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Welcome!
Playing with Fire! - Glassworks & Gallery is a state-of-the-art studio/teaching facility and gallery. After the planning, and building of a lot of infrastructure, we're happy to be offering classes and workshops in a great, well-outfitted studio space (13' ceilings, very comfortable and roomy)- the building is on Main Street in Rockland, just before the Ferry Terminal. The studio is located at the lower level/harborside of the building, and is, conveniently, right in the historic downtown area with shops, galleries, restaurants/lodging, the harbor, the new Lighthouse Museum, the Wyeth Center, and the Farnsworth Art Museum... all nearby.

The studio has 10 flameworking positions for instruction in both soft and hard glass with dual-fuel torches. Each position has quick disconnects to interchange a variety of torches, and easy access to several annealers. You may bring your own favorite torch if you so choose! Our fuel sources are: tanked Liquid Oxygen, and a 1000 gallon Liquid Propane tank. We have an exciting line-up of teachers and workshops planned for the coming year, as well as open-torch time! We also have a glass furnace (electric/Moly-D, 300 lb pot capacity) in the studio-which should go online this winter. We have electroforming set-ups, as well as a sand blasting station.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to give us a call. Thank you, we look forward to hearing from you!

Ongoing Studio Classes

We offer of classes in Glass Beadmaking - Flameworking, and off-mandrel work such as pendants, marbles, sculpture and special focus workshops. Our classes are in both soft, and hard glass. Classes repeat occasionally throughout the year.

These classes are offered in many different formats, ranging from intensive 1 and 2 day classes, as well as having the same classes spread over two to four weeks. Most of the classes are during the evenings from 6-9pm, however we do schedule some of our classes during the daytime. If you see a class that you are interested in and the schedule does not work for you, please contact us and we will try to set-up a class that will fit your needs.

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~ Check out our online calendar (Below)of Events & Classes~

Visiting Artist & Studio Workshops
2010

We are now in the process of finalizing our lineup of Visiting Teachers and scheduling the dates for the 2010 classes. Our lineup as it now stands:

Hayley Tsang	Sally Prasch	Barry Lafler
Holly Cooper	Anne Cleo Dunsmore	Brent Graber
Kim Fields	John Kobuki	Wesley Fleming
Bronwen Heilman	Robert Mickelsen	Nicholas Repenning

January	February	March
Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Intensive 2 Day Jan. 23-24, 10am-5pm/6-8pm	Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Intensive 2 Day Feb. 27-28, 10am-5pm/6-8pm	Beginning Borosilicate Glass -- Transition from Soft Glass - Intensive 2 Day Mar. 6-7, 10am-5pm/6-8pm
April	May	June
	Kim Fields - May 15-16 Hayley Tsang - May 27-28 Holly Cooper - May 29-30	Robert Mickelsen - June 28-29
July	August	September
		Sally Prasch - Sept. 5-6
October	November	December
Wesley Fleming - Oct. 15-16

Completed classes from 2009

January	February	March
Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Jan. 13, 14, 20, 21 Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Intensive 2 Day Jan. 31, Feb. 1	Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Feb. 10, 11, 17, 18 Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Weekend Intensive 2 Day Feb. 28, Mar. 1 Maine Flameworkers Glass Jam Feb. 14, 15	Beadmaking - Flameworking I — March 10, 11, 17, 18 Ed Slawson- Beginning Borosilicate Glass --Transition from Soft Glass March 14, 15 Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Weekend Intensive 2 Day March 28, 29
April	May	June
Ed Slawson- Marble Making - 1 Day Workshop April 11	Kristina Logan & Ellen Wieske- Where Glass Meets Metal May, 2, 3 Beadmaking - Flameworking I — May 5, 6, 12, 13 (evenings) Beadmaking - Flameworking I — Weekend Intensive 2 Day May 30, 31	Ed Slawson- Marble Making - 1 Day Workshop June 6 Beadmaking - Flameworking I — date - T.B.A.
July	August	September
Kristina Logan- Beadmaking--Taking the next Step! July, 11, 12		Trey Cornette- Lampworking with Trey Cornette Sept. 19, 20
October	November	December
Andrea Guarino-Slemmons- The Galaxy Within and more & Andrea's Signature Workshop Oct. 1, 2, 3, & 4 John Kobuki Floral Marble Making Class Oct. 22, 23 Oct. 24, 25

Completed classes from 2008

Leah Fairbanks Floral Gardens & Special Techniques		Trey Cornette Lampworking with Trey Cornette
Pipyr Beginning Boro-Solid Sculpture, Solid Sculpture 2, Mixed Media		John Kobuki Floral Marble Workshop
Kristina Logan Beadmaking -- taking the next step!		Nancy Tobey Tips and Techniques in Borosilicate Glass Beadmaking

We are proud to announce we are now selling our very own
Titanium Glass Scribe™

Our Titanium Glass Scribe™ is a new and improved titanium pen designed for use in signing your works of glass. In addition, it works extremely well for laying down fine electro-conductive lines in the process of electro-forming on glass.

Please go to our Online Store link for more information

The Flow, is the glass journal for the flameworking community. We have the current issue, as well as back issues for sale in the studio.

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