About Glass Craftsman Magazine

Since 1983, Glass Craftsman Magazine has been serving the glass community with vital, hands on information geared to the ever growing interest in all things related to glass art and crafting. Initially offered as a newsletter under the title of Glass Craft News, the publication soon developed in to its full magazine format under the titles of first, The Edge, and then Professional Stained Glass.(PSG) In 1993 under the new ownership of Arts & Media, Inc, and PSG’s managing editor Joe Porcelli, the title of the magazine was changed to reflect a more universal coverage of glass working techniques, and Glass Craftsman Magazine re-entered the glass community, continuing in its commitment to providing the best professionally produced, technical, aesthetic and practical information to its readers and a strong, committed audience of glass enthusiasts and professionals to its family of advertisers.

At Glass Craftsman magazine, we understand what you, our readers look for in a glass publication. We know that everyday at your workbench, you encounter the challenge to improve your glass working skills, and experience more of the great rewards the versatile and exciting medium of glass has to offer. In every issue of the magazine since 1983, our writers and editors have sought to bring you the most qualified and useful information to do just that, written by the artists, craftspeople and professionals of the glass community themselves. You can count on the information in Glass Craftsman Magazine. It’s all based upon working experience and shop-proven methods.

All of the informational products produced under the Glass Craftsman/Arts & Media, Inc. banner span the entire glass art and crafting landscape with special focus on those sectors of the glass industry that require special attention. In response to the growing and sustaining interest in the glass fusing and glass mosaics, Glass Craftsman now includes two alternating, special interest magazines within a magazine, Batch and Mosaics, respectively focusing on those fields of glass activity.

Publisher, producer, instructor and artist Joe Porcelli, author of The Lampmaking Handbook and Jewels of Light, a history of stained glass, has always believed that information, and the sharing of that information has been a defining characteristic of the phenomenal glass movement of the last 30+ years. In response to that, his company Arts & Media, Inc. reaches beyond the publication of Glass Craftsman into book publishing (Uncommon Stained Glass by Peter McGrain, Dichroic Glass by Jackie Paciello-Truty & The Style Handbook by Stuart Goldman) and the latest digital technologies, i.e., video/DVD production (The GCTV Productions catalog of glass videos), to keep the flow of information in tune with our readers’ preferences.

With no other medium can you craft something as small and beautiful as a precious piece of personal jewelry to entire environments of glass walls and windows, to any and everything in between. Glass goes back centuries, but it is a credit to the material itself and its talented artists and craftspeople, you, our readers, that despite its long tradition, every day brings new developments and the spectacle of outstanding new works in glass to light. Since its introduction in 1983, and under its many titles, Glass Craftsman Magazine, its editorial staff and Arts & media, Inc. have sought to reflect the best of all things glass in all of their efforts.