Wraps with Chris | Glass in a Flash Ep. 13

We're back again with another episode of Glass in a Flash! Today, Michael is joined by fellow Hot Glass Team member Chris to show you all a couple different styles of wrap techniques. In this video, Chris will demonstrate a thread wrap, wacky wrap, lip wrap, and a racing stripe all on one vase. Chris' path as a glass artist traces back to Hartwick College, where he got his first taste of working glass while earning a degree in sculpture. After graduating in 1999, he apprenticed in a glass studio in Western Massachusetts. He spent the next 10 years in production glassmaking, including several years at the Steuben Glass Factory in Corning, N.Y. In 2009, Chris joined the team at The Corning Museum of Glass where he traveled extensively with the Hot Glass at Sea Program and numerous outreach engagements, including GlassLab, where he worked closely with designers from all over the world to prototype unique objects in glass. Chris enjoys the constant, steady focus that forming glass demands. A common thread in his work is creating tight forms with clean edges and lines, which he was trained to do throughout his time as a production glassmaker. With a love for sculpture, he finds Venetian-style goblet-making provides a great platform to bring those avenues together: forming thin bubbles into nice shapes and joining them together with sculpted components. "In much of my artwork, I find myself attempting to make order out of chaos, like taking a snapshot of something that is in constant change,” said Chris. “With glass, I thrive on the constant attention it demands to push the boundary between fluid and solid state." Stay tuned for more glass tips, tricks, and techniques! 👉 Subscribe for weekly episodes and start your glassmaking journey! 📍 Learn more: cmog.org/75 00:00 Intro 00:35 Scaling up the piece 05:29 Thread Wrap 06:48 Wacky Wrap 07:38 Adding a Cookie Foot 09:10 Punty Time 10:38 Trimming 10:56 Lip Wrap 12:35 Racing Stripe 13:35 Into the Annealer