Glass provides a resting place for wine, eveningwear for Cinderellas, and a more dramatic exit from 44th-floor windows for Bruce Willises. Shatter artistic inhibitions with today’s Groupon to Rainbow Vision Stained Glass. Choose between the following options:
- For $25, you get an introductory stained-glass workshop for one (a $50 value).
- For $45, you get an introductory stained-glass workshop for two (a $100 value).<p>
With more than 26 years of designing and teaching experience, Rainbow Vision’s instructors foster an inviting atmosphere in which beginning students envision, design, and create stained-glass window panels. The two-hour introductory stained-glass workshop teaches duos and solitary smithies the basics of cutting glass into various shapes, such as daisy petals and Mark McGwire. Stainers learn to employ copper foil to prepare pieces for soldering and practice flowing solder between colored shards to hold together their designs. Students augment their newfound skills with included class tools to create a 6-inch circular window medallion that can be brought home and used to showcase successful Risk strategies to unassuming passersby.
The windows of Rainbow Vision’s Victorian-mansion glass studio are lined with sheets of tie-dyed glass, each providing shiny inspiration for new students. The class size never exceeds 10 people, and each class is typically led by two instructors to foster a supportive learning environment and intimate dance-offs. Classes are scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays; additional dates and class times will be added throughout the duration of the Groupon.
Rainbow Vision Stained Glass
With a team of instructors having more than two more decades of experience, Rainbow Vision Stained Glass expands the community of glass workers through small group classes. Students gather within Rainbow Vision Stained Glass’s sprawling Victorian-style headquarters to learn the fundamentals of making stained glass or the more sophisticated techniques necessary for crafting glass boxes, Tiffany-style lampshades, or glass houses for those who have sworn off throwing rocks. The studio also teaches fused-glass skills, which can yield everything from pendants to wine-bottle stoppers.
Anticipating the needs of its pupils, Rainbow Vision Stained Glass peddles everything a glass artist might desire. More than 400 styles and colors of glass gleam within, more than 300 pattern books await crafters in need of inspiration, and soldering irons stand ready to bind creations together.