Flameworking: Finding Form in Translation

with Carmen Lozar
GLASS 649 001 | 1.5 credits | $175 Lab Fee
August 4 - 10, 2024

This class is an introduction to working and thinking with glass. Focused on contextualizing flameworking within contemporary sculpture, this workshop is ideal for artists crossing over from other disciplines who would like to translate their ideas into glass. The goal of the class is to complete two finished sculptures, which are both structurally sound and conceptually tight. Blending traditional and unconventional flameworking techniques, students are encouraged to explore the material and expand their artistic vocabulary. We will consider the material qualities of glass in the context of drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance. Students can use glass as an opportunity to connect materiality to related disciplines such as literature, psychology, optics, poetry, and architecture. The coursework will include a combination of technical exercises designed to improve hand skills, contextual presentations, and group critique.

Carmen Lozar is a glass artist and a faculty member of the Ames School of Art at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. During summers she often travels to teach and share her love for glass - most recently to England, Turkey, Italy, and New Zealand but always returns to her Midwestern roots. A BFA graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she completed her post-graduate degree at Alfred University, New York, and is represented by Ken Saunders Gallery in Chicago. She is included the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design(MAD) in NY, The Museum of Glass, WA and the Bergstom Mahler Museum in WI.

Carmen Lozar, Burn, 2022, Flameworked glass, 5 (H) x 9 (L) x 7.25 (W) in.