OPEN STUDIO with Joanne, 8/21/26 Retro Participants will receive a safety

Participants will receive a safety orientation

Each student will head home with their own handmade experimental work

Flechtner’s best-known public work in Los Angeles is the Neon Aquarium at Olympic and Sawtelle completed in 1998

Stephen Antonakos

These bead sculptures are laboriously created over a flameworking torch using Italian and German colored rods

OPEN STUDIO with Joanne, 8/21/26 Retro Participants will receive a safetyOPEN STUDIO with Joanne 3hr Evening Class Friday, August 21st, 2026 7pm 10pm Location: Museum of Neon Art 216 S. Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA, 91204 Price: $125 General Admission, $100 MONA Members Join Joanne, MONA's Electric Lab Manager, for an evening of neon bending practice, experimentation, and freestyle creation! Participants will receive a safety orientation, basic instruction, 6 sticks of clear glass, and access to the fires and other equipment