Glassblowing Houston is all about “enriching lives through artistic self-expression.” We allow people to blow glass and have the experience of a lifetime. We teach glassblowing classes. We rent benches and glory hole time to other glassmakers. We all work with the most fantastic medium to make our glass art and hopefully bring joy to your heart, home, or workplace.
Running a glassblowing studio is an expensive endeavor. The furnace that holds molten glass must stay on 24/7. If the power goes out, several consequences can occur, including losing your pot and your entire furnace.
Besides electric power, we must also have gas for our glory holes or reheat furnaces. These are on only during working hours. Then, there are costs for the other utilities, like water, septic, garbage, internet, and telephones. Our average monthly charges for these are about $4000/month. Of course, there are costs to rent space, labor, expenses, and raw glass and color costs. The initial investment in the equipment is nothing to sneeze about, and this equipment must be continuously maintained and repaired!
We encourage everyone to support the arts and keep the glass as an art medium. All funds donated will go directly to the programs chosen to continue to follow our dream and enrich people’s lives in the Houston area through artistic self-expression with glass.
We need to cover the high costs of utilities, raw materials, and consultants to enable our community to experience the magic of glass.
Assist in sending our artists to outside classes and bringing other glass artists to the studio to work with them on specific skills.
Help support our first Sunday Free Demo, where we make a medium to a large piece, narrate the process, and enable our community to be “Blown Away” by glass as an artistic medium.
We love teaching and sharing our enthusiasm and knowledge of glass. Donations here allow us to keep the prices as low as possible while paying all the bills.
We love meeting glass enthusiasts and other makers. Contributions here will help us bring glass artists from other places to come and work with our staff, the glassmakers who rent with us, our students, and the community in general so we can all be enriched by their artistic self-expression.
We have purchase our mobile dragon and are working on a traveling setup for it, so we can bring glassblowing adventures to others. We need funds for the trailer, lights, fan, wench, ramps, and a vehicle to pull all of it.
