Registration; hosted reception; agenda review; dinner; introductions; video of glass techniques.

Afternoon: Register in our meeting room any time between 4:00-5:00 pm. At 5:00 pm enjoy a hosted reception and meet your fellow participants. At 5:30 pm discuss the week's agenda and ask any questions you may have.

Dinner: Dinner is at 6:00 pm in our own meeting room.

Evening: Introductions all around, then view a video on glass-making techniques in preparation for our first day in the studio tomorrow.

Lodging: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

Meals Included: Dinner

Glass-blowing and glass-casting at Pratt Fine Arts Center; all day spent in the studio.

Breakfast: Serve yourself from the bountiful breakfast buffet, which includes hot entrees, breakfast meats, pancakes, eggs, cereals, fruits, juices, breakfast breads and more.

Morning: We'll board the Metro bus to ride about 12 minutes to Pratt Fine Arts Center for our first day in the studio. See a glass-blowing demo incorporating a number of different techniques. Gather molten glass on your blowpipe and work with the artists/teachers to create your own globe or paperweight.

Lunch: We'll eat our catered lunch at Pratt in an area away from chemicals and glass shards. Good idea!

Afternoon: This afternoon we'll experience hot casting, where molten glass is poured into sand molds you have prepared.

Dinner: Dinner will be at the hotel this evening.

Evening: See a video of legendary glass-master Dale Chihuly working with Italian master glass-makers.

Lodging: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Glass fusing and lampworking at Pratt Fine Arts Center; all day spent in the studio.

Breakfast: Buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning.

Morning: Ride the Metro to Pratt for our morning classes in glass fusing and lampworking. Fusing involves choosing flat glass pieces of various colors, using tools to cut them into the shapes you desire and arranging them to form designs.These are then heated in a kiln until the glass melts enough to fuse together. Lampworking, also called flameworking, requires a very hot butane table-mounted torch. Wearing protective glasses, you heat Pyrex rods in the flame and manipulate the softened glass with tools to form beads and other small shapes.The class will divide into two smaller groups so everyone will have individual attention.

Lunch: Catered lunch at Pratt.

Afternoon: After lunch, return to the warm shop for fusing and lampworking. Switch to the other class this afternoon from this morning and begin learning a new skill. It's useful to spend half a day in each area so that pieces completed in the morning can be fired in the kiln in the afternoon and cool overnight in preparation for additional work the following day. Limited space in the kilns allows for successive firings.

Dinner: Dinner will be at the hotel this evening.

Evening: View a video about the creation of the work for the Chihuly exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.

Lodging: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Glass fusing and lampworking at Pratt Fine Arts Center; all day spent in the studio.

Breakfast: Buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning.

Morning: See the Day 3 descriptions for details of today's activities. Work in either fusing or lampworking this morning. Finish your project in this class today. It may have to stay at the studio for another day to cool to a temperature that can be safely handled. All work you have created this week will be brought to the hotel for you to carry home with you.

Lunch: Catered lunch at Pratt today.

Afternoon: Work in either fusing or lampworking. This will be your last opportunity to finish your project in this class. Some work will be ready to take with you today while other pieces will be picked up on Thursday and brought to the hotel.

Dinner: Dinner will be on your own this evening at one of the many excellent restaurants near our hotel. Recommendations will be provided. Here are some evening activities you might enjoy: Seattle Symphony presents Britten's War Requiem, 206-215-4747, one block from hotel; ACT Theatre presents "Assisted Living", 206-292-7676, two blocks from hotel; Book-it Theatre at the Seattle Center, easily accessible by monorail, presents "The Financial Lives of the Poets", 206-216-0833.

Lodging: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visit studios of nationally-known glass artists in the morning. Free time in the afternoon; dinner at a nearby restaurant this evening.

Breakfast: Buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning.

Morning: Visit studios of nationally-known glass artists to learn about their inspirations and creations.

Lunch: Stroll to the Pike Place Market for a look at flower vendors, fish mongers and much, much more. Choose your lunch from among 60 cafes, restaurants and bakeries.

Afternoon: Free afternoon to visit the Seattle Art Museum, the architecturally-distinguished Central Library, galleries, Pioneer Square or any of Seattle's attractions. Our hotel's central location makes it easy to walk or take convenient public transportation to most places you'll want to see. Recommendations and information will be offered.

Dinner: Before dinner, claim your week's work and wrap it for carrying or shipping home--your responsibility. Then join the group for a tasty dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Evening: Free evening to attend the theater, visit friends or family or just rest.

Lodging: Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

Meals Included: Breakfast

Breakfast: Buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning.

Morning: Enjoy a 1962 video detailing the construction of the Space Needle, then travel by monorail to the Seattle Center and zip to the top of the Needle in a glass-fronted elevator. Next, visit Garden & Glass, Dale Chihuly's new permanent exhibit of his art, the largest he's ever presented. Just two blocks away is the free Bill & Melinda Gates Headquarters Visitor Center, where their philanthropic philosophy is explained in interactive displays.Return to the hotel with the group or stay longer if you wish. You will return home with many new skills and examples of your own work in glass-blowing, hot-casting, fusing and lampworking. Our program ends upon our return to the hotel. Bon Voyage!

Meals Included: Breakfast