LibGuides: Pipe Making: History, Culture, and Artists

History, Culture, and Artists

Most of the materials on this page are available to those who visit the Rakow Research Library in person. Some may be available via interlibrary loan. The "Online Resources" page of this guide features videos, tutorials, forums, and websites where you can learn more via more widely available internet resources.

Books

Ceci n'est pas une pipe : is incorporating glass pipes into the world of "high art: still a pipe dream? by Abigail Horlick
Call Number: available online

Publication Date: 2020
Countercultural Glass by Philip Roberts
Call Number: TP859.2 .R64

Publication Date: 2009
Making a Living Without Making Pipes by Milon Townsend
Call Number: TP859.2 .T74m

Publication Date: 2003
Redefinition by Pakoh
Call Number: NK5198.P15 .P15

ISBN: 9781424319640

Publication Date: 2006
Smoked by Jes Sipling
Call Number: NK5198 .S66

Publication Date: 2008
Smoked Volume 2 by Einav Keet (Editor); M. Scott Whitson (Photographer); Kyp Malone (Foreword by)
Call Number: NK5198 .S66

ISBN: 9780615367859

Publication Date: 2010-06-19
This Pipe's for You: a Qualitative Exploration of Glass Shop Owner's Networks, Legitimacy and the Glass Pipe Arts Movement by Anna K. Ryan
Call Number: NK5112.8 .R98

Publication Date: 2012

Articles

A Big-Name P.O.W. in the War on Drugs by Manohla Dargis
Call Number: VF: Glass artists -- Chong Glass

Publication Date: The New York Times 2006
Dabbling on the Dark Side by Robert A. Mickelsen
Call Number: Periodicals TP859.2.F64

Publication Date: The Flow, (Autumn 2011), pp. 12-14, ill.
Glass Moguls by Kiki Box
Call Number: Periodicals TS2280 .H83

Publication Date: HotBreath, v. 5 (Winter 2012), pp. 14-19, ill.
Glass Pipes Gain Acceptance and Are Shown at Larger Art Venues by Awura Ama Barnie-Duah
Call Number: Periodicals NK5110 .N54

Publication Date: Glass, no. 147 (Summer 2017), pp. 16-17, ill. 1064-900X
The Glass Roots Art Show Moves to Asheville by Shawn Waggoner
Call Number: Periodicals TP859.2 .N64

Publication Date: Flow, v. 17, no.3 (2019 Autumn), pp. 24-28, ill.

Interview with Nick Deviley, who founded Glasssroots Art Show in 2009 aimed at legitimizing glass pipes as an art form.
Hotbreath Shop Spotlight: Gorilla Radio, Las Vegas.
Call Number: Periodicals TS2280 .H83

Publication Date: HotBreath, issue 7 (Mar./Apr. 2013), p. 62, ill.

Profile of the shop, which carries glass pipes.
Making Pipes & Making Art by Milon Townsend
Call Number: Periodicals TP859.2 .F64

Publication Date: The Flow, v. 1, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 10-12, ill.

"What to look forward to in transitioning from production to fine art."
Pipes in the New Glass Review: Conversations with Three Glass Artists by Hethre Larivee
Call Number: Periodicals TP859 2. F64

Publication Date: The Flow, v. 16, no. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 22-24+, ill.

Interview with three glass pipe artists whose works were featured in New Glass Review #38.
Robert Mickelsen: A Second Act in Functional Glass by Shawn Waggoner
Call Number: Periodicals TP859 .G54

Publication Date: Glass Art, v. 32, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2017), pp. 54-59, ill.

Profile of the flameworker who creates functional glass, often firearm replicas which can also function as pipes.
Salt Glass: Raising the Voice of His Generation by Shawn Waggoner
Call Number: Periodicals TP859 .G54

Publication Date: Glass Art, v. 32, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2017), pp. 42-48, ill.

Profile of the artist whose work includes one-of-a-kind creative pipes.
Smoke Shop Spotlight: Artifax by Dash Carlisle
Call Number: Periodicals TS2280 .H83

Publication Date: HotBreath, v. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 86-90, ill.

Topics of interview with Mindy & Co. include glass pipes.

Journals and Magazines

HotBreath : alternative smoke culture magazine by HB Publishing
Call Number: Periodicals TS2280 .H83

Publication Date: 2011-

Trade Catalogs

1973 catalogue by Midtown Distributing Co., Buffalo, NY, USA
Call Number: Trade Catalogs Midtown Distributing Co. 125644

Publication Date: 1973

Glassware includes glass pipes and water pipes.
1974 wholesale catalogue by Midtown Distributing Co., Buffalo, NY, USA
Call Number: Trade Catalogs Midtown Distributing Co. 125970

Publication Date: c1974

Includes glass and water pipes.
Wholesale catalog by Midtown Distributing Co., Buffalo, NY, USA
Call Number: Trade Catalogs Midtown Distributing Co. 125339

Publication Date: c1976

Glassware includes water pipes, glass pipes, tokers & bongs.
[Catalog of drug paraphernalia] by Glass Head (Firm), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Call Number: Trade Catalogs Glass Head 53098

Publication Date: c1977

Videos

Operation : pipeworks by Pete Kazanjy, Masters of Glass, LLC, Farm Boys Studios
Call Number: Videos and Audio Recordings Operation pipeworks (DVD)

Publication Date: c2003

Documentary on the most skilled practitioners of glass pipe makers, with interviews, film of the glassblowing process, discussion of techniques, and thoughts on the political situation of this semi-illicit craft.
Taboo glass the art of glass pipes by Ray Hayes, Gateson Recko, Hot Naked Glass (Firm)
Call Number: Videos and Audio Recordings Taboo glass : the art of glass pipes (DVD)

Publication Date: n.d., 2010-2013?

"Glass pipes, 30 years in the making, have reached a level of mastery which must be recognized. Artists from all over America have taken the glass pipe and transformed it into art. Meet the artists pushing the boundaries of artistic pipes"--DVD container