Stained Glass Classes with Iman
Learn stained glass basics from Iman using the Tiffany or copper foil method to create your own piece of stained glass artwork. During this four hour course students will learn how to cut shapes from glass sheets, grind on a glass grinder, brandish foil, and solder using a soldering iron. No prior experience required. Safety glasses, aprons, and gloves will be provided. Please bring closed toed shoes. Traditional lead solder is used in this course. Please review safety and care instructions.
What to Bring: Safety glasses, gloves, and aprons will be provided. Please bring closed toed shoes.
There are two days to choose from, both days can accomidate up to 4 students.
Class 1: October 14th, 1:00 – 5:00 pm.
Class 2: October 15th, 1:00 – 5:00 pm.
Age/Skill Level: 18+, Beginner no prior experience
$100 a person
Safely and Care Instructions:
Please wash hands after touching as traditional stained glass solder contains lead. Leaded stained glass artwork, like many other mediums, is meant to be hung up and enjoyed with your eyes rather than touched. Please display out of reach of small children and pets and advise family members and guests not to touch. Additionally, solder naturally oxidizes overtime. To restore, gently polish solder lines with a dry cloth.
Display: Copper foil pieces are best suited for indoor display and out of areas of high moisture. Safely hang by hammering any nail that can’t be bent by hand into wall or wall above window. I don’t recommend suction cups on windows as they often fail even with small pieces.
Reach out to Iman@glassbyiman.com or visit Glassbyiman.com for more information.
Bio:
Iman is a self taught artist working with stained glass for 2 years. In the fall of 2022, Iman completed a three month residency at the Burren College of Art off the west coast of Ireland where she received studio space and access to integral tools for creating stained glass artwork. She spent her time in the Burren conducting independent research, exploring the landscape and allowing her inspiration to bloom. Much of her work from this period includes pressed flowers and plants foraged from the valley and mountains surrounding the school.
Now Iman creates from her home studio in Ypsilanti and exhibits work all over SE Michigan. A focal study of this year is her “Journey into Bloom” collection depicting powerful women of color displayed in stained glass landscapes of femme afrofuturism. This series is coupled with her collection of stained glass teaware that explores the relationship between time poverty and acts of self care and how they each contribute to self actualized prosperity. The overarching goal of all her work in this medium is to encourage the viewer to make space and time throughout the day for nothing but the absorption of light. “I love to create artwork that draws my attention and makes me stop what I’m doing and spend more time standing in front of the window absorbing light.”
