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Custom-designed studios for glass blowing, casting, cold working, are located in the newly expanded Sculpture Studio Center, which is supported and maintained by a full-time technical assistant. The Glass facility looks out on an acre of maple and apple trees at the edge of the University campus. Extensive new facilities in both cold and hot glass working: grinding, cutting polishing, leaded glass, glassblowing, glass casting, lampworking, glass fusing, and slumping. The program is fortunate to be well situated amidst Ohio's glass industry, and it benefits directly from this considerable material and reference source.
The Glass program operates one of the most comprehensive studio glass facilities in the United States. Facilities are offered for "hot" glass forming: glassblowing, glass casting, glass fusing, and slumping and enameling, as well as for "cold working" glass: grinding, cutting, drilling, sandblasting and construction of stained glass, neon, and fabricated sculpture. The Glass program is fortunate to be well situated amidst Ohio's enormous glass and glass art industry. It benefits directly from this considerable material and reference resource. Geographically, OSU is also central to Ohio's five other college glass facilities, to the Toledo Museum, which houses one of the world's major glass collections, and to numerous West Virginia offhand glass factories. In 1987, graduates of the OSU program founded the "Glass Axis", a public access glass studio and artist's organization.
Hot shop
Hot Shop Features
- Two 700lb. Day tanks, melting Spruce Pine Batch (Rebuilt as needed to produce excellent quality glass)
- Two Gloryholes with modern benches
- Garage
- Pipe Warmer
- Nine Front-loading Annealing Ovens
- Two Top-loading Annealing Ovens
- One Top-loading, Pick-up Oven (Annealing Ovens controlled by three Digitry GB-4 computers)
- Large and Small Marvers
- Assorted pipes
- Hand-tools, blocks, and molds
Cold Shop Features
- Somaca Belt Sander with belts
- 80 Grit Flat Mill
- 220 Grit Flat Mill
- Merker Cutting Lathe
- Two Merker Engraving Lathes
- 20″Cerium Wheel
- 7″Cerium Wheel
- 7″Pumice Wheel
- Wizzard Flat Glass Edge Grinder
- Clipper Diamond Saw
- Polarizing Light Scope
- Sand Blaster
- Gram Scale
- Glue Booth for Hxtal gluing
- Water-Fed Diamond Pad Angle Grinder
- Fordham High Speed Die-Grinder
State of the art Macintosh labs known as the Fergus Gilmore Computer studio are available to Graduate students in Glass as well as high-end Macintosh-based multimedia equipment, featuring; digital video, high resolution slide scanners, laser and injet printers. Glass artists can also utilize the New Media Robotic laboratory for adding electronic control and kinetic elements to their work.