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Summary of Requirements
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From the world's first mobile glassblowing unit,
live, narrated demonstrations illustrate the ancient
art of working with glass. Below is some information
and an overview of requirements for bringing the
Hot Glass Roadshow to your location.
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Mobility + Measurements
The Hot Glass Roadshow trailer can be driven anywhere
an 18-wheeled tractor trailer semi can be driven and
measures 29 feet. Other important measurements include
the following:
- Folded down, ready for travel, the height of the
trailer is 13 feet 2 inches.
- The width of the trailer bed is 8 feet 6 inches,
although the widest portion of the folded trailer
is 8 feet 7½ inches.
- With the two end doors fully extended, the length
of the trailer becomes 46 feet.
- The maximum width of the trailer unfolded is 21½
feet wide.
- The stage height is adjustable from 48 inches to
64 inches above the ground.
- The maximum height of the trailer's lighting truss
is 18 feet above the tires.
- When the bed of the trailer is fully raised on the
jacks, the lighting truss is 19 feet 3 inches above
the ground.
- The trailer weighs 35,000 pounds.
- The truck weighs 24,500 pounds fully laden.
 
Power Requirements
The Roadshow can use either 240 or 208 volt electrical
power, and the furnaces on the trailer can be fired
with either natural gas or with propane. The glass-melting
furnace takes 4 days to slowly heat up to 2100 and 2½
days to cool down enough to move.
  
Gas Usage Requirements
It is also necessary to prepare for the daily gas usage
of the Hot Glass Roadshow.
| Mobile Furnace |
10 hours @ 400,000 BTUs |
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14 hours @ 120,000 |
| Medium Gloryhole |
8 hours @ 300,000 |
| Small Gloryhole |
8 hours @ 100,000 |
| Pipe Warmer |
8 hours @ 60,000 |
Note: When the mobile furnace is firing at 400,000
BTUs, the other pieces of equipment are almost always
off.
Security
The Roadshow must have 24-hour-a-day onsite security.
Download
Technical Summary with Detailed Utility Requirements
(Adobe PDF)
Travel Schedule
The "Rolling Glass Tour" brings the art of
glassblowing to locations across the country. In 2002,
the Hot Glass Roadshow demonstrated glassblowing in
Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics, at the
Ninth Annual International Sculpture Object and Functional
Art Expo in Chicago and Binghamton, New York, at the
First Night celebration, an event that is celebrated
internationally. The Hot Glass Roadshow spent the first
quarter of 2003 in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the
Norton Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition "Fire
and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glassmaking."
Also in 2003, the Roadshow traveled to Seattle for the
33rd annual Glass Art Society International conference
and to Watkins Glen for its second appearance at the
Finger Lakes Wine Festival. The Roadshow returned to
SOFA Chicago (see the video Hot
Glass Roadshow Goes To SOFA Chicago 2003) and again
to Binghampton for the First Night celebration.
 
Educational Outreach
Summary
of Requirements
Hot Glass Roadshow Videos
Meet the Team
For more information contact Steve Gibbs,
Hot Glass Roadshow Manager, at 607.974.8504 or via email.
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