ASTORIA — Come learn the age-old art of glass fusing using a contemporary application of creating designs and images on glass and firing them in a kiln. This Drawing and Painting with Glass Frit class will be taught by Sherry Boyd-Yost from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21.

The class will be held at Studio 11, located at 453 A 11th St. The class costs $60; there is also a $15 materials fee. For more information, call 503-791-9435.

This class will work with glass frit to create imagery. Using tools such as paintbrushes and wipe out tools, students will manipulate crushed glass onto another piece of glass. Artwork will then be fired in a kiln to adhere the frit to the glass. Different effects are created over a range of temperatures, from rough glass texture to very fine frit (tack fused) to a very smooth surface, (fully fused).

Students will experiment with different techniques and will be able to pick up art pieces up after they have been fired and annealed.

Boyd-Yost has been creating art in glass for 38 years. She worked at Weiser Art Glass from 1977-79 and the Our Glass Company from 1979-81, both in Bellingham, Washington. Boyd-Yost has lived in Spokane, Washington, when she moved back in 1982 and has been working in her own business, Lost Art Originals, Art and Architectural Glass and Tile.

She has been glass painting since 1979, experimenting with glass paint applications fired onto glass. Boyd-Yost studied architectural glass in Kevelaer, West Germany in 1986, glass fusing with Richard Lalonde in 1984, and frit painting and drawing at Bullseye Glass Studio 2005.

She also attended Pilchuck Glass School, studied with Jochem Poensgen and Lutz Haufschild in 1986 and Joachim Klos. She worked at Pilchuck in 1986 and at the Pilchuck Store in 1987.

Through the years she has created many liturgical and private home glass art commissions. She has taught numerous classes in vitreous glass painting, glass fusing and slumping, draping, frit painting, and photo emulsion silk-screening with vitreous paints on glass. She has also taught stained glass, copper foiled glass, and sandblasted glass techniques.