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JOIN US JULY 9 - AUGUST 15OR COLLECTOR'S PRIVATE PREVIEW TOUR JULY 5-6 Board of Directors Toni Hippeli Michael Miro Delinda VanneBrightyn Educational Directors William C. Davis JoNan Davis Advisory Board Diane Harris Jack Hill Don Larson Heather Miro Jan Mellor Jerome Nickerson Julie Rose Michael Walker Friends of TIGA Susan Clark Jane & Roy Dunlap Betsy & Richard Ehrenberg Ira Lujan Scott Messick Charlotte Miller Charlie Miner Patrick Morrisey Founding Members Delinda VanneBrightyn Michael Miro Carol Savid
EDUCATION
LECTURES/DEMONSTRATIONS CLASSES/WORKSHOPS
TIGA offers custom workshops and glass experience sessions for you, your family & friends, or your corporate or special interest group scheduled at your convenience. To inquire about this custom service, call us at 575-613-6484 or e-mail us at: inquire@tiganm.org
To register for any workshop or to reserve a seated space at a lecture, please visit our REGISTRATION PAGE
For a calendar version of our educational offerings, please click on our CALENDAR page.
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LECTURES/DEMONSTRATIONS/OPEN
HOUSE
JULY 9, 2010 , 5 - 7pm
- Educational Kick-Off Party for the 2010 Invitational
- TIGA: Taos Institute for Glass Arts
- Join us for an open house at TIGA and see what's new in equipment and educational opportunities. Meet artists and watch them demonstrate the possibilities of glass!
JULY 11, 2010 , 1 - 5pm
- Glass Blowing Demonstration with Artist Ira Lujan
- HENNINGSEN FINE ART
- Watch Taos Pueblo artist Ira Lujan and his friends create works in blown glass.
- Photo: Artwork of Ira Lujan
JULY 11 - 3pm
- Lecture with Artist David Ruth
- J FINE ART
- California artist David Ruth will share his slides and aventures to Antarctica on his quest to capture melting icebergs in glass.
- Photo: Artwork of David Ruth
JULY 18, NOON - 4pm
- Demonstration with Artist William Jennings-Hill
- WALDEN FINE ART
- In alchemical flames of fire, rods of glass transform into the mystical creatures and vessels of torchwork artist William Jennings-Hill
- Photo: Artwork of William Jennings-Hill
JULY 22, 2010 - 7:30pm
- LECTURE - "FUNCTIONAL DECOR AND THE BAHAUSE"
W/ ARMELLE LEROUX AND MICHAEL MIRO- FA FA'S FURNITURE AND FINE ART
Join us to learn more about how functional decor influences art and how it relates to the current contemporay art glass movement.
- Photo: Artwork of Joanne Teasdale
JULY 31 - 5:30pm
- Lecture with Artist
Joanne Teasdale
- HULSE-WARMAN GALLERY
Canadian Artist, Joanne Teasdale is known for her deep and serenely haunting painted canvass imagery. She has recently discovered the illuminating media of glass and now transfers her imagery to this translucent and dimensional media with stunning results.
- HULSE-WARMAN GALLERY
- Photo: Artwork of Joanne Teasdale
DATE TBA
- Demonstration with Artist Julie Rose-DeFeo
- ACT I GALLERY AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
- Watch the magical transformation of glass to graceful jewelry centerpieces in the hands of artist Julie Rose-DeFeo
- Photo: Artwork of Julie Rose-DeFeo
ONGOING, BY APPOINTMENT - STARTING IN JULY!
- The One-On-One Torchworking Experience
- w/ Julie Rose-DeFeo
- Learn to make hand-made glass beads working over a small flame with Julie Rose-DeFeo. Check back for more details to come.
JULY 15 - 19, 2010 at TIGA
- HAND-PAINTED AND PRINTED IMAGERY ON GLASS
- w/ Armelle LeRoux
- Learn the classical techniques of painting on glass with renowned conservationist Armelle LeRoux. Having worked for years restoring architectural glass of all types and periods, LeRoux will lead you through the journey of classical hand-painting techniques. Then, learn to mix special glass paints for applying a printed image onto the surface of the glass through a silk-screening process. Lastly, students will learn how to fire their works to permanently set the images into the glass panels they have created. Students will be enabled to take classical processes learned here and apply them to contemporary vision and direction, thus rendering their own inspired works in the luminosity of glass.
- Level: Beginning - Advanced
- Thursday, July 15 - Monday, July 19
- 10:00am - 5:00pm
- $550 + $110 materials fee
- JULY 24 - 25, 2010 at TIGA
- APPLYING CLASSICAL STAINED GLASS TECHNIQUES TO FUSED WORKS
- w/ Armelle LeRoux
- Calling all cold and warm-glass artists: Learn advanced stained glass cutting techniques from master artist and restorer LeRoux, and look at glass in whole new way. LeRoux will take you through glass cutting, design and contruction with a slant that will open your eyes to new possibilities in this age-old medium, while providing new relevance to warm glass techniques. From concept to completion, whether already competant in stained or fused glass methods, or exploring for the first time, each step will provide the student with an inspired approach. If you are a warm glass artist, LeRoux's methods will open up new pathways for your warm glass expressions.
- Level: Beginning - Advanced
- Saturday, July 24 - Sunday July 25
- 10:00am - 5:00pm each day.
- $225 + $90 materials fee.
- EXPLORE YOUR POTENTIAL IN GLASS - A BEGINNING GLASS EXPERIENCE
- w/ Michael Miro
- Join us a TIGA for a fun evening of learning to explore in glass. You will have the opportunity to make a piece of jewelry, a plate, or other small project. TIGA staff will lead you through the entire experience with beautiful results. The colors and luminosity of glass is very exciting in which to work!
