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Glass Art Studio & Community

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We are a creative hub for kiln and stained glass artists on the Monterey Peninsula. At Monterey Glassworks, we provide education, workshops and both part-time and dedicated studio spaces for artists passionate about working with glass. Our vibrant community offers opportunities to develop your art skills in a collaborative environment.

LEARN

Use glass to express your art. Start with our beginner class then members can expand through our guided skills and weekend workshops.

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MEMBERSHIP

Access the studio through our weekly open studio sessions.

Experienced artists can apply for unlimited resident artist memberships.

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EXPERIENCE

Visitors and locals alike can join immersive deep skills workshops for a weekend or entire week.

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2026

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Bespoke Glass & Lighting

We continue to offer the Innate brand and Nathan's custom lighting, blown glass chandeliers, and handmade home goods at natesambar.com as he continues making these magnificent beauties from Seattle. Custom inquiries for glass work will continue to be available indefinitely through Nathan. He's honored to have been able to teach, learn from, and work with you all.

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Join our Intro to Kiln Working Winter Session and unleash your inner artist! 🌟 No experience needed, just bring your enthusiasm! All materials included. DM us or visit our website to register. Link in Bio. #KilnWorking #GlassArt #Makers #WinterClasses

Transform glass into art with our 'Intro to Kiln Working - Winter Session'! 🖼️✨ Perfect for beginners, this hands-on class nurtures creativity and confidence. Say yes to your next artistic adventure! Link in Bio #GlassArt #CreativeJourney #ArtClass

🌟 Exciting news! Our '26 winter/spring class and workshop schedule is finally here! Ready to unleash your creativity? 🎨 Dive into our 4-week intro class if you’re just starting out, or join our open studio sessions if you're a seasoned pro! 🚀 Check out the full schedule and register now: https://www.montereyglassworks.com/book-online. Let's make some art together! #GlassArt #FusedGlass #Workshop

Come join us for this year's pumpkin party! Spooky snacks and BYOB while we hang, get spooky, and make your own lown glass pumpkin!
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LINK IN BIO! Discounts for couples and more! send us an email with proof when you use our discounts codes at check out! STUDENT25 TEACH25 USVET25
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#glassblowing #party #halloween #pumpkin #spooky #ghost

Open House Members Party during the West End Art Festival.
Free glassblowing for all former students and members. Noon to 6pm, Sat August 23rd.

A long with being a resource central coast glass connection, for glass needs and custom works, the New MGW Collective is the Peninsula's hub for the glass community.
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About to kick off the event season, we host private and corporate events, and find us during this summer's @thewestendcelebration
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Class is in session and our new partnership with MPC (Monterey Peninsula College for you non locals) revives their glass program and enrollment beings in just a few days!
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Stay tuned!!
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#glass #kilns #furnace #glassblowing #cumminity

Tonight's featured MGW Collective post focused on Anthony Dennin. He's a resident member indeed, but has been at MGW since its establishment in 2020. A man of many skills, he's handled everything we've done masterfully since our arrival on the peninsula - with a background in an high quality production, the refinement levels up even more with cane and pattern work.
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His whiskey glasses might have blown your mind in Edible Monterey, and if you missed that article, check him out @beached_glass to score some of his work and hunt him down at a number of sales around the area.... Or maybe on the beach at the right fishing spot.
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#orb #glass #design #product #cane #pattern #mgw #drinkware #whiskey

The view from @georgewilliambellstudio show at @vetriglass & @travergallery new location was incredible. The work and the crowd (and the cake too) were epic. Will pretty much put does him self everytime he puts on a show, and this current path his work is on is awesome to follow.
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#art #design #gallery #opening #show #glassblowing #gwb

The time has come! Classes are open again and filling fast. We have 3 spots left open. Class starts May 15, runs 5 weeks, and now includes your own additional weekly lab slot to practice what you learned in class.
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Link is in bio! Don't miss.
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#glassblowing #classes #learning #intro #community

Spring "Intro to Glassblowing" (May 15th - Jun 12th) registration is now open at Monterey GlassWorks. Learn more at https://www.montereyglassworks.com/book-online.

