Hello everyone - My desire is to open an art glass stuido which will offer supplies and class instruction in the areas of stained glass, fused glass and mosiac work. I'm in the process of writing my business plan and cannot find any information on the art glass industry. I need information on industry size, estimated sales, and growth projections. I've written to every glass manufacturer, 2 distributors, and the Art Glass Association. 2 glass manufactures wrote back and said they know of no such information and referred me to distributors, 1 distributor wrote back and said the same and referred me to the Art Glass Association but I can't get a reply from them.
Does anyone have knowledge of such information? I know warm glass is hot right now - I hear manufactures can't keep enough diachronic glass in stock but I need facts and figures.
thank you so much for any lead that you might have or if there is another group that I might visit let me know that as well.
K