The art of glass design can be found in anything from simple cut applications in construction and furniture, to intricate blown beads and figurines. It is a fun and creative art form that makes a self-employed graduate quite versatile in the Belizean market.

Openings: 5 Students
Duration: 2 Semesters
Requirements: English verbal skills
Skills Taught:

• tool, torch, and kiln safety, use, and care
• glass types and characteristics
• glazing and frosting
• leadings, sandblasting, and chemical etching
• blowing, fusing, and cutting
• glass recycling

Semester 1
The first semester will be a rapid hands-on apprenticeship-type course on all the different possible art treatments. The students will cut and fit glass to frames, etch glass using a sandblaster and/or chemicals, melt glass together in a kiln, and melt glass rods together in a flame to blow, stretch, and shape it into an art form.

Semester 2
The second semester student will continuously practice the methods taught in the first semester to refine their skill in the art from. In addition, each student will design and create an art piece that utilizes several of these newly acquired skills in one endeavor. The shop master will help every step as the student requests, and these activities will occasionally be interrupted as our guest artists arrive for unique method teaching on new designs and techniques.

Advanced Learning
Way Too Cool Arts and Science Institute will complete our glass ovens and glory holes in the near future, enabling us to instruct in glass blowing on a larger scale. Our graduates will be notified of the opportunity to return for two additional semesters of advanced glass blowing techniques for figurines, vases, lamps, etc.