Expansion in Glass Studio
Diploma Studio
Artistic glass integrates diverse areas of art, revealing their mutual interconnections. This constitutes an important point of reference in the educational process, whose aim is to make students aware that creative expansion encompasses all artistic disciplines.
The Expansion in Glass Studio provides education in the conscious and deliberate use of glass as a medium. It prepares students to formulate formal solutions that allow for precise visualisation of artistic concepts. An essential aspect of the Studio’s approach is the development of a reflective attitude—encouraging critical perspectives on art and on one’s own creative process.
Students learn about and apply diverse production processes, whose selection directly influences the character and reception of an artwork. They expand their conceptual and technological knowledge by making full use of the available workshop facilities.
The Studio programme fosters the deepening of artistic knowledge and the search for innovative ways of using glass as an artistic medium. The educational goal is to prepare students for independent, conscious, and responsible creative practice.
The Expansion in Glass Studio focuses on experimentation as a fundamental tool for exploring the glass medium in its full scope—both technological and conceptual. Experimentation is understood as a working method that enables the conscious shaping of relationships between material and idea.
Students are given the opportunity to articulate and precisely visualise their own artistic concepts through spatial objects, installations, and works employing a wide range of materials and techniques. The Studio creates a space for formal exploration in which glass functions as an expansive medium, entering into dialogue with other materials.
The foundation of the Studio’s methodology is the belief that process is more important than outcome, as a thoughtful realisation cannot exist without an attentive and conscious creative process. The Studio supports student development through individual analyses of undertaken themes, conducted within the language of visual arts, with consideration given to personal creative strategies and critical thinking.
Subjects
- Artistic Glass
Enrolment terms
Student selection is based on the evaluation of a submitted portfolio.
Reading list
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Angela Thwaites, Mould Making for Glass
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Henry Halem, Glass Notes: A Reference for the Glass Artist
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Graham Stone, Firing Schedules for Glass: The Kiln Companion
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Neues Glas / Glass in Architecture
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Glass, published by Urban Glass, New York, USA
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Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
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Adam Kotula, Piotr Krakowski, Contemporary Art