- Level: Beginning
- Thursday, July 29
- 6:30am - 8:30pm
- $45, includes materials
July 31 - August 1, 2010 at TIGA
- SURFACE RESURFACE
- w/ Delinda VanneBrightyn
- Once you have a cast sculpture or flat-fused work in glass, how do you clean the work and finish the surface to the desired effect? Do you want to create a polish or a matte finish? Do you want to further manipulate the work with carving, texture or patina? Bring your latest work to this workshop and find out how the right tools and techniques can take your work to the next level. Work with the Foredom Flexshaft, sandblaster, flat lap, belt sander and more. Explore adhesives and patina. Leave class with a small studio kit to provide you with some basic finishing accessories and the ability to access the TIGA cold-working studio with minimum assistance through the TIGA COMMUNITY ACCESS STUDIO.
- Level: Beginning - Intermediate
- Saturday, July 31 - Sunday August 1
- 10:00am - 5:00pm each day.
- $195 + $75 materials fee.
August 5, 6:30 - 8:30 PM @ TIGA
- EXPLORE YOUR POTENTIAL IN GLASS - A BEGINNING GLASS EXPERIENCE
- w/ Michael Miro
- Join us a TIGA for a fun evening of learning to explore in glass. You will have the opportunity to make a piece of jewelry, a plate, or other small project. TIGA staff will lead you through the entire experience with beautiful results. The colors and luminosity of glass is very exciting in which to work!
- Level: Beginning
- Thursday, August 5
- 6:30am - 8:30pm
- $45, includes materials
AUGUST 11 - 15, 2010 at TIGA
- THE COMPONENT APPROACH:
- WORKING SMALL, BUILDING BIGGER
- w/ Anna Boothe
- Change your perspective on how you approach kiln-casting and open up a new world! Expand your options by learning how to decrease kiln time and manageability of large castings as well as to control color gradations and transitions between thick and thin forms. Explore how to best design objects prior to casting via segmentation, re-assembly choices, and presentation issues through the incorporation of metal parts and the use of adhesives. A seed project will be introduced from which students may individually design a small, several part sculpture suited to their particular interests.
- Level: Intermediate - Advanced
- Wednesday, August 11 - Sunday, August 15
- 10:00am - 5:00pm
- $595 + $120 materials fee
AUGUST 18 - 22, 2010 at TIGA
- MULTI-PART MOLD-MAKING FOR KILN CASTING
- w/ Anna Boothe
- Learn Why, How, and When to make multi-part refractory molds for your sculptural hollow and solid kiln castings. Allow yourself more freedom to explore forms directly in clay or plasticene without the necessity of transporting a positive into wax, while providing yourself with access to the interior of your molds and better control of glass packing as a result. Students will be guided in the making of a sample palette on the first day that will be used to inform the two small projects to be executed during the course of the workshop.
- Level: Beginning - Intermediate
- Wednesday, August 18 - Sunday August 22
- 10:00am - 5:00pm each day.
- $595 + $120 materials fee.
- EXPLORE YOUR POTENTIAL IN GLASS - A BEGINNING GLASS EXPERIENCE
- w/ Michael Miro
- Join us a TIGA for a fun evening of learning to explore in glass. You will have the opportunity to make a piece of jewelry, a plate, or other small project. TIGA staff will lead you through the entire experience with beautiful results. The colors and luminosity of glass is very exciting in which to work!
- Level: Beginning
- Saturday, August 28
- 1:00am - 3:00pm
- $45, includes materials
NOVEMBER 12 - 14, 2010 at TIGA
- LOST-WAX CLOSED-MOLD CASTING IN GLASS
- w/ Delinda VanneBrightyn
- Cast your sculpture in glass utilizing the ancient technique of lost wax combined with current technologies of glass and modern-day refractories. You will learn how to make a layered refractory mold, venting techniques for successful casting, and calculating amounts of glass needed to fill a closed refractory mold. Students will have hands on experience in all aspects, including wax sculpting, making and drying the mold to ready it for casting, wax melt-out, and proper preparation of the glass for casting. Discussions in understanding different types of refractory materials, how the glass fills the mold, combining and designing color within the work, and determining firing schedules will be forefront in this workshop.
- Level: Intermediate - Advanced
- Friday, November 12 - Sunday November 14
- 10:00am - 5:00pm each day
- Divestment & pick-up work: Sat. November 20, noon-2
- $320 + $120 materials fee.
- ONGOING, BY APPOINTMENT
- The One-On-One Welding Experience
- w/ Jack Hill
- Jack Hill, an accomplished welder and metal-smith with 40 years of experience in all phases of welding, is offering a one-on-one tig welding class by appointment to fit with your schedule. Learn how to form and fab metal for mounting your art glass. Not a glass artist? Then come learn the basics of welding and get on your way to welding together your sculpting and fabricating dreams. Jack's accreditations include: ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Accreditation and 17 Certifications with AWS - American Welding Society, which range from mild steel to titanium. Also a sculptor working in metal, stone, and glass, Jack won best of show at Breckenridge, CO's Scultpure on the Blue. Hill has exhibited his works at Robert Mangold's Art Yard in Denver, The Steam Plant Sculpture Garden in Salida, CO, and was featured artist at the Foothills Fine Art Festival in Golden, CO. For more info on Jack visit his website: www.mohawkvisions.com or write to Jack Hill - jnh@mohawkvisions.com
- Level: Beginning - Intermediate
- By Appointment
- $290 + $40 materials fee (includes metal, welding hood, and welding jacket)
