Amy Lemaire is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work combines craft traditions of flameworked glass with contemporary technologies, such as plasma and digital fabrication to create objects, images, tools and situations that reconsider relationships between humans and the natural world. Lemaire works with institutions around the US as teaching artist, and currently teaches Plasma Design at Salem Community College. 

She has been awarded residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design, WheatonArts, UrbanGlass, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Tyler School of Art. 

Her essay ""Flame Grows Up"" was published in Glass Quarterly Magazine in 2018. Lemaire was a lector/presenter at the 2019 International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College (NJ).Her work has been recently included in exhibitions at Heller Gallery (NY) and Traver Gallery (WA).

Website: http://amylemaire.com/

Instagram: @parakeetfarmer2

Solid, Liquid, Gas, PLASMA!
When: , May 26 - May 30
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Dates:
Tuition $950.00
Instructor: Amy Lemaire

Take your sculptures to the next level and add unique light effects with PLASMA! Over the course of this weeklong class, you will design and fabricate a plasma lamp while learning about the science of gas discharge tubes in a creative environment. We will consider plasma in the contexts of scientific glassblowing, contemporary art, and design through a combination of demonstrations, collaboration, and hands-on learning.

Topics covered will include safety, tips for sculpting borosilicate glass for plasma, application of phosphors, gas mixtures, adding electrodes, capacitive coupling, and much more.

 

This intensive will include an additional material fee that can be processed on-site the first day of class when you check in.

1 of 10 seats available.
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