Get ready to dive headfirst into the FUNdamentals of functionality, where we are all about turning your ideas into functional, handcrafted glassware (cups, straws, plasma, …) that are as fun to create as they are to use.

Tap into Amy and Carl's wealth of experience in scientific glassblowing, plasma, fabrication and design in this hands-on workshop. Expect plenty of collaboration, engaging demos, and personalized instruction to help bring out your best work. For the grand finale, we will join forces to fabricate a jacketed plasma vessel - a thrilling and collaborative project that will bring together everything you have learned throughout the workshop. 

*Intermediate level recommended, you will get more out of this workshop with at least one full year of working with hollow borosilicate glass.

*Optional - material fee for plasma transformer and electrodes if you want to make plasma. This optional add-on is available at registration and during the workshop. All other materials for participating in the course are included. If you have specific colors you are interested in working with please bring them with you.

This class meets from 9am to 5pm each day, Monday through Friday, with additional studio time Monday through Thursday, from 5pm to 9pm. 

Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Lemaire works with glass, photography and digital fabrication to create an array of tools, images, objects and situations that consider the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Her current body of work suggests a post-anthropocenic view of nature through handmade distortion lenses and transparent sculptural works that embrace a slippage of perception in search of spiritual balance in a shifting landscape.

Lemaire studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Pratt Institute (MFA). She has taught at institutions nationally, including the Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School,  & UrbanGlass, and worked with over a dozen Universities as a visiting artist. She currently teaches at Salem Community College in the Scientific Glass Technology program. Lemaire is a collaborator and a co-facilitator of the Flame Affinity Group, through the Glass Education Exchange (GEEX.glass).
 
Her work "Pollen Flow" won the Acquisition Prize at Mad About Jewelry 2021. She was the recipient of a Visionary Scholarship from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass in support of her 2015 fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts.

Her work has been included in exhibitions at Harvard University, the Delaware Contemporary, Heller Gallery, Traver Gallery, Helena Anrather and SARAHCROWN. Museum collections include the Museum of Art and Design and the Ringling Museum.

www.amylemaire.com 
@amylemairestudio