Essential books and films on studio glass and its artists, including those by the Hampsons and Habatat.
Jacob Patrick · 2024 · 76 min Feature documentary on Lino Tagliapietra, filmed in Murano, Venice, Seattle and Tacoma.
The life and work of the studio glass pioneer; Best Documentary, Jersey Shore Film Festival 2024; produced by David Graeber.
Preston Singletary’s path from Seattle to Tlingit storytelling in glass, with interviews and Tlingit language.
Holy Frit
2021The stained glass artist Tim Carey’s race to create the world’s largest stained glass window; Carey later made a work for the Women’s Leadership Center.
Blown Away
Netflix · 2019–2022The glassblowing competition series; Habatat represents artists from the show, including Season 3 winner John Moran.
Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire
John ForsenThe history and influence of Pilchuck Glass School, with Dale Chihuly and William Morris.
Forty glassblowers recreate work from Chihuly’s career during a residency at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma.
Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly
Smithsonian ChannelChihuly’s life through family films, newsreels and interviews.
Episodes and segments with Preston Singletary and other glass artists.
YouTube · live and recorded Hundreds of recorded hot glass demonstrations by guest artists and the museum’s Hot Glass Team, artist profiles, lectures by artists and curators, and oral history interviews; plus live “Bring the Heat” streams.
Upcoming livestreamed demonstrations from the Corning hot shop.
Visiting artists at work in the museum’s Hot Shop amphitheater, with talks and streams.
Artist lectures, residencies and films from the school Chihuly co-founded in 1971.
Greenfield Village Glass Shop Live glassblowing demonstrations and videos from the Glass Shop at The Henry Ford, Dearborn.
Conference lectures and demos Recorded lectures, demonstrations and panels from the annual GAS conference. When it came to Detroit, June 7–10, 2023, Habatat was a supporter and Aaron Schey served on the site committee; Ferdinand Hampson presented “Glass Defined (In the Art World)” and served as a juror; and Habatat’s Glass51 opened as a conference event.
Corey speaks on Bertil Vallien’s 60th celebration exhibition at Habatat.
Gallery tours of the International Glass Invitational, Habatat Zoom talks and Corey on Detroit Performs.
Toledo Stories · WGTE Public Media How Harvey Littleton, Dominick Labino and Otto Wittmann began the studio glass movement with two workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962.
Toledo Stories · WGTE Public Media Toledo’s glass industry, the studio glass movement and the philanthropy that made the Glass City.
Directed by Gary Gibson from some 100 hours of footage, following Chihuly and fellow artists through Finland, Ireland, Mexico and Venice; PBS’s first high-definition broadcast.
Chihuly and his team test the limits of the medium in a week at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma.
Five years in the making of Chihuly’s Rotolo series.
The brothers create a glass sculpture at Pilchuck Glass School; the episode also profiles Pilchuck.
Singletary at work in his Seattle studio, bringing Tlingit stories into glass.
DJ Oliver interviews Corey at Habatat Galleries.
The Corning Museum of Glass gaffer on his work and training.
The science behind glass as an art medium.
The making of murrini, the patterned glass canes of the Venetian tradition.
Glassblowing: A Search for Form
Harvey K. Littleton · 1971The founder of the studio glass movement on his method and ideas.
Glass: State of the Art; Glass: State of the Art II
Ferdinand Hampson · 1984, 1989Habatat’s surveys of the field in its first great decades.
Insight: A Collector’s Guide to Contemporary American Glass
Ferdinand Hampson · 1985Studio Glass in America: A 50-Year Journey
Ferdinand Hampson · 2012The movement’s first half century, compiled by Corey.
Blown Away: International Glass of the 21st Century
Corey Hampson, Aaron Schey and James Yood · Flint Institute of Arts, 2009Glass Art: 112 Contemporary Artists
Schiffer · 2016 · edited by Corey HampsonImagine Museum: Contemporary Glass Art
2023The museum’s collection, with contributions by Corey.
Contemporary Glass
Susanne K. Frantz · 1989A landmark survey of the international studio movement.
Pilchuck: A Glass School
Tina Oldknow · 1996The history of Pilchuck Glass School.
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection
Tina Oldknow · Corning Museum of Glass, 2009The collection developed with Habatat and given to Corning.
American Studio Glass 1960–1990
Martha Drexler Lynn · 2004A history of the movement’s first three decades.
The History of Glass
Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd · 1984A survey of glass from antiquity to the studio movement, by the British glass historian Dan Klein.
Studio Glass since 1945
Dan Klein · Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton, 1984An early museum survey of the international studio glass movement.
Glass: A Contemporary Art
Dan Klein · Rizzoli, 1989Klein’s overview of glass as a contemporary art form, artist by artist.
International New Glass
Attilia Dorigato, Dan Klein and Rosa Barovier Mentasti · Electa, 1998Catalog of the international exhibition in Venice.
Artists in Glass: Late Twentieth Century Masters in Glass
Dan Klein · Mitchell Beazley, 2001Profiles of the leading glass artists of the late twentieth century.
Venice and American Studio Glass
Tina Oldknow and William Warmus · Skira, 2020Catalog of the exhibition at Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice: 155 works by 60 American and Venetian artists.
Monographs, catalogs and books by 81 artists from the glass world on this site: 230 titles in library records. Many gallery and museum catalogs are not yet catalogued, so the true number is far larger.