Glassblowing: Next Steps - Four Week Workshop
Thursdays, Feb 26 - March 19, 2026
6:30-10:00 pm
Instructor: Hope Forstenzer & Kirsten Spouler 

In this course you will take the next steps to becoming a more confident, comfortable glassblower. Through demonstrations and drills, you will learn more basic skills and practice gathering, marvering, punties, jacklines, bits and more. Discussions on design and execution, colours, setting up your bubble and more.

Students must have taken one Introduction to Glassblowing class (weekend workshop or 6-week course. Age 16+. All materials supplied

About the Instructors

Hope Forstenzer has been blowing glass since 2000 and makes a wide variety of vessels and sculptural pieces using photo images on glass. She has studied glass in New York, Seattle & Baltimore. 

Kirsten Spouler
Kirsten has been working with glass since August 2019 and has taken the majority of her training from Terminal City Glass Co-op. She has also attended classes at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2022 and 2023 and Pilchuk glass school in 2024.