UrbanGlass FACULTY
Jane Bruce is an independent artist and educator living in New York City. She received an MA degree from the Royal College of Art in London and pursued postgraduate studies at Alfred University. She has taught extensively in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. From 1994 to 2004 she was senior lecturer in the glass workshop at Australian National University. From 2002 to 2007 she was artistic director of North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland. She has been the recipient of several visiting-artist awards and fellowships. Her work can be found in collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. www.janebruce.com
Victoria Calabro's installations function like dioramas, panoramas, or formal exhibits where the viewer enters an environment. In this setting drawings, prints, and cast objects made of cast polyurethane, glass, metal and rubber, are being used as devices to facilitate a complete experience. She received an MFA in Fine Art from New York University in 2006. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Victoria was born in Houston, Texas and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. www.vacalabro.com
Laura Carbone received her BA from New York University. She has taught at S.A. Bendheim Co. and UrbanGlass. She is a professional stained glass restorer who has worked on projects including the Tiffany windows, Grace Episcopal Church, and the Ulysses S. Grant National Memorial.
Shane Caryl was born and raised in Syracuse, NY, where he made a point of experiencing everything the suburban life had to offer. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology where, under the mentorship of Michael Rogers and Robin Cass, he found and fell in love with glass. Caryl’s work has been featured in e-merge 2008 and on the cover of the Bullseye Glass Company Catalog No. 6.
Joseph Cavalieri has been working in glass as a fine art form since 1997. Collected and exhibited worldwide, his work can also be seen on TV in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special and in two issues of the Corning Museum’s New Glass Review. His MTA Arts in Transit public art commission can be seen at the Philipse Manor Metro North Station in Westchester County, NY. Joseph comes from a graphic design background, art directing at magazines including GQ, People, and Good Housekeeping. Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe calls Joseph’s work “...dark and achingly funny.” www.cavaglass.com
Stephen Conlon studied at the Masonlite British School of Neon for one
year, followed by a 5 year apprenticeship in Dublin, Ireland. After 4
years as a freelance Neon worker in Europe, Stephen came to the United
States. He has now worked with artists and in Neon studios across the
country, and is a regular teacher at UrbanGlass.
Kimberly Harty was born in 1983 in St. Louis, MO. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. She has developed a line of study in the performance of glass making and how it relates to the subsequent object. Through the use of video documentation, she combines new media with materials to create installations which produce a physical experience for the viewer. Harty was a scholarship student at Pilchuck Glass School, WA, in 2005 and 2007 and was invited by the Glass Art Society in 2007 to deliver an emerging artist lecture. www.kimharty.com
Laurie Korowitz-Coutu received her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Laurie has taught at the Craft Student League, NY, Baird Cultural Center, NJ, The Arts-Connection, NY, and UrbanGlass. Her work has been exhibited at the L.H. Selman gallery, and at SOFA New York and SOFA Chicago 2001 to present. Laurie currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Jiyong Lee heads the glass program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He specializes in coldworking and kilnforming processes. Originally from Korea, he earned his MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, NY. He has taught at Pilchuck Glass School, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. His work has won several awards, including the 2005 Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society and the 2004 Saxe Award from the Pilchuck Glass School. His work was included in New Glass Review 24 and is exhibited internationally.
Amy Lemaireearned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and her MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2006 she studied with Vittorio Costantini at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA, and from 2002 to 2008 she was the director of the glass program at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago. Her glass and ceramic pieces were cited in Ceramic Art: Innovative Techniques, published by the American Ceramics Society in 2009, as well as Amy Lemaire, Glass as Glaze in Ceramics Monthly Magazine, 2006. Lemaire’s glasswork can also be found in 1000 Glass Beads, a 2004 publication by Lark Books. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. www.AmyLemaire.com
John Miller earned his BS in Studio Art from Southern Connecticut State University and his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently teaches at Illinois State University. His jumbo wine and martini glasses (some holding as much as five gallons) have been exhibited nationally in galleries and at SOFA Chicago. www.JohnMillerGlass.com
Rob Panepinto has been working at Urban Glass for over ten years learning, assisting, teaching, and creating glass. He spends as much time as possible assisting as many different artists in the "hot shop" and when he's not there he can be found at home in New Jersey, with his wife Jennifer and son Bobby, his true inspirations.
Kirstie Rea has taught kilnforming and coldworking since 1987. Between 1987 and 2003 she was a lecturer at the Glass Workshop, Australian National University. She also served as the inaugural Creative Director of Canberra Glassworks. Over the past 23 years Kirstie has continued to develop her practice and career and has earned international recognition and respect for her works in glass. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Gallery of Australia; and the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Munich.
Erica Rosenfeld has been working in glass since 1997. She has taught at Urban Glass since 2001 and also taught at The Corning Museum and Worcester Center for Crafts and various other studios. She has assisted Klaus Moje, Beth Lipman, Scott Chaseling and CUD. She creates jewelry and sculpture that she shows at galleries, museums and stores internationally. Erica has also been also been a Wheaton Arts Fellow
as well as a MAD studio artist. Her work has been featured in various publications including The New York Times, New Glass Review, Glass
Magazine, New York Magazine, and American Craft Magazine. She is currently represented by Wexler Gallery, Morgan Cont. Glass Gallery
and Sherrie Gallerie and has shown at Heller Gallery and Habitat Chicago. She is also one of the founding members of Burnt Asphalt
Family. www.ericarosenfelddesigns.com
Edward T. Schmid is the author of Beginning Glassblowing and Advanced Glassworking Techniques, the world’s most popular books on the subject of glassblowing. He has been working with hot glass since 1984. He received his B.F.A. in Glass from the University of Illinois in 1987, and his M.F.A. in Glass from The Ohio State University in 1990. Ed spends nearly half his year teaching glassblowing classes and workshops at universities, colleges, and private studios worldwide. Ed and his wife run Glass Mountain Studios, where they collaborate on glassblowing, sculpting, flameworking and mixed-media projects. www.GlassMtn.com
Michael Schunke began blowing glass in the Fall of 1988 while attending the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, PA. Introduced to Venetian style glassblowing in early 1990, during a semester with Michael Scheiner at the Rhode Island School of Design, Schunke later went on to assist Italian maestro Lino Tagliapietra during two intensive workshops. Two and a half years later, he left and started Nine Iron Studios, Inc. In late 1998, he accepted a visiting professorship at the Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan. After two and a half years of teaching, several solo exhibitions of sculptural work throughout Japan, acceptance into Young Glass 1997, and with his work permanently displayed at the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass in Ebeltoft, Denmark, and at the Toyama Museum of Glass, Michael returned to the U.S. to reopen Nine Iron’s doors. In 1999, Michael was awarded a three month fellowship at The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ. Upon completion of the fellowship, he set up shop in West Grove, PA where he owns and operates a private studio. www.nineironstudios.com
Lee Silveri was first introduced to working with hot glass early in 1998. Living in serene upstate New York, surrounded by experienced glass blowers, he was able to inherit the fundamentals on which he would base his career. Upon returning to his home in the New York metropolitan area a few years later, he continued absorbing knowledge and proper technique. He has studied under renowned artists such as Harold Eberhart, Emilio Santini, then with Roger Parramore at Pilchuck where he was nominated for the Corning award of excellence. Through the years
he has conducted private lessons helping others understand the craft. He currently maintains a studio just outside of NYC.
Drew Smith was born in Nurnberg, Germany, and recently graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received his BFA in glass sculpture. Although Drew has explored many glassmaking techniques, his most recent work involves cast components and found objects, which act together to form small collections describing individual personalities. His work may be found at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA and the Bullseye Gallery in Portland, OR. www.WillyBeGood.com
Paul J. Stankard is a renowned maker of small-scale torchworked objects that have earned him an international reputation. His work is included in more than 40 major museum collections worldwide. Mr. Stankard recently authored a book entitled No Green Berries or Leaves: The Creative Journey of an Artist in Glass. www.PaulStankard.com
Noriko Tsuji received her BA in literature from the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions, including SOFA Chicago 2004 and 2005, and solo shows at the Inui Gallery Tokyo; the Hammond Museum New York; and the Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass. She was a 2004 Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group Fellowship Recipient. www.tsujinoriko.com
Randy Walker has worked since 1990 at Pilchuck Glass School as staff, faculty, or craftsman. During the school's off season, Randy makes his own glass artwork in Pilchuck's hot shop. He has been a principal member of the William Morris blowing team for sixteen years, helping to make some of the world’s most innovative glass works. Randy has taught in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and across the United States over the last decade. His work is exhibited nationally, as well as in France and Canada. www.RandyWalkerGlass.com
Thaddeus Wolfe graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2002 with a BFA in Glass. He lives in New York City and works with artists Jeff Zimmerman and Josiah McElheny. In the past years he has executed glass sculptures for a variety of New York artists, including conceptual landscape designer Paula Hayes, and painter Shimon Okshteyn, with whom he has worked extensively. He collaborated with Okshteyn on a series of sculptures exhibited February 2006 at Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY.
