Taming Lightning

Wild Thing, You Move ME! with Michael Flechtner 2022 Pilchuck Glass School Learn how to design and fabricate two- and three-dimensional neon-tube artworks and animate them! Bring movement to your work by mechanically manipulating the tubes, or by lighting them sequentially using electronic animators. Demonstrations will include design and construction techniques for support structures using…

Hello Lightning Tamers! Ethan is visiting here in Pittsburgh for the week and had reached out to meet up and talk about neon and plasma. I was working in the studio and suggested we’d meet at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. After giving a tour of PGC, and about 2 hours of nerding out about plasma…

Go beyond neon. Learn the magic of sculpture with light in glass forms using gas plasma. Capture the Aurora Borealis in a bottle! ​ This class is for anyone who would like to create glass sculpture with dynamic light using a uniquely developed glass solder. Experience with neon, plasma or glass is not required but…

In this hot shop class, we will be learning both traditional neon techniques as well as a myriad of soft glass plasma techniques. By alternating between neon and plasma processes, we will blur the lines between these two related crafts. We will be making lots of things! Many of the techniques we will be covering…