Classes have finally gotten under way!

After having survived all of the Occupational Health & Safety talks and meetings of last week, Maddison and I have hit the ground running!

This week we finally got the go ahead from our lovely tech Phil to actually go and start making work in the shop. Maddison and I were working on the forms from our hot shop class last week of some high bowls. They turned out okay, even though it seriously felt like I had never blown glass before!

The glass here is batched from a sand-like mix, whereas at ACAD, we use the spectrum pillows to batch our furnaces. This results in glass that's A LOT stickier and flexible. It has it's pros and cons, but it has been a steep learning curve to what I've accumulated as my base knowledge in my time at ACAD.

So, in short, the bowl i made weren't that fantastic, but I'm getting better at it! I also really like the format of how the School of Art runs their workshops as well as how the Glass Workshop is organized. Different, but good :)

Fulbright Scholar and our Kiln class instructor Matt Perez giving us a demo in the mould room.

Brian Corr doing a demo in the hot shop, assisted by Alex.

View from the assistant's chair. Madd working on a high bowl.

Me working on a high bowl.

Photo By Maddison Klein.

Cheers,

Charissa