Our fusing and casting shop includes 6 kilns, 6 work tables, glass cutting tools, 5 all star glass grinders, ventilated mold room, wax steamer, and powder booth.  There is the option to rent as a member or as a nonmember. We rent out the kilns and the mold room. Mold room is $15 per hour and kilns are rented out by 24 hours per rental and can be rented additional 24 hours for 1/2 the price. Check chart below for pricing and kiln sizes.

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Membership prerequisite:  Fusing or Casting Level 2 or equivalent

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Fusing or casting level 1 students may sign up for Art Flow:

3 hour rental with studio monitor and supplies included 

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Kiln rental includes:

• Flat-glass cutting / layout table

• Wet diamond edge grinders- Grinders bits from 80 grit, 100 grit, and 200 grit

• Disc grinder 200 grit

• Tarus ring saw

• Glass cutting tools: toyo pistol grip glass cutters, grozier pliers, running pliers, and cutting oil

• light box

• powder booth

• 3 Fusing kilns: F1, F3, F4- F2 kiln for classes only

• F1: top loading, goes to full fuse with Sentry 2.0 controller

• F3:top loading, goes to full fuse with Sentry 2.0 controller

• F4: front loading Paragon kiln, goes to full fuse with Sentry 2.0 controller

• 3 Casting Kilns: C1, C2, and C3

• C1:  top loading on Sentry 2.0 controller

• C2: top loading  on GB 4 controller

• C3: top loading on GB 4 controller

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Mold room rental ($15 per hour):

• Ventilated mold-making room with 5 by 5 ft work table

• Ventilated wax pots and steamer

• steel drying rack - all work must be off the work table and onto the drying rack when not renting out the room

• boards

• c clamps

• sculpting tools

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Not included in Rental:

• ​ kiln wash 

• fiber paper

• sheet glass

• frit

• stringers

• Plaster and silica

• mold release

• silicone

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​Members vs Nonmembers

Studio memberships are available and provide discounted hourly rates, online booking access, and no limits on rental times. Membership prerequisite:  Fusing or Casting Level 2 or equivalent. Members need to be able to use all equipment and tools on their own without staff present. Members need to be able to load their own kiln and set their own program. There are standard Bullseye preset programs on all fusing kilns. 

 

Choose between:

Basic membership to get 10% off or a premium membership to get 20% off.

Monthly and yearly memberships available. 

 

​Booking Policies:

Fusing and Casting members can book 5 minutes in advance of rental start time and all cancellations and rescheduling must be done 48 hours in advance.

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Nonmembers pay per total time in kiln or mold room. Nonmembers are expected to be able to load their own kiln and program the kiln. Staff will check the program before it is run. Nonmembers must email and pay invoice a minimum of 3 days hours ahead of time through email: operations@publicglass.org. Nonmembers are limited to booking while staff is present M-TH

 

First time nonmembers please email:

• fusing or casting experience : classes, school, previous studios

• photos of work

• type of kilns previously worked with and type of controllers

• date and renting time

• What equipment/tools you would like to use in your rental

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Nonmember booking process:

* operations available Mon-Thurs, any rental requests Fri-Sun will be processed the following Monday

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1. Email info above and/or requested days and times 

2. If available operations will send you the invoice to pay

3. After the invoice is paid, you will be booked into the calendar (must happen at least 3 days ahead of rental) 

4. Nonmembers can show up 30 minutes before rental time to set up

5.  On the day of the rental, you will meet a staff member in the gallery and they will walk you over to the kiln/mold shop to show you the location of tools and equipment

6. Nonmembers are in charge loading your own kiln and putting back any tools and equipment used. Before running the program, please check back in with the staff member to look over the program. If used, all grinders must be emptied of silica dust and grinder table wiped down. At the end of the rental, nonmembers are in charge of wiping down and sweeping up the area used. 

7. Unloading Kilns: Nonmembers are in charge of unloading their own kiln at the end of their rental time. That includes vacuuming shelf paper or glass shards. If you are not able to unload the kiln at the end of the rental, you can coordinate with staff to empty the kiln for you for $30 per kiln.

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