About Us

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 Maker’s Mark Distillery Kentucky Center for the Arts      WHAS Crusade for Children YUM!                                        KFC University of Louisville, President’s Office          Pillsbury Company University of Louisville, Athletic Department Kindred Health Care Kentucky State Government, Governor’s Office Kentucky Arts Council Metro Government, Mayor’s Office CASA Lexington and Louisville Senator Wendell Ford    American Red Cross Center for Women and Families Jewish Hospital University of Kentucky Art Museum        Spalding University

Sign-a-Rama Downtown Great American Brass Band Festival       Welch Printing Leukemia and Lymphoma Society corecubed Owensboro Women’s Guild        The Bodega Women 4 Women, Champions 4 Her QK4 Centre College, Vice Presidential Debate Centre College, Alumni Office Centre College, President’s Office Centre College Admissions              1st Choice International Painter Financial                                    St. Francis High School Prodigal Ministries Golf Scramble Junior League of Owensboro Fillies Derby Ball, Fillies Inc. Philip’s Lighting University of Kentucky School of Music

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery