Glass Courses

The following establishments in the UK run glassmaking courses. These include evening classes, day courses, and part and full-time education certificates, and cover topics such as glassblowing, engraving, beadmaking and lampwork.

Please contact the venues to find out what types of courses are available.

• Aaronson Noon Glass Studio
  Roxby Place (end of Rickett Street), London, SW6 1RS
  Telephone: 020 7610 3344.
  
  Specialise in beginners glassblowing courses, improvers glassblowing courses also available.
  

• Creative Glass Guild
  16 Whitehouse Street, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4AY
  Telephone: 0117 9737025.
  

• The International Glass Centre
  Dudley College, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 3EP
  Telephone: 01384 363067,  
  

• The Liquid Glass Centre
  Stowford Manor Farm, Wingfield, Wiltshire, BA14 9LH
  Telephone: 01225 768888
  
  Glassblowing, kiln casting, fusing and slumping, and specialist courses.
  

• National Glass Centre
  Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 OGL
  Telephone: 0191 515 5555
  
  Courses in glass design, technology and art. Includes the University of Sunderland's Glass, Architectural Glass and Ceramics Departments and the International Institute for Research in Glass.
  

• North Lands Creative Glass
  Quatre Bras, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland, KW3 6BN
  Telephone: 01593 721229. 
  
  Offering short and longer-term residencies, masterclasses, beginners classes and an annual conference.
  

• Paul San Casciani, Stained Glass Activities,
  11 Dale Close, Thames Street, Oxford, OX1 1TU
  Telephone: 01865 727529.
  

• Plowden & Thompson Ltd
  Dial Glass Works, Stewkins, Audnam, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4YN
  Telephone: 01384 393398
  
  Beadmaking, lampworking and fusing courses for beginners and advanced makers.
  

• Rainbow Glass
  85 Walkden Road, Worsley, Manchester, M28 7BQ
  Telephone: 0161 7903025.
  

• Ruskin Glass Centre
  Ruskin Mill Further Education Centre,
  Wollaston Road, Amblecote, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 4HF
  Telephone: 01384 399400
  

• Stockwood Crafts Courtyard
  Studio 5, Stockwood Crafts Museum, Luton, LU1 4BH
  Telephone: 01582 570019.
  
  Glass fusing and slumping courses. 
  

• University of Wolverhampton
  School of Art & Design, Admissions and Records Unit,
  Compton Park Campus, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, WV3 9DX
  Telephone: 01902 323746.
  

• West Dean College
  West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ
  Telephone: 01243 811301
  
  Engraving and stained glass courses.
  

Further Information

Many art colleges and universities run further education courses in glassmaking. To find out what is available you can search for courses on the UCAS website, in the information page. Glassmaking and other craft courses are often advertised in Crafts, the decorative and applied arts magazine produced bi-monthly by the Crafts Council.

The Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass has an international list of schools running glass courses on the links page of their website.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters has an extensive list of stained glass courses and tutors on its website.