Super cool, hands-on glass class! Some notes:
- This is a "lampworking" or "flameworking" glass class. This means detailed glass work with a small flame. You will *not* be making big glass blowing items or learning about that type of larger glass work (which uses a different type of glass and tools). You have the option of making a small marble, flower, leaf, ring, fish (all items are a few inches big at most).
- This class has a ton of room for creativity and independence! It also equips you with the basics of lampworking with glass. Alex was a fantastic teacher and did a great job giving context to the glass type, tools, things to watch out for, and just general guidance. After that, we had a lot of independence and made majority of the items ourselves. He was also super receptive to questions and allowing us to learn new ideas/techniques.
- The class is up to 2 hours, but we finished our items within 1.5 hours with a lot of customization!
- In a couples class you'll make 2 items side-by-side. You're not necessarily working together, but it's a really cool activity to do with a partner/friends as you're working/learning at the same time!
Overall we really enjoyed this class and had fun learning new techniques and creating funky items with lots of time to be creative/independent. If you're interested in less independent/more guided step-by-step class or larger glass blowing class, Hollywood Hot Glass Studio provided a very different type of glass class! But personally we enjoyed how hands-on and educational this class was and learned some new skills! read more