PRE- & POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS AND TOURS FOR BECON 2009
MOLD MAKING AND KILNCASTING with Linda Ethier
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Friday, June 12-Tuesday, June 16, 2009 & Sunday, June 21
9:30am-5pm except June 21, 10am-1pm
Linda Ethier Studio
2846 NE Glisan Street
Portland, Oregon 97232
$825
A comprehensive introduction to kilncasting glass. This class will cover the important concepts and processes necessary to successfully complete your glass casting projects. It will include reverse relief box casting; open face plaster molds to create thick cast glass with layered imagery and pre cast inclusions; lost wax casting for glass; closed molds; glass options (billets, patties and frits); packing molds and inclusions; kiln set-up; firing theory and schedules; coldworking and more. Each student will make two projects.
6 students
Transportation not provided. Recommended lodging near the studio: http://www.everettstreetguesthouse.com/
PÂTE DE VERRE, METHODS TO FORM BY with Alicia Lomné
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Friday, June 12-Wednesday, June 17, 2009
9am-4:30pm except June 17, 9am-1pm
Bullseye Resource Center
$800
Pâte de Verre is a term used to describe a wide range of working methods and glass objects, and even so, there is still tremendous room for exploration. In this experimental workshop, students will explore a variety of processes used by Lomné in her thin-walled, carefully colored forms. This will include model making, mold construction, color mixing, inlay design, texture control, firing cycles, and coldworking. Students need not have extensive experience with glass, though a love of involved processes and a willingness to risk will propel you to success in this class. By the end of the workshop, students will be fully capable of working in these methods on their own.
8 students
CONSIDERING COLOR with Nathan Sandberg and Erik Whittemore
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Friday, June 12-Wednesday, June 17, 2009
9:30am-5:30pm
and Sunday, June 21, 9am – 1pm
Bullseye Research and Education Studio
$900
The effect of color in kilncast glass depends on many variables, including hue, saturation, value, transparency, surface, and form. Through a series of in-depth exercises working with glass and other materials, students in this class will develop a firm grasp of all of these factors and how they interact while using/learning basic kilncasting techniques, including mold making, firing, and limited coldworking. These exercises will culminate in a series of three final works that will fire during the course of BECon and come out of the kiln for review on the day following the conference. Experience in kilncasting is helpful, but not necessary.
8 students
TAKING 2D TO GLOWING 3D; PÂTE DE VERRE with Deborah Horrell
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Monday-Tuesday, June 15-16 & Sunday-Tuesday, June 21-23, 2009
9:30am-5pm
Deborah Horrell Studio
1553 SE Nehalem Street
Portland, OR 97202
$875
This workshop is designed for students who would like a close interaction and education with Deborah Horrell in her private Portland studio. The class will be structured around drawing to initiate the creative process. Selected drawings will be translated into hollow vessels using Deborah Horrell’s pâte de verre methods, which include model making, mold-making, glass packing techniques, inlay techniques, firings and kiln schedules. Students will gain inspiration and a working knowledge of pâte de verre, with notes and hand-outs to aide them in their continued personal investigations.
Students do not need to be accomplished at drawing, but familiarity with kilncasting will be advantageous. Students will enjoy focused, individual attention from both Deborah Horrell and her assistant, Anderson Bailey.
5 students
Transportation not provided. Horrell’s Sellwood studio is 3 miles from downtown Portland.
MYSTERIES OF LOST WAX REVEALED with Linda Ethier
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Monday, June 22-Friday, June 26, 2009
9:30am-5pm
Linda Ethier Studio
2846 NE Glisan Street
Portland, Oregon 97232
$825
There are times when only lost wax will do the job! Learn to create fully three-dimensional objects in glass. Bring your ideas! The class will cover techniques and tips for working with wax; sprues, vents, reservoirs, and crucibles; one part closed molds; multiple part molds for pâte de verre; glass options (billets, patties and frits); inclusions; packing molds; introduction to pate de verre; firing theory and schedules; coldworking; RTV molds and more. Each student will make two projects.
6 students
Transportation not provided. Recommended lodging near the studio: http://www.everettstreetguesthouse.com/
THICK WITH IMAGES with Jeffrey Sarmiento
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Monday, June 22-Friday, June 26, 2009
9:30am-5pm
Bullseye Resource Center Studio
$800
There are many different technologies available for putting imagery, text, visual patterns and photographs onto (and subsequently inside of) glass, and Jeffrey Sarmiento has experience with many of them. In this workshop students will learn fundamental computer imaging and printing techniques to make and use photosensitive sandblast resists and decals, as well as silkscreens for printing enamels. For the purposes of illustration, pieces will be executed on layers of sheet glass resulting in works up to 2” (5cm) thick. Students should plan to bring a laptop with Photoshop/Illustrator, a thumb drive, and a digital camera with cable.
8 students
KILNCAST GLASS with Richard Whiteley
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Monday, June 22-Sunday, June 28, 2009
9am-4:30pm
Bullseye Research and Education Studio
$1000
This class will develop a foundation in the techniques of mold-melted glass and coldworking. Students will learn a variety of mold-making processes, kiln firing procedures and extensive coldworking and carving of Bullseye glass. The aim of the class will be for students to gain skills necessary to develop a creative dialogue with the material and to discover new perspectives for thinking through cast glass and its potential. There are no prerequisites but students with some experience in glass and/or sculpture will get more out of this workshop than absolute beginners.
8 students
PORTLAND STUDIO & HOME TOUR
Wednesday, June 17
Two options:
8am-12:30pm
or
12:30pm-5pm PM Session Sold Out
$60
Visit some of Portland's most interesting kilnforming studios for art and architecture and tour a home inspired by kilnformed glass.
Deborah Horrell’s Sellwood studio is equipped for mold making, firing and coldworking her cast glass sculpture. She is an artist who exhibits sculpture and painting regularly and produces public commissions.
Linda Ethier's casting studio is designed to create her cast glass sculptures using a variety of mold making techniques. She balances her career as an exhibiting artist with innovative, site-specific kilnformed work for public spaces.
Bullseye Research & Education studio: By immersing ourselves in casting research including artist commissioned fabrication projects and large scale-architectural projects, we understand the challenges in creating a wide range of kilnformed work. Our staff will walk you through a few of those projects, discuss specific fabrication techniques, and provide an overview of the tools that equip the studio.
Dan Schwoerer and Lani McGregor's home has been described as "a laboratory for living with glass." How does glass fare as a stair tread? A washbasin? A deck? What happens to it outdoors in freezing winter or sweltering summer? Join Lani McGregor at their home for answers to these questions and to tour their collection of kilnformed glass art from around the world.