Hot-Glass Sculpting
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen & Jasen Johnsen
Friday - Tuesday, October 22 - 26, 2010
$1150 members/$1200 non-members
Prerequisite: Three years of hot-glass experience and an equal measure of hard work, perseverance, and fun required!
Intermediate/Advanced
 This intensive course is designed to help students realize their ideas by building on time-proven, as well as innovative hot-glass sculpting techniques, including experimental ways of drawing and creating texture with glass frits and powders, torch work, and the use of customized tools.
Fundamental ways of sculpting blown and solid parts will be taught with a focus on the use of the hot garage to construct with pats and an emphasis on teamwork. A substantial amount of time will be spent on essential thought processes as students develop their own dialog with glass using a newly introduced vocabulary.
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen is much admired for her ability to express naturalistic forms in glass. A true testimony to her love of nature, Willenbrink-Johnsen's work is the result of countless hours of observation and years of glass working experience. She has received numerous awards and is featured in museum worldwide.
Jasen Johnsen's ingeniousness as a maker is demonstrated in his series of hot-sculpted glass musical instruments and his hand created hot-sculpting tools. He was the studio technician at Pilchuck for ten years and an occasional summer-session gaffer. Johnsen and Willenbrink-Johnsen have collaborated for ten years and taught countless workshops in Australia, Canada, Japan and Scotland.
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