Weekend Workshop - Lost Wax Casting

Service Description

A three day class to learn the basics of casting in glass. For travelers coming in from out of town, the class begins mid day Friday and will finish no later than 2p on Sunday. Participants will cast their own hand in glass*. Lost wax casting is a traditional method that ranges back to the bronze age, and is still an essential skill in the glass artist's toolbox. ## What you'll learn Participants will learn how to: 1. use alginate to perform body/model casting 2. convert a negative mold into a lost wax positive 3. safely and properly mix and build a plaster silica casting mold with reservoir 4. burn out (lost) wax 5. perform math to properly load the mold with glass and program the firing schedule 6. divesting and finishing glass sculpture ## Why Take This Class? Casting is messy, physical, and a whole lot of fun. Once you learn how to do it your imagination will lead you to whole new ways to use glass as a narrative art form. Participants that complete this course are eligible in the future to use MGW's open studio's mold making station, casting supplies and extended kiln fires for casting objects. ## Who Is This For? Glass artists looking to advance and broaden their skills, or artists from other media (ie ceramics, bronze) wanting to learn how to work with glass. ## What is included? You will leave with a finished work. All materials and tools will be provided. Participants should where clothes they can get dirty in, and close toed shoes, but otherwise, everything used to produce the finished glass sculpture will be provided. *Participants may choose to cast objects other than their hand (like found nature objects, etc). Prior to the beginning of the workshop participants will be sent direction on other types of objects they can bring.