Mobile Hot Shop
Mobile Hot Shop
The Mobile Hot Shop takes the live glassmaking experience on the road, bringing the artistry and education of glassmaking beyond the walls of The Corning Museum of Glass – to the public, the design community, and museums worldwide.
The Corning Museum of Glass Mobile Hot Shop uses unique glassmaking equipment to recreate a state-of-the-art studio environment. At venues around the world, in conjunction with exhibitions, events and art and design initiatives, Museum’s gaffers demonstrate complex hot glassmaking techniques.
For more information, email hotglassoutreach@cmog.org.
2019
March 28 - 31, 2019
See the Mobile Hot Shop at the annual Glass Art Society Conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., where glass artists from around the country will lecture and demonstrate on the glass arts.
2018
November 1 - 4, 2018
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA Chicago 2018, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries will present live hot...
2017
November 3 - 5, 2017
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA Chicago 2017, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries will present live hot...
May 18 - 21, 2017
Take a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of our new Mobile Hot Shop on May 18 through 21. From 10 am to 12 pm and 1 to 3 pm, stop by the Museum for an exclusive look at this cutting-edge new mobile glassmaking studio. Get an up-close look at all of the tools...
May 12 - 14, 2017
Take a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of our new Mobile Hot Shop on May 12 through 14 and May 18 through 21. From 10 am to 12 pm and 1 to 3 pm, stop by the Museum for an exclusive look at this cutting-edge new mobile glassmaking studio. Get an up-close...
2014
November 6 - 9, 2014
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA Chicago 2014, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries will present live hot...
April 30 - May 4, 2014
Celebrating the opening of a major installation by Richard Jolley, the Hot Glass Roadshow will take part in Knoxville’s GlassFest14. Museum glassmakers will provide live demonstrations for the public and area school groups.
Commissioned especially for...
2013
October 31 - November 3, 2013
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA Chicago 2013, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries will present live hot...
2012
November 2 - 4, 2012
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2012, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries will present live hot...
October 5 - 14, 2012
The Hot Glass Roadshow will provide live public glassblowing demonstrations at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, in Kalamazoo, MI.
Tickets are required, see the full schedule for details.
September 12 - 16, 2012
The Sifly Piazza at the High Museum of Art heats up this summer with a 50th birthday celebration for the American Studio Glass Movement. As master glassmakers take glowing gobs of molten glass on the end of a pipe and skillfully shape them into vases,...
August 10 - 12, 2012
The Hot Glass Roadshow travels to Nantucket Island to support Hot Glass Nantucket 2012, a fundraising event for The Nantucket Boys and Girls Club, sponsored by the Dane Gallery.
One of the focal points of the program is a You Design It; We Make It!...
June 13 - 16, 2012
The Corning Museum of Glass will have two hot glass demonstrations at the Toledo Glass Art Society Annual Conference. The main stage will be situated in the SeaGate Convention Centre, where a variety of glass artists will provide demonstrations and...
January 18 - March 25, 2012
The Hot Glass Show travels to West Palm Beach to provide glassmaking demonstrations in support of the Norton Museum of Art’s show: Beth Lipman: A Still Life Installation.
The Roadshow will provide glassmaking demonstrations as well as You...
2011
November 4 - 6, 2011
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2011, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
October 6 - 9, 2011
The Hot Glass Show traveled to Neenah, WI, to support the Bergstrom-Mahler’s third Arts of Fire event. The Roadshow provided demonstrations for Museum visitors, including area school groups, to enhance the All That Glitters exhibit,...
June 1 - 5, 2011
The Hot Glass Show was a venue for demonstrations and lecture/demonstrations at the 2011 GAS Annual Conference in Seattle. Artists like Keke Cribbs, Rodman Miller, Jim Mongrain, and Mark Zirpel presented live demonstrations. The annual Twisty Cup...
2010
November 17 - 18, 2010
The Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow blew glass just off of Fifth Avenue, to enhance the Museum of the City of New York's 2004 exhibit, Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960, an exhibit celebrating the artistry of...
