Create a window hanging to admire while looking out to a snowy afternoon. One snowflake, and hoops are provided.
Drop in anytime between 10am and 1pm. All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Projects are $15 each.
This is a drop-in activity. You do not need to register. Please pay at the event.
Discover the art of glass at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass when you tour the museum and create a fused glass sun catcher.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Stories in Shapes
Wolf Elective Adventure: Collections & Hobbies
3A. Visit a show or museum that displays different collections or models.
Appropriate for all ages. Scouts must be accompanied by leaders and/or parent chaperones. Adult/ scout ratios required by the BSA are required for all clinics. (Adults may participate for the same fee if space allows. Please call in advance.)
Basic bead making techniques will be covered in this three hour introductory class. Learn about safe and proper handling of equipment, tools, and materials. You will learn how to pull stringers, layer color, and apply surface decoration. By the end of the class, you will have created several of your own glass beads.
Level: Beginner. Ages 16 and up or at least 13 and must be accompanied by an adult.
Beth Wenger-Johnstone, Instructor
Sample both flame working and glass fusing in this survey class. You will make beads and be able to fuse a platter. Beth Wenger Johnstone and Sara Rezin, instructors.
You will learn creative techniques for incorporating stringers (long, skinny pieces of glass) into a glass piece. Lines, one of the basic elements of art, can be added to fused glass art in several ways. You will bend stringers in candle flames, and add them to the front or back of a fused glass piece you will create. All experience levels welcome.
Sara Rezin, Instructor
Be unique this Valentine’s Day. Leave the flowers and chocolates behind and make your sweetheart a Love Bug. Add up to 3 legs and antennae. Drop in anytime between 10am and 1pm. All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Projects are $15 each.
This is a drop-in activity. You do not need to register. Please pay at the event.
Learn to layer colorful transparent glass to create your own unique plaid glass dish. Wherever two transparent colors cross, a third color is created. Patterns and color combinations are infinite. Students will create a plaid tray while learning color theory and precise strip cutting techniques. Perfect for a thanksgiving serving tray or a holiday gift. All experience levels welcome. Sara Rezin, Instructor
Discover the art of glass at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass when you tour the museum and create a fused glass sun catcher.
Tiger Elective Adventure: Stories in Shapes
Wolf Elective Adventure: Collections & Hobbies
3A. Visit a show or museum that displays different collections or models.
Appropriate for all ages. Scouts must be accompanied by leaders and/or parent chaperones. Adult/ scout ratios required by the BSA are required for all clinics. (Adults may participate for the same fee if space allows. Please call in advance.)
Blend frit and glass to create a colorful painted dish, even if you have no prior experience with painting. Colorful slurries made of frit and water will be blended to create a tie-dyed, marbleized or watercolor look on glass. All experience levels welcome.
Sara Rezin, Instructor
Create a beautiful pendant combining silver metal clay and glass. The basics of working with precious metal clay will be introduced , including shaping, texturing, drying, kiln firing, and finishing. Students will shape silver clay to create a setting for a piece of fused dichroic glass. The glass and silver clay pendant will be fired in our kilns and available to be picked up at a later date. Instructor: Sara Rezin