The Garfield Youth Apprenticeship is an 8-week program that invites local youth aged 16 - 24 years old from our Garfield neighborhood for a paid learning and apprenticeship program at Pittsburgh Glass Center.
View DetailsMultimedia sculptor Layo Bright has received the 2023 Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass. She will receive a $2,500 cash award and time in PGC’s studios to create a new body of glass works that explore narratives and material cultures of the African diaspora and Black feminism.
View DetailsPittsburgh Glass Center and the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) have launched the first virtual glassblowing experience. PGC worked with a team of ETC graduate students over 15 weeks to design a virtual experience that educates, engages, and inspires middle and high students about the glassmaking process.
View DetailsOver 100 friends and glass art appreciators turned up to help us celebrate our groundbreaking on March 23.
View DetailsThis month a group of Pittsburgh Glass Center supporters and glass art appreciators, led by Executive Director Heather McElwee and Operations Director Chris Clarke, traveled to Italy for a special glass art collectors' tour of Venice and Murano. Here is PGC Board Liaison Merriann Grant's account of her experience.
View DetailsOver 62% of our instructors, students, and employees are women. Any day you walk into our glass studios you will find strong, smart, creative women leading the way. Happy International Women’s Day to all of the strong, creative, and talented women in glass. Where would we be without you?
View DetailsPittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) is glowing up and breaking ground on a $15 million renovation of its current 16,000-square-foot facility.
View DetailsAK Kurtz, a Michigan-born artist and PGC's Visitor Services Coordinator, is often the first person you meet when you walk into Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC). Now through February 28, you can view their screenprinting and glass sculptures across the street at Commonplace Coffee in an exhibition presented in conjunction with Evolve Coaching.
View DetailsHere's a roundup of our top ten hottest achievements over the past year!
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