Multi-Level Glassblowing

with Hoseok Youn
GLASS 641 001 | 1.5 credits | $175 Lab Fee
July 28 - August 3, 2024

A hands-on studio workshop for those with some glassblowing experience. Students will learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, demonstrations, videos, and critiques will augment studio instruction.

Hoseok Youn is a South Korean glass artist specializing in glassblowing. Youn holds his B.F.A. degree in glass and ceramic major from Namseoul University, Cheon Ahn, Korea and earned a M.F.A. in glass from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, USA. He has worked at Toledo Museum of Art and taught at Bowling Green State University as an adjunct professor. Hoseok is currently a studio lead and educator at Belger Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Youn’s work has received various scholarships and awards including Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Penland School of Craft, Niijima Glass Center, Pilchuck Glass School, and Glass Art Society. He is 2023 SAXE Emerging Artist Award recipient of Glass Art Society and he was resident artist at Museum of Glass Tacoma in 2023. His work has been exhibited broadly and internationally in Illinois, Missouri, Texas, California, Ohio, Michigan, Washington, Indiana, China, Italy, and Poland.

Hoseok Youn, Buster, 2021, Glass Blown, Cold assembled, 12 (L) x 7 (W) x 20 (H) in.