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Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org Why Support a Glass Art Institute? The Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) is the only public access, fully-functional glass studio in Santa Clara County. BAGI is an educational resource: we offer affordable glassblowing, fusing and flameworking classes; rent studio time to students, hobbyists and artists; and bring glass art to the community through events in the facility and throughout the Bay Area. BAGI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our goal is to provide a way for the public to be- come familiar with fine art glass and the processes used in its creation. BAGI supports established local, and global artists, as well as beginning-level students to follow their passion for creating glass art. About Bay Area Glass Institute BAGI was founded in 1996 to fulfill three main goals: • Educate the public about glass art and its multi- thousand-year history. • Provide affordable studio space for emerging and established glass artists enabling pursuit of their artistic endeavors. • Promote events that unite the public and artists to encourage the exchange of ideas, produc- tion, and collection of original glass art. These activities are designed to generate community participation and excitement about glass art, we provide an opportunity for BAGI to demonstrate glass-forming techniques, answer questions, and allow the public to interact with glass artists. BAGI rents studio time, giving artists a place to hone their craft. Emerging artists are afforded the chance to show their work by being a part of BAGI’s public demonstrations, as well as participating in BAGI’s large-scale exhibitions such as the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch ® and the Great Glass Auction. Facts and Stats • Over 17,000 people have direct exposure to hand-made art through BAGI annually. • 10,000 people visit and participate in our Great Glass Pumpkin Patch ® and Santana Row patches each year. • 3,000 visited us at the San Jose History Park Mini Maker Fair ® . • 2,500 are in contact through social media. • 1,000 Bay Area employees participate in corporate events annually. • 750 children annually participate in glass activities. • 500 adults take educational classes each year. • 30 local and globally-renowned glass artists blow glass regularly in our facilities. 1 Our current facility will be demolished January 2016. After 15 years in our current facility, BAGI will need to move. San Jose History Park is the next step, creating value for an even bigger community.
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Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Why Support a Glass Art Institute? The Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) is the only public access, fully-functional glass studio in Santa Clara County. BAGI is an educational resource: we offer affordable glassblowing, fusing and flameworking classes; rent studio time to students, hobbyists and artists; and bring glass art to the community through events in the facility and throughout the Bay Area. BAGI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Our goal is to provide a way for the public to be-come familiar with fine art glass and the processes used in its creation. BAGI supports established local, and global artists, as well as beginning-level students to follow their passion for creating glass art.
About Bay Area Glass Institute BAGI was founded in 1996 to fulfill three main goals:
• Educate the public about glass art and its multi-thousand-year history.
• Provide affordable studio space for emerging and established glass artists enabling pursuit of their artistic endeavors.
• Promote events that unite the public and artists to encourage the exchange of ideas, produc-tion, and collection of original glass art.
These activities are designed to generate community participation and excitement about glass art, we provide an opportunity for BAGI to demonstrate glass-forming techniques, answer questions, and allow the public to interact with glass artists.
BAGI rents studio time, giving artists a place to hone their craft. Emerging artists are afforded the chance to show their work by being a part of BAGI’s public demonstrations, as well as participating in BAGI’s large-scale exhibitions such as the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch® and the Great Glass Auction.
Facts and Stats
• Over 17,000 people have direct exposure to hand-made art through BAGI annually.
• 10,000 people visit and participate in our Great Glass Pumpkin Patch® and Santana Row patches each year.
• 3,000 visited us at the San Jose History Park Mini Maker Fair®.
• 2,500 are in contact through social media.
• 1,000 Bay Area employees participate in corporate events annually.
• 750 children annually participate in glass activities.
• 500 adults take educational classes each year.
• 30 local and globally-renowned glass artists blow glass regularly in our facilities.
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Our current facility will be demolished January 2016.After 15 years in our current facility, BAGI will need to move. San Jose History Park
is the next step, creating value for an even bigger community.
Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Our existing programs reach a wide array of the public, including children, adults, corporations, and practicing artists.
We host hundreds of children annually from school groups, home school groups, high school students and college students to learn and participate in glass activities.
