2011-12 Catalog

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Offering Description

Neon: Shaping Light (2nd session)

REVISED

Summer 2012 quarter

Faculty
Douglas Hitch
Fields of Study
visual arts
Description

This course introduces students to the basic skills in the fabrication of neon. Each student will learn to heat, bend, weld, and anneal glass tubing using a ribbon burner, cannon fire, and tipping torch. Students will learn the bending process for the four basic bends. Students will learn to blow bubbles and make twists in glass tubes. They will use these techniques to fabricate a self contained PVC tube-based lighting project while learning to safely attach and handle high-voltage transformers to energize their neon project.

This class runs for two weeks during second session.  Another section of the same class is available for two weeks in first session.

Advertised Schedule
10a-4:30p Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu (Jul. 30 - Aug. 10)
Location
Olympia
Online Learning
No Required Online Learning
Books
Greener Store
Required Fees
$10 studio fee plus $175 for materials including a transformer for final project
Offered During
Day

Program Revisions

Date Revision
March 26th, 2012 A second section of this offering has been added. The class is now available in either first or second session.
March 16th, 2012 Schedule revised to note that class only meets the first two weeks of second session.