Kiln Cast Glass Sculpture with Natalie Tyler — Sep 8 - 14

Dates: September 8, 2025 → September 14, 2025
Times: 10am-1pm every day
Level: All levels

Workshop Description:
Discover the luminosity of cast glass sculpture. This workshop will teach the process of kiln formed glass. Using the ancient art of lost wax sculpture, students will sculpt a wax form that will be used to make a mold for a “one of a kind” sculpture in glass. Techniques for sculpting in wax, mold making, annealing the glass in the kiln will be learned. Basic cold working techniques will be covered. Students will be able to complete a finished glass sculpture during this workshop.

About the Instructor:
Natalie Tyler, is an artist, who is inspired by the Natural World. She uses glass and bronze casting to explore the fragile and forceful elements of nature. Her sculpture has exhibited across the United States and Europe. Her compelling sculpture WildFire, exhibited at the United Nations during the International Year of Glass, 2022. She has been a US Embassy sponsored artist, twice, once in Dublin, Ireland and in Tallinn, Estonia, exhibiting at the Estonia Museum of Applied Art and Design. Her sculpture, Eagle’s Nest was in the Innovators in Contemporary Glass exhibition at The Sandwich Glass Museum in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 2022. She has received grants and awards from Mass MOCA, Mass Cultural Council, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Art Students League of New York, and Cornell University. She received her Master's in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and studied in Bologna, Italy. She is originally from Encinitas, California and now lives and works in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.

Required Materials:
- Please bring sketchbook for notes and drawings and sculpture tools.

Optional Materials:
- Sculptures in wax or other materials to use as reference.