Make a Glass Bead with Tara Parker
Reservations available between 10am-2pm
$40.00
This experience introduces you to the basics of flameworking and offers a focused experience with hot glass. Tara Parker demonstrates how to work with molten glass at the torch, and guides you through the process of making one of your very own glass beads.
You’ll start by turning a mandrel – a metal rod used in beadmaking – in the flame.
Melting colored glass rods in the flame and applying the molten glass to your mandrel will create your bead design. How you wind the glass onto the mandrel makes patterns and beautiful unique glassy designs.
Students should expect to spend one hour in the workshop as Tara makes her way to your turn the actual time spent making a bead is a fairly swift process and usually takes about 20- minutes.
Pieces must cool overnight and can be picked up the next day, or shipped within the US and Canada at no additional cost.
Age requirements- 18 and over
Call 664-0222 to make a reservation
Introduction to the Amazing Mandala
With Susan Aripotch
10am-1pm
$40.00
Winter is the perfect time for this inwardly-focused art form.
The design of the mandala is meant to be visually appealing so as to absorb the mind in such a way that chattering thoughts cease, and a more philosophic essence envelops the maker. In this workshop, you will learn the technique of setting up a mandala, a bit of its history and how to make this type of radiant drawing. No art experience is required, and all materials are provided.
Lunch not included, but snacks will be provided.
Susan Aripotch has drawn all her life, and in 1995, she invented the mandala, or thought she did. Many mandalas later, she learned that countless others had been experiencing their magic for eons. She has welcomed hundreds of children and adults into the self-revealing world of making the circle in workshops such as this.
Indigo Shibori with Amelia Poole
10am-4pm
$95.00- includes all materials
Explore techniques of traditional Japanese resist dyeing. Learn binding, stitching, and pole wrapping techniques. Experiment on cotton and silk cloth, make one finished silk scarf and cotton yardage perfect for your own fiber work like quilting or other sewing projects.
Indigo – Indigo is a natural blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and other pigment bearing species. Indigo has been used as a colorant for nearly 5,500 years. The dye is extracted from the leaves through a lengthy process of soaking and fermentation, drying and grinding. When the cloth or fiber is removed from the dye vat it changes, as if by magic, from yellow-green through green and turquoise to blue. Multiple dips in the dye vat are required to create dark shades.
Bring a bag lunch and scissors, beverages and snacks provided.
Amelia Poole holds a degree in Textile Design and Construction from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
This workshop is generously supported by the Maine Community Foundation, Maine Expansion Arts Fund. Scholarships are available please submit a letter to request assistance based on need and interest in the workshop to artsworthstudios@gmail.com by Jan. 29th. to be considered.
As always, this event will be filled with fiery creative energy, featuring demonstrations in glassblowing, blacksmithing, and torchworking from 10am-5pm. This year our Fire Gathering will also include an Artisan and Specialty Food marketplace featuring local artisans from 10-4. Items include local sourdough breads, local farm produce, knit hats, organic frozen blueberries, cards, calendars, wreaths, fine jewelry, felted ornaments, blacksmithed candlesticks, glass beads, and more. It’s a great opportunity for last minute gift shopping that helps support local talent. Evening music will be provided by Rose Hips and Ships from 7pm-10pm, a New York City band with locally grown musician Katherine Perkins. All are welcome!
Every Saturday November 21 & 28th. through December 5 & 12th
$40
This experience allows you to work with hot glass up close, while staying on the cool end of the glassblowing equipment at all times. You’ll start by choosing the glass colors you want to use in your ornament, and then partner with our professional glassblowers to create it. You will shape the ornament by blowing air through the moving blowpipe as the glassblower guides the glass with special tools. After you and the glassblower have shaped your ornament, it is removed from the blowpipe, a glass loop is added and it is placed in an oven to begin an overnight slow cooling process. Ornaments are ready for pick up the following week or may be shipped for an additional fee within the US and Canada.
Call 207-664-0222 to register-you will be scheduled to arrive during a one hour time slot.
When you get to our hot shop, please check in at the front counter. There you will receive some information on color choices and we will verify any payment info you may have given us to reserve your spot.
You can expect to spend at least an hour in the shop, as we make our way to your turn. Making a blown glass ornament is a swift process. The glass maker must work with the blower (you) to both expand the glass to it’s largest and thinnest capacity while also squeezing it to create the very smallest of openings at the crack off point of the blow pipe. By it’s very nature making an ornament happens quickly but it is so memorable and dramatic! It’s the perfect introduction to how hot glass works. We are really looking forward to sharing this with you.
Age Restriction –14 years or older, under 18 accompanied by an adult.
Watch Ken and Linda Perrin with their team of glass blowers create blown glass pumpkins right before your very eyes. The studio of Atlantic Art Glass will be turned into a glass pumpkin patch as the molten glass is pulled from the furnace, blown and hand formed on the end of a blowpipe. The glass pumpkin patch charms visitors of all ages. The gallery will be filled with autumn inspired work for sale. Every Saturday in October!
