Art Bar: Fused Glass Garden Plate
ART BAR: Fused Glass Garden Plate Workshop with Emily Kuchenbecker
Tuesday, March 17
6 – 8 pm
$85 per student (includes all supplies & 2 drinks)
Min 5 / Max 12
Create your own vibrant botanical artwork in fused glass during this fun, two-hour Art Bar experience. Students will learn how to cut, fuse, and grind glass as they build a colorful plate using squares and rectangles for the background. Once the base is complete, you’ll design contemporary poppies—or another botanical of your choice—using glass stringers, frit, and other textural elements.
Perfect for a girls’ night out, date night, workplace outing, or simply an evening of creative expression, this workshop is welcoming to beginners and rewarding for returning glass artists. Emily provides step-by-step instruction while leaving room for personal style and experimentation.
Finished pieces will be fired after class and ready for pickup in 1–2 weeks.
What to Expect
- Hands-on instruction in glass cutting, composition, fusing, and cold-working
- 2 complimentary glasses of wine or beer
- 10% discount in the CAE gift shop the day of your class
- All supplies included
What to Bring
- Closed-toe shoes
- Comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting messy
- A water bottle
Instructor
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Emily KuchenbeckerEmily Kuchenbecker is a multidisciplinary artist who combines poetry, movement, and objects to create sensory experiences. She holds her Master of Fine Arts from the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point. Emily views glass as an inherently similar material to the body and forces of nature. Emily currently works as a production assistant and glass instructor at the Furnace Glasswork. She also does custom fabrication (the most recent being on a fabrication team to build the Meow Wolf Vortex Fest Stage, and a glass installation at “The Beacon”). Emily simultaneously runs her apothecary shop and handblown glass under Waxing Gibbous Studio. Emily currently teaches the immersive glassworking class, as well as take and makes at the Furnace. She has also taught Space Research in Art Foundations department of VCU, lampworking at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, and Fused Glass at Cedarfield Hermitage. She has studied glass techniques at the Pilchuck Glass Studio, Penland School of Crafts, and Oxbow School of Art. In 2019, Emily was a finalist for the Stanislav Libensky Glass Award at the Prague Gallery of Glass, and received a grant to teach a glass workshop at VCU Qatar campus.
