Mark Weiner, Robert Phillips and Andrew Iannazzi making a Früt Lüp Pitcher Photo credit ©2009 Bill Truslow
Thanks to everyone for helping make this another great season at MVG. The gallery is closing today and the furnace is off. But you can continue to shop your favorite handblown glass designs on mvglassworks.com all winter long. We’ll be keeping you updated on new products for Spring as soon as we light up our furnace again!
"Leema" by Robert Phillips
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks.
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks. The glassblowers are done working between 2:00pm-2:30pm today.
Cane Twist Glass by Robert Phillips
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks. The glassblowers are done working between 2:00pm-2:30pm today.
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks. The glassblowers are done working between 2:00pm-2:30pm today.
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks. The glassblowers are done working between 2:00pm-2:30pm today.
Snowmen by Martha's Vineyard Glassworks
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks. The glassblowers are done working between 2:00pm-2:30pm today.
Spiral Bud Vase by Michiko Maekawa
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks.
Snowmen by Martha's Vineyard Glassworks
Martha’s Vineyard Glassworks was built to offer an understanding of glassblowing to the public. We invite our customers to watch a work of art come to life – from the raw material and an artist’s vision, to the final piece for your home. Our production floor is connected to the gallery with only feet between the viewer and glassblower, a unique environment for glassblowing education straight from the artists themselves. Please note that the glassblowers always take a lunch break between 12:00 noon and 1:00pm and may need to take occasional unannounced breaks.
We have run out of glass and today we are melting more, a process known as “charging.” It takes an entire day to fill our glass furnace with 400lbs of glass. Once the furnace is full of glass, it must settle overnight, and the next morning our glassblowers will gather out of the furnace to create the art and functional glassware that is available for sale in our gallery and online store. If you would like to see glassblowing demonstrations, please check back tomorrow or call our gallery at 508.693.6026 to ask for more information about our production schedule.