Classes

Create beautiful optical diversity in your glasswork through a simple, ingenious method!

In this live online class, you’ll explore and go beyond the dazzling techniques covered in the ebook Optic Topics: Harmonics by Vitrum Studio. The class video provides an inspiring, step-by-step blueprint for executing the method. Besides introducing new tips and tricks, the two live online sessions ensure your success. Produced in partnership with Vitrum Studio, this class will quickly have you weaving harmonic wave patterns into intricate symphonies of color.

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Fire up your inner alchemist! In this live online class, you will explore the intrigues of glass chemistry, the subtle and dramatic reactive potential of various glass styles, how some glasses can develop unusual surfaces, and how to work with silver foil. By class's end, you'll be ready to conjure and command a wide array of special effects in Bullseye glass!

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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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Team up with heat, time, and gravity to form glass in a variety of amazing ways. In this live online class with Bullseye’s Hannah Gulick, you’ll learn all about the theory and practice of slumping, an umbrella term for the process of shaping glass in a kiln.

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Learn to use heat and pressure to transform small glass pieces into larger glassworks of exquisite thinness and color in this live, online class.

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Learn best practices for preparing a kiln shelf, working with different firing cycles, and programming a kiln. Along with a live online session over Zoom with Ted Sawyer, class includes immediate access to the 2.5-hour class video and the 19-page 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.

Discover techniques for creating smoother, brighter, and more reflective cast glass surfaces while exploring the striking aesthetic possibilities of mirrored glass. Artist and researcher Dr. Joanna Manousis shares insights from her practice-based PhD research at The National Glass Centre (UK), which has led to groundbreaking discoveries in dimensional cast-glass mirror-making.

Webinar Time
Saturday, September 26, 12-3pm Pacific

After registration be sure to go to ACCOUNT > MY DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT to download your Class Guide, which contains all the information you need for class. A recording of the event will be available for 6 weeks afterwards.

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.