Corning Museum of Glass has a phenomenal education department. We have teamed up many times to enrich the learning experiences of young adults in my programs. This time, we got to try sandblasting for the first time in the new Education Lab!
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| Immaculate Studio |
My dear friend, Lu Kania, gave us the short introduction to sandblasting. It involves these machines:
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| The Sandblasting Beasts |
AND LOTS AND LOTS OF STICKERS!!!! Now chill out a moment....these stickers may look cool, but Lu will tell you, the image will not remain on your glass once "The Beasts" get a taste of them!
The stickers sole purpose is to resist the sand. That means, the cutesy little sparkles and fishy faces will not be seen by your grandma or Aunt Alice when you gift your amazing sandblasted glass for the holidays. It means, you create your own design using the stickers as a means to produce a pattern or random chaos. Here is a sample of our cool creations.
Once our designs were final, we took turns with "The Beasts" to blast the glass to a frosted appearance.
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| The Beasts are sloppy eaters. |
I'll show you the process my tiny glass experienced.
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| Galss is taped and stickered |
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| Glass entered The Beast to be blasted. |
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| Glass has been blasted and is now frosty where there is no sticker. |
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| Some goofball having too much fun with "The Beast". |
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| The glass after being blasted, but before tape is removed. |
The process is quick and the result is something we got to take home at the end of the program. So fun!
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| A final product, ready for a cold lemonade. |
Visit the Corning Museum of Glass to have your own Sandblasting experience. It's a wonderful experience.
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