Instructor: Joseph Cavalieri
Experience Level: All Levels
2-Day Workshop // Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 11 & 12
Learn lots of super techniques for adding superhero images to glass! This fun class will result in two, six by six inch, multiple layered glass panels. You don’t need to be a professional painter, we will be tracing images in the class. First we will choose superhero images, then, under Cavalieri’s instruction, you will learn different processes to add these images onto glass. Techniques include painting, air-brushing (using an atomizer), ‘pen-and-ink drawing’ (using a crow-quill pen) sandblasting & oil paint process. We will also learn how to silkscreen using existing silkscreens Joseph will bring. Once all the images are fired onto the glass, learn how secure the glass together using copper foil, like a colorful multi-layered glass sandwich. Cavalieri will also demonstrate how to solder, frame and light a more elaborate finished stained glass panel.
The class is open to all levels.
About Joseph
Joseph’s work can be seen in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Italian American Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Stax Museum, in the collections of two Simpson’s writers in Los Angeles, and the collection of movie director Morgan Spurlock. Private and public art commissions include a MTA Arts for Transit public art installation at the Philipse Manor Train Station in Westchester, New York, and a 6-foot-round stained glass window at Our Lady of Sorrow Church on the island of Itaparica, in Brazil. Joseph has collaborated with illustrator R. Crumb and Alpha & Chris Hipkiss. His teaching credentials include over 30 workshops in the USA, South America and Europe, including Corning Glass, Berlin Glas and Penland School of Craft. He has been invited to 14 art residencies in the US, South America, Europe, Australia and India, including the Open Studio Program at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In 2015 Cavalieri was invited to be the keynote speaker for theGlass Society of Ireland and NCAD Conference.
Website
http://cavaglass.com
About GoggleWorks
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts is a 145,000 square foot, five-story community arts center located in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. The former safety goggle factory was reimagined into a thriving complex which includes seven large teaching studios, juried-in artist studios, exhibition galleries, classrooms, film theatre, and store.
Admission and parking are always free. GoggleWorks is open daily, from 9am - 9pm. Plan your visit at http://goggleworks.org
