Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and Artists Residency

GLASS 616 001
Glass Casting
July 4-July 10, 2010
1 credit hour
Instructor: Jerry Catania
$150 Lab Fee

This course is for artists of any experience level wishing to better understand their own creative path through an intense and intimate “hands on” exposure to the medium of cast glass. Students will learn about timing, viscosity, gravity, heat, and light during hot studio sessions. Class will also be discussing the technical and aesthetic concerns prior and post process. Open face sand molds will be used as well as other interesting lectures, and demonstrations.

GLASS 623 001
Multilevel Glassblowing: Tradition and Innovation
June 20-June 26, 2010
1 credit hour
Instructor: Anthony Cioe
$150 Lab Fee

Using traditional and non-traditional techniques, explored through drawings and historical examples, we will focus on achieving specific shapes and consider simple innovations, like playing with opacity, and aesthetic accidents-bubbles or cracks, to transform traditional forms. Students may focus to work on something as simple as a clear tumbler or can take on more complex projects. Finding significance in even the most minute of details, we will find grounds for exploration, experimentation and conceptual thinking, while simultaneously examining the artifacts of our failures.

GLASS 622 001
The Zen of Bowls and Cane
July 11-July 17, 2010
1 credit hour
Instructor: Kait Rhoads
$150 Lab Fee

An intermediate class designed to hone pre existing glass skills, the combination of cane and the creation of the bowl form will test a student’s limits.  Focusing on one form in glass will allow great understanding of the material’s capacity of movement.  The inclusion of Italian cane techniques will further challenge  technical ability.   The bowl is one of glass’s trickiest shapes to ‘master’, this class will focus on practicing the form with attention to line and control.  We will begin basic and then expand from there depending on the students’ abilities.  

GLASS 624 001
Mold Blow Out
July 18-July 31, 2010
3 credit hours
Instructor: Ryan Gothrup
$250 Lab Fee

This class will explore the blow mold for making glass forms. Students will be exposed to various mold making techniques from plaster molds, steel, wood, and wet clay molds to digging a hole and blowing into it. The class will cover inexpensive rubber molds, wax working techniques, and how to build objects in parts using different adhesives. Students will learn teamwork and the ability glass has to take on almost any form. Students will be required to complete one finished project and participate in a final critique of the projects completed. Students of all levels are welcome. Students should be prepared for many trips to the hardware store for materials to make molds.

GLASS 625 001
“So 2D says to 3D”
August 1-August 14, 2010
3 credit hours
Instructor: George Liebert and Jerry Catania
$150 Lab Fee

This fast paced class will proceed as a dialogue between sculpture and drawing where students will make a small scale sculpture and draw in response then make another sculpture in response to that and so on. For the sculpture’s materials used will include: cast glass, blown glass, papier mache’, wood, Styrofoam, and found objects. Drawing materials will include: graphite, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paints inks, and collage. Students will produce a series of small sculptures and a hand bound sketchbook full of ideas. Critiques and slide lectures will be used to stimulate discussion. Artists and topics covered will include: Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Ree Morton, African fetishes, native American, Arman, Ted Halkin, John Newman, Sarah Sze, Jessica Stockholder, Elizabeth Murray, and Dieter Roth.

GLASS 626 001
Advanced Forms: Intro to Stemware
August 15-August 21, 2010
non-credit only
Instructor: Jerry Catania
$150 Lab Fee

This fast paced class will proceed as a dialogue between sculpture and drawing where students will make a small scale sculpture and draw in response then make another sculpture in response to that and so on. For the sculpture’s materials used will include: cast glass, blown glass, papier mache’, wood, Styrofoam, and found objects. Drawing materials will include: graphite, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paints inks, and collage. Students will produce a series of small sculptures and a hand bound sketchbook full of ideas. Critiques and slide lectures will be used to stimulate discussion. Artists and topics covered will include: Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Ree Morton, African fetishes, native American, Arman, Ted Halkin, John Newman, Sarah Sze, Jessica Stockholder, Elizabeth Murray, and Dieter Roth.