Beginning Glass, Session I GLASS 630 001
Victoria Ahmadizadeh
2 week course || 3 credit hours || Lab Fee: $300
This course offers hands-on glassblowing experience to the beginner. Participants learn a variety of techniques for manipulating molten “hot glass” into vessel or sculptural forms. Lectures, screenings, demonstrations, and critiques will augment studio instruction.
FACULTY
Victoria Ahmadizadeh is a multi-disciplinary artist investigating the intersection of language and seeing. She holds an MFA in Craft/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Victoria has recently been an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, WA and a Fellow at the Creative Glass Center of America, WheatonArts, NJ. She has exhibited in venues such as Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark, The National Glass Centre in England, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in the Czech Republic and UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in New Glass Review #33 and #38, published by The Corning Museum of Glass. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.