Powder Drawing in Stained Glass with Suzanne Head and Kelsie McNair

Powder Drawing in Stained Glass with Suzanne Head and Kelsie McNair

Create detailed imagery in stained glass with enamels and powders!

By UrbanGlass

Date and time

June 25 · 6pm - June 30 · 9pm EDT

Location

UrbanGlass

647 Fulton St Floor 3 (Enter on Rockwell Pl.) Brooklyn, NY 11217

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About this event

  • 5 days 3 hours

Create detailed imagery in stained glass with enamels and powders! Unlike traditional glass painting, powder drawing allows students to fuse their glass at high temperatures with colored glass powder. This method allows students to create colorful drawings in any style, made entirely of glass. Create stunning portraits, figures, animals, and much more. Bring in any drawing or photograph, and transform the image into glass.

Check out an example of this process here! (https://www.instagram.com/p/CyNi__Au5ub/)


What to Expect: In this workshop, we will create detailed imagery with fused glass, and incorporate our designs into a stained glass panel. We’ll learn to draw with glass powders and paint with enamels, then add these images into a stained glass panel using the Tiffany copper foil technique.


Class will begin with demonstrations on how to draw with Bullseye glass powder and paint with glass enamel. Following a short, introductory project, students will have time to work on their own ideas. They’ll be encouraged to bring drawings and photographs to reference for inspiration. Students have the option to draw freehand, or trace a photographic reference. Once the imagery is finished, students will learn how to integrate their work into a stained glass panel.

Read more about how to prepare for class on our Registration Info page.

Additional work time for intensive students: Students will also have access to additional hours in the flat shop, without instruction, on Wednesday- Sunday from 1-5 pm. Students must be able to work safely, and independently be able to set up their work station. Students participating in student hours will need to be approved by the instructor and TA’s.


Eligibility: No previous experience required. Open to ages 14 and up.


Pick-up: The glass needs to be fused in the kiln and cool down overnight, so the students will have to return to UrbanGlass once notified to pick up their work.


This is an in-person class taking place on-site at UrbanGlass. Health and safety guidelines will be emailed to you upon registration.



6 Sessions, Tuesday - Sunday, June 25th - June 30th, 6-9pm each day

instructors Suzanne Head and Kelsie McNair

Organized by

UrbanGlass fosters experimentation and advances the use and critical understanding of glass as a creative medium. The organization provides access to and an education in glass for professional artists, seniors, students, and members of the public of all backgrounds and familiarity with the material. We offer year-round free and low-cost programming through our 17,000 square foot studios, robust class schedule, fellowship and scholarship opportunities, exhibition center, and in-house printed magazine.

Founded in 1977 by a group of dedicated artists, UrbanGlass sought to confront the many barriers limiting creative access to glass such as the high costs of real estate, equipment, and the scarcity of technical expertise. From the organization’s conception it served as it does today: As a creative hub and unparalleled resource center for artists, enabling this material to become available for experimentation beyond the confines of factories and universities in New York City for the first time. Today, glass is seen as an integral component of contemporary art’s complex landscape.

$1,010