Glassblowing Next Steps - 6 Week Course
Wednesdays, September 23 - October 28, 2026
6:30pm - 9:30pm
$875 + GST

Instructors: Hope Forstenzer & Kirsten Spouler

In this course you will take the next steps to becoming a more confident, comfortable glassblower. Through demonstrations and drills, you will learn more basic skills and practice gathering, marvering, punties, jacklines, bits, and more. There will be discussions on design and execution, colours, setting up your bubble, and more.

All materials are included.
Age 16+. 

Students must have taken at least one Introduction to Glassblowing class or equivalent (weekend workshop, 3 Private Lessons or a 6-week course.) 

About the Instructors

Hope Forstenzer has been blowing glass since 2000 and makes a wide variety of vessels and sculptural pieces using photo images on glass. She has studied glass in New York, Seattle, and Baltimore. 

Kirsten Spouler has been working with glass since August 2019 and has taken the majority of her training from her local glass studio at Terminal City Glass Co-op. She has also attended classes at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2022 and 2023 and Pilchuk glass school in 2024. In 2025 she spent time in Murano, Italy taking a class in soft glass murrini and also seeing the origin of Venetian glass. Kirsten works primarily as a Registered Massage Therapist in Vancouver and takes her extensive knowledge and training in anatomy as an influence in her art and glass work.