Employment type: Part-time hourly up to 20 hours/week, nonexempt
Compensation: $23
Benefits: n/a
Schedule: Flexible schedule, including some evenings and weekends

Are you an experienced glass artist who enjoys keeping a creative studio safe, organized, and ready for learning?

Groundworks Art Lab is hiring a Glass Studio Assistant to support the daily operation of our glass studio in Boulder, Colorado. This hands-on position combines glassworking, studio equipment maintenance, instruction, student service, and occasional manager-on-duty responsibilities.

Our mission is to cultivate the artist in each of us through creative collaboration and the study, practice, and advancement of the studio arts. The Glass Studio Assistant helps bring that mission to life by creating a safe, welcoming, and well-equipped environment for classes, open studios, events, and community programs.

What You’ll Do

• Open, close, clean, organize, and prepare the glass studio for classes and open studio sessions
• Maintain and troubleshoot kilns, torches, coldworking equipment, finishing equipment, and ventilation systems
• Monitor supplies and inventory and provide timely purchasing recommendations
• Teach or assist with glassworking classes, workshops, one-day events, and team-building programs
• Substitute for instructors when needed
• Explain glassworking techniques and studio safety to students with varied experience levels
• Enforce health, safety, and facility procedures
• Serve as manager-on-duty when the Glass Studio Manager is unavailable
• Direct staff and volunteers, resolve student concerns, and make sound operational and safety decisions
• Support community art projects, make-a-thons, demonstrations, fundraising, and marketing efforts

What You’ll Bring

• Hands-on experience in one or more glassworking techniques, such as kilnforming, glass fusing, flameworking, stained glass, or coldworking
• Knowledge of glass studio tools, kilns, torches, equipment, and safe operating procedures
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment and coordinate maintenance or repairs
• Teaching experience or the ability to clearly demonstrate artistic techniques and safety practices
• Strong organizational, communication, and customer-service skills
• Ability to work independently, prioritize competing needs, and follow through
• A kind, calm, collaborative, and low-drama approach
• Ability to pass a criminal background check

Physical and Studio Environment
This is an active, hands-on studio position requiring regular standing, walking, bending, reaching, gripping, fine-motor work, and repetitive hand and wrist movement. The position regularly involves lifting items weighing up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifting or carrying 26–50 pounds.

The glass studio includes exposure to heat, glass, dust, fumes, chemicals, sharp materials, and the possibility of cuts or burns. Appropriate personal protective equipment and consistent safety practices are required.

If you’re a glass artist who values education, community, equity, accessibility, quality, health, transparency, playfulness, and service, we’d love to hear from you.