COURSE:
One Day Glass Blowing Paperweight Workshop

LOCATION:

At The Thermal Lab Studio (see directions below)
COST:
$175 per student (min 3, max 5)
TIME: Saturday, 10 am-5pm

DATE:
Winter/Spring 2012
PICK ONE DAY and register accordingly

These Dates have registration offered through The ArtsCenter:
Call: (919) 929-2787,

Intermediate and Advance levels offerred through the studio after one-day workshop.(goto "Continuing Students" link.
This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass
accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canesregistration link and info www.artscenterlive.org


course listed under APPLIED ARTS in the ArtSchool section.

Direct Link: course registration for #2078 A,B,C,D

2012 $175 / members $175

2078A.registration link and info

Scoll below Painted Image on link sight for course info.

"http://artscenterlive.org/event/education/844" BLOWN GLASS PAPERWEIGHT WORKSHOP—at Thermal Lab studio:

Saturday, 10am-5pm, January 28 (one-day workshop) Saturday, January 28, 2012

This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass
accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canes $175 / members $175

2078B. Scoll below Painted Image on link sight for course info.

"http://artscenterlive.org/event/education/845"registration link and info

BLOWN GLASS PAPERWEIGHT WORKSHOP—at Thermal Lab studio:

Saturday, 10am-5pm, February 25 (one-day workshop) Saturday, February 25, 2012

This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canes $175 / members $175

2078C. Scoll below Painted Image on link sight for course info.

"http://artscenterlive.org/event/education/846"registration link and info

BLOWN GLASS PAPERWEIGHT WORKSHOP—at Thermal Lab studio:

Saturday, 10am-5pm, March 24 (one-day workshop) Saturday, March 24, 2012

This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass
accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canes $175 / members $175

2078D.Scoll below Painted Image on link sight for course info.

"http://artscenterlive.org/event/education/847"registration link and info

BLOWN GLASS PAPERWEIGHT WORKSHOP—at Thermal Lab studio:

Saturday, 10am-5pm, April 28 (one-day workshop) Saturday, April 28, 2012

This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass
accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canes $175 / members $175

WHAT TO BRING:
-Wear 100% cotton long-sleeve shirt, non-synthetic pants, closed-toe shoes, hair back. 
-Bring water and a bag lunch.
-Cameras are fine. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Blown Glass Paperweight - at the artist's studio
This one-day workshop, held at Sally Rockriver's Thermal Lab, is a solid
foundation for future glass blowing courses. Intensive and hands-on, the
day includes demonstrations on how to work with molten furnace glass
accompanied by
class exercises. Students will have close-up contact with the equipment,
processes, concepts, and materials. Each participant will gather hot
glass on a long pipe and make their owncolored glass paperweight and
swizzle-stick canes.


Sally Resnik Rockriver opened the Resnik Thermal Lab in 1999. Prior to moving back to her homeplace in Chatham County, she was Head of Ceramics at Moorhead State University, Minnesota. Rockriver an MFA from Hunter College, and a BFA from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work has been published in many international books, including The Best of America Glass and Best of North Carolina Artists, as well as a review in the New York Times and a cover article in Ceramics Monthly. A pioneer in the field of geochemical sculpture, Sally grows crystals on glass and ceramics at 2000 degrees F. These thermal formations become caves, sea-life, and rocks that could be from another planet and define a natural world of their own.

CONTACT INFO:
Sally Resnik Rockriver (primary contact)
(919) 342-6605 srockriver@gmail.com www.thermallab.com


STUDIO PHONE: (call day of class only, there is no answering machine at this phone)
(919) 928-9712

DIRECTIONS to THE THERMAL LAB:
www.thermallab.com
click "classes", then "directions"

MAPQUEST address:
196 Collins Mountain Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
(intersection CLOSEST to Crawford Dairy Road)

FROM CHAPEL HILL/RALEIGH: -take I- 40 to hwy 54 west/15-501 bypass. -stay on hwy 54 west while 15-501 departs to head south to Pittsboro. -from hwy 54 west, take Carrboro/Jones Ferry road exit. -left at end of exit ramp. -go out of town on Jones Ferry Road and cross university lake -go 7 more miles. - at Frosty's Trading Post, turn right onto Crawford Dairy Road -go 2.5 miles -turn right onto Collins Mountain road -second building on right, white barn. #196 Collins Mtn Rd. -parallel park

FROM PITTSBORO: -Take hwy 87 north toward graham -go 8 miles -turn right onto Chicken Bridge Road (at the "Captain John Blakely" historical marker) -go 4 mile to dead end -turn left onto Crawford Dairy Road -go 1 mile -turn right onto Collins Mtn. Rd. -second building on right, white barn. #196 Collins Mtn Rd. -parallel park

FROM GRAHAM:-Take NC54 heading east toward Chapel Hill.Go about 10 miles, Turn right at gas station onto Morrow Mill Road. After 1.5 miles, take left fork "ArtSchool&b=To%20Register&onto Clover Garden-Orange Chapel Road. Go through flashing red light, after 1 mile road will curve left and downhill over small bridge. As road flattens, take sharp left onto Collins Mountain Road. 2nd bldg on right, # 196 Collins Mountian Rd., white barn on right.