Unique in its location and model, Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery features the largest glassblowing studio in the region and the only exclusively glass gallery representing glass artists from across the country as well as internationally. The facility includes individual studios and a gallery, a family room with a kitchen, and a basketball court out back. The facility has a hot shop on one side of Flame Run, and the exhibition gallery is on the other side. Opened by founder Brook Forest White, Jr. in 2004, the gallery is located in Louisville's East Market Street Arts District. Other resident artists work at the hot shop as well. In keeping with Brook's ambitions, the studio has become a center of contemporary art glass creativity in the American heartland, a slower-paced, easier-living alternative to New York and Seattle, where the form has developed and prospered. At 13, 000 square feet, the glass-making hot shop and adjoining gallery and workrooms make Flame Run one of the largest art-glass facilities in the country. The studio also teaches classes and workshops as well as offers after-hours group outings in the facility. More about Brook Forrest White, Jr.: For Brook White, the art of glass-blowing is magic, pure and simple. His discovery of it was an epiphany and his choice to pursue it full-time was life-altering. Hot glass is magical, and I was spellbound from the moment I first encountered it at Centre College, White recalls. The physical aspect of working the glass and the fire captured my imagination. White is a Kentucky Arts Council 1998 Al Smith Fellowship recipient and a juried participant of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program. His work has also been recognized at the national level, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Huntington ( W.Va. ) Museum of Art, the Asheville ( N.C. ) Art Museum and the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art. List of Clientele GLI Greater Louisville Inc. American Heart Association Brown Forman Corporation University of Louisville, President's Office Pillsbury Company University of Louisville, Athletic Department Center for Women and Families Jewish Hospital University of Kentucky Art Museum Spalding University

Website: flamerun.com

Phone: (502) 584-5353

Cross Streets: Between S 9th St and S 8th St