1:30-2:30 pm, Snacks to follow
Let’s talk about our heritage! Participants will create their own family trees and are encouraged to bring in their old family photographs if they wish to share with the group.
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https://bmmglass.com/spark-sign-up/SPARK MORE FUN: BIRTHDAY PARTY DOCENT-LED GALLERY TOUR Choose Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass to celebrate your special day with friends, family, and sparkling glass art! Each Party Package listed below includes classroom instruction and the creation of the glass art project of your choice, as well as the use of the Mabel McClanahan Study Gallery […]
https://bmmglass.com/spark-more-fun-birthday-party/SPARK FUN: HOT SHOP DEMOS FLAMEWORKING DEMONSTRATION Groups are able and encouraged to schedule private flameworking demonstrations. Demonstrators narrate their way through the glass art making process. Topics like thermal shock, amorphous solids, states of matter, and annealing are included. The artist utilizes techniques that are similar to ones used in artwork in the museum’s […]
https://bmmglass.com/spark-fun-hot-shop-demos/A significant portion of our paperweight collection is millefiori paperweights. “Millefiori” means “a thousand flowers” in Italian. We’ll use these paperweights as inspiration to design t-shirts. We will be designing with the students from our[…]
https://bmmglass.com/event/spark-a-thousand-flower-t-shirts/Celebrate the spring season as we discover the floral art within our galleries. Flowers are showcased in a variety of paperweights in our collections. We’ll compare and contrast the flora in glass to flora in[…]
https://bmmglass.com/event/spark-flora-and-fauna-exploration/In our collection, texture is used to highlight certain aspects of the artwork. Through exploring texture in our glass collections we will utilize texturized materials to create a one-of-a-kind collage. FREE- Registration requested HERE
https://bmmglass.com/event/spark-the-art-of-collage/Together we’ll learn about the art of stained glass. Throughout its history, stained glass has been almost exclusively to windows of churches. Traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern[…]
https://bmmglass.com/event/spark-stunning-stained-glass/We will discover and talk about some of the artwork that shows humans as the subject matter. We’ll use some of the poses in the artwork to inspire our chair dance moves. We’ll do some[…]
https://bmmglass.com/event/spark-get-moving-figuratively-2/Together, we’ll have a tour of our current exhibition “Between Us – A Retrospective of Works from John Littleton and Kate Vogel.” We’ll learn about their immersive works that use sight, sound, and light to[…]
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