Rob Stern Art Glass

Rob Stern Art Glass has operated out of a working studio at 110 NW 1st Street in Dania Beach since 2003, making it one of the longer running fine art businesses in the city. The studio belongs to glass artist Rob Stern, who earned a BFA in Glass and Sculpture from San Francisco State University in 1991 and later an MFA in Glass Sculpture from the University of Miami in 2004. His corporate entity, Rob Stern Art Glass Inc, remains an active Florida corporation according to state records.

The studio functions as both a working hot shop and a gallery space, where visitors can see finished sculptural glass pieces alongside works in progress. Stern’s practice centers on glass sculpture that explores the relationship between permanence and change, often drawing on natural forms as a starting point. Beyond studio pieces sized for a home or office, the business takes on site specific commissions, larger scale installations, and lighting design projects, and Stern has served as master gaffer on collaborative pieces produced at the studio.

Stern’s profile grew beyond South Florida when he appeared as a competitor on Netflix’s glassblowing competition series Blown Away, which introduced his work to a national audience already familiar with the show’s other competing gaffers. Locally, he has also taught glassblowing workshops both at his own studio and at other galleries and educational institutions in the region, giving beginners a hands on introduction to a craft that most people only ever see finished.

The studio keeps regular retail and gallery hours, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, closed Sundays. Because glassblowing demonstrations and furnace work happen on site, visitors calling ahead at 305-903-8566 can sometimes arrange to see a piece being made rather than only viewing finished work in the gallery area. The studio maintains active accounts on Instagram under the handle robsternartglass and on Facebook as Rob Stern Art Glass, along with a Twitter account and a Vimeo channel that hosts video of pieces being formed at the furnace.

For anyone exploring Dania Beach’s small but genuine cluster of working artist studios, Rob Stern Art Glass is a useful stop precisely because it is still an active production studio and not just a retail gallery. Pieces on display change as inventory sells and new work comes off the pipe, and the location on NW 1st Street puts it a short walk from the Federal Highway corridor where several of the city’s other galleries and shops are clustered. More than two decades in the same location has given the studio a steady base of repeat collectors and design clients from across Broward County who return for commissioned pieces sized to a specific room or building.