The Blaschkas from the Lampworker's Perspective

Eric Goldschmidt, Properties of Glass Supervisor at The Corning Museum of Glass and artist Wesley Fleming pair up to explore the lampworking techniques of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in this lecture and demonstration. Eric and Wes create glass sea creatures, both duplicating some of the Blaschkas’ techniques and using approaches inspired by the Blaschkas. A functional, traditional Bohemian lampworking bench of the type used by Rudolf Blaschka is featured.
See the Blaschkas work www.cmog.org/blaschka
This lecmo was presented at the 55th Annual Seminar on Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass www.cmog.org/seminar

[@yelloworangered]

It would be great to see two separate vids now - each one being the camera on one man working. I feel I'm losing a lot by not seeing the entire process. Cutting back and forth makes a good video for a casual audience, but I bet there is an audience for what I am suggesting, too. Thank you, so much for posting this online.

[@sxytattoogrl]

Thank you so much for this. I've been following all the Corning Videos and am very interested in learning about the Blashkas. I started being interested after seeing the invertebrate collection. It's so interesting to see how the used to do it. Thank you so much for all these videos that you post. I learn so much from them

[@Keith_Ward]

This demonstration series is great! Just a bit of feedback though. Audience questions should be through a mic or at least repeated by someone who actually heard it. The fine detailed work was very exciting to watch but it would have been nice to have a tinted lens and zoomed in much further.

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Someone had asked about COE, and Eric noted that he had success with glasses ranging from 90-108.

[@monoxidechild1078]

Thank you for sharing this can't wait for the next one, just wish I saw more or the jellyfish

[@Glasherz76]

Great video. Actually, Wesley would be one of the lampworkers I would like to do a demo with too. We both use softglass, we both are using nature to inspire our pieces. Only he focuses more on insects while I cover the birds and dragons area. But could be an interesting idea to join our skills one day.

[@robertomesnik7908]

Way to go Wes!!

[@firekindled3805]

Great video thanks for the share

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Thanks for watching!

[@katrinmeyer2411]

Corning Museum of Glass

[@porscha901]

when are you having more guest artist in

[@corningmuseumofglass]

There are 2 more this year www.cmog.org/programs/guest-artists , and check out the listing of live streams on www.cmog.org/live

[@128789842]

Big skill.

[@BeachRumminbummin]

eh, I mean, it's relative

[@navi85mail85]

Сan you make a big Klein bottle?

[@jamesbarnett9755]

Why is the lady moderator not mic ed up?

[@BeachRumminbummin]

don't get it, is the clear project the finished product???

[@corningmuseumofglass]

56:40 is what Wes was working on and 56:53 is what Eric was working on. Thanks for watching!

[@catzkeet4860]

volume....I can barely hear what's being said. Admittedly I'm on a tablet but still...

[@ritafictoor6579]

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