Spring 2027

Glassworking

Glassworking course focusing on personal material concepts, safe glass shop processes, and integrating technical skills with conceptual interests in studio projects.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Nate Watson

Summary

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Past student reviews · Brett Swenson

One student described the class as the most time-consuming they had ever taken, highlighting the significant workload involved in the soft glass projects.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Learn how to safely navigate around and execute basic processes in a glass shop.

  • Synthesize and apply acquired technical skills with conceptual interests in your studio projects.

  • Integrate literacy in contemporary glass practice.

  • Engage in critical dialog via discussions and critiques by vocalizing your thoughts/experience sand exercising your skills of observation, analysis and evaluation.

  • Contribute to your community of material-specific learners by being a role model to your peers, being a respectful observer of demonstrations, asking questions, offering generous feedback, and helping others.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

(ART 104, 214, 224, 244, or 334) or declared in an Art graduate program

ART 354 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BRETT SWENSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HELEN LEE is recorded teaching in Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 140

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Brett Swenson

Students found this studio course one of the coolest classes they took, noting that the instructor was an expert in soft glass and excellent at giving instructions.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Brett Swenson

One student described the class as the most time-consuming they had ever taken, highlighting the significant workload involved in the soft glass projects.

Past student reviews · Brett Swenson

A student mentioned that the instructor clearly was not a personal fan of some of their project choices but still graded them fairly based on the skills developed.

Topics

  • Personal concept of material in glassworking
  • Basic processes and safety in a glass shop
  • Contemporary glass practice
  • Critical dialog, observation, analysis, and evaluation

Skills

  • Safely navigate and execute basic processes in a glass shop
  • Synthesize and apply technical skills with conceptual interests in studio projects
  • Integrate literacy in contemporary glass practice
  • Engage in critical dialog via discussions and critiques

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

Through Spring 2026

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Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ART 354 · Spring 2027

Glassworking

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Original comments behind the course and instructor summaries.

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Grade history

Recorded grade distributions by term, section, and instructor.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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