To Consider: A Methods-Rich Workshop

Kilncasting with Frit
Taught by Nathan Sandberg
February 18-22

While this class focuses on the advantages of casting with glass frits, participants will also gain experience in an array of processes that are useful in other forms of kilncasting, as well as kilnforming. You’ll learn to create textures in glass by adjusting firing temperatures and to mix highly specific colors for casting. You’ll even explore the coldshop and have plenty of time to finish the open-faced castings you’ve created, using a variety of machines and processes.

Kilncasting with frit involves mixing small chunks of clear or colored glass with colored glass powders, loading this mixture into a reservoir within a hand-built refractory mold, and firing the setup in a kiln until the glass flows to fill the voids. Everything about the process—from the design and fabrication of the mold, to the mixing of subtle colors, to the creation of precise firing schedules—demands much attention. The resulting pieces can be highly individual, reflecting an artist’s very particular sense of texture, color and form.

If you’d like to learn a variety of techniques, but don’t have a lot of time, this might just be the class for you. There are no prerequisites.

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Our respected teaching studios are attached to the Bullseye glass factory—where many of the materials and methods fundamental to kiln-glass have been developed over the past 30 years in collaboration with artists from around the world.

Bullseye Glass Co. Research & Education Studios
3610 SE 21st Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97202 USA
phone 503.227.2979
fax 503.238.9963
e-mail classes@bullseyeglass.com
http://www.bullseyeglass.com/education/

Bullseye Glass Co. is a leader in promoting glass art worldwide through quality production of colored glass for art and architecture, research and education, and the presentation of innovative glass art in its Portland gallery.