This short movie clip is a small selection of past class participants glasswork. These workshop classes have been held from the studio at the Ruskin Glass Centre in Stourbridge.
These show a broad range of skills from ‘Beginners’ fused glass workshops right through to more ‘Advanced’ Courses in glass fusion. Using a range of fused glass techniques, craft skills and inspiration to create their glassworks.
The International Festival of Glass takes place every two years in Stourbridge, and is the only festival that celebrates glass in the UK.
The creative programme of activities combines the whole spectrum of glassmaking with other artforms to push boundaries and develop new opportunities, ideas and collaborations for makers, artists and performers. You can see high-quality exhibitions, international masterclasses, artist demonstrations and presentations, with over 500 artists represented at each festival.
There are plenty of workshops and hands-on activities to try yourself, plus lively entertainment and evening events.The flagship exhibition British Glass Biennale is now established as the largest and most important selling show of contemporary glass in the UK.
Information on how to get to the festival and around the various sites can be found on the plan your visit page: www.ifg.org.uk
Date: Friday 23rd August till Monday 26th August 2024
Time: 10am till 4pm. Some evening events scheduled.
Venue: Venues across the Glass Quarter and Stourbridge. Many of the sites linked by canal towpath walks.
Main Site: Ruskin Glass Centre, The Glasshouse, Wollaston Road, Stourbridge, DY8 4HF
For further details visit the ‘International Festival of Glass’ website: http://www.ifg.org.uk
Celebrate the Festival’s 20th year with us in August 2024. We will be sharing wonderful memories and creating special new ones with the festival theme ‘Past Present Future’, recreating some of the ultimate highlights from the last 20 years and introducing new ideas, new technologies and brilliant new artists to meet and admire. There will be fantastic entertainment, superb exhibitions, wonderful food and a chance to meet old and new friends. And we look forward to the future with the handover of the event to the Glass Arts Society. Keep an eye out for more information and come and join us in Stourbridge for the UK’s only glass festival.
For further details visit the ‘International Festival of Glass’ website: http://www.ifg.org.uk
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