur if the Oct 9 class fills to capacity