As the winter season approaches, so do the incredible learning opportunities at UrbanGlass! The 2025 schedule for week-long Neon and Plasma workshops is here, and I’m excited to share it with you as quickly as it landed in my hands.

Join Amy Lemaire and Percy Echols II at Pittsburgh Glass Center for “Solid, Liquid, Gas, 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…

Join MolMol at the Pittsburgh Glass Center this summer for Wearable Neon! How can we use glass and light as a medium to carry a piece of poetry with us? In this class, we will create wearable and portable pieces of neon that you can bring everywhere. The possibilities are endless such as wearing them…

Join Amy Lemaire and Carl Natalino at Salem Community College for “FUNdamentals of Function” a Flameworking class where we are all about turning your ideas into functional, handcrafted glassware (cups, straws, plasma, …) that are as fun to create as they are to use.

Join Dani Kaes and Jacob Willcox at UrbanGlass for By the Pattern – An Illustrative Approach to Neon!

Join Amy Lemaire at Salem Community College for “Solid, Liquid, Gas, 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…

Join Mark Ditlzer and Percy Echols II at the Pittsburgh Glass Center for Radiant Horizons: Exploring Plasma & Neon in Kiln-Formed Glass. This class will explore making flat plasma panels from fused glass. Class time will be roughly divided between the Kiln Shop and the Neon/Plasma Shop. In the Kiln Shop, we’ll design and assemble…