Tuesday November 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Some facing a total loss of artwork and tools in massive Brooklyn studio fire, glass artists vow to persevere

The first calls to the fire department came in just before midnight on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Soon after, urgent texts about the blaze rocketed among the dozens of artists who had studios in the 19th-century warehouse building at 481 Van Brunt Street in the waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Here, in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S., rare affordable rents had made the building a destination for glass artists as well as woodworkers, furniture designers, and painters, who often subdivided their spaces, creating a communal space for art in all media.After a sleepless night of worry, artist and educator Dean Erdmann and their partner, Grace Whiteside, arrived to a chaotic scene at 7 a.m. As they made their way past the fire and police lines, Erdmann and Whiteside were stunned to see a fireboat pumping a massive plume of water onto the roof, which had partially collapsed onto their shared Sticky Glass studio space on the fourth floor. Even more devastating than losing the tools and studio space they had occupied for the past three years was the total loss of completed work destined for three important exhibitions in 2026 and 2027.

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Tuesday November 4, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Take a deep dive into the history and future of New Glass Review when Corning curator Tami Landis appears on Glass Quarterly LIVE

Don't miss the November 14th edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE (#4), when Corning Museum of Glass's Tami Landis, Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass, joins editor Andrew Page to discuss the recently published New Glass Review 45.

Sunday October 26, 2025 | by Andrew Page

The upcoming 2025 UrbanGlass Academic Symposium (Nov 6–8) will offer high-level presentations and discussions on the theme of "Crafting Mastery"

Founded in 2013 as the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Academic Symposium at UrbanGlass, the 2025 UrbanGlass Academic Symposium is readying for its latest iteration, which is coming up from November 6–8, 2025, in the world art capital of New York City. The event which draws educators and students in glass from around the world for lectures and workshops discussing this year's theme of "Crafting Mastery", will kick off with a Thursday night gallery tour to visit contemporary art galleries showing work in glass. The four-gallery tour will culminate in a reception in the Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca at Cristin Tierney Gallery, which is exhibiting mixed-media work by Judy Pfaff, much of it featuring neon.

Thursday October 16, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Corning Museum of Glass taps Cornell University art museum director to become its next executive director and president

Jessica Levin Martinez, currently serving as the director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, has been officially announced as the next president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass. Martinez will take over from Corning's Karol Wight, who announced her retirement in April 2025. Martinez's start date at Corning, February 2, 2026, gives her several weeks of overlap with Wight to help her get up to speed.

Tuesday October 7, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Alexander Rosenberg on his move from WheatonArts to the newly-built Glass Center at the University of California San Diego

In 2022, when Alexander Rosenberg was named as the new director of the WheatonArts Glass Studio, he came on just as the Millville, New Jersey, art center was reopening after COVID-19, and he helped lead a reset for this important outpost for creative glass within a couple hours drive from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. This past Saturday, October 4, Rosenberg ended his New Jersey chapter as he bid adieu to WheatonArts, heading west to the newly built Glass Center at the University of California, San Diego, where again he will be tasked with leading a glass program as it ramps up. WheatonArts executive director Susan Gogan told the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet the organization "has been extremely fortunate to have worked with Alex over the past four years," and credits his "tremendous spirit of collaboration and positive leadership" as keys to his effectiveness. Glass also reached out to Alex, himself, for more details about both his previous and upcoming positions.

Jessica Jane Julius (far left) and Erica Rosenfeld (far right) with their "Cocktail Table" installation at an early Burnt Asphalt performance.

Tuesday September 23, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius discuss how their sold-out "madeline moment" takes the Burnt Asphalt Family into new terrain

Is it a dinner party, performance art event, or interactive art exhibition? The 5-course food event titled A Madeleine Moment is all of the above. Referencing the way a culinary experience can trigger vivid childhood memories, as Marcel Proust described in the novel Remembrance of Things Past, the event is just the latest in a long line of Burnt Asphalt Family performance-art happenings. It blurs the lines between performer and audience, art and food, and ultimately seeks to erase the boundary between art and life, itself. Among the few things one can say for sure about the proceedings set to take place at the Agnes Varis Art Center this coming Saturday, September 27, is that it is curated by longtime collaborators Erica Rosenfeld and Jessica Jane Julius, supports the Brooklyn arts non-profit UrbanGlass, and will involve a large community of creative friends. It will also exhibit artwork by artists such as Jen Monroe aka Bad Taste, Deborah Czeresko, Einar and Jamex De la Torre, Andrea Dezsö, Cedric Mitchell, Leo Tecosky, Jessica Tsai, among many others. After the opening, the exhibition will remain on view through November 8, 2025. (One more detail: tickets are completely sold out though Rosenfeld and Julius will return at the end of the exhibition in early November for a closing event that will be part of the UrbanGlass Academic Symposium, and open to all attendees of that three-day event.)

Thursday September 18, 2025 | by Andrew Page

In a down market for art, Rago readies for "world-class offering" in auction that brings together three notable private collections

While its main activities take place at its headquarters in Lambertville, New Jersey, Rago Auctions also maintains a showroom in Chelsea, one of Manhattan's most important art gallery neighborhoods. Considering its prime location, the first-floor gallery at 501 W 20th Street is usually dedicated to high-profile paintings or contemporary photography, but recently it has also been showcasing its Contemporary Glass Sale coming up on September 19th, which partner Suzanne Perrault says is an indication of the work's importance.

Friday August 29, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Glass Quarterly LIVE (September 5, 2 PM EST) will take a deep dive into the just-released Fall 2025 (#180) edition

Join the Fall 2025 edition of Glass Quarterly LIVE (via Zoom on September 5th, at 2 pm EST) where we will take a deep dive into the chalk drawings of Walter Lieberman. These colorful artworks do more than diagram the complex techniques being used in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop, where he is a beloved emcee.

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Walter Lieberman draws an elaborate chalk image on the floor of the Museum of Glass hotshop during a Martin Janecky residency making work inspired by the Day of the Dead. photo: russell johnson

Wednesday August 27, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Walter Lieberman on his Museum of Glass chalk drawings featured in the Fall edition of Glass (#180)

Walter Lieberman has always loved to draw. Though he initially decided to study tech at university, art would prove to be his calling. After a friend showed him the glassblowing process, Walter left Carnegie Mellon and his plans for a computer-studies degree to study under Dan Dailey at Mass Art. His mother's graduation gift of a Pilchuck summer course in 1978 sparked a connection to the glass school and the dynamic community of the Pacific Northwest. Though he grew up in New York City, Walter settled in Seattle, where he became a fixture in the glass scene, supporting himself by selling his artwork, and enjoying regular exhibitions at Traver and other galleries for his own work and his frequent collaborations with Dick Weiss.

John Kiley, Crystal Horizon, 2025. Optic glass. H 10 1/2, W 25, D 11 in. courtesy: traver gallery, seattle

Sunday August 3, 2025 | by Oscar Bembury

John Kiley moves his evolving language of broken glass forward with his latest exhibition: "Horizons" at Traver

Artist John Kiley has made a career out of intervening in the geometry of glass sculptures, whether with cold-shop tools to cut away sections of blown vessels, or with blunt force to fracture it, and then rebuild it, always with great precision to detail and innovative creative processes.

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