First Fire: Glass Fusing for Beginners
First Fire: Glass Fusing for Beginners
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- Sat, Jul 18, 2026 from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Discover glass fusing in our most accessible class yet! Join us in the studio for a two hour exploration of glass-working in a friendly, safe environment with our experienced instructors.
In First Fire, you'll learn to create works of art by cutting, shaping, and layering colored sheet glass while creating a shallow dish, glass tile, set of coasters, or a sun catcher. After tacking your glass art together, it's carefully loaded into one of our fusing kilns where the elements of your design will melt together and become a single piece of glass - it's like stained glass or mosaics, but without the need for soldering or grout!
How to choose: Glass Experience, or Studio Class?
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Check out our Glass ExperiencesIf you’ve never interacted with art glass before and just want a casual introduction to the medium, you’ll want to book a Glass Experience. These are half-day sessions that are a lot of fun, whether solo or with a group.
These make for great team-building events, and we also have seasonal experiences where you can make pieces that are season or holiday-specific.
If you have a Groupon for BAGI, then the Glass Experience is for you—book here.
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Check out our Studio ClassesIf you’re ready to dig deep and start on the right path to becoming a proficient glass artist, you’ll want to book a Studio Class.
Age Requirements
Studio Classes:
All studio and visiting artist classes are available to adults ages 16 and up with variable prerequisites.
Glass Experiences:
Almost every class or experience is open to anyone ages 8 and up, except those in the Flameworking studio.
An adult must accompany children between the ages of 8 and 15. *Unless they attend one of our designated youth camps.
Flameworking Studio:
All experience classes and youth glass camps in the flameworking studio (soft & borosilicate) have a minimum age requirement of 12 years old.
Cancellation Policies
Studio Classes and Glass Experiences
To reschedule, please contact studio@bagi.org with all of the information used to book the class. Please allow up to 3 business days to process the request.
- Requests made with less than 7 days of notice will require a $15 rescheduling fee be paid before being rescheduled.
- Requests made with less than 4 days notice will be considered a cancellation. Please see below.
You can cancel an experience or class yourself here. Pull up the order, and hit "Request return"—our team will attend to you ASAP.
- Cancellations made 5 days before the first day of a class will be issued a 100% refund.
- Cancellations made 4 days before the first day of class will be issued a 50% refund.
- No refunds will be given with less than three days (72 hours) notice.
- No refunds for no-shows.
- If BAGI were to cancel a class, a full refund for the class would be issued.
Practice Sessions
BAGI reserves the right to cancel practice sessions up to 24 hours prior to a session if only one person has enrolled (there is a two-person minimum). We apologize for any inconvenience.
Private Events/Team Building Events
- Cancellations made up to 7 days prior to the event will receive a 100% refund.
- Cancellations made up to 3–6 days prior to the event will be issued a 50% refund.
- Rescheduling 3–6 days before your event will incur a $50 rebooking fee.
- A rescheduled event will not be considered for a second rescheduling and will, therefore, be considered a cancellation. If this occurs, 100% of the deposit will be forfeited.
- No refunds will be given with less than 3 days' (72 hours) notice of cancellation.
- No refunds for no-shows.
- If BAGI were to cancel an event, a full refund for the event would be issued.
Youth Glass Camps
Cancellations must be made 10 business days before the first day of camp to receive a refund. No refunds will be given with less than 10 days notice. If BAGI were to cancel a camp, a full refund would be issued.