The Toyama Glass Studio 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Gathering: The Power of Creative Connection

“Gathering” can mean “collecting” or “pulling together,” but in the world of glass blowing, it is a term for “collecting a mass of molten glass on the end of a blowpipe.”

In 2024, the Toyama Glass Studio, established in 1994, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. This studio, in Toyama: City of Glass Art, was founded to train glass artists, support their becoming independent, popularize glass art, and promote the craft of glassmaking as an industry. During its long history, the Toyama Glass Studio has engaged in many projects, including programs to promote glass culture through hands-on glassmaking experiences, lectures about its production, branding Toyama Glass through the studio’s developing original colors of glass, and collaborations with artists in other fields and with other industries. Making connections and growing: that parallels working with glass on the tip of a blowpipe, taking form by winding together various colors of glass. Both gathers are filled with hot energy.

Thus far, over a hundred artists have been associated with the studio. Their young talents, bursting with creativity, have communicated the fascination of Toyama Glass to the world. As staff members, those artists work hard, day by day, honing their skills. After leaving the studio, most are active as glass artists, in Japan or abroad. Mastering traditional glass techniques, they raise their own work to new heights. Pioneering new techniques, they strive for distinctive creative styles. Focussing on the art of their craft, they concentrate on creating vessels. The work they create as individual artists is truly rich and full of variety.

This exhibition is a gathering of the works of artists associated with the studio over the years, gathered together in one setting. Tracing the history of the studio and its efforts to open up the potential of Toyama Glass and expand the scope of glass culture in Japan and abroad, the exhibition also considers the studio’s future, a future to look forward to.

Toyama Glass Art Museum Floors 2-3, Exhibition Rooms 1-3

Saturday, March 8, 2025 – Sunday, June 22, 2025

Sun.-Thu.9:30-18:00 (admission until 17:30)

Fri.-Sat. 9:30-20:00 (admission until 19:30)

First and Third Wednesdays

Toyama Glass Art Museum

Toyama Glass Studio

THE KITANIPPON SHIMBUN, THE TOYAMA SHIMBUN, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Toyama Station, Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., Ltd., TOYAMA TELEVISION BROADCASTING CO., LTD., TULIP-TV INC.

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Admission

General Public:1200 yen (1000 yen)/University and College Students 1000 yen (800 yen)

*High school students and younger: free

*( ) for group of 20 or more.

*The ticket also gives admission to the Permanent Exhibition.

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*Reproduction of photos are prohibited.

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Access

○20-minute walk.

○Take the tram (Shinaidensha) for Minamitoyamaeki-mae. Get off at Nishicho. 1-minute walk.

○Take the Loop Line tram (Shinaidensha Kanjō-sen). Get off at Grand Plaza-mae. 2-minute walk. (Tram takes approx. 10 minutes from Toyama Sta. to Nishicho/Grand Plaza-mae.)

○Take the Airport Bus to Toyama Station (Airport Express Bus/Local Bus (Route no.36)) and get off at Sogawa. 4-minute walk.

〒930-0062

5-1 Nishicho, Toyama City, Toyama 930-0062, Japan

TEL 076-461-3100

FAX 076-461-3310

https://www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp/en/