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The home of the first permanent Jewish residents of Norfolk, this historic house offers a glimpse of the life of a wealthy early 19th-century merchant family.
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With an extensive collection of more than 106,000 rare and unique volumes relating to the history of art, the Jean Outland Chrysler Library is one of the most significant art libraries in the South. More about the Library
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Sold Out: Glassblowing 1
Sold Out: Glassblowing 1
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Set aside two days to become acquainted with the art of glassmaking. Learn basic techniques of working with molten glass and get to use all the tools yourself. This is the first class where students can gather (spool glass onto a metal rod in the glass furnace) to experiment, […]
Straws and Swizzle Sticks
Straws and Swizzle Sticks
Learn how to heat and melt glass rods and tubing to create custom reusable drinking apparatuses. Apply glass color, melt glass in a precise flame, and make a drinking straw and swizzle sticks with unique color patterns. • Ages 12+ • $40 for Museum members, $50 for non-members • Face masks are required for all […]
Flameworked Beads
Flameworked Beads
In an afternoon, learn to melt colorful glass sticks with a torch, spin the glass around metal rods, and form it into beads. Explore different bead shapes and color application techniques, too. This is a great class for beginners. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 for non-members • Face masks are required […]
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Morning Magnets
Morning Magnets
This class is ideal for anyone interested in trying out the fused glass process. Make several magnets using small segments of glass and tile nippers. Create the designs by nipping the glass into smaller pieces and adding them to a base layer that will later be melted together in a kiln. • Ages 12+ • […]
Jewelry on the Torch
Jewelry on the Torch
Finish off your look with accessories that you can’t find in a store. Use a mix of clear and colorful glass to create abstract and floral-inspired jewelry. Learn about the basics and simple patterns. Throughout the day, build on those skills to create intricately designed wearables. • Ages 12+ • $100 for Museum members, $125 […]
Colorful Coasters
Colorful Coasters
Learn the basics of cutting glass, and create a set of 4x4” glass coasters using clear or colorful glass sheets. Make a matching set or try a new design with each. Once you’re finished with your design, the instructor will fuse the glass in a kiln. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 […]
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Flaming Heart Pendant
Flaming Heart Pendant
In this introductory evening course, use a torch and simple tools to melt and form solid glass into heart-shaped pendants. Practice making a heart with clear rods of glass and later learn to apply colorful glass to create a one-of-a-kind piece. Glass objects must cool slowly in a kiln. We will call you when your […]
Fused Soap Dish
Fused Soap Dish
Cut glass and arrange it to fit a 4x6” design for a soap dish. Your designs will be assembled and fused flat in a kiln at 1400º F. The soap dish shape is achieved in a second firing to 1300º F, where the flat form slumps into a ceramic mold. • Ages 12+ • $64 […]
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Curious Curves Stained Glass
Curious Curves Stained Glass
Prerequisite: Stained Glass Suncatcher Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Create your own design and learn advanced stained glass techniques in this weekend course. Build on skills learned in Stained Glass Suncatcher to create a more complex and detailed object. This class is designed to expand students’ knowledge of glass cutting by focusing on curve […]
Glassblowing 3
Glassblowing 3
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Prerequisite: Glassblowing 2 Build on foundational skills established in Glassblowing 2 and explore new approaches to advance color techniques, including assistant- and machine-applied bits and wraps, cane rods, and intermediate forms. • Ages 16+ • $220 for Museum members, $275 for non-members • Face masks are required for all […]
Colorful Botanicals
Colorful Botanicals
Take a day to design and create your own glass flowers. First, learn to shape clear glass parts of a flower. Then, assemble those parts into a whole botanical. Once you learn the mechanics of the form, you can design and create a floral piece using colored glass rods. • Ages 12+ • $100 for […]
Village Family Hunger Relief Glassblowing Demonstration
Village Family Hunger Relief Glassblowing Demonstration
During the free noon demo, artists from the Perry Glass Studio will create an original work for Village Family, a nonprofit hunger-relief organization. The piece will be inspired by the organization's mission, which includes promoting education, nutrition, and health and providing employment assistance, housing, low-income aid, youth and elderly services, and more.
