Upcoming Events
A Taste of Tequila - May 4, 2025
Info coming soon
News & More
Just Added | Unity Vases for Weddings |
Fun Fact | March 27 - National Whiskey Day. Be sure to have your cocktail shaker and rocks glass ready. |
Fun Fact | April 7 - National Beer Day. Beer tastes best in a handblown pint glass |
A Taste of Tequila - May 10, 2025 | Handblown shot glass and a Tequila tasting at Barrio Glassworks. |
Hot Shop Maintenance - May 5 -18 | The hot shop activities will be closed during the annual maintenance period but the shop and gallery will remain open as usual. |
In The Gallery | Narratives by Susan Hirsch - gallery exhibition continues through April 2025 |
Ice Cream Social - TBD | Join us to taste fantastic flavors served in a hand blown bowl by Barrio Glassworks. |
Past Events
Blow Your Own Ornament Days 2024
November 10, 23 & December 8, 14, 2024
Blow your own ornament. You will get a close encounter with the hot shop and all the tools and equipment you need to blow your 2024 glass ornament.
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Pick out your colors, apply the heat and in minutes you will blow and shape it into your own one-of-a-kind piece of art!
Barrio Glassworks instructors will help you create your own beautiful piece.
Make Your Own Pumpkin Days 2024
Back by popular demand
MAKE YOUR OWN PUMPKIN DAY
October 5 & 19, 2024​
Experience the magic of glass while creating your own beautiful sculpted pumpkin.
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For ages 10 and up.
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Limited walk-in sign ups may be available.
Wine Tasting 2024
An entirely new experience...
Festive hand-blown glass designed to bring you closer to your wine and the people you share it with.
Wine Tasting
This Sunday
August 11, 2024
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Join us to taste some great wines by Carruth Cellars perfectly paired with stunning designs of stemless wine glasses by Barrio Glassworks. (The glass is your to keep.)
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Live Music, Appetizers, Live Glassblowing Demonstrations*, Gallery Exhibition and more add up to the perfect summer afternoon.
All in support of the incredible work by our local CARLSBAD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION. A portion of ticket sales and in gallery purchases support their incredible work supporting Carslbad Village and the arts.
*Live glassblowing demonstrations by Nic McGuire and Taryn Jayne
Gallery Exhibition - Carlsbad By The Sea
Carlsbad by the sea
An underwater exhibition
It is our privilege to present a collection of artworks celebrating the majesty of the ocean. This exhibition is a collaboration featuring marine, aquatic, and sealife themed glass sculptures.
Enjoy the beauty of the ocean without getting wet.
Now through Fall 2024
Please join us to MEET THE ARTISTS on Saturday Aug 3, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Gallery Exhibition - The Glass Art of Buzz Blodgett
Legendary local glass artist
Buzz Blodgett
A new exhibition in the gallery
February 18 - Spring 2024
You are invited to
Meet The Artist
Sunday February 18, 2024
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Buzz Blodgett has been blowing glass since 1969, coming from a family of artists it's only natural that he became one himself. The family glassblowing studio is alive and well flourishing in the small coastal beach community of Leucadia along the southern California coast of Encinitas. Blodgett Glass has produced many lines of glass art starting with the "Music In Glass" line of bells and windchimes (1972-1982) followed by "Bubble Lites" (1975), "Space Lites" (1977) and "Sea Foam (1981). These lines were continually refined over the years into what we have today.
Bubbles and Shortbreads 2024
April 14, 2024
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
We are pleased to partner
with the fabulous
Carlsbad Cookie Company
for an afternoon of
Champagne, Music, Glassblowing, and of course those fabulous shortbread cookies.
All in support of a great cause:
A portion of the ticket and gift shop sales supports our local
New Village Arts Theater
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And representatives from The Flower Fields will be on hand to discuss all of the available activities the Fields have to offer.
Visiting Artist - Jason Christian
Visiting Artist
Jason Christian
Feb 5 - 9, 2024
From the artist:
I still don’t know if I chose glassblowing, or if it chose me. I just knew that the moment I walked into that studio and saw what was being created I had to be a part of it. Finding glassblowing felt magical like I was made for it. It provided something I lacked in my younger years. The urge to create, grow, and express myself through my work. To witness a person, handle molten glass, manipulate it, and form it as if it were water was amazing to me. I knew that I had to be a part of it.
Annual Seconds Sale
Barrio Glassworks & Friends
Annual Seconds Sale
February 10, 2024
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
On the patio at Barrio Glassworks
Seconds are part of the charm of buying something homemade.
Our annual SECONDS SALE includes color tests, practice pieces from our design processes that are similar to the finished pieces, styles with minor imperfections, etc.
Each participating artist will be at their own table, so in addition to finding great bargains, you'll be able to meet and chat with the artists. And there will be live glass blowing.
Participating artists:
Taryn Jayne
Logan Nash Groupe
Patty Yockey
Kathleen Mitchell
Lucinda Lattimer (Silver Gypsea Studio)
David Connant
Others
Hearts of Calrsbad Village 2024 - A treasure hunt
From the Carlsbad Village Association:
We’re doubling down on the love this year and hiding 400 one-of-a-kind blown glass hearts courtesy of Barrio Glassworks throughout Carlsbad Village! That’s double the fun and double the chance to win amazing prizes.
Get ready for the ultimate treasure hunt on February 10-11, 2024. Search high and low through the heart of the Village to find these sparkling glass gems. If you discover one, make sure to register it on the Carlsbad Village Association website. You’ll be entered to win incredible prizes like a private glass blowing session at Barrio Glassworks. Stay tuned for details.
If the weekend slips by without any luck, stop into Barrio Glassworks studio and buy your own handmade heart. Be sure to ask for the “local’s discount”!
Let the hunt begin! Grab your walking shoes, rally your friends, and get ready for a weekend of exploration and excitement. The hearts are waiting to be found. Happy hunting!
Hearts of Carlsbad Village is supported by Visit Carlsbad, the official tourism marketing organization for the City of Carlsbad.