Flameworked Glass, Plasma, Desgin
Pittsburgh Glass Center
Dates: May 26 – May 3oth, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm
+studio time: 6pm to 10pm
Tuition: $850.oo
Skill Level: Beginner
A student has no experience or basic skills in a particular technique and would be most comfortable in a class where much attention is given to foundation and basic skills.
Class time will alternate between demonstration, discussion, and plenty of work time.
You are encouraged but not required to utilize the evening open studio. On the last day, we will light up all of our work and have our own private plasma show. You should come to class with a sketchbook and plenty of ideas. Reference photos are encouraged for you with specific ideas you’d like to pursue. Experience working with hollow glass tubes is required.
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Take your sculptures to the next level – add unique light effects with plasma!
Over the course of this workshop, participants will design and fabricate a plasma lamp of their own design while learning about the science of gas discharge tubes in a creative environment. We will consider plasma in the contexts of scientific glassblowing, contemporary art and design through a combination of demonstrations, collaboration, and hands-on learning. Topics covered will include tips for sculpting borosilicate glass for plasma, application of phosphors, safety, gas mixtures, adding electrodes, capacitive coupling, and much more.
Meet your Instructors
Website: http://amylemaire.com/
Instagram: @parakeetfarmer2
Amy Lemaire
Amy Lemaire is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work combines craft traditions of flameworked glass with contemporary technologies, such as plasma and digital fabrication to create objects, images, tools and situations that reconsider relationships between humans and the natural world. Lemaire works with institutions around the US as teaching artist, and currently teaches Plasma Design at Salem Community College.
She has been awarded residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design, WheatonArts, UrbanGlass, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Tyler School of Art.
Her essay “”Flame Grows Up”” was published in Glass Quarterly Magazine in 2018. Lemaire was a lector/presenter at the 2019 International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College (NJ).Her work has been recently included in exhibitions at Heller Gallery (NY) and Traver Gallery (WA).
Percy Echols II
Percy Echols II is a Pittsburgh-based Artist, Alchemist, and Educator at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. Here, he is at the forefront of pioneering the development of a space dedicated to the emergence of plasma and neon light art. He is a creator and founder of Taming Lightning which feature blog, podcast, and resources on Neon and Plasma. 7+ years of teaching experience in glass and plasma under that of Wayne Strattman and Mundy Hepburn in 2018 at the Pittsburgh glass Center, Ed Kirshner 2019 at Pittsburgh Glass Center, and the Glass Factory in Sweden, in 2023 at Toledo Museum of Art, and Pilchuck Glass School with Harriet Schwarzrock. He took on committee leadership to develop the Plasma Art Alliance (PAA) in 2020, and more recently had taken seat on the Glass Art Society board (2023) both to promote and share knowledge to the greater community.
