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Bullseye Glass

Explore a wide selection of Bullseye reactive glass, including frit, rods, powders, and sheets. Browse our collection and get expert advice from experienced glassworkers with decades of knowledge.

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Torchwork Supplies

Find everything you need for torchworking, whether you're using Pyrex borosilicate, Effetre, Bullseye, or Satake soft glass. Shop our extensive selection of glass rods, tubes, and essential tools to support your craft.

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Stained Glass Supplies

Find all your stained glass supplies here, including patinas, solder, lead, zinc, flux, and a wide variety of tools. Then discover Kokomo, Wissmach, Youghiogheny, Ruth Glass, Bullseye, Oceanside, Lamberts, and vintage & rare glass, all here at Potekglass.

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Repairs & Custom Work

Preserve your stained glass windows, repair Tiffany-style shades, and restore bent lamp panels with expert care. Our skilled artisans bring unmatched expertise to every repair, ensuring your stained glass treasure is beautifully restored. With experience in a wide variety of repairs, we deliver the best solutions to protect and revive your stained glass. Looking for a custom stained glass window?

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If you like color, you'll love working with glass.

Your trusted source for stained glass. Expert advice, in person help, or email support here for you every step of the way!

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Torch Classes

Learn the tricks of the trade for creating art on the torch. Borosilicate and soft glass classes teach the specifics for individual glass technologies. Learn glass blowing, sculpture, and beadmaking for the hot glass worker.

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Kiln & Stained Glass Classes

Learn the art of cutting and firing glass in the kiln! In these courses students will learn to cut patterns out of sheet glass, understand firing schedules, and work with a variety of glass formats to design with glass.

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From Our Customers!

"We took the Basics from Boron class here. Malcolm was a great, easy-going instructor who adapted to each person's needs and made the experience both safe and fun. We went in having never worked with glass before but came out feeling like we had enough of the basics to come into one of their open sessions to play around and come up with some of our own glass creations. Lots of fun. Highly recommended."

— David Armstrong

"I took the Beginner’s Stained Glass. I appreciated an experienced and skilled expert teaching the class, answering questions that have come up many times before."

— Sarah Collins

I heard about Potekglass when I called another glass company to try and track down some stained glass. I would definitely recommend Potek to a friend. I think it's so valuable to have workshops and lessons like those you offer.

— Lisa Franchette

"I was really happy with the class. Malcolm is obviously used to working with beginners and non-artists."

— Emily Harper

"Malcolm was knowledgeable, laid back, and had a great sense of humor. Didn’t get impatient with my inability to light my torch! Always helpful. Great class."

— Jonathan Pierce

"So much fun (even though I wasn’t very good). Everyone I told about it was envious. I hope to come back for another class!"

— Olivia Reed

"Malcolm is an amazing instructor. Great music selection during class :)"

— Natalie Scott

"Great experience for all ages. We had an 11-year-old plus 2 adults taking the class and everyone enjoyed it."

— Michael Brooks

From Our Family to Yours

We are dedicated to your artistic pursuits in glass. Whether you are looking for a signature piece of stained glass or want to create your own fused glass platter,  we have a staff with over 50 years of combined experience in creating, repair and teaching in the glass crafts. Learn from the best, get expert advice on supplies or pursue your own work independently in our studio.  Just want to have a good time? Schedule a team-building art experience, community art, or corporate event.

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Potekglass was founded by artist and glass worker Malcom Potek. Whether you're looking for glass art, lighting elements, or custom architectural glass pieces, Potekglass is committed to quality design, exceptional service, and helping people experience the beauty of glass.

About Us

Custom Projects and Artwork

At Potekglass, we love helping architects and interior designers realize their client's vision for their commercial or residential spaces. Collaborating with design professionals to create the perfect enhancements to their designs is our specialty.

Fine Art

Glass art by Malcolm Potek.

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Architectural Glass

Collaborating with design professionals.

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Glass Jewelry and Gifts

Bling for people and the home.

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Artist in the World

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Nico Williams

Nico Williams, ᐅᑌᒥᐣ (b. 1989) is a member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation (Anishinaabe), currently living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. In 2021, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Concordia University. He has a multidisciplinary and, often collaborative, practice that is centred around sculptural beadwork. Williams is active within the urban Indigenous Montréal Arts community and a member of the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork research team. He has taught workshops at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the McCord Stewart Museum, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and the University of Toronto.

NICO WILLIAMS' ARTIST STATEMENT:

"Using the bright, tactile materiality and relational nature of beadwork, my practice looks at the ways we live through connections with objects, place, and language. Often in collaboration and community with others, I make sculptures that are sometimes highly patterned abstract geometric forms, sometimes sparkling representations of familiar objects, and always hand-woven from hundreds of glass beads. In their making, these sculptures become points of relation between the multiple hands that wove them as well as the cultural lenses through which different audiences access them.

I choose to work with forms and objects that, like beadwork, have an overt—if often overlooked—relationship to gratitude, exchange and commerce, land, and the shaping, and morphing ability of language. Sculptural geometries are a meeting point for technologies, stories, and lineages of knowledge. Translating everyday, accessible objects into beadwork re-presents regular things from our daily lives to reattune us to their attraction and code-switching, overlapping, shifting resonances across cultural contexts and modes of identity. This deep layering of held meaning about the connectivity of the past and present, cross-cultural interweaving, and both the harshness and beauty of our current reality shapes and motivates my practice."

(Sourced from Nico Williams' Website)

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Team-Building Glass Art

Onsite School Fieldtrips

Potekglass offers introductory classes to students in elementary and middle school. Students can participate as a class or individually. Summer art camps available.

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Corporate Events

Your company’s targets and core values will guide the group in developing a meaningful piece of art made for display in your place of work.

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Artist In Residence

With 15+ years of experience developing educational residencies, we have a love of teaching that gets everyone involved and excited for the problem-solving needed to pull off these public art projects.

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