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Spencer Finch's "The Secret Life of Glass" at Corning Museum of Glass.

Art Glass for Everyone

Made in Portland, Oregon

“The Secret Life of Glass.” Spencer Finch’s kilnformed glass artwork for The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), 14.5’ x 25.75’. Glass fabrication, frame design, and engineering by Bullseye Studio. Artwork courtesy of James Cohan Gallery.

History’s First Reliably Fusible Colored Glass

Sometime around 1979, three hippie glassblowers began developing a palette of tested-compatible colored glass in Portland, Oregon. It was the first product of its kind, a material dreamed about by artists throughout history—

but until then deemed unmakeable. The hippies went all in, producing their fusible, wonder-material for everyone. Given that glass had been fiercely monopolized throughout history, the hippies were launching a revolution.

Bullseye Glass casters at work.

It was Gutenbergian. It was Promethean.

They called it Bullseye Glass.

Fifty years later, Bullseye Glass is known and beloved globally.

To get a sense, consider:

  • Customers in 100+ countries
  • A palette that offers our signature fusible glass in 100s of colors and styles, with many available forms (billets, sheets, frits, powders, stringers, ribbons, rods, etc)
  • Artists and designers who have worked with Bullseye glass include Dale Chihuly, Klaus Moje, Lino Tagliapietra, Silvia Levenson, Narcissus Quagliata, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Spencer Finch, Jamie Carpenter, Jun Kaneko, Richard Whiteley, Dante Marioni, Lynn Basa, Bertil Vallien, and many others
  • Museums featuring artwork made from Bullseye glass include Victoria and Albert Museum of London, Toyama Museum of Glass, Palm Springs Art Museum, Corning Museum of Glass, National Museum of Scotland, Museum of Art and Design, Portland Art Museum, and dozens more
  • University programs built upon the glass fusing capabilities developed at Bullseye include those at University of Oregon, University of Washington, Rhode Island School of Design, California College of the Arts, Alfred University, Carnegie Mellon University, Temple University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Rochester Institute of Technology… the list runs on

Bullseye’s glass also features increasingly in large-scale public artworks around the world, including the Millennium Obelisk in La Coruña, Spain…

Obelisco Millenium in La Coruña, Spain. Photo by Eder, A.
Installation of "The Soil You See..." by Wendy Red Star. Fabricated at Bullseye Studio in Portland, Oregon.

… on the National Mall in Wendy Red Star’s monument, The Soil You See…

… in the restored U.S. Capitol Cupola…

The US Capitol Dome.
Lynn Basa's untitled artwork in the Multnomah County Central Courthouse

… at the Multnomah County Central Courthouse, where Lynn Basa’s 1775 square-foot artwork has been translated into glass from her original encaustic painting…

… and in countless surprising spots where someone had a vision for how glass + color + light could make the world more vivid.

One of the panels from Jeffrey Gibson's "They Come from Fire."

Bullseye glass still helps artists feel like they’ve gotten their hands on something magical, like they’ve stepped into otherworldly space.

And it is still crafted in Portland, Oregon, where, no matter the decade,

art is a revolution to which everyone is invited.

The early Bullseye factory crew

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    Artist credits from top: 1) “The Secret Life of Glass.” Spencer Finch’s kilnformed glass artwork for The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY), 14.5’ x 25.75’. Glass fabrication, frame design, and engineering by Bullseye Studio. Artwork courtesy of James Cohan Gallery. 2) “The Millennium Obelisk.” Antonio Desmonts and Gerardo Porto, for a celebration of the new millennium (A Coruña, Spain), 164′ high. Photo by Eder, A. 3) Installation of “The Soil You See…” by Wendy Red Star. Fabricated at Bullseye Studio in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Bullseye Studio. 4) Interior US Capitol Dome. Photo by Tomasz Zielonka. 5) Artist Lynn Basa’s artwork for the entrance lobby of the Multnomah County Central Courthouse in Portland, OR. Project funded by Multnomah County Percent for Art, and managed by the Regional Arts & Culture Council. 6) “The Portal of Life.” Beate Einen‘s sculpture in steel and glass. Norway, 2022. 7) Panel from “They Come From Fire” by Jeffrey Gibson, installed at the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR) as part of Gibson’s exhibition by the same title (Oct 15, 2022 – Apr 30, 2023).