A Brooklyn-based glass studio is working to make the art of glass making more accessible to crafty New Yorkers.
Shiny Sparkle Labs is the creation of Dorie Gutherie and Matthew Day Perez, both of whom are art educators and formally trained in the glassmaking space. They both attended the University of Illinois and found themselves both in New York City years later.
“I think it’s a diverse medium. I think it’s magical putting it in a kiln and seeing it flex or bend or melt or slide, it’s very alchemical in a way because you’re using this primordial material in a way that a lot of people don’t engage with,” said Perez. “We have a lot of glass in our life, all over the place, in cellphones, cars. But you never get the chance to manipulate it in the way that we do.
“I think it’s making it accessible, creating a gradient of levels and layers. The Fuze & Booze class is really like a teaser course that’s meant to be very fun and very easy and I think post-pandemic, people want to get out and do things,” said Perez. “I think crafting is really big right now, so things that are accessible, engaging and fun and you get this piece of glass sent over to you afterward is pretty fun.
“I think it’s really wonderful to see people come in that are intimidated or shy or just really get their hands in it and see what they create in the end because everyone is usually pretty excited by their creations when they get them back,” said Gutherie. “For me, as a teacher, I love to see them be timid but by the end of the class, they’re just like, ‘Yes, I did this!”
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