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| Salado Arts Workshop Featuring Glassblowing |
| CREATIVE ARTIST WHO NEEDS A STUDIO? |
| Glassblowing is a glass forming technique which was invented by the Phoenicians at approximately 50 B.C. somewhere along the Syro-Palestinian coast. The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass workshop, including fragments of glass tubes, glass rods and tiny blown bottles, which was dumped in a mikvah, a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem dated from 37 to 4 B.C. Some of the glass tubes recovered are fire-closed at one end and are partially inflated by blowing through the open end while still hot to form small bottle, thus they are considered as a rudimentary form of blowpipe. Hence, tube blowing not only represents the initial attempts of experimentation by glassworkers at blowing glass, it is also a revolutionary step the induced a change in conception and a deep understanding of glass. Such invention swiftly eclipsed all other traditional methods, such as casting and core-forming, in working glass. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Salado Arts Workshop Glassblowing Artists |
| Glass Blowing with Stephen Bishop 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month between 11-5. Times are flexible...1 1/2 hour classes. Instructor will call you. Students will create several paper weights and then will blow a bubble. Stephen can schedule other times with several weeks notice. e-mail him at stephen@saladoartsworkshop.org $125 per class for 1 1/2 hours |
