School Vacation Glass Academy

Three days of fun and engaging glass making classes with experienced glassblowing educator and talented glass sculptor Richard Jolley. Each day is tailored to a different age range.

Open Hot Shop! April 21-23 at 4 pm

After class each day Richard will be demonstrating his incredible glass sculpting skills and taking questions from the audience. Come meet the artist and educator who has opened so many students' minds to a whole new realm of possibility!

Artist Reception

Wednesday April 23rd 5 - 7 pm

Come meet renowned glass sculptor and educator Richard Jolley, here in Sandwich by special invitation this week only. After three days of teaching Sandwich school kids the art and science of working with hot glass, he should have some fun stories to share!

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School Vacation Glass Academy

About the Instructor

An accomplished teacher of the tools and techniques of glass making and a highly skilled glass sculptor, Richard Jolley has developed an introduction to glass making curriculum suitable for grade-school, elementary-school and high-school kids.

Jolley began his fine art studies at Tusculum College in 1970 and later completed his BFA at George Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University). He has participated in over 64 solo museum and gallery exhibitions across the country and internationally, and his work is included in the collections of several prominent institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. 

"One of the joys I have with this expressive material, glass, is that you are making something from nothing. The many dualities of nature and materials interest me and I express this concern in my work by employing a figurative/narrative mode to document our times and environment.  There is a classical/modern link in my work just as a glass is a modern material with an ancient history."