Glass Axis Demo: Lampworking

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Join the OSU Urban Arts Space at Glass Axis for free glass making demonstrations on the last Saturday of every month. This month local glass artist, Lisa Horkin demonstrates lampworking. This is your chance to see how glass is shaped using a hand-held flame.

This demo will be held at Glass Axis, 1341 Norton Avenue-B, Columbus, OH 43212. For more information visit them on the web or call the studio at (614) 291-4250.

Glass Axis is a Columbus-based non-profit that serves as an advocate for the education of glass art and supports contemporary artists. For over 20 years, Glass Axis has championed glass art in the Central Ohio community through classes, tours, exhibitions, visiting artists, scholarships, and internships. Glass Axis provides a premier studio and rental facility for more than 200 local artists.

About Lisa Horkin
A native of Columbus, Horkin holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), where she studied painting and ceramics. For ten years she worked in painted textiles, exhibiting nationally as well as in France and the Czech Republic. She has lectured and taught workshops locally and in France. In 2002 she began working in glass. She currently works with furnace blown glass creating vases and sculptural pieces; she also does lampworking to create miniature blown glass vessels she calls “Enchanted Vessels.” Horkin blows glass at Glass Axis and does lampworking at her home studio in Columbus.

Image: Lisa Horkin, Ocean Life.