Taming Lightning

Neon Dreams, So Hard to Beat Toledo Museum of Art Date: June 13-17th, 2022; Time: 9am-5pm Instructor: Sarah Blood Class Description: This one-week course will be an introduction to the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of neon, by exploring traditional and experimental neon techniques students will develop the skills they need for planning, creating, and installing…

Hello Lightning Tamers!In today’s livestream I’ll be joined by James Akers to talk about the upcoming workshop at the Pittsburgh Glass Center called Borderline, where we will blur the line between conventional neon technique and experimental plasma illumination. If you have additional questions please share in the comments and we’ll answer them in further posts!…

Hello Lightning Tamers! Thinking back on that last few years I thought I’d share with you some videos about Western Neon School of Art. I’m preparing for guests and questions for future episodes: Featuring Dylan Neuwirth  talking about when he was a project manager for Dale Chihuly and his Neon Forest work Feature WNSA Co-founder and…

Solid, Liquid, Gas, PLASMA! with Amy Lemaire June 20-24, 2022 Salem Community College 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…

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…