Flameworking Sessions 2026

Join us for our new Flameworking Sessions! Launched just this spring to offer more availability to this fabulous offering. Spring and Fall are the perfect times for glass classes. Fall schedule to be announced by June. 

Join Tari Zarka, founder of AAOTE and maker of TZ Glass in her studio to make a Fidget Widget mindfulness tool necklace.

We will book these sessions for up to 4 people at a time per session. One torch, turns are taken and we observe and learn from one another. This is just like our existing Team Build/Class offering but you don't have to bring the group, you can just book for yourself at a scheduled time that works for you! 

Cost: $120 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) that can be picked up after the session, once the pendant is kiln-annealed.

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 that there will be down time while the other folks are making their pendants. It's a chance be in the studio and watch glass be made.

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. 

You'll get to shop AAOTE Gallery during your visit if you'd like, too. Note AAOTE Gallery hours in-relation to your session time and make plans to arrive early or stay late, and if we can stay late to accomodate your schedule we'll surely do our best to try. 

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

We will be standing on concrete for up to 1 hour.

There will be no refund for cancellations however if you contact us 36 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.

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Our Flameworking Sessions 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.

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 as everyone experiences together a new, exciting medium.

Looking for a one-on-one session? Click here.