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The Studio is an internationally renowned facility that offers glassworking classes for a variety of skill levels. Classes are taught by top artists and instructors from around the world, and are held year-round. Students enjoy the resources of The Studio, as well as the Museum’s collection and the Rakow Research Library. Spring and fall classes include ten-week sessions that meet once per week, as well as one-, two, and three-day workshops. Summer and winter intensive classes are one or two weeks in length. Scholarships are available. Other resources include studio rentals, artist residencies, livestreamed artist demos, and video resources. Opening in 2025, look forward to our new two-year education program, the Glassmaking Institute. Learn more or apply online at glassmaking.cmog.org.

Penland School of Craft is a national center for craft education dedicated to making lives meaningful through making. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Penland offers intensive craft workshops of various lengths throughout the year, led by guest instructors who are leaders in their field. The Penland experience includes demonstrations, discussions, presentations, studio visits, and individual work time. Makers of all levels can expect to make significant progress during their time at Penland. Glass workshops at Penland explore hot glass, flameworking, and kiln casting. Scholarships are available for all workshops. Penland also offers artists’ residencies and showcases some of the finest contemporary craft in the Southeast in its gallery.

Offering an art-driven studio experience at a professional art school within Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT’s Glass program is uniquely positioned to enable each student the opportunity to foster unique discoveries between their glass and non-glass interests.  In cultivating artists who become versatile makers and thinkers, students engage studio practices in blown glass, hot and kiln casting, cold working, flameworking, and kiln forming in exploratory crossover with neighboring programs of design, science, engineering, and technology. Rigorous studio exploration and material research is partnered with equally intensive scholastic research, readings, writing, a robust visiting artist series, and critical dialogue with both the faculty and the community of the student peer group. You belong at RIT’s College of Art and Design! We can help you become the artist you never imagined you could be. 

The Glass Program at Southern Illinois University (SIU) is a creative environment where BFA and MFA students learn diverse instructions from the faculty. Various extra-curricular programs, Artist-in-Residency, Visiting Artist Series, field trips, workshops, and scholarship and grant opportunities enhance the students' artistic perspectives and expose them to broad professional career paths. The Glass Program has fully equipped hot glass, coldworking, flameworking, and kilnworking studios to support a variety of approaches to working with glass as an artistic medium. The Glass Program is a part of the School of Art and Design that provides a wide range of education in art and design. 

   The three-year MFA study in Glass at SIU offers Graduate Assistantships with full tuition waivers and monthly stipends. The MFA program in glass cultivates various creative and critical thinking. Strong candidates for the MFA program in glass are creative, skilled, and self-motivated individuals pursuing their creative research using glass with an awareness of contemporary art and craft. 

Tyler’s highly selective MFA in Glass program, marking its 50th year in 2023, is defined by a commitment to cultivating each graduate student’s unique voice, with glass as only one of many modes of expression. Students explore the intersections of glass, sculpture, installation, video, performance, culture, making and criticism – an approach that has helped create one of the most tight-knit alumni communities in the discipline.

MFA Glass students learn in an intensive practice setting with a diverse and highly accomplished faculty. The 60-credit curriculum comprises studio work, research, and seminars, and students participate in peer reviews with other disciplines. Visiting artists regularly give lectures and demonstrations and critique student work, widening students’ artistic network. Interaction among MFAs and undergraduates in the shop and the studio strengthens graduate students’ teaching experience and has led to the program’s strong track record of placing alumni in faculty positions across the country and internationally. 

The Paul Wissmach Glass Company is family owned and operated, and has been making glass for artists architects, designers, studios, and hobbyists in Paden City, West Virginia, since 1904. We produce two lines: Art Glass and Kiln Glass. Art Glass is ideal for Stained Glass, Mosaic, and Architectural Glass Applications. Kiln Glass has a coefficient of expansion of 96 and is tested compatible. Kiln glass is ideal for fusing and melting. We offer a wide range of colors and styles of sheet, frit, and cullet for fusing, blowing, and casting. Our glass comes in a wide range of colors, textures, levels of transparency, and luminescent surface treatments. We offer the broadest selection of art glass in the world. In addition to our current selections, we frequently work with artists and designers to develop and introduce new colors and types of glass to meet the demands of today’s tastes.