selgasArt / UrbanGlass

Join us for a variety of new Virtual Classes to fuel your creativity from home! Upcoming topics include glassblowing tips for making a beautiful low bowl, traditional beading at home, learning to plan and apply for exhibitions, and much more. 

From Practice to Exhibit 
with H Schenck 
April 27, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

UGH! All About Bowls 
with Shuhei Fujii 
April 28, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Creating Texture with Glass Beads 
with Lenise Omeasoo 
4 Sessions: May 4 - May 25 
Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

 

selgasArt / Urban Glass / 2021 Virtual Gala

Join us and co-chairs Kiki Smith and Margaret Rose Vendryes for an evening of celebration, award presentations, and fun surprises as we honor trailblazers Barbara Tober and Deborah Czeresko, and the endlessly inspiring artists in the UrbanGlass community. Our Virtual VIP Cocktails will feature an exclusive, interactive conversation between Barbara Tober and Deborah Czeresko moderated by a very special guest. As an attendee, snacks and specialty cocktail ingredients from our House Party Box will be delivered to your home with a limited edition cocktail glass handmade by an artist at UrbanGlass to elevate the celebration! The inimitable and hilarious performance artist Grace Whiteside will host the Virtual Gala & Auction, leading us through an evening with exciting guests and opportunities to collect stunning glass artworks from artists and designers including Kiki Smith, Lindsey Adelman, Zoë Buckman, Monica Cook, Jes Fan, Deborah Czeresko and more!

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selgasArt / Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly #159

As the world faces down the COVID-19 pandemic, the art world is struggling to deal with the health threat and economic fallout, which will be our biggest challenges in the coming months. Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly has devoted its Summer 2020 edition (Glass #159) to looking for answers. Turning to the past as inspiration for the present, we asked glass artists who have endured life- and career-threatening setbacks about the keys to their recovery and healing. Their experiences dealing with disaster helped prepare them in some way for what they're experiencing now, and each offered unique perspectives on where we are and what we all need to do to go forward.

Our upcoming special issue, on newsstands June 1st, chronicles ten harrowing "Survival Stories" of overcoming adversity and getting back on track, something we could all learn from at this pivotal moment. Featuring the first-person accounts of Oben Abright, Fabiano Amadi, Eddie Bernard, Christina Bothwell, Dale Chihuly, Pearl Dick, Liza Lou, Clifford Rainey, Ginny Ruffner, as well as the remarkable story of The Corning Museum's devastating 1972 flood, this special issue aspires to be a resource to the field and a celebration of our unique community.

Donate to the UrbanGlass Relief Fund

Urban Glass

You don't want to miss the last performance! Join Grace Whiteside and her collaborators in UrbanGlass' Agnes Varis Art Center November 1, 6-7:30 PM. Free with RSVP.

UrbanGlass / Unorthodox Cane Applications

In Pattern & Process: Unorthodox Cane Applications,

Scott Benefield will open up a new world of possibilities

for using cane in the hotshop. 

investigate as many permutations of cane as possible

with the goal to foster true innovation.

Monday-Friday, September 26-30 from 6-10pm. 

UrbanGlass / Abstract Glass 101

Abstract Glass 101 will harness the novice glass blower’s singular ability

to make organic shapes. Instead of battling with glass,
students will hone their skills

in response to material's unique behavior. September 17 & 18 from 10-3pm.

UrbanGlass / Nancy Cohen

Join us for the opening of Nancy Cohen's installation Hackensack Dreaming, which will be on display through November 5th. Cohen's installation transforms the gallery and explores fragility, perseverance, and the new realities produced by the collision of the human and natural worlds. Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7thfrom 6-9pm.

UrbanGlass

Join us Tuesday, August 9th at 6:30 for Dr. Glen Cook's talk, Glass: The Science of a Shape Shifting Solid. Chief Scientist at the Corning Museum of Glass, Dr. Cook will answer your questions about the many mysteries of this unique material. RSVP encouraged.

Join us for the opening of Miho Ogai's exhibition Deconstructing Moments in the UrbanGlass|ware windows. Wednesday, August 10th from 6-8pm.

UrbanGlass / Cane Inspiration

Cane Inspirations with Jason Christian  This week-long concentration is perfect for those searching to add to their toolbox of hot glass surface and design tricks including reticello, filigree, and incalmo. July 18-22 , 6:00 - 10:00pm

UrbanGlass / Cold Shop Classes

Curious how glass is cut, shaped and polished? Keep cool with one of our summer coldworking classes:

• Take One Step Back to Take Five Steps Forward with Conor McClelland
• Slumbering in Stone: Introduction to Carving with Brett Swenson

Take 20% off each class with code COOL.

UrbanGlass / Photos and Flames

Dive into flameworking in Adventures in Borosilicate Color with Madeline Rile Smithor learn to photograph your work with BKC Photography in Intro to Shooting: Getting the Most from your iPhone Camera. 

UrbanGlass / Begin to Learn

https://www.urbanglass.org/

UrbanGlass / Visiting Artist Fellowships

https://www.urbanglass.org/studio/detail/2016-visiting-artist-fellowship?mc_cid=2cdfb4acb3&mc_eid=38bdb5b995

GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly issue #142

https://www.urbanglass.org/

The Spring 2016 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#142) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes at a moment when virtual reality is poised to go mainstream. All of the buzz about this revolutionary new digital technology inspired us to remind the world of the rich terrain already mined by visual artists, who've used installations, architecture, and sculpture that create new realities through repeat reflectivity, partially mirrored glass surfaces, and cultivated perceptual shifts that play with optics to alter our relationship to the world around us, and force us to reconsider our place in it.

Also in the new edition:

• Greek artist Costas Varotsos uses glass on a monumental scale to transform the environment. GLASS correspondent Randy B. Hecht travels to the Greek island of Aegina, where the artist lives and works, to pen a rich portrait of this ambitious visionary.
• GLASS correspondent Lise Kjaer takes stock of the ambitions and ultimate demise of Vitraria Glass +A, a contemporary art museum with a focus on glass as both metaphor and a material. 
• Finally, our newest contributing editor John Drury sits down with Australian native Clare Belfrage, who shares the nuances of how her country and its unique ecosystems provide inspiration for her richly adorned abstracted vessels with swirling and intricate line patterns.
• All this plus six exhibition reviews, the latest news from the glass world, and a back-page essay on the Art Basel Miami Beach circus.
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UbanGlass / Spring Class

Our full spring class listings can now be found online, with a lineup including Ché Rhodes, Kirstie Rea, Ian Burns, Brian Boldon & Amy Baur, and many more!

Celebrate leap year with 15% off all class registrations before March 1st, using codeEARLY. Don't forget! Our scholarship deadline for spring classes is on February 15th.

UrbanGlass

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Last Chance to Support UrbanGlass in 2015

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Urban Glass

UrbanGlass|ware will be open every day this week for all of your holiday shopping needs.
Come see all of our new inventory, including these pieces by Offcentre, online and in store now.

Glass On Newsstands

GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#141)

Sarah Briland: Problematica

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