This is a project about making a public access hot glass art studio in the center of Berlin! Founded in August 2009, Berlin Glas e.V. is a non-profit association that will be open to give artists the opportunity to work with hot glass. It took a year to find the perfect location, and now that we have settled in, it's time to start building the infrastructure, and we want to open this up to you - to be part of establishing Berlin's very first public access (classes, rentals, and special projects geared towards community outreach) glassblowing studio!

It�s a big project and it�s already well underway. We have our space at the Parkhaus on Strassburger Strasse, our main melt-furnace and re-heating station are on the way, the studio has been prepared for installation of the equipment and we have the support of some of the best glass tool makers (Carlo Dona + Spiral Arts), as well as the glass colour maker (Reichenbach). What the studio needs now is some key equipment to get us running smoothly.

We are asking you to help us startup Berlin Glas e.V.!

The great part about this is, whatever you donate it will help grow this completely new project and you will be able to see and experience the project online, or better still if you visit us in person. We'll begin registering for classes and rental in January 2012. Berlin Glas e.V. is a non-profit group with the ability to do something truly unique in the centre of Berlin, we hope you can help us make it happen. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated. Need help figuring out how much? Have a look at our budget and pick something you want to buy for Berlin Glas e.V.!

The studio has been brought all this way so far on volunteer hours and private funding. However our current budget limits keep the studio in a tight spot for startup. With your help we can not only get started faster, we can offer programs from Visiting Artists to stained glass and more. We thank you in advance for helping us out. Below is some more information on where we�re coming from.

HISTORICAL

Glass has a long history in Germany, largely as factory work; recently due to machine-production, many studios have shut down. In Germany, Erwin Eisch (b. 1927) in Frauenau, a small town in the Bavarian Forrest, played a major role in the Studio Glass movement in the 1960�s. Eisch had a tremendous impact on Harvey Littleton, and later in 1988, he opened the Bildwerk Summer Academy in Frauenau.

YOUNG

The contemporary glass art movement is still young (50 years old next year!) and finding new innovations all the time. Glass is an artform tied to invention and everyday you can learn something new with it. When Berlin Glas e.V. opens, it will be the first art glass studio ever in Berlin!

LOCATION

The contemporary Glass movement is international and Berlin is a major hub for European artists to advance or begin their work in this material, as well as artists from further away. Berlin Glas e.V. exists in a place that could serve many artists without an alternative in neighboring countries and beyond.

INTERNATIONAL

Already the studio�s founding members is a collaboration of Americans, Germans, Canadians, Australians, and Lebanese; and by some of the biggest, up and coming names in contemporary glass. This year, in November, Tim Belliveau and Phillip Bandura of the Bee Kingdom collective in Canada moved to Berlin to help founder and director Nadania Idriss make this project come into fruition. This is a team with years of combined experience in management, programming, technical ability and art practice.

and now we invite you to be part of this special project, too!

here are the supplies you can help us get:

$300- Supply Bin with various screws, nuts, bolts, blades, bits e.t.c.

$100- Colourbar shelf

$2000- Glass Cullet

$100- MAP gas triggers

$20- MAP gas tanks

$150- Punties (Small)

$200- Punties (Medium)

$300- Punties (Large)

$50- Cork Paddles

$100- Kevlar Coat

$4600- Gasline

$2000- Track Lights + target lights

$500- Extractor Fan

$2100 - Colour Box- Hub 13�

$119- Cork paddles

$100- Tiger Torch (Fluffy Torch)

$50 Propane tank (for torch)

$50- Door Openers

$500- Soundsystem-BOSE sounddock +mike

$150- Kiln Brick(20)+shipping

$400- Welder

$200- Welding Tank (shield Gas)

$50- Jigsaw

$100- Angle Grinder

$400- Chop Saw (wood)

$150- Sander (Wood/ steel)

$450- Chop Saw (Metal)

$50- Garden hose (on roll-up rack)

$140- Industrial shop Vaccuum ( buy large quantity of vaccum bags)

$1070- Pipe Cooler

$160- Filing Cabinet

*Though we will be buying in Euros, Indiegogo requires we put costs in US$. The prices here have been adjusted to compensate for this.