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World Art Glass directory

This directory offers over 4000 links to the websites of glass gallereis, glass studios, glass dealers, glass museums, etc.

It also provides links to glass exhibitions (divided by continent) and occasionally articles of interest to the glass world.

PA GlassTrail

Four times a year Pennsylvania glass artists along the Route 222 corridor from Lancaster to Lehigh Valley open their studios to visitors. This site will tell you about it.

Glossary of Italian glassblowing terms from Barovier & Toso

CENTER CITY DISTRICT / CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PHILADELPHIA

East Falls Philadelphia PA | Parks, activities, and businesses in East Falls PA

AAA Mid-Atlantic :: AAA. Use it for all it's worth.

The local chapter of AAA. They cover Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, southeastern Pennsylvania southern New Jersey and parts of Virginia.

Open Table - Philadelphia Restaurants, New Jersey Restaurants

Check available restaurant reservations across over 200 area restaurants. Making (and then keeping) the reservations online will earn you OpenTable Dining Cheques which can be used at any OpenTable restaurant

East Falls Glassworks Philadelphia Glass Blowing Studio and Gallery

Well equipped glass blowing studio. Opened in the East Falls section of Philadelphia in Jan. 2006. Holds an Open House on the 2nd Saturday of some months. Check the website for details.

Offers classes and studio rental along with a small gallery of works by local artists.

Check out Jon Goldberg (the shop's owner) work.

Gaffer Glass USA

Manufacturer and vendor of glass color for glass blowing, casting and lampworking.

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Penn Children's Center

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Glass Lab photo essay

A photo essay of and about MIT's Glass Lab. The text doesn't blow me away, but some of the photos sure do.

Click here for more information about MIT's Glass Lab.

Karen LaMonte - Artist, Sculptor, Monumental Cast Glass, Monotype Printmaker, Sculpture, Fine Art, Glass Sculpture

Just because I think her work is amazing (besides she's working with Lhotský at what used to be Libenský and Brychtová's casting studio).

Borowski Glasstudio

A family of Polish-German glass artists whose work clearly shows just how much fun glass should be!

CraftWEB Message Boards - Hot Glass

An electronic forum for glassblowers.

Glass Art Society

"The Glass Art Society (GAS) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1971 whose purpose is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the appreciation and development of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass. GAS members are artists, students, educators, collectors, gallery and museum personnel, writers, and critics, among others. Membership is open to anyone interested in glass art."

Glass Notes

The classic how-to for hot shops. Now in it's 4th edition, Henry Halem's Glass Notes covers everything from building glory holes to scavo. You want to know how to make your own silver bromide . . . this is the place with the recipe.

Handmade-Glass Board - Message Index

Glassblower.Info - Glassblowing Information, Photos, Videos

a bit messy, but useful - contains a photographic glossary of common glass blowing terminology.

National Liberty Museum

This museum is actually focused on celebrating and encouraging America's history of freedom and tolerence.

They are included as part of this tagging project because they hold a collection of over 100 pieces of art glass (intended to signify the fragility of liberty). The collection includes Dale Chihuly's 20 foot tall 'Flame of Liberty' and a 6 foot cast sculpture by Libensky and Brychtova.

One of the Liberty Museum's main supporters is the Coalition of Glass Collectors and Artists. The Coalition holds an annual weekend event, called Glass Now that includes an impressive auction of work by contemporary glass artists.

Hot Soup Glass Studio

Glass blowing, fusing and flameworking studio in the Olde City neighborhood. Offers classes in multiple forms of glass work. Studio is available for rental. Takes part in First Fridays - offering demonstrations from 6 to 10 PM. Closed in August.

Corning Museum of Glass

One of the few museums in the world focused entirely on glass.

CMOG also has work space and classes available at their studio. Course listings online at: Studio Course Schedule

Home of the Rakow Research Library -
"the world’s foremost library on the art and history of glass and glassmaking. Its mission is to acquire everything published on the subject of glass, in every format and in every language." Online reference requests at: Ask a Librarian

Museum of Glass | Tacoma, Washington

"The Museum of Glass is a fine arts museum dedicated to presenting glass in the context of contemporary art."

Check out the 'virtual hot shop' and make a virtual glass work of your own.

Pilchuck Glass School

One of the most important and oldest glass blowing schools in the U.S. Founded by Dale Chihuly in 1971, they hold residential classes every year from May through August. Five visual artists, usually from outside of the field of glass are in residence each summer.

Toledo Museum of Art: The Glass Pavilion

This new facility on the grounds of the Toledo Museum of Art contains both a museum of glass and a hot shop. Admission is FREE.

It was named Travel + Leisure's 2007 "Best Museum".

Janusz Pozniak, hand blown glass art and functional objects

A personal favorite among contemporary American glassblowers. Mr. Pozniak's work displays incredible skill and a wonderful sense of humor.

Lino Tagliapietra, the Italian Master Glass Blower / Artist

One of the most eminent glassblowers alive, Lino Tagliapietra is a Venetian Primo Maestro who has taught glassblowing around the world and made major contributions in the transition of glass from craft to art.

Dante Marioni Glass

One of the best, and best known, American glassblowers.

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center - Wheaton Village

The Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center is the home of the Museum of American Glass and the Creative Glass Center of America .

The Glass Center is the sponsor of the biennial 'Glass Weekend' an International Symposium and Exhibition of Contemporary Glass (held in July of odd numbered years).

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center also offers classes and exhibits on other crafts and sponsors specialty craft shows and sales throughout the year.

Olympic Color Rods - Glassblowing Color

Major US supplier of glass blowing tools and colors. The website is well laid out and has a great color comparison tool.

They carry Reichenbach and Zimmerman color (Gaffer dropped them); Jim Moore, Spiral Arts, Steinert, Correll and Blockhead tools.

Gott Steamers

Gott makes and sells secialized tools and protective clothing for glass blowers. I don't know many folks using this stuff but it sounds mighty cool.

The tools are all designed to reduce the amount of smoke in the air of the shop and marks/scars on the finished piece.

Cutting Edge Products - Shears for Glass Blowing

Cutting Edge manufactures some of the best glass shears around. My personal favorite, the Dante Diamonds for those of us with small hands.

Steinert Industries

Manufacturers of tools for glassblowers including blowpipes, punties and optic molds.

C & R Loo

The website is a mess, but their 'color kits' are great, especially if you're just starting out and want to play around with color without spending a fortune.

They carry Kugler, Q-Color and Wiesenthal color; Essemce and Palmer pipes and tools.

Hot Glass Color

Suppliers of Kugler glass color, Cutting Edge tools and generally nice folks.

Jim Moore Handcrafted Tools for Glass Artists

Manufacturers of jacks, parchoffis, tweezers, soffiettas and other tools for working hot glass.

Beginning Glassblowing and Advanced Glassworking Techniques by Edward T. Schmid

These are two most practical how-to books on glass blowing. Ed Schmid couldn't find text books for the glassblowing classes he was teaching, so he created them. Fully illustrated (actually hand drawn and lettered) and full of sensible advice.

Glass Act - Hand blown art glass by Ross Neder

Series of short Quicktime videos showing some of the steps in the glass blowing process.

Glass throughout time : history and technique of glassmaking from the ancient world to the present / edited by Rosa Barovier Mentasti ... [et al.] ; project and coordination, Giuliana Cunbeaz

Glass throughout time : history and technique of glassmaking from the ancient world to the present / edited by Rosa Barovier Mentasti ... [et al.] ; project and coordination, Giuliana Cunâeaz [8884913454 ] Milan : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications through St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Call#: Fine Arts Library NK5106 .G56 2003