LibGuides: Glass : Websites

Featured websites

GEEX Glass Education Exchange
An online platform that serves glass education through community-building programming and resource-sharing. Includes lecture series Expand Glass Histories.
Glass Art Association of Canada
A volunteer and member-run professional not-for-profit association serving to connect artists designers, craftspeople, educators, curators, collectors, gallerists and students passionate about work made with glass. Lots of AUArts student and alumni members!
Alberta Craft Council
The Canadian provincial arts service organization supporting the culture of craft and the careers of fine craft artists in Alberta through advocacy, public programming and career development opportunities.
Pilchuk Glass School
International centre for glass art education which began as a creative experiment by artists who wanted to work with glass while living as a community in a wilderness environment. The 54 acre main campus is set within a 15,000 acre tree farm in the foothills of the Cascade Range, north of Seattle. Studio and shops are equipped for glassblowing, hot casting, kiln casting, coldworking, flameworking, neon, fusing, glass painting, stained glass, and printmaking, as well as a wood and metal shop. Hang around the AUArts hot shop long enough and you're sure to hear of someone who has taught, studied, or is planning on going to Pilchuk!

Featured museums and galleries

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
The national gallery for ceramic and glass art in Waterloo, Ontario.
Corning Museum of Glass
Established in 1951, in Corning, New York, by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), on their 100th anniversary, as a "gift to the nation". The Museum's campus is home to the world's most comprehensive collection of glass, with over 50,000 objects, covering 3,500 years of history. CMOG also houses the world's foremost library on glass (with several library guides on techniques, exhibitions and other special topics) and one of the top glassworking schools in the world.
Museum of Glass
Located in Tacoma, Washington, Museum of Glass is dedicated to glass and glassmaking in the West Coast’s largest and most active museum glass studio.
Toledo Museum of Art
Home to a large historic European glass collection as well as works of art representative of the Studio Glass Movement. Leads the Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) which brings influential and up-and-coming glass artists to TMA to promote dialogue in contemporary glass and art communities.
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
Sparked by a passion for paperweights, the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass holds the largest, most representative collection of glass paperweights on public display in the world as well as thousands of Germanic, contemporary, art glass and other related objects.
La Guilde
Founded in 1906, as a non-profit organization, La Guilde started out as The Canadian Handicrafts Guild. La Guilde exhibits work by established and emerging contemporary artists.
Sandra Ainsley Gallery
Leading Toronto-based gallery featuring contemporary art glass.
Habatat Detroit Fine Art
Established in 1971 and devoted exclusively to artists working with glass as their medium.

Featured studios

Firebrand Glass - Owned and operated by AUArts faculty and alumna Tyler Rock and Julia Reimer, Firebrand Glass is where they create their individual artwork and collaborate on public art, custom awards and lighting.

Suspended Studio - Named after "that magical moment when you are experiencing great art and...everything feels suspended in time" Suspended Studio is an Edmonton glassblowing studio and gallery space opened by AUArts alumna Leah Kudel. Yeah, the same Leah from Season One of Netflix's reality glassblwoing competition television series Blown Away.

fascapple glass - A 2,000-square-foot Calgary studio, with bookable benches, offering small (10”), medium (16”), and large (24”) glory holes, a 450-pound furnace and two frontloader and two coffin annealers. The cold-working room includes a 24” flat grinder, lathe, drill press and diamond saw.

Glass

Ingress by Tyler Rock

Podcast alert!

Featured websites

Featured museums and galleries

Featured studios