Breaking the Surface
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| Date: | October 5-9 (10 AM - 6 PM each day) |  |
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| Class Size: | 6 students (max) | |||
| Tuition: | $975 - includes all materials, use of tools and firings |
Note from Karen and Paul: Jane is both internationally renowned as an artist (check out below to see some of the prestigious museums collecting her work) and gifted as a teacher (having taught glass art professionally at many of the world's finest glass schools). We are honored to have Jane back to Helios this year. If you are serious about being a glass artist then you cannot afford to miss this uncommon opportunity to learn from one of the best without leaving Austin.
About the Class
A basic knowledge of cold working techniques can help right many wrongs created in the kilns or in the hot shop. However, when explored for their own inherent value and integrated into an artist's menu of glass working techniques, they can be used to enhance and extend works to a new level.
This class will connect kilnformed and blown work to the possibilities available when cold working of an object is taken into account from the beginning of the creative process.
Areas covered will include grinding, polishing, wheel cutting, sandblasting and hand finishing.
Students are asked to bring one or two kiln-formed or a blown blanks with them to get started, scheduled access to kilns will then be available to develop further blanks during the class. Hands-on work will be complimented by drawing, slide presentations, group discussions and individual attention.
About Jane Bruce
Jane Bruce is currently an independent artist and educator living in New York City.
Born in England, Bruce received an MA degree from the Royal College of Art, London, and undertook further post-graduate study at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred. She has taught extensively in the US as well in Australia, Canada and Europe; from 1994 -2004 she was a Senior Lecturer in the Glass Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, and Head of Workshop in 2001 and 2002. From 2002-2007 she was the Artistic Director for North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland.
Throughout her career Bruce has been the recipient of a range of visiting artist awards and fellowships, including two Masterworks Fellowships from the Creative Glass Center of America, an Artist-in-Residence award at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. She exhibits her work internationally and it can be found in many prestigious museum collections world wide, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Broadfield House Glass Museum, UK; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA and The Corning Museum of Glass, USA; the National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
You can visit Jane's website at janebruce.com.
