Introduction to Glass Blowing Weekend Workshop

This comprehensive introductory workshop runs across 2 days during which you will learn the fundamental skills of glassblowing. Starting with gathering molten glass out of the furnace, on the first day you will learn how to shape the hot glass and add colour. The second day begins with blowing a bubble into the molten glass and we finish the day making your own tumblers.

By the end of the weekend, each student will have five pieces of their own; 2 paperweights, 2 tumblers, and a small ornament.

Come join us for a fun-filled weekend learning how to blow glass!

Introduction to glassblowing workshops are run on a monthly basis. We are currently taking bookings for Summer 2025. Current date(s)

  • 29-30 March 2025

Class size is limited to 4 people so that everyone gets individual attention and enough time to work with the glass. We must have at least 3 people to run this workshop.

 
 

 

Introductory Weekend Workshop Part 2

Keen to continue your glassblowing journey? We offer a second weekend instalment for students who have completed an introductory workshop at our studio or a comparable class at another hot shop. In this two day class, we will focus on building hand skills with a variety of tools — the tweezers, jacks, and marver. Day one consists of a series of small sculpted objects to build your confidence, including a flower and a bird, and on day two you will experiment with blown glass vases using the tools you mastered on day one.

Current date(s)

  • 19-20 April 2025

Class size is limited to 4 people so that everyone gets individual attention and enough time to work with the glass. We must have at least 3 people to run this workshop.

 
 

Surface Decoration with Elizabeth McClure

April 2025

Elizabeth McClure  has a lifetime of experience in ALL aspects of glass … Hot / Cold, Architectural / Miniature , Object and Adornment.

Though Scottish-born and educated, she has travelled,  worked and taught in the UK and Ireland, Europe, Japan, the USA and Australia, she is now fully immersed in her ‘glass’ life in Aotearoa -NZ.

If one word could be used to describe any aspect of her work, it would be ‘DETAIL’  - she is keen on attention to the little things and the big things too… that need extra consideration.

Amokura is delighted to have Elizabeth on board to teach a ‘basics’ and ‘useful skills’  session with an emphasis on various ways of applying pattern and decoration while blowing and hot working the glass. 

We can fit  A LOT into a couple of days. Think of it as Glass Vocabulary  - new words and ways to add your personal language of GLASS.

Bring drawing and painting tools and paper or sketchbooks!

We will make some time for exploring ideas while everything heats up in the Hot Shop… 

Requirements:

-Must have either taken our Weekend Workshops 1 & 2 courses, or have spent at least 30 hours working in another hot shop.

-Must be 16 years and up.