We also accommodate 1,000 employees annually from Bay Area companies like Adobe, Apple, eBay, Goodle, Intuit, PayPal, and many others hold corpo-rate events and team building sessions at BAGI.
New Space in Collaboration with SJHP Adds Additional Students to These Programs
BAGI has a vision of adding more children’s courses covering the science of glass in a fun participatory fashion. These courses would dovetail with the mission of the Science Camp next door, transforming the park into a vibrant destination for educational pro-grams, successfully motivating the next generation of scientists and artists.
Our space will be open to SJHP docent tours with live glass blowing activities park visitors can attend.
We will continue to provide a free-to-the-public art gallery to highlight and make accessible our world-class collection.
A move to San Jose History Park property will afford BAGI the opportunity to strengthen our offerings by providing new programs such as a mobile hot shop for students, expanded flame working programs, and classes in the mediums of casting, mosaics and stained glass.
Supporting the build-out of the new BAGI facility within the SJHP adds long-term value to the park
The planned remodel offers an open, versatile, and re-configurable space to accommodate large-scale events that can be reorganized as needs change.
Our plan takes a warehouse and turns it into a space that adds to the value of the park. BAGI’s remodel brings the building up to code and makes it an attractive, visitor-friendly facility within the SJHP.
BAGI’s master plan includes inside and outside space for visitors to explore.
Additional Historical Context for Glass in the Bay Area
The Bay Area, and in particular SJSU, has some of the earliest college glass programs in the US. Robert Fritz started it in 1964 just two years after the Toledo Glass Symposium was held in 1962. In compari-son, CCA (the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland) formed its glass program in 1967.
In the 1920s underground mining for sand began near the deserted Nortonville and Somersville townsites. The Somersville mine supplied sand used in glass making by the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company in Oakland, while the Nortonville mine supplied the Columbia Steel Works with foundry (casting) sand. Competition from Belgian glass and the closing of the steel foundry ended the sand mining by 1949. Altogether, more than 1.8 million tons of sand had been mined.
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Our Vision for the Future BAGI is considering relocating to the San Jose History Park where we feel there are numerous synergies that will strengthen the missions of each partner.
Bay Area Glass Institute Move Financials
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Project Cost The estimated minimal move cost is $469,715. Included in this figure are…
San Jose History Park Facility Space Total square footage at SJHP is 6,000 sf; approximately 1,200 sf more than our present facility. This added space will allow us to accommodate larger corpo-rate events, a third, and eventually fourth hot shop bench, allowing simultaneous corporate events and private individual rental.
Current Funding
• Public donations.
• Private capital equipment loan.
• City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
• The Arts Council Silicon Valley.
• BAGI program revenue.
• $100,000 equipment loan.
Facility/Equipment Upgrades The new facility will require the following upgrades:
• Upgrades to gas and electrical service.
• Office and gallery construction.
• Upgrade to more energy efficient facility and equipment to lower cost of operation and lessen our carbon footprint.
• Elevate roof over glass blowing demonstration area to accomodate large stadium seating, and increase necessary airflow.
• External propane and oxygen tanks.
• New ventilation for flame and cold working space.
• Bathroom remodeling,
• Add HVAC for artist, guest and staff comfort.
• Installation of large windows.
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Move Cost & Time Lines
Construction Services $375,893 Plumbing HVAC Electrical Carpentry
Architect Services $71,500
Move $16,100 Professional movers for large equipment First/last deposit Marketing & advertising Contingency fund
Permits $6,222 Fees & permits
Bay Area Glass Institute Move Financials
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
As with any construction project, we can only add value if we have the funds to do so. With the minimum viable funds of $500k, we will be able to move into the structure, with only the basic required updates of utility upgrades, sprinkler installation and bathroom remodel.
Construction Costs
Total Cost
Current Funding
Funding Needed
Reserve
Minimum Viable
$470
$225
$245
$75
Good Experience
$600
$225
$375
$75
Ideal Inside Experience
$700
$225
$475
$75
Ideal Inside & Out-side Experience
$900
$225
$675
$75
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Numbers in thousands.
