Beginner Flameworking Class or Team Build

Beginner Flameworking Class or Team Build with Tari Zarka, founder of AAOTE and maker of TZ Glass. 

For 2-6 people per session. One torch, turns are taken and we observe and learn from one another.

Cost: $75 per person plus must fill out a liability release waiver. Register as soon as you’d like to get on the schedule. Each participant will conclude the session with one glass pendant necklace that they 'made' (with Tari's help).

Ages 13 and up and there is a liability release form to be signed. Ages under 18 will require both adult guardian and student to sign consent of dangers involved, and liability release form. 

Instructor: Tari Zarka, AAOTE's founder with a 20-year tenure in professional, creative entrepreneurialism.

Classes and Team Builds at AAOTE are designed to foster an ignited creative spirit which can help with intuitive development, problem solving, resourcefulness, and tenacity at work and in daily life.

We will discuss the creative arts to explore how attempting to learn a new craft or skill can improve our ability to more gracefully flow with the inevitable learning curves and changes of life and the workplace.

Includes a tour of AAOTE Gallery Showroom and bead store, and one-on-one time at the torch creating a piece of wearable glass art. Each session begins first by watching Tari demonstrate flameworking the piece that each participant will create. Then, one-by-one, each participant will take their turn at the flame with Tari by their side ready to step in when it’s time to assure each person concludes the session with a lovely new pendant.

Please know the pendants will have to be picked up at a later date as each piece of glass must be annealed several hours in the kiln before being ready to go with their person. 

Through our time on the torch we seek to ignite a revived drive to see through distractions to the bigger picture, engage team members in new perspective of creative flow, learning to access it to accelerate our fluidity and problem solving abilities. 

When working with glass it is imperative to remain focused on the piece regardless of outside distractions. Since there is no ability to put a piece of half-morphed glass down to come back to it, we must problem solve and move on-the-fly while in a place of uncertainty and unknown, at the helm of a 4,000 degree torch flame holding semi-molten glass.

This process can be an engaging and fun way to explore the world of creative process, and can help build stronger bonds within a team as everyone experiences together a new, exciting medium.

Do know the glass studio is not heated or air conditioned. Dress in natural fibers, no polyester or other meltable clothing, and dress according to the outside climate. It could be hot, it could be cold, and some rare times its perfect temp.

Sign up by purchasing one ‘unit’ for each attendee. Once you place your ‘order’, we will be in-touch within 24 hours to schedule your class or team build for a day and time that works for all. There will be no refund for cancellations however if you contact us 24 hours prior to your scheduled visit we will be happy to reschedule your visit. In the event of bad weather we will automatically reschedule and work out another time slot.