公共艺术涵盖了雕塑、壁画、景观、行为、地景等不同艺术形式，其中雕塑、壁画已成为大众接触最多的公共艺术表现形式，其材料选择也变得多元。玻璃材料被发明至今也被广泛应用于公共空间中，随着工作室玻璃（Studio Glass Movement）运动的兴起和发展，艺术家加入了应用玻璃材料的阵营，并创造性的应用于公共空间，创造了独特的审美效果。公共空间的形成与蓬勃发展为艺术的呈现提供了一个新的平台，而玻璃材料也因其透明、多彩、工艺多元、材料多样与丰富的表现肌理，使得一众艺术家选择了玻璃材料作为公共空间艺术作品的表现材料，呈现出各种各样的平面装饰作品和立体雕塑作品，丰富着公共空间的艺术呈现效果。玻璃类的公共空间作品有效的促进了市民公共参与意识，体现了地区的文化价值，提升了地方审美文化，加强了市民的互动参与感，也促进了文化内容的传播。因玻璃材料的特殊性，其在环保价值、保护性隐喻和光影特色等多方面也有着独特的价值体现。在现阶段的玻璃材料公共空间作品中，玻璃材料因自身特性和工艺成型方式等问题，在创作、制作和安装方面都对艺术家提出了新的要求，艺术家在创作构思和安装保护等方面要掌握基本认识，同样社会资源的相应匹配也将更有助于玻璃公共空间艺术作品的发展与普及。

Public art covers sculptures, murals, landscapes, performances, land art and other art forms, among which sculptures and murals are the most common forms with more and more diverse material choices. After thousands of years of application and expansion, glass has become one of the important materials indispensable to modern life. With the rise and development of the Studio Glass Movement, artists have a clearer understanding of glass as a material and use it for artistic creation. some artists creatively apply it to public space, creating a unique aesthetic effect.The formation and vigorous development of public space provides a new platform for the presentation of art, and glass materials are also chosen by many artists as public spaces because of their transparency, colorfulness, diverse craftsmanship, diverse materials and rich expressive textures. The performance materials of art works present a variety of flat decoration works and three-dimensional sculpture works, which enrich the artistic presentation effect of public spaces.Glass-type public space works have effectively promoted citizens‘ awareness of public participation, reflected the cultural value of the region, enhanced local aesthetic culture, strengthened citizens‘ sense of interactive participation, and promoted the dissemination of cultural content. Due to the particularity of glass materials, it also has unique value in many aspects such as environmental protection value, protective metaphor and light and shadow characteristics.In the public space works of glass materials at the present stage, due to the characteristics of glass materials and the process of forming methods, new requirements are put forward for artists in terms of creation, production and installation. Artists must master creation concepts and installation protection. Basic understanding, the corresponding matching of social resources will also be more conducive to the development and popularization of glass public space art works.