The New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has been operational since 1988, was incorporated in 1990, and is housed by a historical brick building located in the American Sector of New Orleans’s Art District. Our organization purposes to foster the creative and economic growth of its artists and master-craftsmen by providing studio facilities, comprehending 27,000 square feet of open-working space, and core programming for glassblowing, printmaking, screenprinting, metal sculpture, torchworking, stained glass, and mosaics.

Consistent with the mission of the New Orleans Studio of Glassworks is that we furnish our artists with the resources necessary for success, including:

• Facilities, equipment, and raw materials requisite to their respective crafts and projects;
• Exposure by way of our organization’s front gallery and rolling exhibitions – further highlighted by publicized monthly openings;
• Economic avenues manifest in gallery sales of artists’ work, acquisition of private and public commissions, and flexible teaching opportunities;
• Sustained residency programs for qualified glassblowers, printmakers, metal sculptors, among other visual artists;
• Provision of affordable technical training, whether to augment previous education and experience, or to enable exploration of new media.

Furthermore, the New Orleans Studio of Glassworks services its goals to educate and engage its students and visitors, namely through offering:

• Open-working studios and free daily demonstrations;
• Short courses and extended classes, whereby participating guests experience hands-on, and consequently benefit local artists with teaching work both lucrative and sufficiently flexible as to not compromise personal creative endeavors.

Whereas our organization enjoys an optimal location in New Orleans – itself a destination city – our open-studio model attracts daily an average of 100 to 150 visitors, who, free-of-charge, may observe our artists as they engage a diversity of media, styles, and techniques.

Though headquartered in New Orleans, our organization operates internationally. Comprising our stable are individuals residing from Seattle to Venice to the Netherlands, including:

• Team Chihuly;
• James Mongrain
• Robert Sabuda
• Pino Signoretto
• Paul Stankard
• Rob Stern
• Lino Tagliapietra
• Frank van den Ham
• Udo Zembok

In 1991, we were invited and subsequently accepted to be sister school to the Louvre’s Département des Objets d’art. Such strengthened our organization’s ties to Europe, connecting us to many artists and fellow art institutions. Cultivation of these relationships has hatched what have become regular collaborative endeavors of our studios with European artists and organizations, ultimately benefiting artists within our stable, whether via creative maturation, enhanced repute, or increased financial success.