Jen Blazina: "Mixing Glass with Printmaking"
We are excited to welcome Jen Blazina to the Bay Area Glass Institute this summer to teach her class "Mixing Glass with Printmaking" from June 17th to June 21st, 2026 to share her unique combination of glassworking and printmaking. On Friday, June 19th at 7:00 p.m. BAGI will host a community night celebrating Jen's class and inviting our community to come and learn about her work, we hope you will join us!
"Mixing Glass with Printmaking" is a five-day intensive studio class here at the Bay Area Glass Institute. This class explores an innovative approach combining printmaking and glass through hands on demonstration and ample experimentation. All of these techniques can then be done in your own studio at home. The class will cover relief techniques in plaster, alternative photographic techniques, and engraving into glass. Through a combination of techniques, you will learn how to apply that knowledge onto glass and to making prints on paper! Come explore, create, and make prints that are each unique and experimental.
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Jen Blazina is a sculptor and printmaker who uses glass as her primary medium. She currently resides in Philadelphia where she is a working artist and professor at Drexel University in the College of Media Arts and Design. Learn more about Blazina and her work here.
Artist Statement:
"As an artist, I am intrigued with the idea that what is precious to one person will be discarded by another. My work is influenced by commonplace possessions, familial vignettes and photographs. These evoke an ephemeral sense of past memories. Whether found in a second-hand shop or passed down from my family, I am often attracted to and captivated by the lost beauty of subtle images and materials. By re-creating and casting momentos in glass and metal, I transform their history in my own voice. The process allows me to capture and hold on to another time in the past. Photographs and chosen objects allude to narratives of fleeting moments." -Jen Blazina via Habatat Galleries
