Swampgirl Glass Blowing offering individual sessions
Swampgirl Glass Blowing is offering a one-on-one individual session for guests to create a stemless wine glasses or tumblers all weekend at the Pascagoula River Audubon Center.
Glassblowing is a glass forming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble with the aid of a blowpipe.
Solange Ledwith has more than 20 years of experience in glass blowing and her own studio in Slidell.
Guests who sign up for the class will be designing the color and shaping the glass with heat. Ledwith said, “The process is really fascinating. I mean, there is a lot of science. It’s a lot of chemistry, thermodynamics, and physics. We are taking glass from raw materials and we are cooking. It’s not like the glass that you are used to seeing. It’s actually like a powder and then we cook it. We bring it to a certain temperature and it undergoes a change into that clear stuff. So, that’s the kind of raw basic process.”
Ledwith will be back at the Audubon Center from September 30th to October 2nd to create a one-of-a-kind glass pumpkin. To sign up, visit swampgirlglassllc.com.
