E-mail
klarahoracek@gmail.com

Telephone
+420 251 098 251

Website
https://www.umprum.cz/web/en/applied-arts/glass

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department information
The Studio of Glass at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design wants to keep the best of the tradition established by professors Kaplický, Libenský and Kopecký
Glass is a unique and lively material with a significant impact of coincidence and surprise. This is one of the reasons why the work in the Studio of Glass oscillates between fine art and design. This balance should be natural, without attempts to establish any categories.
Students should master the craft, study thoroughly the tradition of glass, and at the same time know and understand contemporary art. They should be able, as perfect architects, to work with proportion, composition and detail. Once they master all of it, they need to be able to forget it, and do whatever they feel like. These are two contradictory traits of every great artist – perfect knowledge and virtuosity of his or her field, and at the same time complete „ignorance“ of all rules and traditions of the field.

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E-mail
boissel@adbk.de

Telephone
+49 89 3852147


E-mail
vineta.groza@lma.lv

Website
https://www.lma.lv

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department Focus
Fine Arts

Department information
Department of glass art as a permanent structural unit was set up in 1994, but the first glass artists have been trained at the Academy since the 1960s. The training provides an opportunity to understand the materials used in glass art, and promotes the creative and research skills of students. Study programme introduces students to the various types of glass, starting from stained glass up to mosaic and 3D glass objects, as well as different techniques: fusing, casting, pate de verre technique, glass painting, coldworking and glass blowing in studios. As there are no thematic limits, in Master’s programme students can pursue their interests and are encouraged to experiment with materials and techniques. Summer practice provides important role to studies of nature – plain air drawing and painting, as well as management of glass art exhibitions and processes of restoration.

The Department of Glass Art participates in ERASMUS + exchange programme and in other educational and creative activities.

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E-mail
mail@bezalel.ac.il

Telephone
+972 02 5893333

E-mail
jessamy.kelly@ed.ac.uk

Telephone
+ 44(0)131 6515816

Degree
MFA, MPhil/PhD x MA

Department Focus
Design, Craft

Department information
The MA and MFA programmes in Glass are unique within Scotland and located at one of the few centres of excellence in this discipline in the UK.
Comprehensive workshop and studio facilities enable students to experience a programme in the conception and production of glass. We benefit from visiting professional practitioners and lecturers and have the opportunity to participate in live projects and competitions, and have an enviable track record of success.
The curriculum is a combination of programme set and student led projects. The first two semesters introduce students to a broad range of new processes, both theoretical and practical, alongside furthering their existing glass knowledge base. The final semesters are student led, with close tutorial guidance students negotiate and develop a programme of study based on personal areas of research and practice.

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E-mail
kristiina.uslar@artun.ee

Website
https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/glass-art

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department Focus
Glass Design, Glass Art

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E-mail
mgv@fct.unl.pt

Telephone
+ 351 21 294 83 22

Website
https://www.vicarte.org

Degree
Master of Glass and Ceramics Art and Science (Bologna process)

Department Focus
Fine Arts, Glass Science and Technology, Conservation and Restoration

Department information
What does our two-year Master’s program offer and how does it differ from other places one could choose to study? First of all, our experience has made it very clear that a relatively small group of students working together who come from many different countries and widely divergent cultural backgrounds generates a unique and highly important experience in the lives of the participants. This is an experience that unavoidably widens the horizons and viewpoints of any person who is lucky enough to have had that experience. For that reason, this aspect of our course identity is one we are very careful to maintain (e.g. we currently have students from Algeria, Portugal, Columbia, Israel, Canada, Iran, Guatemala, and Brazil).
The art instruction and personal creative guidance we offer is rooted squarely in the conviction that your art should be a statement in your own very individual voice. As such, students are encouraged on a continuing basis to think about, search for, and actively experiment with that personal artistic voice. Thereby, you are placed in an environment to continue to discover new, surprising and useful things about that individual you are. We actively engage to organize exhibitions of students work outside the campus as one aspect of that kind of discovery. Our focus in art on the individual voice makes our approach to instruction and personal guidance one that seems to be becoming increasingly rare.

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E-mail
P.Mcallister@wlv.ac.uk

Telephone
+44 (0)1902 321000

Degree
BA. MA. PhD

Department information
Students are encouraged to embrace a ‘thinking through making’ approach to their work and the course aims to produce independent and ambitious practitioners who are innovators not imitators. The first year establishes opportunities to explore the materials, techniques and ideas associated with the field. Students are encouraged to experiment and inform their work through visual and theoretical research. As students work through the undergraduate programme they are increasingly expected to take a more independent approach culminating in the final year degree exhibition. Students can also apply for the scholarship programme at Pilchuck Summer School, USA.

