Breaking the Skin: Coldworking with Jane Bruce
| Date: | March 14 – 18, 2011 10 AM - 6 PM each day |
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| Class Size: | 6 students (max) | |
| Tuition: | $975 - includes all materials, glass and firings |
We are always excited and honored to have Jane Bruce return to Helios. Acclaimed as both artist and instructor, Jane's work is included in many important art collections. Past students praise not only her deep knowledge of glass art, but her best-in-class teaching skills as well.
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.
This class is also the only opportunity for students to be "certified" to use the Spatzier lathe in the Helios coldshop.
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 a studio artist in New York and was recently the Artistic Director of North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland.
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 and Canada (including numerous workshops at Pilchuck, Corning and Bullseye), and from 1994 -2004 she was a senior lecturer in the Glass Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University.
Throughout her career Bruce has been the recipient of a wide range of Visiting Artist awards and Fellowships and her work can be found in many permanent museums collections world wide, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, and The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.
For a complete curriculum vitae, please visit www.janebruce.com/cv.htm.
