Full-Access Membership

Take control of your creativity! Join our membership and start making your personal glass work surrounded by a supportive community and high quality studio facilities.

What’s Included

Full- Studio Access

Your membership grants you access to all areas of the studio. General work area with basic hand tools, cold shop, member lockers, group firings, discounted personal kiln use and discounted material sales are all available for your use. Come in during daily open studio hours to create your work in a supportive environment that is fully equipped to meet your needs.

Membership Levels

We understand that flexibility and custom fit are the keys to making a leisure activity truly luxurious.

Details:

  • Minimum of 4 weeks

    • You can renew every month or sign up for multiple months at once to receive a discount

  • Minimum of 3 hours per week

    • If you’d like more than 3 hours per week no problem! You are welcome to select however many hours per week for your membership as you’d like.

    • Sign up for additional hours as needed on a week-to-week basis within studio availability.

  • Full-studio access

  • Consumable materials to be purchased by member

Cost

  • $15 per Membership Hour

    • Sign up for 3 months at time or longer & receive a discount

      • 3 month: $13.5 per Membership Hour

      • 4 month: 13.25 per Membership Hour

      • 6 month: 12.75 per Membership Hour

  • Add on hours are always $15 regardless of extended membership discount

    • These are hours added on top of your regular membership

Kiln Use

Members are invited to participate in class firings when space permits. The type of firing/schedule per group firing will rotate based on the needs of the classes and individual students.

Additionally members are welcome to rent kiln time for individual use. As a member will receive a 10% discount on kiln rental! All programs and kiln set up will be supervised to ensure safe kiln use and help achieve successful firings. We request that members be available and present while personal use kilns are at process temperature. Arrangements can be made if this isn’t possible.

Safety

All members regardless of previous experience will go through a safety training and check before being granted independent access. We want to make sure that you and your glass work are safe while in the studio. In order to help prevent injuries, broken pieces, and health risks we require basic training on all equipment. Training includes, set up and clean up procedures, safe handling, proper PPE use, and general use overview.

Save!

When signing up for 3 months at at time or longer and recieve a discount!

  • Save money and time by subscribing to our membership for a longer period!

  • See pricing break down below

Sell Your Work

As a member you have the opportunity to sell your beautiful works in our online gallery! The studio will retain a 30% commission with 70% of the sale going to the artist. This commission is used to produced high quality images, maintain our gallery, promote member works, and general studio maintenance.

Member work will be shown in our online gallery as well as on a rotating basis in our store front.

Need more flexibility? We got you!

Membership Vouchers

Have you taken a Stern Glass Works class?

Are you interested in membership but don’t have the time to come in 3 hours or more a week?

Try out our super flexible Membership Vouchers!

Details:

  • Each voucher is equivalent to 1 hour of independent member work time

  • Vouchers are valid for 6 months from purchase

  • Vouchers can be redeemed for studio time based on studio availability

    • Most weeks we have around 30 hours or more available for members to choose from

Cost:

  • $18 per Voucher which is equivalent to 1 membership hour

  • Consumable Materials to be purchased by member day of voucher use

4-Hour Pass

Do you have experience from OUTSIDE of Stern Glass Works and just need a place to work for the day? We would love to have you in the studio!

The four hour pass is the perfect way to come into the studio to get some focused work done as needed.

Details:

  • The 4-Hour Pass grants access to all facilities meaning, machines, hand tools, and work space.

  • Consumable materials are to be purchased

  • Passes are valid for 6 months from purchase

  • Passes can be redeemed for studio time based on studio availability

    • Most weeks we have around 30 hours or more available for members to choose from

Cost:

  • $100 per 4-Hour Pass

FACILITIES

STAINED GLASS SHOP

  • Circle Cutter

  • Strip Cutter

  • Hand Glass Cutter

  • Fid

  • Homasote Board

  • Waffle board

  • wedge supports

  • Creators angle master

  • squares and rules

  • Pins

  • scribes

FUSED GLASS SHOP

  • Sifters

  • Stencil Paper

  • Printer (Limited Use)

  • Rubber Nibs and Brushes

  • Sifters

  • powder tips

  • Slumping molds

  • Kiln furniture

  • Paragon CS14D

COLD SHOP

  • Magnetic Flap Lap

  • Flexible Shaft Hand Tool

  • Taurus 3 Ring Saw

  • Wizard Grinder

  • Techniglass Grinder 2

  • Gryphette Grinder

  • Dental sand blaster

  • Gram scale

  • Glue box 

Revel in the joys of glass and community.