| For me, one of the important reasons for going to the GAS Conference is to visit various studios, ask questions about equipment and technique, and see pieces being made. While I have posted consolidated pictures elsewhere, this is the pictures as I took them (reduced in size). | |
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This is a demonstration by Merrilee Moore and shows the hot shop at Pratt. |
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| General shot of the hot wall as the team gets ready. Wall of windows to right. Note moderate marver on locking casters, stacked 5 gallon white buckets for height, propane tank for torch on small handtruck. Standard bench. |
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| Turn right to annealers on back wall, small seating space. |
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| General shot of hot wall. Overhead lighting. Image of piece to be worked on in light just right of center. Dump buckets center seem to be aluminum beer kegs, cut down and full sized. |
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| Student art blown |
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| Student art fused |
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| Student or faculty art, blown |
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| Student or faculty art, cast, hot and lampwork? |
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| Student/faculty art |
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| Along the back wall, moveable annealer, several fixed, storage locker |
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| Machine shop near the hot shop, nice assortment, presumably also used by other art areas. |
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| Pipe cooler with floating wooden strainer and bronze/brass yoke for pipe. |
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| Team handling of pipe and shielding while building up solid core. |
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| Marvering the solid core shape. |
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| More marvering. Notice the open hand steering the roll. |
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| Using the pipe cooler |
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| Just after gathering and wetting the pipe, drying it off while handling floppy glass. |
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| Slopping the floppy glass in a pile of frit to pickup desired color |
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| Readying the mold/former made of pipes. Cork smoothing blocks out of water, mound of wet newspaper right for further shaping. |
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| Hot glass laid on pipe former. |
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| Smooth top and shape edges toward shell shape. |
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| Flip over barred grill to impress grooves on top. |
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| Examine shape and form with metal blades. |
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| Shape brought to newspaper mound for curving. |
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| After partial reshaping on mound |
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| Examining the piece on pipe after shaping. |
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