Beginner Glassblowing
Cost: $870 (three monthly payments of $290)

Class size limit: 9
In this 12-week program, teens will focus on building their skills and understanding of hot glass. This is a great course for a teen that has taken Diablo’s Teen Camp or the first time student. In the first quarter, Diablo’s teachers will drill the basic skills of gathering, blowing, and tool handling. Second quarter we will concentrate our skills on making a set of matching drinking glass. In the final quarter students will be given the chance to move into the sculptural world, beginning with a variety of decorative bit techniques on larger vessels. A series of group projects will occur through out the 12 weeks. From there we will see where their imagination takes them.

Intermediate Glassblowing
Cost: $870 (three monthly payments of $290)

Class size limit: 9
Teens will keep the momentum going with the second level of After School Glass Blowing classes. Diablo Instructors will pick up where the last course left off with complex color techniques and optic molds. Students will have more time to work on their own pieces and will design class demos and projects. The final weeks of the course will be dedicated to blowing thinner and faster. As glass pieces become more complex, students will become problem solvers, forced to define the steps he or she must take to accomplish their ideas. Their artistic development will be embodied in their final pieces, which will be reviewed by their teacher and a guest critic, at the end of the course.

Beginner Flameworking
Price per workshop: $670 (three monthly payments of $223.33)

Class size limit: 8
Are you interested in jewelry and design? This 12-week program is very exciting because the duration of the course will allow the students to develop a personal line of jewelry. After a discussion of studio set-up and safety demonstrations, we will introduce students to the use of heat and gravity to shape molten glass at a stationary bench torch. Demonstrations will alternate with working time. In the second quarter students will be introduced to design concepts and jewelry fittings. In the third quarter students will be introduced to Boro glass, a higher temperature glass, which they can use to make hollow forms and small sculpture. After that students will be free to focus on the process, which is most appealing to them.

Tuesday
4:15pm - 6:15pm

• Starts September 8th
• Starts January 19th

Intermediate Flameworking
Price per workshop: $670 (three monthly payments of $233.33)

Class size limit: 8
Returning teens will push their flame working skills and jewelry design to the next level. Students will delve into techniques such as making and mixing frits, surface imagery on beads and writing with stringers, using silver and copper leaf, blowing and applying shards, and creating twisted canes. Students will practice more blown techniques, working towards small vessels and perfume bottles. Demonstrations will alternate with working time. Students will be encouraged to do research at home about other flame working artists and techniques that inform their ideas. Their artistic development will be embodied in their final pieces, which will be reviewed by their teacher and a guest critic, at the end of the course.

Wednesday
4:15pm - 6:15pm

• Starts September 9th
• Starts January 20th

Beginner Fused Glass
Price per workshop: $780 (three monthly payments of $260)

Class size limit: 15
This 12 week course will explore the many possibilities of glass fusing and Kiln forming. Students will learn how to cut glass the right way; straight lines, curves and circles. The exercises will cover kiln carving, fusing, and slumping, as well as textural and painterly effects. The materials will be explored through a variety of study pieces followed by a series of finished pieces perfect for including in college admissions portfolios!

Tuesday
4:15pm - 6:15pm

• Starts September 8th
• Starts January 19th