Craft, Trade, & Manufacturing Courses

Scottsville, NY

Introduction to Solid Surface Materials

Beginner

This two-day overview class will provide a quick look at how woodworkers can use their tools and equipment to include elements crafted from sheet acrylic. Often overlooked these days, sheet acrylic – or solid surface – material provides opportunities for woodworkers to incorporate elements made from this material. Known by several trade names, such as Corian and LivingStone, solid surface materials have been relegated to the countertop niche for far too long. It can be glued together seamlessly to create blocks for shaping and thermoformed into graceful curves to create transition elements for furniture – or into the furniture itself. Students will cut, rout, thermoform and glue piece of solid surface together to make an elegant serving tray to take home.

Class fee: $300

Materials fee: $50

Class size limited to 10

Course Details

Location18 Maple St, Scottsville, NY 14546, USA

LevelBeginner

Capacity10 students

instructor info

Andrew Glantz

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Languages spoken: English

Andrew Glantz is a furniture designer and maker who lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona. Born and raised on the East Coast, he graduated from the Frederic Gunn School, 1967 and Wesleyan University; BA, 1971 and MAT, 1972. After teaching Graphic Arts for ten years, he turned to period piece renovation and construction from 1978 to 1984. When he moved West in 1984, he began to devote his efforts solely to contemporary, sculptural furniture design and construction. He is the owner of Zenith Design, a one-person studio, and is responsible for all phases of design, construction and marketing. He is an arts activist and before moving to Scottsdale, he lived on the Navajo Nation from 1984 to 1987. He moved to Salt Lake City in 1987, and was involved with the Salt Lake Arts Council, the Salt Lake Arts Center, and the Utah Arts Council’s Endowment Fund Development Committee. He also ran the Vital Arts Gallery as volunteer executive director for three years and has curated several major exhibitions. He relocated to Scottsdale in 2002. A longtime member of the Furniture Society, Andrew was tapped to serve as a trustee in 2005, and served as treasurer, vice president and president of the board of trustees, as well as chair of the development committee. His term of office ended in 2011. He is an active advisor for the Southwest School of Woodworking. He teaches furniture design and construction at the Southwest School of Woodworking in Phoenix and the Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Franklin, Indiana. He is a presenter committee member of he Yuma Art Symposium. His articles on furniture design and construction appear in several trade magazines. He delights in mentoring makers far and wide through teaching and Zoom meetings from Florida to Utah and locally.