Daily Archives: May 12, 2010

Along the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beautiful glass balls washed up on the shores. People began collecting the curious balls and putting them in their homes and gardens. It turns out these balls had escaped from Japanese fishing nets, handmade before the age of Styrofoam. This one-day workshop on Sunday, May 30, from 10 – 2,  sponsored by  The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, will teach you the basic skills needed to design and create your own original garden float ball for home, garden, or koi pond.

The class is taught by Jesse Rasid of NOCA Glass School. Originally hailing from the rural wilderness of western Massachusetts, Jesse Rasid is a glassblower that has been in the field for fifteen years. He graduated from Mass Art in 2003 with a BFA in Sculpture-Glass. He started his company, UpperCut Glass, in 2005 shortly after his retirement from competitive amateur boxing. He has since worked for various other glass artists as a mercenary-type glassblower for hire, and more recently designed and fabricated a hot glass shop for another successful young glass artist. Most recently he has started his own glassblowing school, NOCA Glass School, in North Cambridge where he keeps a studio. Jesse resides in a flamingo pink house in Cambridge with his girlfriend, cat, puppy dog, and garden, in a state of domestic bliss  The Cambridge location of the workshop will be sent to registrants.  Students will leave with two float balls and at least one other glass object. Limited to 6. $150.  To register, log on to www.ccae.org.