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9TH ANNUAL AUCTION AND BENEFIT DINNER

Join us for a weekend of Art and Entertainment at
Eugene Glass School’s 9th Annual Art Glass Auction & Benefit Dinner

Paid for in part by a grant from the Lane Arts Council

Friday, October 10, 2008
Eugene Glass School, 575 Wilson Street, Eugene, Or.
6:30pm - Meet and greet the artists, wine tasting and glass goblet making demonstrations at Eugene Glass School
7:30pm - Featured Artist Shane Fero Slide Show, Lecture and Demo
8:30pm -Live Music with The Swingin' Marmalukeys

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Downtown Athletic Club, Ballroom, 999 Willamette Street, Eugene, Or.
5:00pm - 9th Annual Art Glass Auction & Benefit Dinner
5:30pm - Silent Auction
7:30pm - Live Auction and Benefit Dinner

Sunday, October 12, 2008
The Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall, Eugene, Or.
4:00pm – Join us for Fauré Requiem featuring Eugene Symphony and Eugene Youth Symphony, a gift of music to the Community from the Kjaer Family, in memory of George Kjaer, founding president of Eugene Glass School. (Free tickets available at Eugene Glass School after 10.01.08)

CONTACT: Samantha Pritchard, Schedule and Marketing Coordinator, 541.342.2959 or, info@eugeneglassschool.org

DETAILS:
Join us October 10th, 11th, and 12th to celebrate our 9th Annual Art Glass Auction. This is our largest fundraiser of the year, helping us to finance the high operating costs involved in running a nonprofit glass school. Your attendance and support help us to maintain and upgrade our facility and equipment so that we can continue to offer quality classes to the public. By purchasing an Auction ticket, you also help support the many artists who have chosen the Eugene Glass School as their location for premier art glass education!

On Friday, October 10, at 6:30pm, you are invited to meet the donating artists at Eugene Glass School, enjoy wine tasting with Ray Walsh of Capitello Wines and Buzz Kawders of Domaine Meriwether Wines, and goblet making demonstrations in both the flameworking studio and the hot shop. Artwork made by the Network Charter School students will be on display and for sale to benefit the high school program. At 7:30pm renowned glass artist, Shane Fero, will share his view of the glass art world and its effect on his life, with a slideshow lecture. At 8:30pm, there will be live music with The Swingin' Marmalukeys and more glass demonstrations.

On Saturday, October 11, you are cordially invited to join us for our 9th Annual Art Glass Auction and Benefit Dinner at the Downtown Athletic Club, Ballroom. Over 100 donated works of art by prominent glass artists from all over the world will be auctioned to benefit the Eugene Glass School, a nonprofit organization. This event begins at 5:00pm with the Silent Auction, followed by the Live Auction and Benefit Dinner at 7:30pm.

The Kjaer Family would like to invite you to join them on Sunday, October 12, at the Hult Center for the performing Arts, Silva Concert Hall, for Fauré Requiem featuring Eugene Symphony and Eugene Youth Symphony. The performance is a gift to the community in honor and memory of George Kjaer, founding president of the Eugene Glass School. Tickets can be picked up at the Hult Center Box Office Tuesday through Friday from 12pm - 5pm and Saturday from 11am - 3pm beginning September 19, 2008, online for a $2.00 fee at www.eugenesymphony.org or at the Eugene Glass School after October 1, 2008, 10am-5pm.

We welcome and encourage the community to stop by the Eugene Glass School and watch as local glass artists blow and sculpt beautiful art glass centerpieces for the upcoming auction. Artists will be working daily starting September 24th from 10am-5pm. Call for further glass blowing schedule.

For tickets to the Auction or information on proxy bidding please contact us at 541-342-2959 or visit www.eugeneglassschool.org. Auction Tickets are $65, with discounted tickets for donating artists. Ticket includes Friday’s pre-auction event at Eugene Glass School and Sunday’s Concert at the Hult Center. The Friday night event is $10 at door, and is free to Eugene Glass School members and donating artists. Sunday’s concert at the Hult Center is free to everyone.

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Eugene Glass School continues to expand and evolve into a haven for glass artists, offering quality instruction and a space where artists can create and find the support needed to see through any project. The Eugene Glass School strives to be a resource for all levels of glass artistry.

For thousands of years, glass has been a medium for artisans to create objects and forms serving cultural needs for both utility and decoration. For the artist and craftsman, glass is a very special and seductive medium whose qualities respond to changes in heat and atmosphere, inspiring exploration and creativity.

Featured Beadmaking Classes

BEYOND BEGINNER BEAD:
SCULPTURAL NECESSETIES HEARTS SKULLS AND BONES

In this two day class come prepared to sculpt hearts, bones, skull pendants and various beads and buttons. Both on and off mandrel techniques will be covered. You are incouraged to bring your sketch books filled with ideas. This is an excellent opportunity to learn from a glass artist whose ability to combine color and shape is out of this world!

Michele Goldstein $295 + $25 material fee
November 15-16 Sat-Sun 10am-5pm.

