📍 Brownstone Brooklyn · 22 upcoming

UrbanGlass

One of the largest public-access glass studios in the country, above the old Strand Theatre in Downtown Brooklyn: hot shop, flameworking benches, kilns and a full class programme for beginners upward.

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Coming up at UrbanGlass

Recurring shows are placed on their next date. Every listing was read off the venue's own page by a person; prices are the printed ones.

OCT 1
Kilncasting for Beginners
Thu, Oct 1 · 6:00 PM
Kilncasting is glass poured into a mould and cooled over days — the slowest and most sculptural of the glass processes. This evening covers the mould-making end of it at UrbanGlass.
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OCT 3
Advanced Neon Weekend
Sat, Oct 3 · 11:00 AM
Two days for people who have already bent tube: harder geometry, better joints, more gas. Follows UrbanGlass's beginner neon weekend in September.
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OCT 4
Wire Crochet with Beads
Sun, Oct 4 · 11:00 AM
Crochet fine wire around glass beads into wearable pieces — a Saturday at UrbanGlass that needs no torch at all.
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OCT 4
Jewels from the Kiln: Fused Glass Wearable Art
Sun, Oct 4 · 6:00 PM
Fused glass small enough to wear: pendants and earrings out of the kiln in a single evening at UrbanGlass.
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OCT 6
The Bead Goes On: From beads to Wearables
Tue, Oct 6 · 6:00 PM
Turn the beads you have made at the torch into finished jewellery — findings, stringing and the bits nobody teaches. An evening class at UrbanGlass.
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OCT 10
Bottled Botanicals
Sat, Oct 10 · 11:00 AM
Two sessions building glass botanicals and setting them in bottles — flameworked stems, leaves and flowers. One of UrbanGlass's more decorative autumn workshops.
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OCT 10
One Day Mosaics: Exploring Glass Design (October)
Sat, Oct 10 · 11:00 AM
A one-day glass mosaic workshop at UrbanGlass, October's edition of a class that runs monthly through December.
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OCT 11
Pumpkin-palooza (October, morning session)
Sun, Oct 11 · 11:00 AM
The October morning session of UrbanGlass's glass-pumpkin workshop — the most seasonal thing in the hot shop, and the one that fills fastest.
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OCT 11
Pumpkin-palooza (October, afternoon session)
Sun, Oct 11 · 3:00 PM
The afternoon sitting of October's glass-pumpkin workshop at UrbanGlass, added because the morning one goes.
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OCT 17
Stained Glass Suncatcher
Sat, Oct 17 · 11:00 AM
One Saturday, one suncatcher: cut, foil and solder a small panel to hang in a window. The shortest stained-glass class UrbanGlass runs.
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OCT 18
One Day Zircar Casting
Sun, Oct 18 · 11:00 AM
Zircar is the refractory blanket that lets you cast glass fast; this one-day class uses it to make moulds and fill them in a single sitting at UrbanGlass.
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OCT 21
Intro to Beads: Halloween!
Wed, Oct 21 · 6:00 PM
Beadmaking at the torch with a Halloween brief — ghosts, pumpkins and whatever else the flame allows. An evening at UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn.
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OCT 21
Intro to Fusing: Fused Jewelry
Wed, Oct 21 · 6:00 PM
Kiln-fused jewellery in one evening: layer, fire, wear. The easiest entry point in UrbanGlass's autumn timetable.
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OCT 24
Anatomical Sculpting (pt2): Hollow Work
Sat, Oct 24 · 11:00 AM
The second half of UrbanGlass's anatomical flameworking pair, this time hollow — thin walls, more heat control, harder recoveries. Part one ran in August.
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OCT 25
Paperweight Party (October)
Sun, Oct 25 · 10:00 AM
October's Paperweight Party at UrbanGlass — a morning in the hot shop and a solid glass paperweight at the end of it.
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OCT 31
Wearable Neon
Sat, Oct 31 · 6:00 PM
Neon small enough to wear, on Halloween night, at the only public neon shop in the city.
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NOV 7
Glassblowing 101 (November)
Sat, Nov 7 · 2:00 PM
Two days at the furnace learning to gather, blow and shape properly, rather than the two-hour taster. UrbanGlass's full introduction, and the class the Intro to Glassblowing evening exists to sell you on.
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NOV 21
Make Your Own Blown Glass Ornament (November)
Sat, Nov 21 · 2:00 PM
Blow your own tree ornament at UrbanGlass — November's session, repeated in early December.
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NOV 22
One Day Punties & Gathers: Glassblowing Bootcamp
Sun, Nov 22 · 11:00 AM
A day drilling the two moves everything else in the hot shop depends on: gathering glass and working on a punty. For people who have blown glass once and want to do it again properly.
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DEC 6
Open Studios: Winter in the City
Sun, Dec 6 · 11:00 AM
UrbanGlass throws the studio open — demonstrations across the hot shop, flameworking benches and kiln room, with work for sale. The best free-ish look inside the building all year.
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DEC 12
Neon 101 (December)
Sat, Dec 12 · 11:00 AM
Two days of neon at UrbanGlass: bending tube in a ribbon burner, electrodes, and the vacuum work that makes it light. December's session.
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DEC 19
Make it POP! (Intro to Color Drops) Weekend
Sat, Dec 19 · 2:00 PM
A weekend on colour in blown glass — drops, overlays and what happens to a colour when it is stretched. UrbanGlass's last workshop of the year.
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Recently at UrbanGlass

The last 13 of 13 past events we listed here — useful for a sense of what this venue actually programmes.

Sep 27, 2026Mosaic Madness (September)Workshops & Classes
Sep 26, 2026Pumpkin-palooza (September)Workshops & Classes
Sep 25, 2026Stained Glass SamplerWorkshops & Classes
Sep 25, 2026Paperweight Party (September)Workshops & Classes
Sep 25, 2026Painting with Lampwork Glass BeadsWorkshops & Classes
Sep 24, 2026Intro to GlassblowingWorkshops & Classes
Sep 24, 2026Art and Function! Fused GlassWorkshops & Classes
Sep 19, 2026Stained Glass 101 (September)Workshops & Classes
Sep 19, 2026Boro 101: Line Drawing with GlassWorkshops & Classes
Sep 12, 2026Beginner Neon WeekendWorkshops & Classes
Sep 11, 2026Mirror Party (September)Workshops & Classes
Sep 5, 2026Boro 101: Shaping Ideas In the FlameWorkshops & Classes
Aug 22, 2026Mirror PartyWorkshops & Classes

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