A star-studded summer looms for Pilchuck in just-released catalog

The covered open-air hotshop at Pilchuck beckons with its unique atmosphere of creative cooperation.

With five sessions each summer, timing an educational trip to this mecca of glass education is always a trade-off.  The choice of when to hit Pilchuck won’t be any easier in the coming 2011 line-up, with some of the biggest names in glass teaching from the very first classes on May 24th all the way through to the last session’s closing on August 26th. Come for Gene Koss’s “Hot Casting for Sculptors” class in Session One, for example, and you’ll miss out on sessions Two to Five, when Michael Glancy, Bertil Valien, Benjamin Moore, Pike Powers, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, and Jiri Harcuba share their considerable knowledge.