<p>I would like to major in art with emphasis on glass and I was wondering what the top art institutes/colleges offering glass would be.</p>
<p>RISD is one.</p>
<p>Technical (i.e., scientific) or artistic glassblowing? The choice matters…</p>
<p>Alfred University (NY)</p>
<p>[School</a> of Art and Design at Alfred University](<a href=“http://art.alfred.edu/divisions_concentrations/sculpture_dimensional/hot-glass.html]School”>http://art.alfred.edu/divisions_concentrations/sculpture_dimensional/hot-glass.html)</p>
<p>For glass, some excellent programs exist at Alfred U (via the NY State College of Ceramics), the Rochester Institute of Technology, RISD, California College of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth, and Ohio State U. Those are for artistic glassblowing. I don’t know their rep in scientific glassblowing.</p>
<p>tulane does</p>
<p>Centre is well-known for its glass program.</p>
<p>[Hot</a> Glass at Centre](<a href=“http://web.centre.edu/art/glass.html]Hot”>http://web.centre.edu/art/glass.html)</p>
<p>Alfred University</p>
<p>Why mess around?
Abate Zanetti school in Murano (Venice), Italy</p>
<p>[International</a> Glass Center | Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti](<a href=“http://www.abatezanetti.it/]International”>http://www.abatezanetti.it/)</p>
<p>i was looking for schools in Italy but to no avail. im not sure what the difference between technical and artistic would be but I am fairly certain I want artistic.</p>
<p>In terms of Italian artists…Lino Tagliapietra, perhaps the world’s greatest glassblower, has lectured several times at Centre in the past. (If you haven’t heard of him, he taught Dale Chihuly.)</p>
<p>Centre College?</p>