Workshops in the Fine Art of Glass Fusing with Dorothy Hafner,
one of America's leading Glass Artists.
TASTE THE ENCHANTMENT 1-day introduction
Participants learn to design, cut, compose with colored glasses that are fused (melted) in the kiln. Each creates an original glass panel or plate of their own design while exploring the expressive dynamics of color and line.
THE ELEMENTS OF INSPIRATION 2-day workshop
Explorations in glass as a painterly medium.
Hafner's "visual brainstorming" exercise launches the program, providing students with steps and methods for creating dynamic designs, lively color play and meaningful abstractions in fused glass.
Participants create fused glass panels or plates of their own designs and learn Hafner's precision glass cutting techniques. Glass assembly and kiln firing technologies are also covered.
Lively individual critiques and group discussion round out the experience.
DESIGN, INSPIRATION & REALIZATION 6-week comprehensive course
For artists and designers exploring the creative potentials of fused glass as a painterly medium.
Drawings, paintings, and words used as creative springboards. Students learn Hafner's exciting methods for harvesting from their own imaginations and areas of interest.
Each creates multi-layered fused panels of their own design for display wall-mounted or to be formed into plates and platters for use at home and table.
The dynamics of design, color, and line are fully explored as well as the language of abstraction.
Lively group discussion and one-on-one critiques round out the program.
Students learn a complete range of Hafner's precision glass cutting techniques, assembly methods and kiln stacking and firing programs for creating multi- layered works in glass.
6 three-hour classes plus 6 hours of additional free studio time, and 2 free make-up sessions.
DATES AND TUITION
TASTE THE ENCHANTMENT
1-day introductions
| Saturday | October 22 | 12-5pm |
| Saturday | December 3 | 12-5pm |
Tuition - $ 200.00
THE ELEMENTS OF INSPIRATION
2-day programs
| Sat. & Sun. | October 15 & 16 | 10 – 5pm |
| Sat. & Sun. | November 5 & 6 | 10 – 5pm |
| Sat. & Sun. | January 28 & 29, 2012 | 10 – 5pm |
| Sat. & Sun. | February 18 & 19, 2012 | 10 - 5pm |
| Sat. & Sun. | March 17 & 18, 2012 | 10 - 5pm |
Tuition - $ 450.00
DESIGN, INSPIRATION & REALIZATION
6-week comprehensive course
Tuesdays 9:30am-12:30 pm plus 6 hrs. shop time
Ongoing - Call for availability
Wednesdays 9:30am-12:30 pm plus 6 hrs. shop time
Ongoing – Next session begins February 1, 2012
OR
6 -9 pm plus 6 hrs. shop time
Begins February 1, 2012
Tuition - $ 850.00
Materials and firings costs for designated class projects are included.
Those over the limit may be subject to additional fees.
ENROLLMENT
For enrollment, inquiries, gifting a class and joining our mailing list please phone or email:
Dorothy Hafner Studio, 42 Maple Lane, Westport, Ct 06880
tel – 203-292-5995 / cell – 646-334-8415
info@dorothyhafner.com
www.dorothyhafner.com
THE HAFNER CREATIVE SPACE
The Hafner Creative Space is located in scenic Greens Farms, CT, one hour from NYC on the Metro North Line. Classes meet in the 200-year old farmhouse and adjacent studios that are the new home and studio of artist Dorothy Hafner, formerly of New York City.
The glass studio is fully stocked with over 150 radiant colors of glass. Professional quality tools, equipment and materials are provided as well as the firing services.
Classes are small (2-4 per class) allowing ample time for personal attention. Emphasis is on assisting students to pursue and cultivate their own unique voice, style and subject matter. Hafner's extensive personal Art and Design library is available for reference to all students.
In Spring 2012, guest instructors will offer classes in complementary media such as photography.
ABOUT DOROTHY HAFNER
In the 1980's she created avant-garde table wares for both Tiffany & Co. and Rosenthal Studio-Line that garnered both critical praise and commercial success. Today these designs are widely collected and often cited as icons of their time.
In the 1990's Hafner gifted herself an artistic sabbatical, returning to her studio full time and soon began a "love affair with glass", now her primary medium.
Her poly-chrome, exotically shaped vessels won instant acclaim. She then developed innovative techniques for fused glass, applying them to her widely collected art glass panels and sculpture.
Most recently she added architectural installations to her range. Two are now permanent lobby installations at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston and the Frisbie Memorial Hospital, NH.
Over 20 Museum Collections worldwide include Hafner works, many in multiple media, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Denver Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum.
Artworks by Hafner are featured in over 60 books on Fine Art, Craft and Design.
A Manhattan resident for over 30 years, Hafner now lives, works and teaches out of a 200-year old farmhouse in scenic Greens Farms, Ct. The new location is the Hafner Creative Space, site of her own classes and those of guest instructors.