Craft, Cocktails & Conversation

November 6th, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Ivy Mix, Grace Whiteside |

Craft, Cocktails & Conversation will be an evening of dialogue that joins art, design, and craftsmanship across practices with a well-known mixologist, Ivy Mix, artist Grace Whiteside, and UrbanGlass executive director Devin Mathis in discussion.

Ivy Mix will be creating a custom cocktail for a drinking vessel designed by Grace Whiteside. While drinks are being prepared, the artist will demonstrate the making of their glass from the UrbanGlass studio. In the midst of this, the three of them will discuss the interdisciplinary nature of making in all forms.

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Join in on the fun at home by making a simplified version of the drink Ivy Mix will be creating tonight!

Old Fashioned:

2 oz Dark spirit of your choice of a blend of 2!
.5 tsp simple syrup, honey or maple syrup
2-3 dashes angostura bitters
Stir over ice and strain into a glass that had Palo Santo burning in upside down (optional) or just garnish with a lemon or orange twist.

Ivy Mix

Ivy Mix is Co-Owner of Leyenda, her pan-Latin cocktail bar in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, backed by her long-time mentor, Julie Reiner. Leyenda pays tribute to her years of living and bartending in Guatemala, as well as extensive travels throughout all of Latin America. Leyenda has won many awards and has been recognized as being one of the best bars in America by Eater, GQ, Thrillist and others.

Instructor

Grace Whiteside

Grace Whiteside (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working between glass, performance, and video art. Glass has become their most intimate co-star after over a decade of rigorous practitioning. The focus of their work draws from urgent and formative personal histories as a participant in reality television shows: their father’s “Salvage Dawgs,” (HGTV, 2013) and the glassblowing competition,“Blown Away” (Netflix, 2022). They currently own and operate a glass design and fabrication business called Sticky Glass and have worked with a wide range of clients, executing large commissions from Museum installations to custom lighting projects.

They have exhibited and performed at venues such as The Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY), The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY) , Museum of American Glass (Millville, NJ), UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY), Recess Arts (Brooklyn, NY) and Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA). Whiteside received two BFA’s (in glass and sculpture) in 2017 from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been an Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Center, Tyler School of Art, Pilchuck Glass School, Rochester Institute of Technology and The Corning Museum of Glass. There were also a 2023 recipient of the NYSCA Grant for Individual Artists and named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2024.

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Craft, Cocktails & Conversation

Ivy Mix, Grace Whiteside |

Ivy Mix

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Grace Whiteside

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