DC GlassWorks

I came here with my boyfriend last Saturday for the open house. What a fun change of pace from the usual College Park/​Hyattsville activities! I paid $ 45 to make my own paperweight, and I can’t wait to pick it up this week.
The open house was free with food, music and an open studio in the back where almost everything was for sale. My favorite pieces were a snowman, the multicolored paperweights, and what appeared to be an six-​legged vagina scorpion hybrid monster. If that doesn’t make you curious enough to visit I don’t know what will.
I opted into the $ 45 make-​your-​own-​paperweight project and really enjoyed my first hot glass experience. Apparently this is the way to go if you aren’t sure whether or not you will like glass and don’t want to pay the bench fee on a non-​open house day. My lesson lasted about ¹⁵⁄₂₀ minutes and was very informative. I don’t remember my instructor’s name but she had pigtails and I had a great time learning from her.

OMGOMGOMG! I MADE MY OWN XMAS ORNAMENT AND IT IS AMAZEBALLS!!!
OK, seriously, this place is awesome. Around the holidays, they had an open house where you could blow your own glass Xmas ornament for $ 35. Husband and I had a great time, posted photos on FB… and when my LA cousins were coming into town for a weekend, they all demanded that THEY TOO MUCH MAKE GLASS!
I booked a private session for 11. Although the email and phone communications wasn’t always the fastest, whenever I *did* talk to someone, they were always nice, professional, and really helpful.
The long and short of it was that my cousins had the BEST TIME EVER! And we all have drinking glasses (our project for the private session) as a momento.
Seriously, can NOT recommend taking a class or holding a special event here, enough! SO MUCH FUN!

Excellent place for glassblowing and sculpture glasses. Super friendly teachers and staff, not a whiff of pretension about the place. Classes are generally offered one night a week for six weeks but they periodically offer weekend workshops for the benefit of those who can’t commit to evening classes. I started out with cast iron sculpture and now I am deep into glassblowing. There is a great community of teachers, artists, and students orbiting this place that is fun to be a part of. On the off Saturday between their six week class sessions they usually host an Open House with live music, drinks, glassblowing demonstrations, and «glass interactives» where you can work with an artist to make a simple piece.