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E-mail
kanclerz@asp.wroc.pl

E-mail
glas@rietveldacademie.nl

Telephone
+31 20 5711600

Website
https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/387/the-large-glass

Degree
BFA

Department Focus
Fine Arts

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The Large Glass department offers a material-based study in the fine- arts, which encourages the students to experiment and to explore the limits of materiality. Our main focus is the individual artistic position of the student and the understanding of the required practical and theoretical expertise of being an artist.
The department has a strong and unique position in the conceptual approach of glass as a sculptural material in contemporary art. Defying the traditions of Studio Glass, we see our work rather in the tradition of the processes of fine arts.
We encourage our students to be explorative and innovative and to challenge the material by moving beyond the borders of this specific field. Besides sculpture and drawing, (combinations with) performance, video and installational work are frequent forms of expression. Technique is a tool, not a goal. Yet, basic skills are taught throughout the study, supporting the students to specialize in one or more techniques or media, if desired.
As the material glass is characterised by its far-reaching diversity, it is neither a discipline nor philosophy, but rather a very specific medium that can be applied in a multitude of shapes and form, in fine arts, design and architecture.
Students learn how to analytically and critically converse with their lecturers and fellow students. Mutual assistance and exchange of knowledge and ideas are essential. To maintain the high level of self- organisation and shared responsibility is required from all students in the department.
The students work independently on individual projects. They are accompanied by their regular teachers and a changing group of guest lecturers. Students have classes in 'Reading and Writing’, philosophy and the basic techniques of glass-making. A high degree of responsibility and autonomy is required to jointly maintain the studio,
improve technical skills and at the same time meet the challenge of developing ideas and concepts.
Prior technical knowledge is not required. Students who complete the programme can use the title of Bachelor of Art and Design (BA).

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E-mail
gussek@hs-koblenz.de

Telephone
0 26 24 / 9 10 66-0

E-mail
tdj@kadk.dk

Website
https://www.kadk.dk

Degree
BFA

Department Focus
Craft

Department information
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Bornholm (KADK Bornholm) is one of Europe’s leading educational institutions within the field of glass and ceramics. We are striving to create a dynamic and internationally oriented programme

of high quality for education as well as academic and artistic research. The Bachelor of Crafts in Glass and Ceramics is a professional 3 1⁄2 year bachelor’s degree programme taught in English.
Working with glass and ceramics is innately related to the way human beings organize their lives and surround themselves with material objects. The materials clay and glass are historically associated with functional artefacts. We shape the material and bring art into daily life, both as articles for everyday use and artistic objects.
The glass and ceramics workshops are the heart of the programme. Here we work with development in form and expression, function and object through many different materials, and the students have ample opportunity for exploration and in-depth experimentation with the diverse expressions of the materials.

The programme has a specific artistic and entrepreneurial profile, which allows the students to explore the idea of starting their own business. There is also a focus on understanding the regional, national and international traditions of craft that emphasizes social significance and contemporary development. This will include knowledge about new production methods, new technologies and sustainability.
Our programme is rooted in the strong tradition of Danish craftsman- ship. On that basis we address the new ways people choose to live and reside; we look at social and cultural contexts and consider the present-day framework for launching new business ideas and business models.
The educational programme is located on the beautiful island of Bornholm specifically due to its strong craft tradition; our students quickly assimilate with the locals and create new contacts with the arts and crafts community and with established companies.

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E-mail
sara.isaksson.from@konstfack.se

Telephone
+46 772-28 80 00

Website
https://www.konstfack.se/en/

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department Focus
Craft

Department information
BA program
Keramik & Glas
The Bachelor's programme in Ceramics and Glass provides the basic knowledge and skills for a career in the fields of applied art in ceramics and glass.
This craftsmanship offers a unique platform from which one can pose questions about and demonstrate alternatives to the age in which we live, both through actions and results. Our workshops provide the platform for our teaching. How we then formulate and communicate our work becomes the major challenge.
The aim of the programme is to enable you to develop practical skills, critical and analytical capacity and artistic integrity. The three years of the Bachelor's programme involve a gradual progression from focusing on material and techniques towards more independent and complex work in this area. There is an increasingly international focus in this field and to prepare you for this we encourage you to seek international exchanges during your studies.
We provide well-equipped workshops for practical work with ceramics and glass. The ceramics workshop comprises a plaster and kiln room, a glaze laboratory, large open spaces for casting, modelling, turning and glazing as well as a clay-working room. The glass workshop offers a studio for blowing glass, plate glass, furnace casting, slumping and fusing techniques and there is also a cold glass workshop for grinding, blasting and engraving. You will also have access to the woodwork, metalwork and sculpture workshops.
Our teachers are highly qualified and during the programme they will act as supervisors in their own areas of expertise. You will also be studying art, design and the history and theory of applied art together with students on other programmes.
Theory and practice alternate during the programme, in which you will constantly be encouraged to think and create critically and independently. The programme is linked to the world around us through guest teachers, external lecturers and the professional activities of the teachers. We endeavour to adopt an active and aware approach to the development of individual practice through involvement in the current social and subject-specific discourse.

