Pottery |Glass Fusing| Flameworking Torch Arts Crafts Classes
We teach pottery, glass fusing and flameworking torch classes at our ceramics arts and crafts studio and offer boy|girl scouts pottery glass fusing merit badge arts & crafts classes. We're conveniently located halfway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale in the City of Hollywood, Florida. We also host pottery glass fusing & paint arts and crafts fun parties at our ceramics studio.
People with experience or those attending our classes can access our studio and use our tools and facilities, on a membership or on a pay per day basis, to practice these fine art forms -please see MIY Ceramics arts and crafts pottery | glass fusing open studio access for information on our access plans.
All our classes are taught by experienced artists. We currently offer the arts crafts classes described below:
Adults Pottery Classes | Kids Pottery Classes | Lampworking Glass Classes | Glass Fusing Classes
Adult Pottery art & Craft Class - Handbuilding|Wheel Throwing
Want to learn how to make functional and decorative ceramic pieces, renew old skills or gain new ones? Our 'hands-on' teaching approach, classes taught by local artists and lots of studio practice sessions can do that for you. After taking a class, or if you have pottery experience, you can use our facilities to make your own pottery pieces on a pay-per-day basis. If you plan to come frequently, join us as a member - see our open access pottery arts & crafts ceramics studio membership program.
Want to get a feel for pottery before a class? Try a ceramics day of fun clay/pottery arts & crafts studio party!
At our studio we also teach warn glass fusing art crafts fused jewelry artwork classes.
Basic Pottery- Hand Building or Wheel Throwing
In both classes you learn to work with clay from start to finish. In
hand building you learn shaping techniques like pinch, coil, slab and
sculpting. At the wheel we teach you basic skills such as how to
center, cone, pull, shape and decorate. You also learn to make and
fasten separate finishing pieces like lids, handles, and knobs. The
end result will be your first artistic creation.
Four 3-hour instructor-led sessions plus two 3-hour free practice sessions - $150.00 either course*
Advanced Pottery - Hand Built or Wheel Thrown
This
class is an extension of our Basic Pottery class designed to take you
further into the clay experience by teaching you how to make complex
forms. Also good for those needing a refresher class. You will get to build an intricate glazed piece like a vase!
Four 3-hour instructor-led sessions plus two 3-hour free practice sessions - $175.00 either course*
* all inclusive ...instruction, clay, glazes, tools and firings. See calendar for our next class or contact us if you need a different schedule or a customized class.
Kid Pottery Arts & Crafts Class - Handbuilding|Wheel Throwing
Exposure to art is an important element in a child's cultural development. Our hands-on teaching approach and easy to make projects make learning ceramics fun for kids. After taking a pottery class or, if they have pottery experience, kids can use our facilities on a pay-per-day basis to practice this fine art form. During their summer school vacation, they can join us as members for a month or longer - see our open access pottery arts & crafts ceramics studio membership program.
Want to get a feel for pottery before a class? Try a ceramics day of fun clay/pottery arts & crafts studio party!
We also offer warm glass fusing art craft fused jewelry artwork classes where kids learn to make dicroic glass jewelry and artwork.
Children - Ages 5 - 8
Introduction to Hand Building
Children
learn the fundamentals of hand building by making and cutting shapes
and assembling them together to make a fun sculpture.
Four 3-hour sessions - $110.00 *
Juniors - Ages 9 - 13
Basic Hand Building Pottery
Kids learn basic pinch pot, coil pot, slab construction and sculpting methods and shape and assemble separate pieces together to make a final structure.
Four 3-hour sessions - $120.00 *
Basic Wheel Throwing Pottery
We
teach kids to work with clay from start to finish. They lean basic wheel throwing skills like centering coning, pulling, shaping and trimming. We also teach them how to build and attach separate finishing pieces like lids, knobs and handles. The end result will be their very first creation!
Four 3-hour of teaching plus two 3-hour practice sessions - $150.00*
* all inclusive ...instruction, clay, glazes, tools and firings of all the pieces. See calendar for our next class or contact us if you need a different schedule or a customized class.
Boy and Girl Scouts Pottery Merit Badge Classes
We are certified by the South Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America as a merit badge counselor. We offer boy/girl scouts pottery and glass fusing merit badge art & craft classes as well as paint your own pottery studio painting parties.
Lampworking| Flameworking Hot Glass Torch Beading Art Class
We teach lampworking/flameworking/beading hot glass classes using professional 'super hot' surface mix torches; not your typical little hot head. In a class you learn to make your own glass beads, pendants, hearts, bead fish, stringers, perfume vessels and other glass artwork pieces with a professional gas torch. This hot glass forming technique (also known as lamp working, torch working, beading or beadmaking) uses a torch to shape glass into artwork pieces. It is a is challenging, fun and intensely gratifying pastime.
