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Jeffrey Close

Jeffrey Close is a maker, designer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY whose work explores an inclination towards fine art, architecture, and functionality within the context of 21st century design. 

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Studio Swine

Visiting Designer: 2019

Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is an art collective established in 2011 by Alexander Groves (UK) and Azusa Murakami (JP).

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Katherine Hubbard

Visiting Artist: 2018

Katherine Hubbard uses photography, writing and performance to plumb photography’s continuing significance. Considering analog photography as a mimesis of the body, Hubbard asks how its procedures might be called upon to investigate social politics, history, and narrative.

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Aki Sasamoto

Visiting Artist: 2018

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life. 

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Danielle Brensinger

Throughout her young artistic career, Danielle Brensinger has explored her voice through various techniques involving glass and mixed media.

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Emily Craddock

Emily Craddock received her BFA in Sculpture from Alfred University in 2014, and an Associate’s degree in Glass Art from Salem Community College in 2009. She now resides in Brooklyn, NY where she works as a freelancer, neon technician, and teacher/teacher’s assistant at UrbanGlass. 

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Beth Lipman

Beth Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI.  She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. 

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William Couig

William Couig is a New York City based artist and designer. He was introduced to glass after seeing a number of demonstrations in various locales as he backpacked around the world after college in 1995.

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Erica Rosenfeld

Erica Rosenfeld lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has an art, design and teaching practice. Using glass, found objects, food and mixed media she creates sculptures, installations and performative works that investigate themes of fear, nostalgia, new growth, memory distortion and material association. She also has a limited edition line of glass jewelry. 

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Amy Lemaire

Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. An explorer at heart, her work reveals an interest in currency systems, material language poetics, and the production of histories.

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Kenya Chester

Kenya Chester is a New York City - based artist who comes from a background of Industrial and Accessory Design. 

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Lenny Castillo

Lenny Castillo is the artist Psychotique. She is a Native New Yorker, based in Brooklyn. Lenny is also a Bead Project Alumni, and was Bead Project Artist in Residence 2016

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Kellie Krouse

Kellie Ann Krouse was born and raised in Southern California and is currently living and working in The Bronx. Having attended New York University, she has developed a practice based in mixed media - with an emphasis on ceramics, textiles, and glass.

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Starr Eaddy

Starr Eaddy is an artist, educator and administrator who holds degrees in Public Health and Nursing.

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Emily Repp

Emily Repp grew up in Springboro, Ohio and graduated from Miami University in 2010 with a BS in Art, majoring in Art Education. 

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Alison Siegel

Alison Siegel has been working with glass since 2007. She makes both utilitarian and sculptural glass, as well as working for several New York based designers. 

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Anders Rydstedt

Anders' relationship with glass is deep-rooted. Continuing the tradition, Anders has worked with glass for over 20 years, since age fifteen, in numerous production and artistic studios throughout the Northeast.

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Valerie Shusterov

Valerie has instructed and assisted neon glass bending at both Brooklyn Glass and UrbanGlass. She has shown her neon works in both Los Angeles and New York City. Currently living back in New York City, Valerie fabricates neon for clients and her own personal work.

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Elizabeth Cote

Elizabeth is native New Yorker, born and raised in the big city. She spends her days walking her dog, teaching, and making sculpture.

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