Glass Art Guild of Utah

As Cheryl Merz, former Vice President steps up to begin her term as President, the following were also nominated and elected to positions: secretary: Mary Young; treasurer: Melinda Frewin (both of these are two-year terms); vice-president: Amber Scheid (two-year term, then two-years as president); public relations: Jodie McDougall; website: Kerry Collett; catering: Kathy Watt; education: Jack Bowman; demo coordinator: Cindy Larsen; and show chair—general: Steve Teuscher; gift show coordinator: Kerry Collett; Patrick Moore show coordinator: Melinda; Ogden-Eccles show coordinator: Mike Hurst; and Red Butte show coordinator: Susan Salvesen (all committee chair positions are one-year commitments).

The January General Meeting will be held on Jan. 15th at 10 a.m. at Spectrum Studios, 197 Malvern Avenue.  This meeting will be the election of new board members and committee chairs.  Please consider volunteering to chair a committee, it is very rewarding and fun!

Our September meeting will be the annual Glass Art Guild Potluck and BBQ.  We will be meeting at Sugarhouse Park, please stay tuned for details regarding times and potluck options.

Our July Demonstration was about screen/pot melts.  Lori Scharf presented a detail technique involving screens and Charlie Best presented the “Rube Goldberg” method of pot-melts.

Rube Goldberg Method:

Stack the glass in a form. I usually cut a base piece to stack the glass on. The following photo illustrates one way of stacking the glass – like cordwood.

Fire the glass using the following firing schedule:

R                     T                      H

600                  1000                20

600                  1600                60

999                  1500                45

999                  900                  90

100                  700                  – At this point let the kiln cool down to ~150.

The following photo illustrates the glass melt.

The finished product:

Thank you to Charlie for a great step by step!