2026 Nadine Booth: Naturescapes

2026 Nadine Booth: Naturescapes brings a focused fused-glass workshop to 1440 W 52nd Ave, Denver, CO 80221, USA, where experienced students gather to translate landscape memory into layered glass panels. Over two full days (9am–4pm) and a concluding half day, instructor Nadine Booth leads a compact curriculum that moves quickly from image study to glass placement, frit application, torching accents, and multiple kiln firings until a single finished naturescape is ready to mount. The class centers on technique: using one base sheet, adding sheet glass, frit, stringers and powdered elements to build depth and texture that suggest sky, ridge, water, and meadow.

Key features of the workshop include hands-on kiln work, coldworking to refine edges and surfaces, and demonstration of color correction strategies adapted from Nadine’s years of experimenting across studios in Arizona and Colorado. Students finish a display-ready piece and learn mounting methods so the artwork hangs cleanly on a wall. What makes this weekend unique for Denver’s outdoor-recreation-minded crowd is the direct translation of landscape observation into material practice.

Nadine’s Yellowstone-inspired approach teaches participants to reduce a mountain silhouette, a line of aspens, or a river’s reflective band into compositional elements of glass. The result is an artwork that carries geological language—strata of color, glass “riffles” that read like water, and matte frit textures that read like tundra—so outdoor enthusiasts leave with a souvenir both literal and interpretive. Nadine’s biography appears in the class materials: a self-taught glass artist who refined nature-panel work after trips to Yellowstone, and who has shown at state fairs, Glass Craft Expos, and regional galleries.

Her methods have earned awards and commissions, and her teaching emphasizes repeatable processes students can scale to larger panels and different COEs. Practical details: class size is capped at 12, all glass and supplies are included, lunch is provided on the two full days, and participants must have prior fusing experience. The studio is stroller- and wheelchair-accessible; arrive a few minutes early to choose materials and settle in.

Parking is on the west side of the building and a restroom is available onsite. For visitors staying in Denver, this course pairs well with a morning hike in nearby trails followed by an afternoon of concentrated studio time—an urban nature day that moves from field sketch to fired glass. For makers who want a compact, technique-forward immersion in landscape-based fusing, Nadine’s Naturescapes is a high-value, practical way to stretch visual observation into a durable piece of art.

Expect to leave not only with new skills—glass placement, kiln timing, and coldworking techniques—but with a personal artwork that reframes local landscapes into luminous panels you can hang at home, a compact keepsake of both technique and time spent observing nature today.