GLASSBLOWING WORKSHOPS
“Hotshop” Workshops (Traditional Venetian-style glassblowing out of a furnace and glory hole with a long metal pipe) includes; “Blow-Your-Own Pint Glass”, “Blow-Your-Own Glass Ornament“, and “Make-Your-Own Glass Paperweight.” Currently, “Hotshop” workshops are only available on Saturdays. “Flameshop” Workshops (glassblowing on torches) include; “Make-Your-Own Wineglass,“ “Make-Your-Own Glass Beads,” and “Make-Your-Own Glass Pendants” are available Tuesday through Sunday.

Make-Your-Own Wineglass
Zen Glass Studio brings its expertise into full swing with the most popular glassblowing workshop we offer – the Make-Your-Own Wineglass Workshop. In this one-hour experience, you, the guest artist, choose your favorite colors and hand-select the preferred shaped wineglass top and bottom.
Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff are there to help you until your piece is completed and placed in the annealing kiln or annealer, where it must soak and cool down over the next 12-24 hours.
Blow-Your-Own Glass Ornament
Zen Glass Studio teaches the basics in the one-on-one Blow-Your-Own Ornament Workshop held in our Hotshop. In this one-hour experience, you, the guest artist, will choose your favorite colors for the surface of the piece you’ll be creating. Our instructor will introduce you to glassblowing with a run down of safety, balance, and techniques. Then it’s time for you to balance and maneuver the molten glass.
You will turn and roll the liquefied glass through your colors on the end of a steel blowpipe. Starting the bubble and expanding the inside of the ornament with your breath is a real treat!


Make-Your-Own Glass Paperweight
Do you love the look of glass paperweights? How about displaying them in the light? Or are you obsessed with the reality TV show “Blown Away”? What if you could make your own custom glass paperweight right in St. Petersburg, just like the artists on television, to add to your collection?
Zen Glass Studio teaches the basics in the one-on-one Make-Your-Own Glass Paperweight Workshop held in our Hotshop. In this roughly one-hour experience, you, the guest artist, will choose your favorite colors for the piece you’ll be creating. Our instructor will introduce you to glassblowing with a rundown of safety, balance, and techniques. Then it’s time for you to balance and maneuver the molten glass.
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Looking for a fun activity for families, couples and groups of all ages in St. Petersburg? Look no further! At Zen Glass Studio, you can make-your-own glass piece to take home with you as a souvenir! Wineglasses, pint glasses, glass pendants, paperweights, glass ornaments and more can easily be created in our Warehouse Arts District studio.
Our skilled teachers – probably one of the owners – will help you create a unique glass art piece using artists tools and materials. You pick the colors and sometimes styles, stand in for a demonstration and then are turned loose! Once your glass masterpiece is finished it goes into the annealer to cure overnight and then is ready for you to take home (we ship, too!).
In addition to Make-Your-Own glass workshops and classes, Zen Glass Studios is happy to offer residential and commercial glass art design services, custom glass art, glass memorials, glass awards and more. Visit Zen Glass Studio to learn more during St. Petersburg’s Second Saturday Art Walk or throughout the week!
GLASS GALLERY – ITEMS FOR SALE
Here are a few one-of-a-kind items that we have created for just for them. See more items in our Gallery Store.