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Make Your Own ORNAMENT      $25
TUESDAYS - SATURDAYS    Call ahead for an appointment!  251.981.2787
The Hot Shop is open Tuesdays through Saturday between 10:00am and 4:00pm for "Make Your Own Glass" appointments.  Walk ins welcome!  You will have the opportunity to experience hot glass. Glass artist Sam Cornman will demonstrate the creation of an ornament, flower or paperweight, then you will be able to design and create one of your own!   This is a fun way to experience glassblowing for the very first time. Come alone or with a group of friends.  Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping.  The class will take 10-15 minutes.  

Make Your Own FLOWER       $30       
TUESDAYS - SATURDAYS  v  Call ahead for an appointment!  251.981.2787

 Make a beautiful flower with glass artist Sam Cornman.  You will choose two colors and manipulate the molten glass to form the lily shaped flower.  Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping. The class will take 10-15 minutes.  

Make Your Own PAPERWEIGHT      $35
TUESDAYS - SATURDAYS    Call ahead for an appointment!  251.981.2787 
 
Make a paperweight with resident glass artist Sam Cornman.  Choose your colors, add your bubbles and roll the molten glass into a sparkling paperweight.  Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping.  The class will take 15-20 minutes.

 THE HEART - A COUPLES CLASS   $55
TUESDAYS - SATURDAYS    Call ahead for an appointment!  251.981.2787 

Bring your sweetheart and blow a heart together.  Glass artist Sam Cornman will gudie you as your heart is made from the super heated molten glass. Choose your heart's color.  Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping.  The class will take 35 minutes.

THE SWEDISH BOWL - A COUPLES CLASS   $95
TUESDAYS - SATURDAYS    Call ahead for an appointment!  251.981.2787

 Make this beautiful 'swedish' bowl with Sam Cornman's help. Choose your bowl's color sceme.  Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping. 
The class will take ONE HOUR.
  SAND CASTING: MEMORIES IN GLASS        Instructor: Sam Cornman
Wednesdays       4:30pm        Fee: $45 all supplies and equipment provided   
            
Learn about hot glass casting while creating a momentous piece of art.  You will cast a creation out of molten hot glass in Orange Beaches' very own sand!  Bring a small object (8"x8" or smaller) to imprint in the sand and learn the glass art of casting.  The memory objects will be used for impressions in the sand and will not be harmed.  Examples of objects to bring: military metals, antique jewelry, sea shells, your hands!
Remember that your glass must slowly cool in the annealer for 24 hours before you can take it home.  We offer shipping. 
The class will take ONE HOUR.
GLASS BLOWING FOR BEGINNERS II
$150   a one day workshop!
Friday and Saturdays        2pm -  5pm
Building on the skills learned in Beginners I, students will learn how to gather glass out of the furnace and reheat. These skills are necessary for students to start to make pieces totally on their own. With ample instruction, students will make blown vessels from start to finish.   Students can expect to make 2  to 4 pieces, which will be ready to take home the next day.  Shipping is available for visiting students. To Sign Up for Classes Call 251.981.2787
 

 

 

SUN CATCHERS:  GLASS FUSING         Instructor: Sam Cornman 
Tuesdays         4:30pm        Fee: $25 all supplies and equipment provided
 


   GLASS BLOWING FOR BEGINNERS I 
$150   a one day workshop!

Friday and Saturdays,      2pm -  5pm
This three hour class is designed to give beginners an introduction to basic glassblowing.  The class will give students ample hands on experience as they learn classic techniques such as shaping the glass, making basic forms and apply basic color to the glass.  By the end of the work shop students will have made paperweights, ornaments and vessels.  Students can expect to make 2 to 4 pieces, which will be ready to take home the next day.  Shipping is available for visiting students.  To Sign Up for Classes Call 251.981.2787