Buildout: n Gallery n Add windows
Buildout: n Gallery n Space partitioning n Office n Add clearstory
Upgrade appear-ance of building exterior. Addition of glass garden/out-door event space.
Move existing equipment into new space.
No building up-grades.
No office or museum.
WIth greater funding, we believe BAGI can add so much more to the community, becoming a vibrant and important showcase for arts education.
Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Possible Floorplan
• Open, versatile and re-configurable space to accommodate large-scale events.
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Bank of Italy
Pacific Hotel
Redwood grove glass garden
Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Existing Facility Presently used as a storage facility for San Jose History Park.
What We Envision An open floorplan with spaces that can be re-configured to accomodate large events and added courses.
Glass Axis, Columbus, Ohio. Recent 2014 move to larger facility.
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Bay Area Glass Institute Move San Jose History Park
Bay Area Glass Institute 401 E. Taylor Street, Suite 115, San Jose, CA 95112 408-993-2244 [email protected] www.bagi.org
Existing Facility The park-facing facade is presently used as a mulch pile.
What We Envision We would like to renovate the space into a tranquil public glass garden where visitors can discover the possibilities of glass arts.
Chihuly Garden, Seattle Center
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Bay Area Glass Institute Move Artist Stories
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BAGI serves a diverse group of people; students,emerging/established artists, and the general public.
Rich Small has been blowing glass for 15 years. He never thought of glass as a medium of artistic expression until he visited the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC and blown away by a Dale Chihuly chandelier. He had always been
fascinated by glass, but hadn’t been exposed to glass as art until this watershed moment.
When he returned home he remained fascinated, and then stumbled upon BAGI as a moth to the flame.
Since BAGI already had the reputation of the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, he flourished in making his own unique style of pumpkins, gifts, and potential future archaeologi-cal finds.
Rich has grown artistically, and in his own words, “some-times I don’t completely suck.” He even has his young son with him in the studio as an apprentice every once in a while.
Diane Weiss is a smart and successful technology professional. She manages complex programs, and product manages software. Most of her days and nights are spent on her computer writing
emails, product requirements, and project plans.
Diane discovered glass blowing by taking a class six years ago and caught the glass art bug. Time in the studio allows her to step away from the day-to-day grind, and work as a team with others designing beautiful things. She enjoys the physical aspects, and finds it relieves the tension in her body. When you deal with glass on fire you must pay close attention and the immediacy takes you away from the stress in your outside life, allowing you to focus on the moment — you must stop writing business plans in your head and enter a meditative state.
Treg Silkwood As a child, Treg knew that he wanted to work with his hands. He studied pre-med at the University of Montana before deciding to pursue a career in the arts.
Treg has demonstrated and taught glassblowing at numerous institutions and various glass shops and schools across the United States and abroad, including: Alberta College of Art and Design , Canada, Kent State University , Ohio, and The Corning Museum of Glass, New York.
A world-renowned glass artist, he has worked with many prominent glass artists, including Martin Blank, Michael Shunke, and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen.
In 2008, Treg was honored to be the second of two artist invited by Steuben to have a Solo Show at The Steuben Flagship Store on Madison Avenue in New York City. From May through October an exclusive collection of over one hundred pieces of his sculptural work was featured in the “Steuben Selections Series,” which was established to showcase the world’s foremost artists in glass.
Since 2005 he has been working as an independent glass artist and instructor at the Bay Area Glass Institute.
Kelton wakes up on glass blowing day excited to get into the shop and work with the hand tools. He says it’s hard work that pays off because you get to make what your mind sees.
After a year of classes, he and his mother are able to work in the shop independently and are planning to participate in the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. Kelton and his mother have found an extremely welcoming community of folks at BAGI who are eager to work with a young curious student and help both of them collaborate to become glass blowers.
Kelton Fascinated by the heat and glow of molten glass, Kelton, age 9, was thrilled to be able to take a pumpkin making class at BAGI. He enjoyed the experi-ence so much that he and his mother began making glass blowing a weekly
part of homeschooling.
