History

In 1987 twelve students and graduates of The Ohio State University Glass Program came together under the name Glass Axis. The group built a portable glass blowing studio and traveled all over Central Ohio teaching glass art, with a focus on the Greater Columbus Arts Council's Artist in Schools Program. Five years later, the expanded 20 members established a more rooted glassmaking studio in what is now Columbus’ Arena District. Since then, Glass Axis has grown to over 120 members and is home to many amateur and professional artists. In the summer of 2001, Glass Axis made yet another move to a larger space in the Grandview area of Columbus. This new space is now a comprehensive glass making facility encompassing molten glass, casting, fusing, neon, stained glass, cold working, and torch working.  The space offers first class facilities to Ohio artists in all stages of development, hundreds of classes and public programs each year, exhibition and retail space, plus high school and college internship programs, and a work credit program to help keep artists in the studio. Glass Axis has become a civic hub for art creation and learning, a place of cultural equity that continues to adapt and grow.