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Hot Nights is a public event that showcases our visiting artists working with a team of Glass students to create exciting and experimental artworks. Graduate students and Seniors also run Hot Nights once a semester, in preparation for their theses. Guests are encouraged to stop by to see our glassblowers in action!

RISD Glass initiated Hot Nights to cultivate a greater understanding of glass and its significance to other disciplines. Through a series of hot shop demonstrations, projects, and workshops, Glass faculty and students collaborate with the broader community to explore glass and its presence in the world. Hot Nights has led to developments that combine emerging digital fabrication technologies with traditional glass processes, investigations into the optical properties of glass and light, and collaborations with student groups to create ambitious cross-disciplinary projects.