Lampworking comes from yes, working with lamps. The history goes something like this: "it was discovered that by forcing a narrow stream of air into the flame from an oil lamp, sufficient heat could be generated to soften and work small pieces of glass. By the beginning of the fifteenth century scientific apparatus were being made using this new technique all across Europe. Some of the original apparatus used by Galileo himself still survives. Here is some of the technical stuff, if you are not interested just skip below for the pricing. We have 3 torches, 2 GTT's and one Nortel, using surface mixing torches with propane and oxygen. We have an awesome 2500 CFM sucking vent, this ensures that you aren't breathing those fumes and getting light headed. We can teach you how to use a hot head torch... but everything is better with oxygen. We have limited seating (just two spots) which is great for you because you get lots of individual attention.
In this class you will use a gas torch to make just about anything in glass. This is a hot hot hot class, you will get HOT! and you will be making some hot stuff. This is not for the squeamish or feint of heart, but it is a unique and fun experience. A class costs $190 and includes instructio, demonstrations, gas and oxygen, glass materials, beads and all the glass artwork annealing in our kiln. A class consists of either one 5-hour or two 2.5-hour sessions. In a class, you learn how to make pendants, pull stringer, make twisties, beads, plunge, rake and even mushroom. See our calendar for the next available class and to register. if you don't see a class scheduled call us and we will setup a glass lampworking class class just for you! Please wear closed toe shoes for these classes!
We teach pottery arts and crafts classes at our ceramics studio as well as warm glass fusing arts and crafts fused jewelry artwork classes. We also host pottery | glass fusing | paint arts and crafts fun parties at our ceramics studio.
In a class you get an overview of glass properties and safety talk, how to light a torch, how to heat up the glass, how to pull a bail, how to make a pendant, how to cute the glass rods, how to punt up to the piece, and how to pull a stringer.
We offer a shortened 3-hour private class scheduled at your convenience. It costs $125 and includes instruction, use of studio facilities and tools, glass materials, gas and oxygen, annealing in a kiln of the pieces made and help from our instructor to complete at least one artwork piece.
After taking a class, or if you have lamp working experience, you can use our studio at $18/hour for use of tools, torch, gas and oxygen. If you plan to access the studio on a regular, you can save money by joining our studio membership program. Contact us for availability and full details.
Warn Glass Fusing Arts & Crafts Fused Jewelry Artwork Classes
Learn to make your own dichroic glass jewelry and glass artwork inexpensively in this unique class. Dichroic glass is a highly luminous multicolor material with numerous patterns and textures. It is used by glass fusing artists as a hot design element to make fine glass jewelry and artwork. We offer dichroic glass fusing classes where people learn all about dichroic glass and fusing techniques and make beautiful glass jewelry & artwork. No experience is needed to take a class. Come alone or with friends and join other glass enthusiasts in one of our regularly scheduled classes or, if you have a group of a least four people, make a reservation for your own private fusing class.
We also teach beading/lampworking/flameworking hot glass torch art classes where you learn to male glass beads, pendants,, animal sculptures, dichroic glass jewelry/glass artwork and host ceramics studio |pottery|glass fusing|paint art craft fun parties.
Buy Fusible Raw Glass & Dichroic Glass Artwork
We sell raw fusible glass to artists, dichroic glass jewelry and glass artwork handmade at our Hollywood, Florida studio and sold online by wwv.racingbutterfly.com
A class meets once per week for three successive weeks. Each session lasts 2-3 hours. In the sessions you learn about fusing and do the following 5 projects:
Class 1
An overview of glass properties and fusing techniques, a demo of glass
cutting and how to set glass in artistic patterns plus a hands-on
session using dichroic glass and regular fusible glass to make three
jewelry projects.
Class 2
Appraisal of the pieces made in the first class to give you
constructive feedback and demo of how to use shaping tools to alter the
pieces as required. In this
class we will also work with larger pieces of glass, discuss size
changes that occur because of glass thickness and finish project four...
a 4" glass tile.
Class 3 Review of all work fired so far to give participants useful pointers and tips.
In this class we also discuss how to use molds to make distinctive
shapes and complete project 5, a sushi plate, by slumping glass into
different molds.
This class is a full introduction to glass fusing where we do the tedious, time consuming technical part of the process (testing f0r glass compatibility, preparing the kiln, managing the firing, etc.), while you focus on the creative side: cutting, shaping, blending and laying out glass in artistic patterns. The cost is $90 for materials, instruction, coaching during the hands-on sessions to help you do all the projects, use of tools and firing of the pieces made.
The dichroic glass jewelry and artwork you make and take home with you in the five projects make unique birthday, family, wedding and holiday gifts. You save money in costly gifts, get the personal satisfaction of making them yourself and have fun learning about fusing. Class attendees can bring their favorite glass bottles to be slumped (flattened) into a beautiful serving plate, cheese tray or sushi plate and pay a discounted slumping firing fee of only $5/bottle! See our glass fusing artwork - bottle slumping craft|melted glass art.
After taking a class, you can use our studio facilities/tools at $7/day plus $10-$25 material and firing fee per piece made (depending on its size). f you plan to use our studio regularly you'll save money by joining our open access warm glass fusing arts & craftstudio membership program.
We offer a short, one session private class for a minimum of 4 people scheduled at your own convenience - see our dichroic glass fusing arts & crafts day of fun studio party .
Check out our calendar for the next scheduled class. Please wear closed toe shoes for the classes.