The B Team, founded in 1990, was an experimental, performance-driven collective that aimed to redefine glassmaking. Rejecting the material's traditional refinement, they treated glass as a medium for activation in time, space, and collaboration. The core challenge for the B Team was: if glass is limitless, why aren't people doing more things with it? They bridged craft, fine art, and performance by creating choreographed events where molten glass was poured, swung, sealed, and shattered. Heat, gravity, and timing were compositional tools, and chaos was an engineered outcome; the seemingly haphazard, ephemeral work had a rigorous internal logic. The B Team disbanded by the end of the decade, having accomplished their goal and resisting professionalization.

A quarter-century later, the Corning Museum of Glass is producing a feature-length documentary on the B Team, featuring interviews, rare archival materials, and culminating in a reunion performance at the Glass Art Society Conference 2026.