Vintage Glassworks Studio & Supplies

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Vintage Glassworks Studio & Supplies in Grantville is a stained glass studio and supply shop operated by Lee Ann, a San Diego glass artist who has worked with the medium since 1995. The studio occupies Suite L at 4561 Mission Gorge Place in the 92120 ZIP, where it opened in January 2025 after a build-out that added classroom space, a retail supply floor, and rentable workbench stations. The inventory specializes in hard-to-find vintage art glass alongside full lines of Oceanside Compatible and Bullseye fusible glass, glass rods for flame workers and glass blowers, lead came, solder, flux, patina chemicals, and custom-order fusing molds. The studio's creative-arts niche connects it to the broader maker community in the College Area corridor, where instruction programs at studios such as Little Fish Comic Book Studio serve a parallel audience of working artists and hobbyists. Class offerings include a four-week Creative Cutting course at $195 that covers scoring, breaking, shallow and deep curves, circle cutters, running pliers, and mosaic nippers, plus six-week Beginning and Intermediate/Advanced Fusing sessions. Lee Ann's portfolio includes published work in glass-art magazines, residential stained glass doors and windows, and complex freestanding art pieces. The Mission Gorge Place industrial park sits less than a mile south of the Mission Gorge Road commercial corridor and within two miles of SDSU, placing the studio in Grantville's light-industrial zone alongside other craft-production businesses including House of Stemms, a floral design studio that works in a parallel custom-fabrication format. The rentable studio space lets independent glass artists work on personal projects using the shop's kilns, grinders, and soldering stations without investing in their own equipment.