Glass Blowing: Marble or Paperweight

What you'll do

Work with molten glass at the torch and create your own marble or paperweight to take home. Jared will guide you through the process of gathering, shaping, and adding color to the glass. No experience is needed, and everything is provided. Classes are available for individuals, couples, or groups of up to eight people.

What's included

• All materials and glass
• All tools and safety equipment
• Instruction throughout — you work the glass, we stay beside you
• Your finished piece to take home

Know before you go

• Wear closed-toe shoes and natural fibres — cotton or denim. Synthetics and hot glass don't get along.
• Tie long hair back. Leave loose sleeves and scarves at home.
• Arrive ten minutes early so we can get you kitted out and start on time.
• Ages 12 and up at the torch. Younger visitors are welcome to watch.
• Glass has to cool overnight, so pieces are usually collected the next day. We can post it if you're passing through.

Your instructor

Jared Omas / KRO Glass

Glass artist and co-owner of Passage Gallery, working at the torch in borosilicate. Known for fumed marbles built with 24K gold and silver, air-trap wormholes and honeycomb millefiori, and sculptural mushroom clusters in iridescent earth tones. Teaches every glass class in the studio, usually to people who arrived certain they weren't creative.

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Where

68 Bastille Drive #4, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147

Behind Victor's Sushi, in Unit 4 on the far left side of the building we share with MEE Hmong Cuisine. Look for the teardrop mark on the door.

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