Workshops

Monday June 26 - Wednesday June 28

The American Scientific Glassblowers workshops are very interactive. Each student will have a chance to work with bench torches, hand torches and lathes. Our instructors our highly qualified and have worked in the scientific glassblowing field. These are small classes so there is lots of one on one interaction between students and instructors.

We invite you or someone you know to share a workshop. Please fill out the proposal application and share your expertise in glass.

Colors Beautiful
Tuesday, June 27
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location: General Marshall Room
Instructor: Stephen Pierce

In this workshop we will be covering working with borosilicate colour rod and the variety of ways to create tubing with it.

Stephan Peirce is a stay at home flame worker, with 18 years of lamp working experience, 13 years on the lathe. He's a family man just outside of Austin, Texas, with two kids, a tolerant wife, and a backyard farm. Self taught, Stephan enjoys making functional glassware.

Quartz Techniques

Wednesday June, 28
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Instructors - Ron Bihler & Bob Singer

More information coming soon

Allan B. Brown Glassblowing Workshop

Allan B. Brown Regular Member Workshop
Tuesday June 27 & Wednesday June 28
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location - General Howard Room

When taking the Allan B. Brown workshops, you will have hands-on instruction of advanced scientific glassblowing techniques. The workshops offered are two separate days of instruction, each day will include 4 hours on the lathe and 4 hours on the bench. Since they are separate, you have the option to sign up for day one, day two or both.

June 27th - Day 1
Instuctor: Ron Legge - Lathe Project - Solvent Distillatic Head, AIRFREE, Top Section
Instructor: Kyle Meyer - Bench Project - 1 Liter 2 neck flask with thermo port, aka Macro Diazald Flask

June 28th - Day 2
Instructor: Kevin Teaford, Lathe Project - Jacketed Apparatus without use of holders, cardboard or floating of the center tube.
Instructor: Phil Legge - Bench Project - Short Path Still using a ring stand.

Philip Legge

Instructor - Bio coming soon

Kyle Meyer
Chair / Instructor

Kyle is a scientific and artistic glassblower from Wisconsin. He started his career in Scientific Glassblowing in 2001 after attending school at SCC under the instruction of Daryl Smith. He then went on to work for Sigma Aldrich where he trained under Bill Wasemiller. After 13 years at Sigma, he worked at the University of Georgia as Glass Shop Manager for four years. Currently, he is continuing his career at Procter and Gamble in Ohio as a Glassblowing Research Specialist since 2020.

Kevin Teaford
Chair / Instructor

Kevin started his glassblowing career in 1992 at the Westinghouse-Hanford Company. After 3.5 years in Research and Development, Kevin accepted a position with Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing in northern California. At Farlow's he learned of many new types of glassware found in the medical and scientific production industry. In 1999, he secured a position at Precision Glassblowing of Colorado. While at Precision, he was introduced to aspects of production-style glassblowing, which included fabrication of large diameter Borosilicate apparatus and of larger Quartz fabrication. Kevin then moved to Utah and has worked at the University of Utah since 2002. In the past, he has been the National Membership Chair and is currently the Chair of the Allan B Brown Regular Member Workshops, since 2012.

Regarding registration for the Seminars, priority is given to Regular members and as such will be available only to Regular members for the first 45 days following the date registration opens. If there are still openings available after that time, I will be using a registration by application process for any interested non-Regular members similar to the model currently being used by the Junior Member Workshop. (For the Allan B. Brown Regular Member Glassblowing Seminars, in lieu of the application process, Junior members will be referred by Chris Bock annually until they formally become Regular members.) I will sort through the applications and select the additional attendees using the application information given to determine if the candidates meet the guidelines for attending the Allan B. Brown Glassblowing Seminars. Applications of Non-Regular members will be accepted once registration is opened. If the Seminars are full, they will be open to members for observation only.

Joseph S. Gregar Junior Member Workshop

Chair: Chris Block
chrisb71@comcast.net
609-319-4322

Joseph S. Gregar Junior Member Workshop
Tuesday June 27 & Wednesday June 28
8:00am - 5:00pm
Location: General Howard

The Joseph S. Gregar Junior Member Workshop provides hands-on instruction to twelve Junior / Students Members. This year, 9 at-large seats will be selected via an application process and the 3 remaining seats are reserved for Award recipients. The application deadline is March 15, 2023. All workshop attendees must register for the ASGS Symposium. This two day workshop is available at not cost to Junior and Student registrants. We will have our 4-station quartz and 8 station borosilicate set up for bench work allowing each participant to have their own torch and work station. We will also have a glass lathe available for some of the project.

This fluid two day workshop will cover the following topics and usually more. Some of the topics that will be covered this year are wrapping coils, coil condensers, bubbler (cold trap), quartz boxes, a demo of quartz cutting, side and straight seals. Bring your questions to this informative and fun workshop.

You may fill out the on-line applaication or print and send to:
ASGS National Office
12110 North Pecos Street, Suite #220
Westminster, CO 80234
Fax: 866-880-3216
Email: natl-office@asgs-glass.org

Chris Bock is currently working at URG in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Christopher's glass career started at a company call Franklin Inc. where he was a maintenance mechanic working on vials. He started his glassblowing career at ChemGlass Life Sciences in the mid 1990's. Since then he has worked for Pfieffer Glass, NDS Technologies, AMR Glass and even started his own company. SeaCubeCo LLC. He has been an active officer for the Delaware Valley Section holding many positions until his relocation to North Carolina.

Elayne Ashley is a Scientific Glassblower living and working in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. Elayne studied Scientific Glass Technology at Salem College as well as Fine Art Glassblowing and Ceramics at Jacksonville University. She worked for Precision Electronic Glass and various other production glassblowing and quartz companies before joining the Chemistry Department at Georgia Institute of Technology as the Scientific Glassblower. She is currently the Scientific Glassblower and Quartz Materials Specialist for Helion Energy, a company working to produce a Fusion energy machine.

Elayne has attended many international conferences including the Glass Art Society, the British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, and the VDG (German/Swiss Society of Scientific Glassblowers), in her passion to connect with Glassblowers on a global scale. Elayne is the current Pacific Northwest section Director for the American Scientific Glassblowers Society and has volunteered much of her time as a demonstrator, organizer and member of the ASGS.

Bob Singer started his Glassblowing career in 1972 at Quartz Scientific in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Attended and graduated from Salem Community College in 1978 and has extensive quartz experience. Bob was employed at Quartz Scientific, Quality Quartz and Behm Quartz, both of Mentor, Ohio, Until 1990 when he co-founded Technical Glass Products, in Painesville Ohio. Bob has been Vice President of Technical Glass Products, in Mentor, Ohio for ten years and now heads the company’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana division. In addition, he has taken artistic glassblowing courses at Kent State University and Cleveland State University. Bob’s activities for the ASGS include Chair of the Outreach Committee, as well as the National Symposium chair from 2017 – 2020, Director of the Pittsburgh Tri-State Section, Director of the Southwest Section, ASGS President-Elect in 2006 and ASGS National President in 2007. Bob was the Technical Papers Chair for the 39th ASGS Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA and Co-Chair for the 55th Annual Symposium in San Antonio, Texas and co-chair at the 62nd Annual Symposium in Austin, Texas and is currently the Seminar/Workshop chair for the 66rh symposium in Vancouver Washington.