LAMPWORK BEADMAKING FROM STAINED GLASS

At the end of this course students have the ability to create multi-colored beads and focals using inexpensive stained glass, a torch and basic bead making tools. The class will be taught on dual gas torches (oxygen/propane). A single gas torch (propane) will also be demonstrated. The techniques are simple and straightforward, and when combined with the amazing palette of quality stained glass available, students produce jewelry-quality lampwork beads in a very short time. We will be adding glitz and sparkle to beads using dichroic glass and goldstone. Lampwork from stained glass is not done by cutting strips of stained glass and using them as if they were rods! This technique mirrors hot shop glass work more than traditional lampwork. A hot gather of glass is created at the end of a Pyrex punty (handle) and the artistry in placing color and design in the hot gather takes place long before the glass approaches a mandrel to be wound into a bead or small object. That the hot gather
of glass is from traditional stained glass is where the name comes from.
Jim Adlhoch $150 + $25 material fee
December 6-7 Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
Beginner through intermediate
Basic knowledge of cutting stained glass is a plus, but no prior torch experience is necessary.

QUARK & QUIRKS

This class will focus on the new techniques showcased in Corina’s new style beads. Techniques will involve making mini murrini’s for inclusions in beads, encasing, and composition. Along with the new techniques, Corina will share her tips and tricks for gaining control of your beads and producing fantastic results.
Corina Tettinger $450 + $35 material fee
December 13-14 Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
OR December 15-16 Mon-Tue 10am-5pm
*This class may be taken more than once to get the full benefits of what the instructor has to offer. Students will get plenty of one-on-one instruction and will be encouraged to work at their own skill level.

Featured Fusing Classes

BEYOND BEGINNER FUSING: FUSING WITH FRIT

Take your “technique tool box” to the next level! This class will incorporate various frit techniques to produce a final, 10” x 10”, project. We will explore cold combing, frit cookies, shading, positive and negative stenciling, vein-work and texture as
appropriate to your specific piece. You are welcome to bring your sketch book ideas and photo clippings. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of glass fusing and experience using transparent and opal colors.
Mary Hornig $150 + $25 material fee
November 8-9 Sat- Sun 10am- 5pm

BEYOND BEGINNER FUSING: KILN CASTING

Kiln Casting is easy and lots of fun! Join us in an exploration of two techniques: creation of a cast glass “positive” and its “negative space” companion cast into a glass block. (Both techniques use the same clay positive.) New
techniques will be introduced that simplify and augment both traditional plaster investment casting and “box” casting. No prior experience with casting is required. Students should have a basic understanding of glass fusing.
Mary Hornig $200 + $50 material fee
December 6-7 Sat- Sun 10am- 5pm

Featured Flameworking Classes

FLORAL MARBLES

In this exhilarating marble class students will learn to make flowers utilizing the compression technique with rods of borosilicate glass.
John Kobuki $450 + $50 material fee
October 4-5 Sat- Sun 10am- 5pm

AN OLD-SCHOOL APPROACH TO COLOR

If you have ever marveled at the beauty of colored borosilicate glass, you have Paul Trautman to thank. The originator of boro colored rod has plenty of wisdom and experience to share in this two-day, hands-on class. Topics will include: diluting, blending and mixing pre-made colors into your own custom palette; mixing various chemicals into glass for unique colors; and some of Paul’s favorite oldschool lab techniques, like making hollow ground-glass stoppers for bottles. The curriculum will be partly student-driven; Paul will adjust to the level of the students in the class. However, torch experience is required for participation in this workshop. It will be geared toward borosilicate glass, but
Paul also makes 104 COE soft-glass and can discuss the color properties of both. The primary goal of this class is to help the student gain flexibility and versatility with color in the torch flame.
Paul Trautman $250 + $25 material fee
November 1-2 Sat- Sun 10am- 5pm
Intermediate to Advanced

Featured Hot Shop Classes

HOT GLASS SCULPTURE

This five-day intensive class will focus on hot glass sculpting.Special attention will be paid to bit work, color application, texture, and torchwork.
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen $850 + $100 material fee
November 29-December 3 Sat-Wed 10am-5pm

Featured Cold Shop Classes

COLD-WORKED SCULPTURE

Join Master Beveler Kent Lauer in this brand new class creating a beautiful faceted dichroic glass sculpture! This very hands-on class will cover all aspects of creating this piece, from cutting 3/4” glass with a diamond ringsaw to laminating and beveling
Kent Lauer $400 + $40 material fee
December 4-5 Thur - Fri 10am-5pm

DICHROIC COLD-WORKED PENDANTS

Join Master Beveler Kent Lauer in this brand new one day class creating beautiful faceted dichroic glass pendants! This very hands-on class will cover all aspects of creating these pendants, from cutting 1/4” glass with a diamond ringsaw, to
laminating and beveling. A thin layer of dichroic glass will be laminated between two pieces of Starfire glass, then ground and polished into an incredible jewel. No glass cutting experience required. Class size is limited to six students
to ensure individual attention, and each student will have their own 12” flatlap grinder to work on . Students will have the opportunity to make three or four pendants, of several different shapes. A great introduction to coldworked glass techniques. Each student will also have full-time access to a 12” horizontal lap machine.
Kent Lauer $200 + $40 material fee
Dates:
1. December 6 Sat 10am-5pm
2. December 7 Sun 10am-5pm
Open to all levels!

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