Featured Member Resource
Pittsburgh Glass Center is a nonprofit, public access glass art center where anyone can take classes, explore the contemporary glass gallery, shop for glass gifts, and watch live glassblowing demonstrations.
Studio spaces
Pittsburgh Glass Center Studios is a premier glass-making facility offering hands-on workshops and studio rentals for all ages, focusing on transforming molten glass into unique artworks.
Artist residencies
Pittsburgh Glass Center Idea Furnace Residency. We enjoy working with nonglass artists to help them realize their ideas. We invite artists with little to no knowledge of glass to apply for residencies in our studios to learn different ways to work with and incorporate glass into their practice, experiment with ideas, and to create with the help or facilitation of professionals in a state-of-the-art studio.
Professional development
Pittsburgh Glass Center's Tech Apprenticeship is an educational work opportunity designed for students who have completed their undergraduate study in glass art (or who have similar experience but have not completed a four-year degree program) and are looking to gain professional studio experience in a state-of-the-art, public-access studio.
Financial awards
Pittsburgh Glass Center's Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass recognizes creative thinking in four categories and celebrates the late PGC cofounder and glass artist Ron Desmett. The award is for artists who think outside the box, practice curiosity, and take risks to create unique, imaginative works that are either entirely glass or that incorporate glass.