About Brazee Street Studios

The Brazee Street Studios Story (so far)

Brazee Street Studios is a warm glass resource center residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, located in Oakley’s growing arts district. Brazee Street Studios provides quality education in warm glass techniques, is a recognized Bullseye Glass Resource Center, houses a community of professional artists in newly renovated studios, and promotes innovative artwork of all kinds on site at gallery One One.

Brazee Street Studios is the brainchild of local artist and Oakley business owner, Sandra Gross. After years working as a glass artist, Sandy wanted to create a glass studio that could offer quality education in kiln-formed glass to the Cincinnati community. By combining this educational mission with her dedication to green construction and ecological conservation, Brazee Street Studios now exists as a unique community and educational space in Cincinnati.

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LEED: Our Building

Brazee Studios is a fully renovated, 21,000 sq foot green building, in the process of obtaining LEED Silver certification. Brazee Studios features a state of the art Solyndra 33.5kW direct grid photovoltaic solar panel system, the first of its kind in all of Ohio! Solyndra panels are unique in their ability to employ cylindrical modules which capture sunlight across a 360-degree photovoltaic surface capable of converting direct, diffuse and reflected sunlight into electricity. This configuration allows for significantly more solar electricity per year than standard solar models.

Millions of thanks to our fearless architects at Drawing Department!

And Thanks to our can-do contractors at Unit Building Services.
http://www.unitbuilding.com/

The Brazee Street Studios solar system was designed and installed by Dovetail Solar and Wind.

Classroom below, before and in-progress

ABOUT US

Sandra Gross and Leah Busch

Sandra Gross

Sandra (Sandy) Gross
Owner, Instructor
sandy@brazeestreetstudios.com

MFA, Miami
M.ED, Xavier University

Sandra fell in love with glass in graduate school in search of translucency in her work.  Her journey took her to Pilchuck Glass School, The Studio at Corning Museum  and Haystack School of Crafts.  She was awarded one of the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards for the International Sculpture Society.  She was a finalist in the Bullseye Emerge Show in 2004 and a finalist and winner in the  Student Niche Awards for both Functional and Sculptural Glass. Sandy was also awarded Best of Ohio 2008, 2009, in 2009- winner of the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Labino Award for Glass. She is so excited to share her knowledge and her love of glass.

Leah Busch

Managing Director, Gallery Director, Instructor
leah@brazeestreetstudios.com

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA, Kalamazoo College

Leah is a Cincinnati native who recently returned after years living in Michigan, Chicago and Atlanta. Manager and Instructor by day, and painter by night, Leah is thrilled to bring new energy and glass techniques to the students at Brazee Street Studios. Before returning to Cincinnati, Leah was the Membership and Education Coordinator at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.