Hotnights
RISD Glass initiated Hotnights as a means of cultivating a greater understanding of glass and its significance to an array of disciplines. Through a series of hot shop demonstrations, projects, and workshops, Glass faculty and students partner with the larger community to research and experiment the intersection between glass and its ubiquitous presence in the world. Hotnights has led to significant developments combining emerging digital fabrication technologies with traditional glass processes, investigations of optical properties of glass and light, and has collaborated with student groups to assist in the fabrication of ambitious cross-disciplinary projects amongst others.
Upcoming Hotnights Events
7:00pm Metcalf Building, 4th Floor, Hot Shop
Spring 2017
March 1st
March 8th
March 22nd
April 12th
April 19th
May 3rd
May 10th
Kambui Olujimi
Fina Muñoz and Tahir Karmali
Cooper O’Brien and Liesl Schubel
Senior Thesis Workshop
What Fire Does
Senior Thesis Workshop
Senior Thesis Workshop
Fall 2016
Niels Cosman: Glass Projectors
Alex Rosenberg: Glass Blowing Experiments
Niels Cosman: Glass Alchemy Workshop
Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk & Pamela Smith: Ruby Glass
Aaron Pexa: Experiments in Glass
In the Fall of 2014, Stefanie Pender presented History of Glass Technology: Demonstrations of Time and Place. The weekly Hot Nights programming demonstrated techniques, processes, forms, and styles significant in the evolution of glassmaking. Collaborative experiments with digital fabrication classes and workshops also sometimes coalesced with traditional demonstrations to explore how traditional systems of making can intersect with new technologies. Subjects covered in the series included techniques from the Roman Empire, Medieval Europe, Venice and Renaissance Europe, China, and Islamic Glass, as well as Glass of Modernity, and Contemporary experiments in digital fabrication.
