Art Glass Design and Fabrication Facility Since 1971
Today The Bert Weiss Glass Studio produces fused/slumped glass as large as
38" x 80" (roughly door sized) Some glass can be tempered for use as furniture, windows or doors.
Many techniques for decorating glass are used, including fusing, painting, embossing, bending, frosting, carving, gilding and more.
Bert's work is featured at Bellini's Ristorante North Conway NH
25 ft Serpentine Glass Bar for Una, a Winebar in Portland ME.
The Bartop is created in five sections. It is made of 2 layers of half inch thick glass, sandwiching a layer of crushed glass. The glass is kiln fused and the edges are ground and polished. The bartop sits on an 8 inch thick cement wall with cobalt blue wine bottles embedded in cement.
I am teaching an intensive class at Pittsburgh Glass Center this summer and hope you will sign up. The studios are top notch and the classes are small with over 10 hours of studio time each day! The details about the class are listed below.
You can still receive the discounted class rate of only $600 if you sign up by April 15. To register, visit
Bert Weiss
June 9-13
Transforming Float Glass: From Flat, Smooth, and Clear to Fluid, Organic, and Sculptural
Level: All Levels
The class will explore several methods of cutting and decorating 10mm float glass, using color, texture, and form. Artists with proficiency at painting can learn to adapt their skills to a variety of methods of painting on glass. Students will learn to create textured designs in the sand. They will experience the fun of discovering textures made from simple objects. The class will look at the design process and how to work with the material to express ideas. Learning to think in glass is the goal towards making design and construction flow with the material, not fight with it.
