Glass Fusing

The students are always excited to work with the glass for this project.  Not sure if it is because they are introduced to cutting glass, bending glass with fire and working with the kiln, but it is a great opportunity for the students to recognize that buildings, skylines and landscapes can be used as a subject for art. 

The students are introduced to the different types of glass and discuss what will happen to the glass when it is fired at a specific tempature.  Using stringers, frit, liquid frit, sheets of glass, grinders, cutters and fire the students created fore, middle, and background to help give their project a similiar look to the actual skyline or landscape chosen.

Once the project was completed they were loaded into the kiln and fired with a tack fuse program.