Veteran Programming
Veteran and Community Heroes Programs
SiNaCa Studios School of Glass believes that through the art of making, glass has therapeutic principles that provide Veterans and our Community Heroes the opportunity to expand their tactile sensibilities and heal through creative expression. We have developed several different avenues of expression in glass for our Veterans and Community Heroes. Whether you are interested in a first, or short term experience with glass, or are looking for longer term opportunity to express yourself we feel we have an option for you.
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Spark Workshops for Heroes
Join the SiNaCa Studios team on Monday October 9th for FREE SPARK WORKSHOPS (typically $50-$60/participant). Registrations are available between 10am-5pm in our Glass Blowing Studio, Flame Working Studio, and Kiln Forming Studio.
In these workshops, participants will work with our team of artist instructors. You pick your colors and manipulate the glass to create your one-of-a-kind glass treasures!
Pieces created will be ready for pick up in the SiNaCa Studios gallery five business days after made.
Veterans Day Celebration
Join the SiNaCa Studios team on Veterans Day for FREE DAY CAMP (typically $275/participant)
In these 3-hour glass camps, campers will work within groups of up to four in each of our three glass studios. You pick your colors and manipulate the glass to create 3 one-of-a-kind glass treasures! Each camper will also have the opportunity to “make their mark” in a group project.
This collaborative group project will be auctioned off at our next fundraising gala to support funding for this event.
Pieces created will be ready for pick up in the SiNaCa Studios gallery five business days after made.
Identify Your Creative Voice
Identify Your Creative Voice is a series of six 3-hour classes that will introduce the veteran to exciting new techniques in Kiln Formed glass. Each meeting is designed to teach participants new techniques and to build a progression of skill and creative visual voice. Participants can sign up for a individual meeting to learn a different technique, or sign up for all 6 meetings to build on the existing technique to create a larger design based work, guided by our dedicated instructors. Design based work can be expressed in pattern, form, line, shape with a focus in decorative functional application. Each meeting is designed to teach students new techniques and to build a progression of skill and creative visual voice. This program is working towards building pieces for a collaborative/ group exhibition at a local gallery in Fort Worth.
Courage Through Fire
Price: $830 ($1,115 Value) for all 10 Meetings in a Session or $95 ($129 Value) per Individual Meeting | Class Size: Min 3 – Max 6 | Prerequisite: Veteran
Each 10-week session meets every other Saturday 10:00am-2:00pm. Skip and make-up meetings may be added throughout each session.
Courage Through Fire is a program offered to the Armed services, specifically Veterans, introducing the rich traditions of glass making. Courage through Fire is a 10-week (40 hour) program that will introduce several of the hot and warm beginning techniques of glass art creation through item/project based teaching. This course is an amazing introduction to all of our studios that allows Veterans the opportunity to learn the scientific principles and rich history behind studio art glass while practicing a wide variety of glass making techniques; glass blowing, sand casting, kiln forming, cold working and flame working. Participants are hands on with the material through every session and leave this class with a new appreciation and understanding of glass as an artistic medium.