July 2022 Newsletter
15% OFF stained glass sale, upcoming summer classes, and more!
Art in the Shop: Your Glass Art!
Want to use our kilns to fuse your own glass art? We offer "Free Glass Fridays" every Friday (and sometimes on Saturdays) to give all levels of fused glass artists a fun way to play with glass and create using our Bullseye scrap glass.
You can also rent one of our small or large kilns for a firing cycle. If you'd like more info on kiln rentals please email us at info@potekglass.com or give us a call 612-281-7243
Pictured above is Janice Cloutier's FGF creation. She started with a couple of her own 10”x10” clear glass sheets and then got great use out of all our different colored glass scraps + stringers to make her flower garden! We did a full fuse the following week and then here we are, masterpiece!
Her granddaughter even came by to the studio to see the piece before it was fused and exclaimed, “you made that?!”
Artist in the World: Josephine Geiger
Fine Art Stained Glass at J. A. Geiger Studio
When she's not building her deck or doing home improvement projects, Josephine A. Geiger works from her Saint Paul, Minnesota studio, creating geometric and slightly abstract landscapes. Working with a bold palette of rectangles and squares of colored light, she composes leaded stained-glass panels with an Impressionistic eye.
Check out a couple of her leaded glass pieces in this month's Potekglass artist highlight, and click "Read More" to visit her website where she has all sorts of her work featured!
Touch of Spring
Leaded glass
11 x 30
Aspen Trail
Leaded glass
18.25 x 20.75
Upcoming Classes at Potekglass
Kiln Try-iT! - Beginner's Fusing Class
Saturday, July 23rd
10a - 1p
3-hour class
Cost: $95
Member Price: $69
Simple to start endless in its potential; kiln-forming is to glass what conducting is to instruments.
In this course students will learn to cut patterns out of sheet glass, make frit, and work with a variety of glass formats by combing them in the kiln to produce a customized glass ring dish.
This course certifies you to join Kiln Open Studio and Free Glass Friday Sessions at Potek Glass.
Beginner Level (Kiln Certifying Course)
This fused glass art (on right) is from one of our studio artist's Free Glass Friday work at our 7/1 kiln session.
Stained Glass Leaded Window - Intermediate
Thursday, August 18th
6p - 8p (4 weeks total)
2-hour class, 4 sessions
Cost: $115
Member Price: $103.50
Learn the traditional method of window creation using lead came and zinc. Find your own pattern, which should be no larger than 24" x 24", 34 pieces or less, with straight lines and curves. Feel free to stop in ahead of the first class to discuss your pattern. Supplies needed: a soldering iron, lead cutter, glass cutter, glass breaking pliers and sheet glass for your window. Other needed supplies/materials will be discussed in the first class.
This bright cloud leaded glass window (on left) was created by our class instructor, Mark Trease.
Beginning Stained Glass is required.
Free Glass Friday - Torch & Kiln
Every Friday 11:00a - 3:00p
$35 non-members / $25 members
This includes 4 hours on our equipment with free glass provided for kiln, soft glass, and boron artists. Bring your own tools, or borrow ours!
The glass provided for the kiln session is all Bullseye COE 90 (stringer and sheet scraps). Italian soft glass, borosilicate glass, and bullseye glass are all available for torch session!
Retail in the Shop: Kokomo Rodeo
Kokomo Rodeo /ko•ko•mo ro•de•o/ (noun): a roundup of streaky, cathedral, opalescent and antique US-made glass sheets by Kokomo and others.
Malcom traveled long and far to the farmlands of Wisconsin in an adventure that led to rounding up TONS of sheet glass from the likes of US producers Kokomo and others. We invite you to ride on down to Potek Glass this week to be the first to see and pick through these one of a kind glass sheets. It doesn’t matter if you’re new or experienced with stained glass, partners, we know you’ve got projects that need this artisan glass!
15% OFF Stained Glass Sheet Sale
ONE WEEK SALE
7/26 -7/30
Tuesday 7/26 - Thursday 7/28
15% OFF FULL SHEETS
of in-stock stained glass including Kokomo, Bullseye, Wissmach, Youghiogheny and more
Friday 7/29 + Saturday 7/30
15% OFF ALL SHEETS
of in-stock stained glass including partial and full glass sheets
Come by to check what we have available before the sale!
Music Highlight
If you've been by the studio, you know Malcom loves to fill the sunny space with his favorite music. This is anything from Ween to John Coltrane. We think he has pretty good musical taste. So I'm sure you're wondering, What is Malcom listening to today?
Answer is, Classical music from the likes of
Elvis Costello, Elliott Carter, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
