The Glass Palette – Interactive Glass Art Studio

So to keep it simple, if you’ve ever been to one of those make your own pottery type of places (I for one have not as I don’t care one bit about art-​artsy-​artsy fartsy things) this is the same idea just that you’re going to be working with glass.
While classes are offered and while TGP is on Groupon with a deal we kept it simple by just showing up to do one of their walk-​in projects. The basic gist for a walk in visit is you show up, look around at the examples of what others have done, hopefully get inspired, get a brief lesson in how to cut/​break off small pieces of glass and away you go.
The only real guidelines are that you have to pick a basic pattern/​design like a large square which could be used as a bowl or a circle for a plate. There are different sizes ranging mostly from 5 inches to 12 inches. Pretty much it’s only needing to pick a size and what colors of glass that are available which are the limiting factors. After that you let your imagination take over.
When you’re done the pieces are eventually fired in a kiln and if you live in the area you can pick them up in a few days. If not they’ll ship anywhere and at least for us that took two weeks until we got our finished products. The lovely wife and I abstained instead opting to let the children do pieces simply because while the process/​experience is fun it can get costly in a hurry depending what size you pick plus the shipping.
I included the before pictures and somewhere I have the after pictures but their website has a lot of finished product pictures which show you what is possible.
So if you go, ignore the fact that the studio is not the easiest to find in the building that they’re in, everything can get costly depending on the piece you do/​how many you’re doing in your party and that parking can be a bit of a challenge because the experience is fun, the owners are both passionate about glass/​make sure that you are having a good time and more than likely artsy or not, you’ll enjoy the experience.
(They’re open Tuesday-​Saturday 10 – 6 and Sunday from 10 – 5.)

currently taking a stained glass class and it is AWESOME! Maria really knows what she’s talking about, having been a glass artist for many years. If you’re curious like I was, definitely take a class!