November 5 - 7, 2010
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2010, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
2009
November 6 - 8, 2009
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2009, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
October 15 - 18, 2009
The Hot Glass Show traveled to Neenah, WI, to support the Bergstrom-Mahler’s “Arts of Fire” event. The Roadshow provided demonstrations for Museum visitors, including area school groups, to enhance the Bergstrom-Mahlers exhibitions, including its display...
2008
November 7 - 9, 2008
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2008, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
June 19 - 21, 2008
The Hot Glass Show provided its mobile hotshop for demonstrations at the 38th Annual Glass Art Society in Portland, OR. Glass artists from around the country lectured and demonstrated on the Hot Glass Roadshow.
March 13 - September 1, 2008
The Hot Glass Show demonstrated the science and art of glassblowing as part of the Museum of Science and Industry’s exhibit, The Glass Experience, which explored the material of glass and its intersection of art and science.
2007
November 2 - 4, 2007
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2007, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
October 25 - November 5, 2007
In support of the exhibition Reflecting Antiquity, which was a joint endeavor of The Getty and The Corning Museum of Glass, the Hot Glass Roadshow provided live demonstrations at The Getty Villa focusing on ancient glassmaking techniques.
July 6 - 8, 2007
The event, produced by the Dane Gallery of Nantucket, MA, gave people the opportunity to learn more about glass and the artists who use this material in their work. The event included numerous community activities, including You Design It; We Make It!...
June 7 - 9, 2007
The Hot Glass Show provided its mobile hotshop for demonstrations at the 37th Annual Glass Art Society in Pittsburgh, PA.
May 11 - 13, 2007
The Hot Glass Show made a pilgrimage to commemorate the location where glassblowing became America’s first industry nearly 400 years ago. The Hot Glass Roadshow joined an extensive line-up of exhibits and entertainment for America’s Anniversary Weekend,...
April 27 - 29, 2007
Nova Southeastern University commissioned Dale Chihuly to create one of his masterpiece installations inside the Alvin Sherman Library on its main campus in Davie (one of only six blown-glass Chihuly installations in libraries worldwide). “The NSU Glass...
2006
November 10 - 12, 2006
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2006, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
June 15 - 17, 2006
The Museum brought its Hot Glass Show mainstage hotshop to St. Louis for glass demos. It also unveiled its second mobile unit at the 2006 Glass Art Society conference: new ultralight portable and modular set up that can be used in a variety of spaces.
March 18 - June 4, 2006
For the opening of Fireworks of Glass, a 43-foot tower of Dale Chihuly's largest permanent sculpture of blown glass to date, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis brought the Hot Glass Show to spend three months demonstrating live glassblowing...
2005
November 8 - 17, 2005
In celebration of the Chihuly in Kalamazoo show at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Hot Glass Roadshow provided live public demonstrations of glassblowing.
October 28 - 30, 2005
SOFA (which stands for Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) is one of the world's foremost fairs of contemporary arts and design. At SOFA CHICAGO 2005, Museum demonstrators and renowned artists represented by SOFA galleries presented live hot...
September 22 - 27, 2005
The Hot Glass Show visited this popular local science center in Hickory, NC, providing live glass demonstrations to the local community.
March 11 - May 9, 2005
The Hot Glass Roadshow went “Down Under” on a five-city tour, beginning with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, traveling on the National Folk Festival in Canberra, on to Wagga Wagga which is home to the national glass collection, then the Docklands in...
2003
January 12 - March 23, 2003
The Corning Museum of Glass took its Hot Glass Roadshow to the Norton Museum of Art to support the museum’s glass exhibitions. Glassmakers from the Corning Museum provided public glassblowing demonstrations.
2002
February 8 - 24, 2002
The Hot Glass Roadshow debuted at the 2002 Winter Olympics in %%Salt%% Lake City. Glass demonstrators from The Corning Museum of Glass provided live glassblowing to heat up the ancillary activities during this international event.
Mobile Hot Shop
