cost of glass working courses

Yellow pages... GLASS, STAINED & LEADED.... good luck!

You are still not saying what kind of glassworking - furnace costs more than lampworking costs more than stained glass. Check the internet, say UrbanGlass or the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass for the first two, Yellow Pages for much more local for latter two on smaller scale.

It is really one of those 'it all depends' situations. As Mike said - depends on the technique you want to learn - some use more expensive equipment/setups than others. Depends on how long the course will be Depends on what amount of skill or to what level (hobbyist/trade etc)you will be taught. Depends on how many other students will share your teacher's time Depends on how highly the teacher/company values their time/skills - if they can command high charges for commission work why should they spend time teaching for peanuts ;->

Best thing would be to contact anywhere you would like to learn from and see what they offer and for how much and then choose what fits your pockets and aspirations. Some people are happy 'just' to make something nice to take home - some want to learn in a structured way to a commercial standard and many fall between the two.

I have never heard a "rip off" price when it comes to glass classes of any kind, if its fair depends on if you really want to learn.

If you are fortunate, your local community college has classes on either the Continuing Education or the College Credit level. The reason I say lucky is that these courses are usually semester-length courses meeting a couple of times a week. And with in-district tuition rates, you are looking at $75 - @250 plus materials.

The one downside is the class may have up to 30 students, though thats probably the exception. Classes at a studio generally have 2 - 10 students.

Good luck,

David C. Taylor

Going rates: Hamilton, Ontario: 4 nights @ 3 hrs - $80 Cdn + materials Toronto, Ontario: 6 nights @ 3 hrs - $85 Cdn + materials ($1 Cdn = approx $0.72 U.S.)

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The fall/winter Hot Glass Horizons website is up. It's in Portland Oregon. If you are interested in a place where you can get some broad spectrum classes under your belt. I went to the one in '01 and learned a lot, considering I was starting from scratch. I mixed a couple of jewelry classes in with my lampwork and fusing classes (my wife's idea). They have hot glass, fusing, lampwork, hot paintwork, airbrushing on glass, kiln casting, patte-de-verre, even wirewrapping, etc.

The instructors are from all over the place. Phil Teefy, Newy Fagen, Jayne Persico, Vicki Day, Pete McGrain, etc.

Hot glass Horizons is put together by Gil and Carmen Reynolds. If you go, ask them about the pre and post conference activities. When I went we got to visit Bullseye, Uroboros, a custom studio, a place where they made Dichro (maybe CBS), watched them cut 2" thick glass with a half-million dollar water jet, and met a guy that designs huge glass domes for public buildings (Raphael ? somebody). I saw huge custom-made slumping molds that were used to slump the panels for the dome. got to check out several real specialty kilns.

It was a little spendy for me but I thought it was worth every penny.

have meet and greets, they have a show and sell evening where you cansell your art and check out other peoples work, they had a banquet with livemusic etc. Gil and Carmen's store Fusion Headquarters has a student storeset up so you can browse and buy everything from frit to kilns, etc. I am not associated in any way with them. They also have a spring conference in Corning NY., but there were a lot of people from NY, Connecticut and Canada at the Portland one I went to.

Have a good one,

Byrd

For what? I would expect 3-4 times this for furnace glass.

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My experience is different. In the Dallas area, the continuing education courses of the community college system run for several weeks one evening a week and are usually taught by people working with stained glass in their own studios, but are taught in classrooms, not in their studios.