Art Glass SF

08/04/2026

Made for a friend https://www.facebook.com/david.rothery.58/posts/pfbid026iPfiiGWYExV2zf7fsJo8YUKqTyTfmgD9WZEMo37B9Ve8zxBVdZNxv5MAfGSr4v8l

08/01/2026

New bowls for a commission

07/28/2026

Artists are casting their own sheet glass again, and it's changing what they can make

There's a piece in the current issue of Glass: The UrbanGlass Quarterly that's been sitting with me. Managing editor Sahana Ramakrishnan writes about a small but growing group of artists — Elliot Walker, Jocelyne Prince, Romina Gonzalez, David King, Liesl Schubel - who've stopped buying their sheet glass and started making it themselves.

That's a bigger deal than it sounds. Sheet glass is one of those materials most of us just treat as a given, you order it, you cut it, you work with it. But a handful of artists are going back to "extinct" artisanal methods to produce their own sheets, which means they get to control color, texture, and thickness at the source instead of working within whatever the supplier offers. It's the difference between cooking with a spice blend someone else made and grinding your own.

I like this as a reminder that "innovation" in glass doesn't always mean new tech — sometimes it means picking up a technique the industry left behind because it wasn't efficient, and deciding efficiency isn't the point.

If you want the full story, it's worth the read: Glass Quarterly, Issue 182 "Elemental". -

Established in New York City in 1977, UrbanGlass fosters experimentation and advances the use and critical understanding of glass as a creative medium.

07/23/2026

Science! https://boingboing.net/2026/07/23/post-a-youtuber-rebuilt-the-glowing-light-discovered-by.html , Thanks Chris Knight

In 1675, a mercury light bulb glowed by accident. A YouTuber rebuilt it and made it far brighter with neon.

07/20/2026

So I had these pieces of veiled cane, opal white and dark blue and decided to treat them as murrine and created this low bowl. Came out very nice so going to create some more murrine in different colors, same style, and make some additional ones like this

07/12/2026

Prince Ruperts Drops

The mystery of strange little glass baubles that show both remarkable strength and fragility has finally been solved.

06/26/2026

My paperweights at Jessup Cellars in Napa https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ_jIrIFMdU/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

06/26/2026

millefiori paperweights

06/17/2026

My new paperweights showcasing murrine and millefiori added at Jessup cellars in Napa

06/11/2026

During the GAS Conference in Corning got a chance and a tour of the “Studio” at Corning by Mary White, it was fantastic to see the huge casting kilns and the examples that several of the resident artists are making