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Public Glass is San Francisco’s center for glass art and education—a place where people of all backgrounds can learn, create, and connect through a material that is as technical as it is expressive. Glassmaking is a hands-on art form, passed from person to person through direct experience, mentorship, and shared space. It cannot be replicated through screens or scaled digitally—it must be learned in the studio.
At a time when access to hands-on arts education is increasingly limited, opportunities to work with glass are rare. The equipment, space, and expertise required to practice the medium are significant, making places like Public Glass essential to keeping this art form alive, relevant, and accessible to new generations.
Your Donation Supports Workshops for Youth, Seniors, and Emerging Artists.
Through our Light a Spark program, Public Glass provides scholarships, reduced-cost classes, and free workshops to individuals and community partners who would not otherwise have access to glass art. This work is rooted in equity—meeting people where they are and ensuring that cost is not a barrier to participation.
Our programs integrate art with science, technology, engineering, and design, offering hands-on experiences that build creativity, problem-solving, and technical skills. From first-time participants to emerging artists, Light a Spark opens pathways into a field that is often out of reach—supporting exploration, building confidence, and creating meaningful opportunities for long-term engagement.
Your support helps us expand this work: strengthening curriculum, deepening community partnerships, and ensuring that access to glass remains open to all.
San Francisco's only public-access glass studio.
Your donation supports maintenance and vital equipment upgrades
Glassmaking requires more than instruction—it depends on specialized equipment, skilled staff, and a fully operational studio. From 2,200-degree furnaces to kilns, torches, and coldworking tools, this infrastructure is complex, costly, and essential.
Public Glass maintains the only fully equipped, publicly accessible glass studios in the city. These resources support everything we do—from classes and youth programs to artist development and community events. Without ongoing investment, access to this medium doesn’t just shrink—it disappears.
Sustaining this studio means preserving a space where knowledge is shared, skills are passed on, and creativity is experienced in real time.
Public Glass is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization.
All or a portion of your donation may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.
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EIN: 94-3253918
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Mailing Address: Public Glass, 1750 Armstrong Ave, San Francisco, CA 94124
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