@glassblowing, @artclass

MGW reawakened after the 2025 rebuild as a place of community and collaboration. The MGW team, clients, and students, are now each other's Collective studio mates, running their businesses alongside each other, expanding their knowledge, and teaming up to bring work to life, and grow our community.

We invite you to join us in the making, learn about rental, discounts, or the hive mind of influence at MGW that can help complete your projects or welcome you to the world of glass.
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#mgw #centralcoast #glass #glassblowing #stainedglass #kilnworking #collective #studio #rental

HOLIDAY SALE!!! 11-5 TODAY AND TOMORROW!
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#comeshop #smallbusiness #holiday #market #sale

See you at our sale next weekend 🎁
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#glass #decor #drinkware #ornaments #gifts #friends #holidays

Baby please come shop
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And have cider, snacks, and deals. Bring friends and fam, make it a thing.
See you there!
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#holidays #market #sale #glass

The 2024 Collection of Ornaments. Anything wouldn't be as jolly. Buy as a set or mix and match with us. #linkinbio
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All crystal clear and sparkling.
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#sevenswansaswimming #onde #christmasball #festoon #jewel #lighting #ornaments #christmas #xmas #holiday #gift #shopping

SANTAS COMING!! Soon. Get ready with us and some holiday magic from MGW. >>>>> Read on!
We've got Snowy people, Mr. Narwhals, Snowy trees, redwood trees, and Christmas trees, along with our classic ornaments and some special new ones!
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Shop online, or come by the Hotshop.
Save the date of 12/7 for a special sale and making your own ornaments from 6-9! Tickets online for blowing.
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#glass #glassblowing #christmas #holidays #festivities #decor

The second Rasquache Chandelier with @paredesarte
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A pair of these will head to LA in the coming months and I'm so honored for MGW to have helped make Viva's vision come true.
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#rasquache #rasquachetecture #ethnobotany #chicano #chicanostyle #venetian #chandelier #artistic #lighting #chandelier #design #teamup

"Beyond the Horizon" Bottles for @paloaltontwks event look like the quite epic take home gifts. Have an equally amazing weekend in Monterey!
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#privateevents #corporate #outing #team #teambuilding #bottles #gifts #whyistherumgone

Back in the shop with @paredesarte on a new variation of her Rasquache Chandelier.
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#chicanostyle #venetian #chandelier #artistic #lighting #design #color #form #pattern #tech

The summer winds down while the party heats up with @robsternartglass shredding all week.
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Come see us this weekend for @sandcityca @thewestendcelebration and hang out!
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#glass #artist #residency #robstern #bigtime

Big Chandeliers in the shop right now with @n8_sambar - clients, artists, galleries, everyone needs epic chandeliers.
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#lighting #luxury #custom #glass #classical #traditional #highend #fancy #gold #venetian #madeinusa

We were super stoked to make the awards for this year's @sandcityca #sandcitycriterium The weather was perfect and the beers were crisp @postnobillscraftbeer
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#glass #awards #trophies #bike #race #criterium #shred #sandcity

30 piece gift set for a @modular event this week, shredding cups with @n8_sambar and @beached_glass
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#cups #oldfashion #rocks #whiskey #double #purp #modular #production #justlikeoldtimes

First Lighting of sampled with @paredesarte as her Rasquanche Chandelier - A Chicano - Venetian prototype that will evolve into a pair of leveled up and refined beauties. Her style, culture, love, and knowledge of ethnobotany are the epitome of ingredients for such a project.
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Stay tuned to what we do next as we so blessed to work with some one so great, with a mutual understand of our shared material, a mastery of knowledge, plus loads of mutual connections - it should be sweet.
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#agave #peyote #nopales #cactus #pricklypear #maiz #cornhusk #gold #red #green #white #lighting #design #sample #prototype #architecture #chandelier #rasquachetecture #rasquache #chicano

#Sandcastle Sand Casting Party is coming up on July 13th at 6pm! Details are at the link in our bio to get your tickets! Discounts if you bring a friend 👉🔥
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Spots are already filling so secure your spot now, and start thinking about what you want to smash in the sand and make in glass!!
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#glass #molten #casting #sandcasting #hot #summer #party #beach #dig #play #event #linkinbio

