Glassblowing Workshop with Jason Klein

June 20-23

Cost: $725

register online at: brynathyn.edu/workshops

Experience the exciting medium of glassblowing. After
gathering a lump of molten glass on your pipe, you will
practice introducing air to shape and expand it, and then
learn how to transfer your glass from the blowpipe to a solid
rod for finishing. You will work on your own pieces as well as
collaboratively on more complex projects. By the end of the
workshop you will have shaped molten glass into colorful,
transparent keepsakes.

Jason Klein has been blowing glass for more than twenty years.
He earned a business degree before studying glass blowing

at Tulane University. His interest in the Middle Ages led him

to focus on the techniques of medieval glass blowers. Since
2001 he has been a glass blower/demonstrator at Renaissance
festivals throughout the eastern United States, performing

in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. In his
historically based reenactments, he demonstrates glass-
blowing techniques from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, and
the Renaissance. His period recreations were commissioned
as props in the Pirates of the Caribbean films and in The

Hobbit. In 2006 he began working with Glencairn Museum,
demonstrating techniques used in the building of the Bryn
Athyn Cathedral such as the muff method and the little-known
creation of medieval copper-red glass.