Classes

Investigate glass mysteries and elevate your kilnforming prowess during this online interactive class with Ted Sawyer, Bullseye's Director of Research and Education. Along with a live online session over Zoom with Ted, class includes immediate access to the 1.5-hour class video and the interactive PDF Class Guide.

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How can you find inspiration consistently? And how can you then translate it into compelling, satisfying works of glass? Join artist Ted Sawyer, Bullseye’s Director of Research and Education, for a live online class that teaches how he generates ideas, how he explores and develops them, and how he realizes them in the glass studio. Class includes 14 unique project lessons, long-term access to 9+ hours of class video, 1 live orientation session, 4 live online class sessions, and a 75-page Class Guide.

Class Times
Friday, September 11, 9-10am (Orientation); Saturday, October 10, 9am-1:30pm; Saturday, October 24, 9am-1pm; Saturdays, November 7 & 21, 9am-1pm. All times Pacific, 2026.

After registration be sure to go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT to download your Class Guide. It contains all the information you need for class.

In this live online class, artist Frank van den Ham shares his process for creating vessels and scrolls without the use of commercial molds. The class includes the long-format instructional video Outside the Mold with Frank van den Ham, which details four distinct projects—two bowls and two scrolls of different sizes. The ebook of van den Ham's memoir, The Boy that Went on a Journey, is also included as part of the class downloads.

Friday, September 25, 12–4pm Pacific & Friday, October 16, 12-3pm Pacific

After registration, go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCTS to download your Class Guide. It contains important information like links to your Zoom meetings and Class Video, which you’ll need to get started.

Make an 8" plate in this all-inclusive Great Plates class. It comes with the online video, Great Plates with Ted Sawyer, and a self-led hands-on session at Bullseye Glass Resource Center Santa Fe—with all glass, tools, and kiln time included!

Class Times
Saturday, September 26, 11am

After registration be sure to go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT to download your Class Guide. It contains the information you'll need for class.

Create a pair of stylish 5" plates at a Bullseye Glass Resource Center in this all-inclusive, project-based class.

Class Times
October 3, 11am Mountain, 2026

After registration be sure to go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCTS to download your Class Guide. It contains the information you'll need for class.

Make an 8" plate in this all-inclusive Great Plates class. It comes with the online video, Great Plates with Ted Sawyer, and a self-led hands-on session at Bullseye Glass Resource Center Santa Fe—with all glass, tools, and kiln time included!

Class Times
Saturday, October 10, 11am

After registration be sure to go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT to download your Class Guide. It contains the information you'll need for class.

Discover groundbreaking methods you can use to craft highly detailed natural and abstract objects in kilnformed glass.

Class Times
Monday, October 26, 9am-1pm Pacific, Tuesday, October 27, 9am-1pm Pacific, and Tuesday, November 17, 9am-12pm Pacific

After registration, go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCTS to download your Class Guide. It contains all the information you need for class including Zoom links.

Note: While Gottschall Baker often combines multiple techniques in her sculptures, the lost wax kilncasting technique used to create the hand in the main image will not be covered during class.