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About Hot Glass Works

Hot Glass Works is a mobile teaching facility that enables demonstration, lecture, and hands-on-glass to contribute to and impact at-risk youth in their own surroundings.  Providing art classes to at-risk kids instills courage in their lives through an example of courage. Hot Glass Works desires for others to share the responsibilities where life’s influences are reflected in the creation of expressive fine art.

HGW's goals places us all as educators. HGW seeks to facilitate the creative process to each individual regardless of previous experience or skill, as everyone is an artist in their own right. Education in art-glass creation encompasses knowledge and theory of other art mediums and craftsmanship to achieve a finished work. In this task HGW energizes growth that encompasses individuality by supporting progressive ideas in search of expression. HGW believes time and knowledge is a valuable contribution in making hot glass sculpture available as an artistic medium to society. HGW also believes the more we know about each other the more we as individuals can contribute to humanity.

Scholarships for eligible participants are provided through businesses willing to partnership in advertising. HGW is geared to provide supplementary instruction to any existing art curriculum elementary through college.

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  • Mobile Studio Services
  • Instruct foundation glass courses
  • Studio and Administration Consultation
  • Equipment Installation
  • Production Design Services
  • Art and Craft Commissions
  • Mechanical, Structural, and Artistic Welding Services
  1. Hot Glass Works will provide all necessary (LP) propane gas in 20 gallon bottles on site for your event. Hot Glass Works provides equipment built to (NFPA) National Fire Protection Agency standards and maintains state and federal safety codes for electric and fuel consumption.
  2. Crowd partitioning can be provided by Hot Glass Works or can be constructed to meet safety and decorative standards. Natural barriers like fences, parking posts and walls, and landscaping must be considered, but can also be utilized. 
  3. Hot Glass Works must begin set-up procedures four hours prior to the need for the first demonstration to enable the furnace to reach glass melting temperature.
  4. In order to cover scheduling costs a deposit of $200 is due two week prior to event date, $100 nonrefundable if cancellation occurs less than 72 hrs prior.
  5. Overnight lodging will be factored into considered for extended mileage events. Annealing service will allow proper cooling of the works and must be accommodated until cool overnight.