General Information | Fuse It with Petra Kaiser

Already our last 4 weekly classes for this season!

by Petra Kaiser | Mar 23, 2021 | General Information, Workshops and Classes

Dear Students,

thank you all for a great 2020/2021 class season at BIG ARTS in Sanibel, Florida. We managed quite well even with hiding our faces behind the masks. But as I said, it helped me to survive another year without plastic surgery.

Only one month is left in this 20/21 season. So far we have plans to teach both days, Thursday and Wednesday. The Thursday classes are sold out, but we do have room in the Wednesday classes.

If you would like to sign up, please call BIG ARTS at 239-395-0900 and we will see you next Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at 9:30 am.

If you can’t make it in April, we will start back up in October.

Either way, have a beautiful summer and stay in touch.

petra

Flexible Mold with KLB Drape Triangles

by Petra Kaiser | Mar 20, 2021 | General Information, Inspiration, Product Information

Created at our BIG Arts workshop by Karin S.

For this mold setup, I used our shorter and longer drape triangles and covered them with a piece of fiber cloth.

What to Do with a Stringer – a Candle – an Ornament?

by Petra Kaiser | Dec 15, 2020 | General Information, Inspiration, Tutorials

Happy Holiday Season to all of you! Yes even in 2020 we will have a happy season since we are capable to make the best of everything. In today’s little tutorial I show you how to make some hooks for ornaments with the thicker vitrigraph stringers.

Glass Art Symposium

by Petra Kaiser | Oct 6, 2020 | General Information, Workshops and Classes

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Bonus Project for GAS 2020

This is the bonus project for Glass Art Symposium 2020. Here is the link. The Symposium can still be purchased, but for all of you who own it already, check out the new files. It’s a video and a pdf file. https://ty104.isrefer.com/go/gas2020/PetraKaiser

Have you heard about the Glass Art Symposium from Curious Mondo?

It is an online event with many different classes for a very good price – FREE.

Workshops will not be sold separately, only as a bundle.Please use our affiliated link to access their site.

https://ty104.isrefer.com/go/gas2020/PetraKaiser

Ok, let me explain FREE and the Early Bird Pricing.

During the Symposium you can watch all the different classes for free. But should you want access to the PDF files, patterns, or bonus projects a lot of instructors offer, you can buy a life long access to all classes now for an incredible price.

Early Bird Pricing

Now until Oct 8th: $77
Oct 9-16: $87
Oct. 17+: $147

During the scheduled class event, the instructors will be available in an online chat to answer your questions.

The Symposium Starts October 9th, 2020, and ends October 16th. You’ll have free access to 3 daily classes.

Some are fusing, some are stained glass

Have a look for yourself. https://ty104.isrefer.com/go/gas2020/PetraKaiser

My Pocket Vessel Class is on

October 16th, 2020 at 4 pm ETD.

And let me reveal a little secret. It did not go so smoothly, so you will learn a lot more than I originally planned.

As you all know, glass has a mind of its own. Bitmoji Image

What you will learn:

How to design, cut, and carve a Kaiser Lee Board (KLB) Mold.
How to create your own pattern with your flexible KLB system.
How to solve a problem.
How to work with Wissmach Luminescent Glass
How to make a pocket into your vessel that is easy to remove.
A short introduction to KLENDOX (a technique that uses the KLB Sand which is actually leftover from carving the Kaiser Lee Board).
Designing with glass powder and frit
How to hang your glass vessel without any addition of wire.
How to fire your glass vessel.

Virtual Get Together

by Petra Kaiser | Jul 8, 2020 | General Information

Dear Fellow Glass Artists,

It looks like a lot of us will be staying at home longer than we first anticipated. So lets find new ways to get together. Thanks to technology we can do this most easily online. Even Facebook has a new feature called “Room” where we can get together with a group of up to 20 people.

This is why I started a virtual Get Together 2 weeks ago. We all are new at this and do learn together. But they are fun and I think I will offer them on a regular basis.

So if you are tired of being alone in your studio you can meet with like minded people around the world? Join our virtual “Get-Together” that we are hosting through our Face Book Group at different times on Saturdays or Sundays. We try to accommodate all the time zones in the USA as well as other parts of the world.

ESD – 2 pm = 8 pm in Europe, and 7 pm in the UK

ESD – 6 pm = 8 am the next day in Australia

The “Virtual Get Together in our Creative Kiln Forming Group is to exchange ideas, inspire and get inspired by meeting fellow glass artists. We are exchanging information, marketing ideas techniques and more. If the time allows it, I will also do a show and tell of a short Kaiser Lee Board project. But those meeting are not a class or a workshop.

They should be the platform for you to get to know other glass artists around the world, ask questions and may be answer questions from others in the group.

Hope to see in one of them soon

Your Get Together Host

Petra Kaiser

For those of you who would like to take a workshop or just need a little bit of mentoring, I offered the option of taking a virtual mentoring session or an actual one on one workshop. You will find more information about those features HERE. And if you have any questions, please call me.

Me for You – You for Me

by Petra Kaiser | Jun 26, 2020 | General Information, Workshops and Classes

Last week I went shopping in a small store, where the owner as well as her staff wore face masks. But many of their customers did not. After I asked her how she felt about it, she said as long they don’t make mask wearing mandatory, she could not say anything. So I made her a sign and it is already making a difference.

Some of you might have a similar situation and If you like, you could print a PDF File of this image to make your own sign(s).

Those of you who have met me personally know how I love to be with people. Since the current developments give little hope that I will be able to see many of you personally this year, I wanted to try a get together in our Facebook Group “Creative Kiln Forming”.

This get together is meant to get to know each other, ask questions and if it works well, we could repeat it regularly. Artists thrive by exchanging ideas and collaborating. And this could become our platform.

For those of you who would want to take a class, I also added a virtual class option to our cart.