Hot Shop Glass

Still riding the wave of the amazing Glass Art Society conference at The Studio of Corning Museum of Glass!

Highlights include guided tour of ‘Tough Stuff’-women in the early US glass movement’ with curator Tami Landis. The whole museum is incredible! Demonstrations every single day were inspiring. Always a blast to see old glass friends & meet new ones! The cherry on top was the insane ‘Glass Fashion Show’ led by the one & only Laura Donafer. And Corning, NY has the most charming downtown which also inspired!!

Thanks to the amazing support of our community & customers, four of us from team Hot Shop were able to attend this incredible conference. We are so grateful! ❤️

We are back from the annual Glass Art Society conference at the Corning Museum of Glass—an INCREDIBLE experience—more on that later. For now, please note that you can use our backdoor this week as we FINALLY rebuild our front porch ( Thanks to Gleason Contractors & Acme Construction Metals!) crazy that this porch has lasted probably over 100 years!

It’s First Friday! The rain is ending by 4pm—- just in time to explore the ‘creative crawl’ downtown! Free admission all day at the Racine Art Museum, public art release of ‘Greetings from Racine’ giant postcards, new opening at The Artists Gallery & of course fabulous & fun demonstrations from 4-8pm at Hot Shop Glass!!! Team Jeremy & Jo will be showing off their chops! We expect big crowds! *

Today is the day! Registration for our 2026 glass pumpkin classes opens about noon! Sign up on our website: www.hotshopglass.com Classes begin August 15 & run through the end of November. No classes held Oct 1-10…all the glass blowers are doing a show at The Morton Arboretum.

Kicking off First Fridays! Come say hi & warm up! So much to see & do downtown tonight! Check out our beautiful new rotating entrance art gallery—watercolor by Patti Fallon ❤️

A must see during First Fridays Creative Crawl! Just around the corner & down the block from our studio!

Artists Gallery in Racine opens “Five New Visions” this Friday, May 1, for a one-month exhibit.

Enjoy the work of the five most recent artists to join the gallery.
 .gdisis.art Samira Gdisis will present a collection of white line color woodcuts.
 Kelly Darrah explores the theme of abstract patterns and sea creatures. Her mediums include broken glass mosaics and acrylic paintings.
 Kara Sturdy examines the realms and possibilities of clay with her engaging and thought-provoking hand built whimsical ceramics.
 Shayna Frost creates complex abstract line drawings on paper. Medias used are colored pencils, alcohol pens and acrylic washes.
 FiberFae Fay Liberty will be displaying lightweight originally designed cotton and cotton blend handwoven clothing for women and accessories

Thanks for cleaning up the beach & downtown during ‘Finders Peepers’ last weekend! Here’s the special bunny we made for the winner of the raffle. Congrats Finn! And thanks to EVERYONE!