{{Short description|Glass gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox museum | name = Pittsburgh Glass Center | image = Pittsburgh Glass Center logo.png | image_size = 200 | caption = Pittsburgh Glass Center logo | map_type = Pittsburgh | coordinates = {{coord|40.464187|-79.932919|display=inline}} | established = 2001<ref name=about /> | location = 5472 Penn Avenue<br>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206 | type = | collection_size = | visitors = | director = | president = | curator = | owner = | website = {{URL|http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org}} }} thumb|right|Pittsburgh glass center building in 2026 The '''Pittsburgh Glass Center''' is a gallery, glass studio, and public-access school dedicated to teaching, creating and promoting studio glass art.<ref name=about>{{cite web | title =About Us | work =pittsburghglasscenter.org | publisher =Pittsburgh Glass Center | url =http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/about-contact/about-us.aspx | access-date =February 15, 2013 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130210072158/http://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/about-contact/about-us.aspx | archive-date =February 10, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Abels | first =Caroline | title =New Glass Center to Restore Art Form's Shine | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =Oct 12, 2000 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d4VIAAAAIBAJ&pg=7035,749575 | access-date = February 15, 2013}}</ref> It is located on Penn Avenue in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It has features works by Paul Joseph Stankard and classes taught by Dante Marioni, Davide Salvadore, and Cesare Toffolo.<ref name=shaw>{{cite news | last =Shaw | first =Kurt | title = Pittsburgh Glass Center celebrates a decade of art and artists | newspaper =Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | date =June 19, 2011 | url =http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/s_742715.html | access-date = February 15, 2013}}</ref>
The origins of the Pittsburgh Glass Center date to 1991, when David Stephens, then visual-arts officer of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, approached glass artists Ron Desmett and Kathleen Mulcahy, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the idea of a center for studio glass.<ref name=shaw /> It was originally to have been the Elizabeth Glass Center in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.<ref name=Ravasio>{{cite news | last =Ravasio | first =Mary | title =Glass Center Project to be Relocated | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =September 1, 1999 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AIsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,498109 | access-date = February 15, 2013 }}</ref> However, by 1999, the plans had changed and the center was re-oriented to Pittsburgh.<ref name=Ravasio /> It was officially opened in 2001.<ref name=about />
The current facility in Friendship is LEED-certified.<ref name=pitz /> Its development has aided the growth of Garfield, especially with the adjacent Glass Lofts residential development.<ref name=pitz>{{cite news | last =Pitz | first =Marylynne | title =Filmmakers/center for arts to merge with glass center | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =March 29, 2012 | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/filmmakerscenter-for-arts-to-merge-with-glass-center-270721/ | access-date = February 15, 2013}}</ref>
In fall 2010, the Pittsburgh Glass Center entered into talks with Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.<ref name="merger">{{cite news | last =Tascarella | first =Patty | title =Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh Glass Center cancel merger talks | newspaper =Pittsburgh Business Times | date =May 31, 2011 | url =http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2011/05/31/arts-nonprofits-merger-talks-cancelled.html | access-date = February 15, 2013 }}</ref> By May 2011, the talks had failed, with the Pittsburgh Glass Center withdrawing from negotiations.<ref name="merger" />
In 2012, the Glass Center purchased residential housing adjacent to its main gallery space to be used as student and artist-in-residence housing.<ref>{{cite news | last =Thomas | first =Mary | title =Pittsburgh Glass Center acquires Penn Avenue house for artists, students | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =December 5, 2012 | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/art-architecture/pittsburgh-glass-center-acquires-penn-avenue-house-for-artists-students-664991/ | access-date = February 15, 2013}}</ref>
By 2012, the center had a $1 million budget, with 10 full-time employees.<ref name=pitz />
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