We had a totally tubular time with @gemmahollister - you may know her from @blownawayseries ,, but we were excited to have her back her for the first time since working here!! We can't wait to see what comes of the work we got to help with. Thanks for coming!!
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Check out the awesome events she's a part of going on right now at @corningmuseum and say hey to her and @tatenewfield 👉👉
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#glass #resident #fullyemerged #gobananas #dontsweatthetechnique #blownaway #s4 #netflix #monterey #mgw #residency

Alright people, our next visiting artist starts her session on 4/14 and she may be a little recognizable!
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To us, she's coming back to her old stomping grounds to shred after moving on from a job here when MGW was young and fresh. To the rest of you, she's the ever popular superstar from this season (4) of @blownawayseries on @netflix.
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Come check out what she's working between 4/14 and 4/20'at the shop in @sandcityca and get a mid session up date with all your favorite locals on @krmlradio #pubtalk
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#glass #glassblowing #artist #residency #emerging #emerged #monterey #blownaway #netflix

Finished up this Essential Chandelier and now it goes through some testing. The design is clean, classic and new, classy and exciting, elegant yet impactful. Low voltage Led.
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Stay tuned for its new home.
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Go team @beached_glass & @georgewilliambellstudio
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#lighting #design #assembly #custom #madeinusa #glass #glassblowing #led #wiring #tech

Birthday cup for a lucky customer's wife. A solo cup deserves a box. For safety and stuff. Anyone else need some? 👉👉
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#birthday #glass #special #gift #lucky #luxury #oneofakind

The other side of building these chandeliers takes an equally technical set of skills. Done properly they can be done quite quickly and efficiently, high tech and high quality in a timeless forms.
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#lighting #design #classical #traditional #venetian #muranostyle #gold #24k #glass #interior #assembly #install

We got super technical with @hershmanglass last week. The glass community is special and last week was a reminder that it reaches even our little peninsula.
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Josh helped us with his masterful kiln and cold skills and this is how we help back. Friends like @rocketglassworks came to help out, @eliashansenstudios stopped in with the fam, and we caught all our bay area friends and more at a full moon glass glowing party in Oakland.
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Bridge the gaps glass people. Thanks for being awesome Josh. We all were excited to throw it back to Glassybaby days.
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#friends #glass #community #tech #everythinginonetrip #raygun #fluxcapacitor #warpdrive #hyperspace #alien #opal #sculpture

We started our new year off with the honor of making the awards for the @nationalkidneyfoundation (NKF) National Golf Tournament at Spanish Bay in January. Inspired by the shape of the 18th hole of the course resembling a kidney shape, it felt like the proper way to symbolize the tournament and sponsorship.
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The ways glass and the team at MGW can help you and the community are endless, while not always so obvious. Come check us out!
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#glass #golf #monterey #pebblebeach #spanishbay #links #nkf #carmel

It's the little things.
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Complete any set with these napkin rings and more. Let us know what you're thinking and I'm sure we can make it happen.
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#interior #design #accessories #glass #crystal #clear #flower #ring #wrap #juicy #classy #fancy #tabledecor #set #dishes #wares #decor #lighting #chandelier #traditional #classic

We can heartly wait for the Heart and Flower making Valentine's Day party. If you've been to our others, you know you get a sweet taste of the heat and your turn to make your own piece!
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This time, @nitrocycle831 will be slangin drinks! BYOB if you'd like more 👉
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#party #event #heart #flower #valentinesday #hotdate #monterey #special #carmel #peninsula

You know why we're posting.vthe countdown is on! Get your application in by 1/31/24 at midnight PST to be considered for this year's artist residency.
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#linkinbio APPLY NOW!
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#artist #residency #application #demo #work #play #shred #fun #glass #fire