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Morning Marbles
Morning Marbles
Spend a morning at the Glass Studio melting solid glass rods over a torch to make marbles. Heat, gravity, and simple graphite tools bring your marbles to life. Once you have learned the basics of shaping clear glass, you can create colorful glass marbles. • Ages 12+ • $40 for Museum members, $50 for non-members […]
Flameworked Beads
Flameworked Beads
In an afternoon, learn to melt colorful glass sticks with a torch, spin the glass around metal rods, and form it into beads. Explore different bead shapes and color application techniques, too. This is a great class for beginners. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 for non-members • Face masks are required […]
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Glass After Dark
Glass After Dark
Hot glass and live music come together for memorable evenings during Glass After Dark. Each month, watch the Perry Glass Studio team take the molten material to exciting places and enjoy entertainment by local musicians. Enjoy a cash bar and snacks outside. $12 for Museum members / $15 for non-members Prior to entry, please present […]
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Introduction to Neon
Introduction to Neon
Spend the weekend creating a cool piece of illuminated art to display in your home or office. As you perfect your design, explore different torches and techniques and enjoy discussions about noble gases and the effects each one creates when energized. Also, learn the best way to design a work for practical mounting. Once you […]
Morning Magnets
Morning Magnets
This class is ideal for anyone interested in trying out the fused glass process. Make several magnets using small segments of glass and tile nippers. Create the designs by nipping the glass into smaller pieces and adding them to a base layer that will later be melted together in a kiln. • Ages 12+ • […]
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
Glassmaking Demo
Glassmaking Demo
Join us in the Glass Studio at noon for a free glassmaking demonstration. For the safety of everyone in our community, all visitors age 3 and up are required to wear a face mask in the Museum and Glass Studio, regardless of vaccination status. We ask that you please wear a mask covering the nose […]
Fused Jewelry
Fused Jewelry
Using a combination of glass sheets and stringers (thin rods of glass), create a set of earrings and a pendant. Learn to cut sheet glass and create a design to be fused in a kiln. One set of earring hooks and a necklace chain are included. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 […]
Champagne Paperweight
Champagne Paperweight
Learn new, creative skills and spruce up your desk with a colorful paperweight. In this engaging class, you will move and shape glass on the end of a hollow metal pipe. Witness the reactions between different glass colors; learn about the application of color; and discover how to heat, inflate, and shape the molten glass […]
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Fused Mosaics
Fused Mosaics
In this fused glass class, take traditional mosaic making to a new place. Learn to cut glass and use tile nippers to create imagery. In a paint-by-numbers style, small bits of colored glass will be arranged to fill the design of your choice. The gaps between the pieces are filled with glass powder, and then […]
Introduction to Glassblowing
Introduction to Glassblowing
This one-day class is perfect for beginners! Work closely with glass instructors to select glass colors and design elements to personalize your glass artworks and gain great experience with molten glass. By the end of the day, you’ll have four objects including a paperweight, a sculpted flower, a bud vase, and a cup. • Ages […]
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
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Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
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Morning Marbles
Morning Marbles
Spend a morning at the Glass Studio melting solid glass rods over a torch to make marbles. Heat, gravity, and simple graphite tools bring your marbles to life. Once you have learned the basics of shaping clear glass, you can create colorful glass marbles. • Ages 12+ • $40 for Museum members, $50 for non-members […]
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
Fused Glass Plate
Fused Glass Plate
In this one-day course, learn to design and cut glass to make a square glass plate. Create your own design, choose a base layer, and cut glass to match your pattern. The plate will go through two firings in a kiln. First, the glass will be fired at 1450º F to melt the pieces together. […]
Glassmaking Demo
Glassmaking Demo
Join us in the Glass Studio at noon for a free glassmaking demonstration. For the safety of everyone in our community, all visitors age 3 and up are required to wear a face mask in the Museum and Glass Studio, regardless of vaccination status. We ask that you please wear a mask covering the nose […]
Flameworked Beads
Flameworked Beads
In an afternoon, learn to melt colorful glass sticks with a torch, spin the glass around metal rods, and form it into beads. Explore different bead shapes and color application techniques, too. This is a great class for beginners. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 for non-members • We will contact you […]
4 events,
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
Colorful Botanicals
Colorful Botanicals
Take a day to design and create your own glass flowers. First, learn to shape clear glass parts of a flower. Then, assemble those parts into a whole botanical. Once you learn the mechanics of the form, you can design and create a floral piece using colored glass rods. • Ages 12+ • $100 for […]
Sold out: Champagne Paperweight
Sold out: Champagne Paperweight
Learn new, creative skills and spruce up your desk with a colorful paperweight. In this engaging class, you will move and shape glass on the end of a hollow metal pipe. Witness the reactions between different glass colors; learn about the application of color; and discover how to heat, inflate, and shape the molten glass […]
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5 events,
Straws and Swizzle Sticks
Straws and Swizzle Sticks
Learn how to heat and melt glass rods and tubing to create custom reusable drinking apparatuses. Apply glass color, melt glass in a precise flame, and make a drinking straw and swizzle sticks with unique color patterns. • Ages 12+ • $40 for Museum members, $50 for non-members • We will contact you when your […]
Fused Mosaics
Fused Mosaics
In this fused glass class, take traditional mosaic making to a new place. Learn to cut glass and use tile nippers to create imagery. In a paint-by-numbers style, small bits of colored glass will be arranged to fill the design of your choice. The gaps between the pieces are filled with glass powder, and then […]
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
Introduction to Glassblowing
Introduction to Glassblowing
This one-day class is perfect for beginners! Work closely with glass instructors to select glass colors and design elements to personalize your glass artworks and gain great experience with molten glass. By the end of the day, you’ll have four objects including a paperweight, a sculpted flower, a bud vase, and a cup. • Ages […]
Glassmaking Demo
Glassmaking Demo
Join us in the Glass Studio at noon for a free glassmaking demonstration. For the safety of everyone in our community, all visitors age 3 and up are required to wear a face mask in the Museum and Glass Studio, regardless of vaccination status. We ask that you please wear a mask covering the nose […]
6 events,
Morning Magnets
Morning Magnets
This class is ideal for anyone interested in trying out the fused glass process. Make several magnets using small segments of glass and tile nippers. Create the designs by nipping the glass into smaller pieces and adding them to a base layer that will later be melted together in a kiln. • Ages 12+ • […]
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
Hot Glass: Eggstravaganza
This seasonal object is sure to make you feel egg-cellent! Choose from an array of color options to make your object unique. With the instructor’s help, apply colorful crushed glass to molten clear glass on a long metal tube, and inflate the glass with a special compressed air device. If you prefer, you may choose […]
Colorful Botanicals
Colorful Botanicals
Take a day to design and create your own glass flowers. First, learn to shape clear glass parts of a flower. Then, assemble those parts into a whole botanical. Once you learn the mechanics of the form, you can design and create a floral piece using colored glass rods. • Ages 12+ • $100 for […]
Colorful Coasters
Colorful Coasters
Learn the basics of cutting glass, and create a set of 4x4” glass coasters using clear or colorful glass sheets. Make a matching set or try a new design with each. Once you’re finished with your design, the instructor will fuse the glass in a kiln. • Ages 12+ • $64 for Museum members, $80 […]

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