Language of instruction
: Swedish

MA program


Ceramics and Glass is aimed at the student who with a great deal of independence and creativity in an artistic crafts context wants to push boundaries within the area, and his/her own practical knowledge with a base in ceramics and glass, its theory and practice.
The unique position of crafts is characterised by its ability to move between different artistic fields and arenas. Crafts as a tradition is a position which makes questioning possible. Not only of one's own practical knowledge and experience, but also questions concerning material culture through its application in different areas of society.
Ceramics and Glass starts from the students' projects and activities and has its base in the production of crafts from a practical and professional stance. With a base in material tradition and our well-equipped workshops, we work across many different areas. We focus on developing knowledge and making it visible by connecting it to ceramics and glass and further, within the cultural field of crafts and production.
The programme is built up of a few large blocks. Within these, you are responsible for the development of your individual master's degree project. This you will do interactively with the education's objectives in mind, at the same time as you build a platform for your future professional activities.
The programme aims to examine and question the role of crafts in society by applying design and the immaterial functions of crafts. We want to lead the development of knowledge in our sphere of competence and thereby create a vital interactivity with other fields and target groups.

All teaching, tutoring and examinations are in English.

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E-mail
sylvie.vandenhoucke@luca-arts.be

Website
https://www.lucakeramiekenglaskunstgent.be

Degree
BA. MA.

Department Focus
fine arts

E-mail
maddenc@staff.ncad.ie

Telephone
+ 353 01 636 4240

E-mail
jeffsarmiento@fulbrightmail.org

E-mail
enquiries@pca.ac.uk

Telephone
+44 (0)1752 203434

Degree
BFA, MFA, BA, MA

Department Focus
Fine Arts, Design, Craft

Department information
Our diverse 3D Design Crafts programme allows you to develop a close understanding and relationship with a range of media practices including: clay, hot and cold glass, metals, jesmonite, wood and plastics. You will have the chance to explore both the functional and the expressive potential of these rich, tactile materials and to take them in innovative and unexpected directions.

3D Design Crafts encompasses a comprehensive range of practices from designer makers such as jewellers, to conceptual sculptors, with the option for you to become a specialist in a particular discipline as you progress. By exploring histories and contemporary contexts of designing and making, you will expand your approach. You will learn how ideas, visual research, critical thinking, and making can inform each other, responding to current issues such as globalisation and sustainability.

You’ll learn about enterprise and entrepreneurship, and how to price, display and promote products for a range of different markets including: large scale site specific work, individual exhibition pieces and domestic products, all based on knowledge of your customers and the experience gained by working on live briefs, pitching to clients and entering competitions.

Our superbly equipped and spacious workshops provide opportunities for you to pair traditional making with the rapid digital prototyping facilities in our Fab Lab, giving you the opportunity to reinvent craft for the 21st century. Our academic and technical teams are all artists and designers and they will teach you the skills you need, challenge you, and test your conceptual thinking.

Learning isn’t limited to our design studios and workshops – you will meet some of the UK’s most inventive and entrepreneurial contemporary makers and thinkers through studio visits, demonstrations, and presentations. You’ll have opportunities to broaden your horizons with visiting lecturers and artist talks from the likes of Antoine Leperlier, Emma Woffenden, Nao Matsunaga and Keith Harrison.

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E-mail
ilse.vanroy@pxl.be

E-mail
soah@rca.ac.uk

E-mail
claudia.heinzler@abk-stuttgart.de

Telephone
+49 711 28440166

E-mail
sklo@fmk.utb.cz

Telephone
+420 724 206 833

Website
https://fmk.utb.cz/en/faculty/about-us/studios-and-departments/glass-design/about-us/

Degree
BFA. MFA. PhD

Department Focus
Fine Art, Design,

Department information
The Studio of Glass Design focuses on students’ conscious artistic expression on the multidisciplinary level. Instead of focusing on Bohemian glass craftsmanship, it tries to develop a distinctive post-conceptual position that will be at the center of the creative process. The resulting products and works of art respond to the latest trends in visual art and design, with a focus on specific social and cultural phenomena.

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E-mail
valmantas.gutauskas@gmail.com

Telephone
+ 370 61276351

Website
https://www.vda.lt/en/exchange-studies/about

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department Focus
Fine Arts, Design

Department information
The university BA study programme of Glass of the first cycle is to educate wide-range specialists of artistic glass by giving them knowledge of art theory and practical skills to create objects of artistic glass sculptural plastics, functional (objects with practical purpose) and interior works of glass by using specific technological processes of artistic glass.

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E-mail
magatekin@anadolu.edu.tr

Website
https://www.anadolu.edu.tr/en/academics/faculties/200/department-of-glass/program-profile

Degree
BFA, MFA

Department Focus
Fine Arts, Design

Department information
The Department of Glass started its education in 2004. With its infrastructure and equipment, it is the first Glass Department in Turkey, and therefore is unique. The department aims to train glass designers who are equipped with technical, aesthetic and creative design knowledge related to art of glass. The theoretical and practical courses complement each other. Along with the courses offered, the department also aims to enrich the curriculum with extra-curricular activities of seminars, conferances, workshops, field work exhibitions and work placement by getting in touch with national and international education institutions.

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