The Glass Studios at Pratt include facilities for blowing, casting, fusing, lampworking, coldworking, and pate de verre. Please feel free to tour our facility.

The Glass Studios staff are Paul Larned and Pat Bako.

Each year, Pratt offers over 100 classes and workshops in glass, including several week-long intensives with internationally-recognized artists in Pratt's Master Artists Program. Past participants have included: Lino Tagliapietra, Bertil Vallien, Shane Fero, Hank Murta Adams, and Jaimex and Einar de la Torre, among others.

The newly renovated and expanded Cold Shop is now open for business. We have…

  • Double the amount of space in Pratt’s coldshop
  • Enough room for two or three people to use the coldshop at once!
  • Plenty of countertop space for everyone
  • Refurbished existing machinery
  • New equipment!  Band saw, slab saw, additional grit flat wheel (coming), reciprolap (coming), and more!
  • Improved lighting and ventilation
  • And, at last, proper floor drainage!

And all this at the same low, low price of $15/hour!

Winter 2008's courses in glass can be found in PDF format at hotglass classes & workshops and warm glass classes and workshops.

Spring 2008's courses can be found at hotglass classes & workshops and warm glass classes and workshops

Pratt Fine Arts Center is proud to have been part of the studio glass community for over thirty years, and hopes you will be able to join us, either in person or online, to learn more about this exciting medium.

Equipment

Hot Shop

1 975 lb glass furnace
3 glory holes with rolling yokes
5 annealing ovens for blown work, 1 large over for cast work
1 color oven
2 steel blowing marvers
1 steel casting and color pickup marver
3 high volume bench torches
1 oxygen/propane torch
1 200 pound sand muller
1 powder booth
1 garage

Good selection of hand tools and pipes

Cold Shop

1 Merker cutting lathe
1 SOMACA 106" belt sander
1 14" polish / pre-polish lathe
1 14" diamond saw
1 Flatting wheel, diamond pads
1 Flatting wheel, 120 grit silicon carbide
1 20" automatic feed diamond slab saw
2 Sand blasters located in the Sculpture department
1 Foredom flex shaft
Drill press with assorted core bits
Water-fed band saw with carbide blade

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