Klaus Paris is a second generation scientific glassblower, born and trained in Germany. Paris will speak about the German glass training programs, the similarities and differences in being a scientific glassblower in different countries and cultures, what industries are in the need of scientific glassblowers. Paris will share some insights in his projects throughout his over 40 years of glassblowing, from sealing a gold wire thin as a hair into glass, over producing tubing 30 feet long, developing new apparatus for the nuclear and hydrogen research or training robots for glassblowing. His lecture, as the Instructional Chair of the Scientific Glass Technology program at Salem Community College (SCC) in New Jersey, will end with an overview of the art and scientific glass program at the SCC.
Space is limited, please RSVP in advance:
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of Chemistry Glass Shop and is in conjunction with the Material Intelligence exhibition in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery.
