Glass – Facilities
The Glass Program is a 5000 sq ft facility that includes a Hot Shop equipped with:
- a 500 lb Spiral Arts tank furnace
- 28” x 40” large Spiral Arts glory hole
- 20” x 30” medium Spiral Arts glory hole
- pipe warmer and cooler
- garage
- 54” x 36” x 26” top loader
- 54” x 26” x 24” front loader
- four 26” x 20” x 16” front loaders
- one 4’ x 6’ x 2’ top loader
- GB4 controller
- and a color box
The Cold Shop is equipped with:
- a diamond lap wheel
- grit lap wheel
- diamond band saw
- 106” x 4” belt sander
- glass lathe with diamond and felt wheels
- and a 10” circular saw
The kiln room has two 36” x 30” x 12” Denver fusing kilns with West controllers, and two Paragon kilns (the largest being 44” x 22” x 16”)
There also is a full Neon shop and a Lampworking studio equipped with 8 Carlisle CC burners and 5 Carlisle mini CC burners.
The Glass Program has five graduate studios each approximately 10.5’ x 8’.