“How to set up your mask with the blowhose adapter created by Amy Lemaire“
Resource submitted by Jenna Efrein
Blowhose Mask Assembly
Category: Glass Resource Exchange Archive
Glassblowers Guide
“Glassblowers Guide is a resource for seasoned and aspiring glassblowers that offers high-quality videos focused purely on working with soft glass in the hotshop. GlassblowersGuide.com features a host of free videos, several short instructional series, and a 6+ hour, 22 video course called Understanding Hot Glass. UHG is designed to be more than just a step-by-step guide on how to make some specific shapes, but rather an in-depth exploration into glass as a material to give students a framework for really understanding the how and why of glassblowing… and also step-by-step instructions on how to make some specific shapes.”
Resource submitted by Nikolaj Christensen
Habatat Now
“Talks by multiple artists who use the medium of glass. All on YouTube.”
Resource submitted by Aaron Schey
Broken Glass Lecture Series
“Cutting through disciplines, our invited speakers will shed light on glass from multiple, often complementary perspectives. An archeologist will review three thousand years of glass making, an art historian a thousand years of stained glass from the Romanesque period to the present. An architect considers light through glass as science and poetry; a physicist grapples with dislocations, and with them glass relaxing, flowing. A historian of science and a chemist report jointly on the deciphering of ancient texts with a kiln at hand; a computational materials scientist simulates the deformation, the fracture of glass. Guided by a visual artist, we follow the primal energy of a glass making workshop feeding the fancy of contemporary artists; then conclude as we must with a critical theorist questioning “the very idea of a medium that transposes an immediacy beyond mediation”. Part hall of mirrors, part kaleidoscope, and you the listener, the virtual glass maker, assembling a mosaic as you probe the heart of the matter, the probe the heart of the matter, the heart of glass.”
Resource submitted by Helen Lee
What IS Glass?
“This is a lecture I gave in Feb 2019 at the invitation of the chemistry department of the University of Toledo. I describe in an accessible way for non-scientists what glass is. And offer examples of how that understanding can seed discussions on other topics about glass behavior.”
A Conversation with Dr. Jane Cook by Marilyn Horne on Knowledge Stream.
Resource submitted by Dr. Jane Cook
Supply Resources for Borosilicate Glass – Flameworking
Resource compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Adhesives for Glass – Reference Sheet
Various adhesives for use between glass to glass and glass to other materials.
Resource compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Neon and Plasma Transformers
YouTube Playlists and Channels Related to Flameworking
These lists are meant to be a starting point for teaching flameworking. Please use them to seed your own lists, cherry-pick videos for teaching modules, or enjoy as-is.
Resource submitted by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Katherine Gray Studio Tour + Q&A
On March 24, GEEX shared a studio tour of Katherine Gray’s studio followed by a live Q&A. Please enjoy the recording of our meeting!
The Phoebus Cartel | Planet Money #902
The Phoebus cartel existed to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs.
Resource submitted by Katie Pinette
Goose Are Geeks Zine – Flock the Optic x GEEX Social Media Collaboration
Tools and Equipment for Setting Up a Flameworking Studio
These lists are meant to encourage institutions to set up flameworking equipment and support co-learners in autodidactic explorations of flameworking. The intention is to provide suggestions for basic flameworking equipment and provide resources for purchasing supplies in different regions of the country, and not to endorse any particular supplier. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather a starting point for building a flameworking studio or workstation.
Resource submitted by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
“Please do a bad job of putting your courses online” by Rebecca Barrett-Fox
Article outlining how higher-ed instructors can optimize developing an online curriculum with student circumstances in mind.
https://anygoodthing.com/2020/03/12/please-do-a-bad-job-of-putting-your-courses-online
Resource originally shared by Karen Donnellan
Blow hose adapter for facemask
“Since some studios require face coverings while blowing glass, this easy augmentation makes it easy and comfortable to use a blow hose/swivel with a face mask.”
Resource submitted by Amy Lemaire