Author Archives: Blue Dog

  • Crafting Glass – come and make your own artwork

    Open Day – Sunday 6 August. You’re invited! Come and visit our new studio space at Blue Dog Glass (27 Wells Rd, Mordialloc). As part of Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival, we’re running another of our popular come-and-make-it days. We’ll be open from 10am to 3pm on Sunday 6 August. Be inspired by our student exhibition The …

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  • Blue Dog Summer School 2017 is coming!

    Blue Dog Glass is excited to announce its new line up of classes for January 2017 We have often been asked why we don’t run classes over the Christmas school holidays. Well, come January 2017 that’s exactly what we’re doing. Running over two and a half weeks, we have a huge range of short courses …

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  • Annual Studio Sale – Saturday 5th November

    Saturday 5th November 9am-5pm Come on down and see what we do here at Blue Dog. Check out demonstrations at 10am (Beadmaking with Kathryn Wardill) and 12noon (Vitrigraph with Brenda Page) Student works will be on display and available for purchase (cash sales only) The perfect chance to pick up that unique Christmas gift! 9am-5pm …

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  • It’s in the detail – come and make it in glass!

      We’re running a special event at Blue Dog Glass as part of this year’s Craft Cubed Festival (we had such a great time last year we decided to do it again). This year’s festival theme is It’s in the detail, so we’re inviting the public to join in on Saturday 20 August – from 9:30am until …

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  • come make it day and ‘keeping in touch”

    Blue Dog Glass studio is having a special exhibition, live demonstrations and ‘come and make it’ day on Saturday 12 September as part of Melbourne’s Craft Cubed Festival. Come and join us from 9am to 4pm at the studio here at 58 Carroll Rd, Oakleigh. Be inspired by the glass works on show and then …

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  • Christmas Decorations Class

    We will be running Christmas Decorations classes again this year, so why not decorate your tree with hand make ornaments or make a special give for someone near and dear. To see the times and dates visit our classes page

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  • Open house and studio sale

    We’re having our annual open house on Saturday 8 November Come and visit us! With our huge in-house sale happening, it’s a great opportunity to stock up on your glass supplies. There will be some super specials on too. We’ll have more details about those soon, so to keep up to date make sure you …

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  • Miriam Di Fiore class 2014

    March and April 2014 saw Miriam Di Fiore visit our studio to run two classes on her techniques relating to image in glass. The students worked hard to create two amazing pieces of work, we can’t wait to see what the create next with their new found techniques.

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  • Gifts

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  • Winning is grinning!

    Congratulations to Rosemary and Kath Burns, our lucky winners of the raffle who have elected to take David Hobday’s workshop next year. Well done ladies, we hope you have a great class! Thank you to everyone who came down to the studio, we had a great day and hope you are busy making new glass …

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  • Glass talk: Ebony Addinsall

    She braved the “summer” of north Scotland and touched the rains down in Africa! Now that she’s home, come and hear all about Ebony’s overseas adventures. Ebony participated in Jacqueline Poncelet’s master class at North Lands Creative Glass and undertook a teaching residency at Kitengela Hot Glass in Kenya. Thursday 6 December at 6:30pm at …

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  • Exhibition Alert

    Wearable Art Glass Plus Gallery’s annual jewellery exhibition opened last week. Be sure to make a trip to South Melbourne to see new works by Susie Barnes, Anne Clifton, Zara Collins, Susan Frisch, Marilyn Hayes, Anne Oberin, Mary Odorcic, Cathy Sutton, Emma Wood and Blue Dog Glass’s Geraldine Gandolfo. Geraldine’s classic contemporary jewellery has explored …

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  • Open day, Sale and exhibition

    From humble beginnings in a leaky warehouse, Blue Dog Glass has blossomed into a vibrant hub of creativity.  To celebrate the move to spacious new premises with dedicated teaching studio and showroom, there will be  Demonstrations,  Student Exhibition and  Sale in our Store between 10am and 4pm on Saturday November 10th. In our showroom we …

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  • Exhibition at Artman Gallery

    Our lovely Geraldine Gandolfo, teacher here at Blue Dog Glass,  has work in a local exhibition at Artman Gallery. The exhibition is open until 22nd September and has a broad range of kiln formed glass on display. To see a preview of the show go to http://www.artmangallery.com.au/ This is a show anyone interested in glass …

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  • Awards made with recycled glass

    examples of awards made with recycled glass

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  • Custom Made

    We can custom make awards using a variety of techniques to suit your organisations needs.

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  • Ebony Addinsall Exhibition

    For those of you who have visited us on a Monday will know the  effervescent Ebony who works in showroom, what you might not be aware that Eb is a talented glass artist. Eb has an exhibition opening on 11th July at Anita Traverso Gallery, 7 Albert Street Richmond www.anitatraversogallery.com.au. 11July – 4th Aug Addinsall …

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  • Catharine Newell workshop June 2012

    Catharine Newell (USA) visited Blue Dog Glass and conducted a workshop on frit/powder drawing on glass. The class was a wonderful success and gave participants a new starting point for their glass exploration. A huge thanks to Catharine for her endless energy and generosity, she is welcome back in our studio anytime she likes. [nggallery …

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  • Glass and Print Exhibition

    One of our regular attendees of classes at Blue Dog Glass, Kate Gorringe Smith is having a solo exhibition at Hand Held Gallery, opening Thursday 31st May and running until 23rd June. Kate is a print maker who has incorporated glass into her work, one of the features of the exhibition is an installation of …

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