Simple Casting for Glass Beadmakers with Annette Shapiro Spring 2025

Simple Casting for Glass Beadmakers with Annette Shapiro Spring 2025

Cast small pendants, charms and other elements to add to your glass bead jewelry.

By UrbanGlass

Date and time

Sunday, June 29 · 11am - 5pm EDT

Location

UrbanGlass

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

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 6 hours

Cast small pendants, charms and other elements to add to your glass bead jewelry. Using a cuttlefish bone, which is used for birds to sharpen their beaks and claws, you will be able to easily carve simple shapes that you’ll fill with frit, powder and small inclusions, such as silver or copper wire and foils. Everyday tools, such as a sharp pencil, ceramic tools in plastic or wood, and dental tools can be used to carve out your shape.

Bring drawings with you, and you should be able to make several pieces by the end of class. I’ll show you a few ways to allow for wire wrapping or using jump rings to attach a piece to your jewelry.

This is a really fun class and it’s easy to make some stunning pieces that will enhance your jewelry.

What to Expect: Students can anticipate making 2-4 successful pieces in this class, along with some failures, while also refining their skills in translating a specific object into glass. Read more about how to prepare for class on our Registration Info page.

Eligibility: No previous experience required. Open to ages 12 and up.

Pick-up: The glass needs to cool down overnight then be carefully removed from the mandrels, 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

We recommend registering for classes early to reserve your spot! We base materials, and teacher needs off of student enrollment. Early registration not only guarantees your spot in class, but also helps to ensure the class will run. Classes with low enrollment may be cancelled within two weeks of the start date of class. Contact our Registrar of Education, Ari Eshoo, at arianna@urbanglass.org if you have questions about the class or would like to arrange a payment plan.

1 Session, Sunday, June 29th, 11am - 5pm

instructor Annette Shapiro

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UrbanGlass

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.

$210