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Glass is unlike any other medium. It requires mental and physical skills, collaboration, and teamwork. Whether you work with opaque, translucent, transparent, or colored glass—and regardless of the specific techniques—the effects can be breathtaking as you guide and shape the semi-liquid molten glass as it cools and hardens, creating forms that embody your personal vision and creativity.
Glass classes are held at the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass, an exceptional facility on Ball State’s campus that houses hot, warm, neon, and cold working studios. At the Glick Center, students, faculty, and staff work as teams to blow, cast, slump, fuse, cold-work, and bombard together.
Beginning students will learn basic processes for blowing and casting. Intermediate students will incorporate color and concept into their forms. Advanced students will develop bodies of glass art that reflect a progressive combination of technical processes to create personal forms. Our glass students have exceptional opportunities to compete against other programs nationwide at the Glass Olympics, attend summer workshops at renowned glass centers nationwide, and to study glass abroad in places such as Poland and the Czech Republic.
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