New Glass Casting Course Starting Next Monday!

Posted on August 8, 2011 by crisschaney

My family workshops last month have gone so well that I have decided to start an evening course for adults.

Learn to cast glass and create your own art pieces from scratch. Great for easy and personal gifts or just to liven up your home. Make sculptural decorative work, or a functional display item.

This class will cover clay sculpting, basic open facemoulds, rubber alginate moulds, lost wax, and glass casting. Perfect for beginners to learn the process, and for those who already know the process to experiment with new ideas.

A range of glass is included in the materials fee, and all Materials will be provided. Please wear old clothes, plaster can be messy.

Location: Creative Cohesion, 20/21 Nile Street, Sunderland, SR1 1EY

Dates: Mondays, Starting August 15th, 6-9pm

Cost: £20 per session

You can contact me if you have any questions- or if you’re ready to roll just fill in the course registration form to let me know you’re coming.

Don't fear you can still make some glass!

Posted on July 5, 2011 by crisschaney

My workshops at the American Market went well, I was inundated with people wanting to have a go, and they made some pretty awesome things, we had people making ducks, suns and even cornish pasties! It was really exciting seeing what people came up with. Now I just need to get them cast, I can’t wait to see how they all look when they come out of the kiln.

If you missed my workshops at the American Market don’t fear you have another opportunity to have a go at making something to cast in glass this Saturday July 9th. I’ll be demonstrating how to make super cute animals! We’ll have dogs, cats, frogs, fish, pigs, butterflies- you name it we’ll have a go at it.

Creative Cohesion is holding a FREE art day, so you can come and have a go at a whole variety of things:

Glassblowing with Roger Tye

Glass Casting with Criss Chaney

Japanese Flag Making with Theresa Easton

Pastel Drawing with Joe Robinson

Ceramics with Pip Whiteside

Throw a Clay Pot on a Wheel with Liz Shaw

Spray Painting with Frank Styles from Studio Q

FREE raffle where you can win some seriously lovely prizes.

The fun starts at 10am be there or be square!

Creative Cohesion
20/21 Nile Street
Sunniside
Sunderland
SR1 1EY

Arts Festivities in Sunderland

Posted on June 21, 2011 by crisschaney

I will be having a stall at the first ever American Market on July 2nd, in Sunniside Gardens, Sunderland. I will have a selection of small gift items for sale including original handmade jewellery, and paperweights.

I will also be offering people the chance to have a go at making your own glass to take home, it’s a little taster session for my full six week evening class. Cost £10.
You can make a small item for yourself, or as a gift, its totally up to you what you want to make, it could be a small sculpture, an item of jewellery, a little box, or bottle, coaster… really anything you can make in clay- we can do in glass. The taster session will last between 45 minutes to an hour and half it depends on how much detail you want to put in your piece and how long it takes you to sculpt it.
This session is great for kids as well. Once you have sculpted your clay, we will pour the mould, you’ll have to let it sit for about 30 minutes, in which time you could go and enjoy the other wonderful activities we have going on in the park including a live 50’s style rock’n’roll band. Then you can come back and dig out your clay, and clean out the inside of the mould, and pick your glass to go into it.
I will be casting all the glass at a later date, but I will be videoing it so you can see all the steps. Then your piece will be ready to pick up!

This market is part of the Sunderland International Friendship Festival which runs across the city. This year we are celebrating our connections with the US, Washington DC being one of our twin cities, the theme is aptly coordinated to the US celebrations, 1-4th of July, culminating in American Independence Day celebrations at Washington Old Hall on Monday, July 4.