Beginner Level Hot Glass Workshop

In this workshop, we will embark on a completely unique experience. Throughout the day, we will learn to defy gravity with honey-like molten glass in our hands.

Now, where do we begin? In this workshop, we will first familiarize ourselves with the hot glass studio. Then, we’ll cover safety rules, how to hold the blowpipe and pontil (noble), workshop movements and exercises, how to gather glass from the furnace, shaping the gathered glass on the marver table, using jacks, necking, shears, and tweezers, mass form exercises, creating a round mass with solid glass, making a round mass with solid glass and adding 2 or 3 bubbles, making a paperweight with colored interior (flower and twist). With the knowledge and skills acquired up to this point, we will move on to glass blowing. After honing our control over the glass, we’ll conclude our works by blowing a sphere.

*Works created in this workshop will undergo the annealing process and will be shipped later.

Instructor: Anna Seda Pöhrekçi