ATTENTION! The official 2024 residency applications are up. We will close them the first week of February for evaluation for an august residency. You've watched over the years as our program grew, now is your chance to apply.
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Also find out Design Partnership Application. We love working with clients but the most fun and effective for everyone is when we focus in person together to help see a product to fruition.
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Present your proposals at the link in our bio. Free to apply this year. Come groove with us.
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#residency #applications #free #art #design #visit #monterey #carmel #sandcity

The year went by this fast, but we worked with some artists, lit up some spaces, our team got a new member, taught new community, the shop felt more like home, our projects got bigger, we started @innate_studios_ and the furnace stayed well cared for. I just kept crimping 👉
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Thanks for support from our peninsula to the east coast and beyond. Watch us keep growing 🔥🔥
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Stay tuned to our social and email list this evening for the 2024 schedule, residency and class apps and happy New Year!!
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#2024 #happynewyear #team #innovation #glass #art #design #follow #support #local

Merry Christmas Eve! We'vecleft the shop quiet and hope you're all with your gangs this year, like these cups - wobbling with excitement, a little tipsy, but not falling down!
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See you in 2024 with a new list of events, residency applications, and all sorts of products. We are closed the team is with family. Please contact by phone, email, and web for or orders and requests until 1/3/24.
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#glass #christmas #monterey #drunkers #drinkers #rockers #boatglass #decor #drinkware #cocktails

RIGT NOW UNTIL 6. Exclusive holiday sale with @pacific.coast.apiaries and @nitrocycle831

Glass demo & s'mores, wax & honey, coffee & vibes.
Come help make room for the coming year! Shop at discounted prices for local hand made glass! Elevated gift giving for anyone this Christmas!
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No tickets, just shop and indulge! Come to Monterey GlassWorks 12/16 from 2-6pm for one of kind deals on one of a kind glass!
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Catch @pacific.coast.apiaries for a honey tasting and see the different ways we use our local wax!
Get that sweet and necessary @nitrocycle831 coffee and have s'mores cooked in the kiln!
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#sale #prototypes #experiments #seconds #deals #discount #coffee #honey #beer #wine #cider #coco #glassblowing

Tis the season!! Did we see you at the parade in PG?! If you missed us, it's December, use discount code LOCALS23 at check out to save on tickets to make your own ornament!
This Saturday at 6. But online at link in bio.
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Come get glass, or get coal for Christmas instead!
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#party #makeyourown #ornament #glass #glassblowing #icicle #ball

#thankful for team and making sweet stuff for everybody.

Watch until the end to hope buddy finds his dad 👉⛄
Secure your chance to win this snowman by getting your ticket for the make your own ornament event on 12/2!
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One lucky winner will take home this one, but we'll have more available to purchase with trees and ornaments, on sale now thru 12/31.
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All info online, link in bio, happy holidays!

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Get your handblown ornaments for the holidays
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Shop the store with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, & Cyber Monday deals now thru December 31st! Follow the link in bio to shop deals through out the store.
Save on shipping with local pick up 👉👉
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Let the fun begin, happy holidays!
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#glass #ornaments #holidays #handmade #sets #singles #christmas #thanksgiving

Tis that time a year again already? See @beached_glass absolutely finesse this ornament, OR COME MAKE YOUR OWN ON SAT DEC 2nd!!!
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Ornament event! Tickets online. Link in bio. Be there or be on the naughty list.
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#tistheseason #ornament #christmas #decor #glassblowing #handmade #blown #local #makeyourown #diy #party #event #naughty #philly #kelce #taylorswift #philadelphia #xmas

Congratulations Kaitlyn and Matt for such a beautiful wedding and a good time. We delivered some toasting glasses that shared the mark of the beginning of such a significant day.
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Thank you for having @emmiedonelan and me @volta.n8 and have a good time on that honeymoon!!

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Attention: Unfortunately, due to rising energy and supplies costs, MGW will not be offering glassblowing in 2026.

Explore Monterey Glassworks - Glass Art Studio & Community

Casting Fusing Stained Glass

2026

Frequently asked questions

Where can I find Monterey GlassWorks?

Can I visit your studio?

Bespoke Glass & Lighting

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Explore Monterey Glassworks -
Glass Art Studio & Community

Casting
Fusing
Stained Glass