TYLER0807 - Particular About Particulates: Basic Kiln Casting and Traditional Pate de Verre Techniques

Course Description

This workshop introduces kilncasting basics (making positive forms from clay and/or wax; mold-making; glass selection, preparation and mold-packing; kiln-loading procedures; firing schedules and glass finishing techniques), and focuses on how to modulate color and degrees of translucency through the combination of different glass particle sizes and other variables. This 5-day intensive will begin with a historical-technical overview of kilncasting in order to provide students with a visual vocabulary specific to this process and add plenty of lectures, presentations and demonstrations throughout the week. Students will be guided in the making of tests that will be used to practice several techniques and to inform the making of a singular, multi-part lost wax cast glass object.